Jiman Park từ Derschen, Germany

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05/05/2024

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2019-01-14 08:31

Thả Trôi Phiền Muộn Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Suối Thông

** spoiler alert ** Another great R. Hill mystery. As usual, Mr. Hill draws the reader in immediately into mysterious bits. When the story starts in earnest, we already know that bad things had happened to Wolf Hadda, and he loses no time in letting us know what they are. Hadda seems to take longer to realize that he has been set up by his friends than would ordinarily occur, but he appears to be one of those good people who believes most people, or at least his longest friends can be trusted. The fly in the oinment appears to be J. Childs --- whose office in the "government" is never really identified. Piecing together the mystery, the reader is not in doubt that Hadda has been set up, so the mystery is who has done the setting up? Is Mr. Childs behind it all? He surely has his fingers (or his strings on his puppets?) in most of the "pies." Or are Hadda's best friends and his wife just really bad sociopaths? Hill makes the unraveling of this plot really interesting by adding Alva Ozigbo --- Hadda's psychiatrist - a black woman who he meets when he ends up in prison, with one eye and a really mangled body --- the final indignity of his incredible fall. Lots of plot twists and turns and startling revelations at the end to ramp up the drama. The twisted family revelations at the end do not seem to me to have been necesary. His wife/sister? He really does find the peace of mind that he wants --- at the end of this riveting story, with Alva. And Alva gets what she finds she really wants, too --- out of the prison hospital, which, at first, she thought was a big step forward in her career. Hill always makes his readers care about his characters --- his development of their personalities is thoutful, thorough, and integrated gradually into the story. I wonder if the Woodcutter is a stand alone -- or the beginning of a new series.

2019-01-14 11:31

Ngày Của Kiến Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Bernard Werber

This was an easy, entertaining read. The protagonist is a busy career woman, mother, and wife who develops a condition called "left neglect" after sustaining a head injury in a car accident (while using cell phone), and chronicles her journey learning how to live with the condition, in which she simply fails to notice everything on her left (her left foot, her left hand, the left side of a plate, the left half of a page in a book, etc.). (It sounds like a ridiculous condition and yet it is apparently relatively common....I'm not sure whether there is also such a thing as right neglect...) Anyway, as you can guess from what I've written so far, of course she comes to see that her life was crazy and unsatisfying, and comes to enjoy the small blessings in her new, slowed-down life, including reconciliation with her estranged mother, blah blah blah. I thought it was overdone a bit.... All in all, I preferred the author's first novel, Still Alice, which was about a woman as she grapples with a diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Perhaps that one was better because AD is a more common disease and therefore it's easier to relate to.....and it didn't have the "forced happy ending" that Left Neglected has. Which isn't to say that Left Neglected is necessarily unrealistic; it seems quite realistic that someone who developed this condition might indeed subsequently make the life choices that the protagonist makes....only that it still felt a little forced and overdone to me.

Người đọc Jiman Park từ Derschen, Germany

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.