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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
The best of the Fandorin novels by far, but also one of the saddest. Boris Akunin is a modern, male, Russian love child of Agatha Christie and Ian Fleming. Unpredictable mystery paired with the political intrigue of Czarist Russia with a character that is likeable so far somewhat unknowable. Anyone who likes a good mystery set in the past...hop on board one of these novels and find the secrets of The Winter Queen.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Barbara MacKay
I haven't given many bad reviews as I have always found something good in every book. Unfortunately, Wild Lavender for me personally, did not meet that conclusion. This book was suggested to me by a saleswoman after I mentioned that my favourite book is The Bronze Horseman. Apparently these two books have something common, if I love one I will love the other... But for my case that was not true. To start off, Simone, the main character, is barely tolerable. For me I found that the people she met along the way were far more interesting to read than reading about her dubious thoughts and opinions. However, the main reason that the book did not gel with me was the way the war was portrayed. I was expecting at least half of the book to be based on the war in Paris (especially after reading the blurb), but all I got was a rushed over summary. I will state that what was written in the last hundred pages or so finally lifted off for me and I could easily be fixed to the story... I just wish that it started a lot earlier for the characters and plot sake. 1.5 Stars.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trần Văn Sáu
If you think Miranda July just writes funny, quirky fiction, you are so off. This woman is serious. Yet, I think if she workshopped some of the stories, they would be a lot more fluid and she would be getting a Pulizter. She has more talent than Lahiri, but not the craftmenship.
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Excellent memoir of McCourt's teaching career--I like it better than other "teacher memoirs" because it was from someone who stayed in teaching for a long time (as opposed to a character who planned to "teach for a year and write a book about it"). I also appreciated his honesty about faking his way through first days! Made me feel sad for giving up teaching myself...
This was an interesting book about how Sinatra's Italian ancestory, timing (the big band era), his musicianship, and his personal life made such a contribution to the era in which he lived and performed. This book about his life is written in a social and political context which creates good reading material!
Oh, how I yearned to be Lucky Bucky and live in the head of a wooden whale.
Full review to come...
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Priest
This one was a classic in my youth--at least in my eyes. Hands down the greatest in the seemingly neverending "Choose Your Own Adventure" series. By far I spent more time with this book over the course of my childhood than any other book. This book is also noteworthy for most likely engendering my autistic tendencies (at least as far as the "nurture" side of the condition goes). Case in point: One needed only to give a number between 1 and 118 (the number of pages in the book) and I could give you a pretty accurate description of the events which transpired on the corresponding page (with about 82-88% accuracy).
Not my type of reading but it held my interest and in spots I couldn t put it down.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Phan Dũng
Following the 1973 cancellation of his Fourth World titles ( New Gods , Forever People , Mister Miracle , and Jimmy Olsen ), Jack Kirby created several new titles for DC ( Kamandi , The Demon , and OMAC ). In 1974, he also assumed the mantle on one existing title: Our Fighting Forces. Beginning with issue #151, Kirby rendered the chronicles of a dysfunctional WWII fighting troop, code-named the Losers. In 1969, famed war comics creator Robert Kanigher ( Sgt. Rock , Enemy Ace ) cobbled together this band of archetypes from four existing DC characters that formerly headlined their own titles. Navajo air ace Captain Johnny Cloud, the fighting infantry duo of Gunner and Sarge, and Navy man Captain Storm compromised the Special Forces quartet. The Losers, who always drew the short end of the stick, primarily tackled the seemingly impossible missions. No stranger to war, Jack Kirby served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army on the European front during World War II. Throughout his storied career, he called upon on those experiences to inspire numerous comics most notably Boy Commandos, Foxhole, and Sgt Fury . The Losers were far more ordinary than Kirby's usual characterizations -- no super deeds nor powers. Therefore, his portrayals of the four lacked his usual originality and flair. On the other hand, Kirby's art promised a series that would soar past the limitations of a typical 70s comic. His use of outlandish illustrations and innovative storytelling revitalized the title and resulted in a memorable and unusual war comic. [T:]he Losers are Kirby at his best. Distilled essence of Kirby, if you will. No gigantic, world crushing machines (well, if you ignore Big Max and the Devastastor). No superheroics. Just ordinary people, with the whole of the Second World War as a playing field. —Neil Gaiman, from his introduction to Jack Kirby's The Losers. This review originally appeared in "War on Two Fronts", Nexus Graphica May 1 2009.
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