Bruce Charonnat từ Drobnići, Montenegro

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11/05/2024

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2018-12-29 16:30

Tạo Thú Vui Học Tập Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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Be vewy, vewy quiet, I'm hunting Stones... or possibly dwawfes! Wicked Appetite is like an episode of Looney Tunes. It's goofy, it's over-the-top, and it's hilarious! Janet Evanovich finally gets her groove back after a long, torturous 'Plum'met into really boring fiction. I first fell in love with Evanovich way back when she was writing weird, wacky romances for Loveswept. Books like Naughty Neighbor and The Rocky Road to Romance marked her as being a class apart, especially in the paperback romance category, where funny, zany books are not exactly the norm. I mean, what other romance novel have you read that involves large dogs with a passion for burgers, Capitol Hill mysteries involving pigs, cookbooks for dog food and trigger-happy geriatrics? I cannot tell a lie, I liked Stephanie Plum and the Trenton gang too... about thirteen books ago! Thankfully, Wicked Appetite is the first book in a series about the Seven Deadly Sins, so it can't go beyond, you know, seven books. Lizzy Tucker is a baker who bakes superlative cupcakes at Dazzle bakery and tries to peddle her cookbook to various publishers so she can keep her house from falling down about her ears. Until one day, a dark, creepy looking stranger walks up to the bakery and brands her. He is instantly followed by a tall, blond, hot hunk who claims that the stranger in black is his evil, homicidal cousin, Gerwulf Grimoire. He goes on to reveal that Lizzy is an Unmentionable (no, not a piece of underwear, but a person with enhanced abilities to sense magical objects) whose help he needs to recover the lost Stones containing the Seven deadly sins. "The way it’s been told to me is that there are seven deadly sins known collectively as SALIGIA. Envy, Pride, Greed, Gluttony, Lusty, Grumpy, and Sneezy.” “I think some of those were dwarfs,” I said to Diesel Diesel tells Lizzy that any person who manages to collect all seven stones will have the power to create hell on earth. His mandate is to find the stone of Gluttony before Wulf does and return it to BUM, the governing body (part?!) for Unmentionables. "My orders are to stop Wulf from acquiring the Stones. Probably, no one cares if he collects the dwarfs.” “What happens if you only get some of the Stones but not all of the Stones?” “I don’t know. Maybe you just create hell in Connecticut.” Along for the ride are a cast of characters straight out of a screwball comedy flick. There's Gloria, whose inept attempts at casting a spell of truth always conclude in disaster for her poor victim, who graduates from speaking gibberish to merely gobbling. “Maybe it’ll wear off,” Glo said. “Some of these spells are temporary. The book isn’t always specific about length of time.” “Hear that?” I said to Shirley. “Good news. The spell might wear off.” Shirley flipped me the finger. “More good news,” Diesel said. “She knows sign language.” And then there is a one-eyed ninja cat. And a monkey that's almost human, and fluent in sign language too. Also a rival Unmentionable with a fetish for medieval role playing. No, Sir Hatchelot, you don't look stupid at all! This book is full of wisecracks and one-liners. “There you have it,” I said to Mel Mensher. “The big guy here has an unusual energy field.” “Lady, I’m talking full-blown spectral phenomenon.” “Well?” I asked Diesel. “I’m not spectral, but I’ve been told I can be pretty damn phenomenal.” This is like other urban fantasy books in the same way that Bugs Bunny is like Yogi Bear. If you are expecting Wicked Appetite to have world building, plot development, suspense build-up, etc, you are destined for disappointment. This is not an urban fantasy book, really. Nor is it a paranormal romance. I'm not sure exactly what it is, but it sure as hell is fun! The lack of plot development and build-up sometimes makes the book seem abrupt and uneven. There is also no real point to a lot of the book. There are very many, many scenes that have been inserted simply for the amusement factor, with no regard to whether they further the plot or not. Evanovich's writing style is funny and wiseass, but no-one could call it sophisticated. These are the sort of things that will disturb and possibly severely annoy serious UF readers, but for someone looking for a summer beach read, or some fluff to laugh away the blues, this is the perfect book. And for fans of Janet Evanovich, like me, this book heralds the return of the non-collaborative, non-Plummy, original and gold-plated queen of the funny romance. I'll be looking forward to the next book in this series. P.S. I just discovered that Diesel and Carl (the monkey) have previously appeared in the Stephanie Plum novels, and that Diesel, in fact, was a sort-of love interest for Stephanie. I'm not sure how to feel about this. Doesn't Stephanie have enough men in her life already? She's really not all that, so why does she have all these men falling at her feet? I haven't read the books with Diesel in them, so I'm going to pretend I never found out that tidbit, and Diesel is a brand-new character!

2018-12-29 17:30

Trái Tim Thiền Tập (Tái Bản) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

Of course. What did you expect, I loved the first one. In my defense, I did find the first one in a brown box by someone's recycling in my neighborhood. But I really do have such a nice time reading them. I also like pints of ice cream, candles, and that Jewel song "I'm sensitive and I want to stay that way."

2018-12-29 18:30

Vỡ Đê Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Vũ Trọng Phụng

incredible! Harrowing! A must read for Californians

2018-12-29 19:30

Nghệ Thuật Ứng Xử Của Người Việt - Tái bản 12/09/2009 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Phạm Minh Thảo

This book is one of the few books I wished would never end. I am in general quite wary of the current cliques of writers that have dominated the modern lit scene. This book does not fall into that category. It is beautifully written, selfless, and makes you feel like you are in the sidecar to the adventures.

2018-12-29 20:30

Discovery Kids - Du Hành Ngược Thời Gian Đến Xứ Sở Khủng Long Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Anne Rooney

I really liked this take on the Sleeping Beauty story. I loved the depth that the characters were given, their complex relationships and feelings and thoughts, the magic elements, and the way the story was told. I also really liked the way Rosie was never on her own to defeat Pernicia, how her family and community rallied around her to support her, and how she wasn't left to be rescued by a prince, but was able to fight her enemy herself. Well done and an enjoyable story.

2018-12-29 21:30

Đường Đến Thành Công Đỉnh Cao (Tái Bản 2018) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Donald Trump

This story was fascinating at several levels. Of course, at the surface level, King creates an almost lovably perverse and psycho villain in Annie Wilkes, the nurse-turned-captor. But I was more intrigued by Annie as an embodiment of addiction's power to enslave, and its effect on the enslaved, here the fictional author Paul Sheldon. Also fascinating was how the fictional author, Sheldon, became a sort of Scheherazade not only to his deranged fan Annie, but also to himself. It was the need to see how the story turns out that galvanizes his will to live. Metaphorically, what "must give us pause" is not just the unknown terrors to which we might fly if we end our own lives, but, as Sheldon intuits, the reluctance to leave the theater until the end of the final act. We want to know how the story ends. Very clever story craft, as King weaves a story within a story, with shared resonances. Nota Bene: While the crude language is limited to the point of view character, it's relentless throughout the novel. Most of my friends and students would find it quite grating and unsettling. Consider yourselves warned.

2018-12-29 22:30

Quản Lý Cơ Sở Dữ Liệu Với Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Nam Thuận - Lữ Đức Hào

Writing down your prayers with the intention of connecting the mind, body, and spirit is a way to gather the infinite wisdom that leads to wholesome living.

2018-12-29 23:30

Bật Mí Tất Tần Tật Về Bố Mẹ Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Francoize Boucher

Good book especially if you are a motorhead, which I am not, but I managed to get through that and learn the amazing story of Burt/Bert Munro. It did somewhat drag towards the middle but picked up a finished nicely. My favorite part of the book was the adventure with the Nash.

2018-12-30 00:30

Thực Đơn Cơm Gia Đình 3 Món Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Cẩm Tuyết

In this story, Goldilocks (some blond chick) breaks into a bear family's house while they're out for a walk. She eats their food, breaks their furniture and eventually falls asleep in the baby bear's bed. When the bears come back, they discover their home has been ransacked. Understandably upset, they go from room to room surveying the damage, until they come upon Goldilocks sleeping in their child's bed. What happens next left me completely flummoxed. Rather getting savagely devoured, all that happens to Goldilocks is that she gets chased out of the house by mama bear! The bears shrug "oh well," make some more porridge, THE END. Are you shitting me? It's preposterous! You're telling me this girl invades their home, eats their food and sleeps in their baby's bed, and all they do is give half-hearted chase? Imagine if the situation was reversed and it was some bear breaking into a human house. They'd shoot her on sight. Why doesn't Goldilocks have to suffer similar consequences? Even if you accept that she gets away, couldn't they have at least written a more clever escape? She literally just runs away!! No subterfuge, no mind games, no hand to hand combat or fairy godmother or anything. It's like the writers just gave up. Were they called away in a hurry before they could write a proper ending? I was so flabbergasted by the abruptness of this story's ending that I went on Wikipedia to see if it had been bowdlerized. You know, like those stories from Brothers Grimm et al. started out full of death and gore but got sanitized to avoid traumatizing kids in today's more wussy clime. But nope, the story has always been like that. What kind of lesson is this book teaching our children? That blonds can steal with impunity? I really would like to see it rewritten so that Goldilocks gets torn limb from limb, or else has to use her wits to escape. At least make her pay restitution for the chair!

2018-12-30 01:30

Những Phóng Sự Về Chiến Tranh Việt Nam Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều tác giả

This book is about a boy who has feeling for other boys and he meets someone named Noah and after he meets this boy (Noah)He has REALLY strong feelings for him and starts to date him. After he starts dating him his ex comes back to him and and Paul has to pick between Kyle (his Ex) or Noah! I felt this book was not that good. It had a good plot but it did not really get to the point

Người đọc Bruce Charonnat từ Drobnići, Montenegro

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.