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Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
Short, sweet and sad..... I love epistolary novels, so I was predisposed to like this book. I wish it had been longer, though - and more fleshed out. But the author did manage to distill the essence and reality of this mother-daughter relationship in a very short book. I, too, was crying at the end.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Hạnh - Trần Thị Thanh Nguyên
I'm sad the series is over. Hopefully Snyder continues with another series.
This book is helpful if you keep in the right perspective. I kept thinking how it could be dangerous in the hands of parents who want to live through their children. Yet, it was helpful to me as a parent in encouraging my children in the endeavors they already enjoy as well as for things that are difficult for them. If you want to be more skilled in anything, it will take deliberate practice over a long period of time. Saying to yourself, "I'm just not gifted at such-and-such" and then giving up is not a valid excuse. Not many of us is driven to sacrifice time and relationships to be a world-class performer, but we can learn by their example to play a better golf game or a become a better worker at our jobs.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Trọng Báu
it's kind of a fun way to expose kids to American History without overwhelming them with any one style or point of view. Just enough stuff that if it makes them curious, all the better.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: TS. Phan Thăng
Excellent. The best of Nick Hornby.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều tác giả
Although often described as a meditation on the vacuity of the 1980s, it's probably important to realise that an era cannot by itself create a state of vacuity, but only acts as a trapping. In this case, the 80s represents a sticky glut of technology, fashion, and media (does it sound very different to today?) that ultimately confuses and paralyses, eliminating feeling - and thereby the possibility of redemption - through sheer saturation. But psychotic behaviour is not new; it exists in everyone (in general), or at the very least in every man. It's more a question of those who indulge in it and those who suppress it. The reader should therefore not be surprised at the ease with which Patrick Bateman (the villain and narrator) seduces us. He is as classical a gothic figure as any that Poe created, and has all the darkness and all the comedy, without quite the campiness and more wit, of a young Vincent Price. He is so beau that he is often asked if he is a model or an actor. This makes him more of an act of a gothic character than the real thing, but the artificiality here is appropriate. We abhor him, yet he resonates nonetheless. More secretly American Psycho probably also raises the occasional hard-on, which as the delineation between sex then rape then murder dissolves - and really, murder is just another form of pornography - makes us question whether not being consciously shameful of this, at least until after the chapter is over, is a natural reaction or not. Patrick's hatred is born of a surprisingly touching fear of everything that is not a part of his own construction; anything with the possibility of gentle or joyous emotion by its nature cannot exist for him, and must be destroyed. Tossing a handful of coins into a seal pool in an attempt to choke them, he tells us that "[i]t's not the seals I hate - it's the audience's enjoyment of them that bothers me". Shortly after he stabs a five-year-old child in the throat and is not satisfied; the child had "no real history, no worthwhile past" and the killing leaves him empty. By conflating the extreme opposites we see not only the boundaries of human abbhorence - apparently limitless, there is little that Patrick would not do in the mutilation and annihilation of a human - but also, in our own sympathy to him, the extreme lengths humans are willing to go to to forgive one of their own, to abstract the blame into something larger and ambiguous. Or perhaps we should be more cynical, and suggest that our sympathy for him is merely of our own inclinations towards such darkness - again, classical gothic. There is more to pick up here, much more, that distinguishes it in many ways as a product of the modern era, but I feel the main lesson here is not in the story but in our reactions to it, of our own following self-analysis. That's what I got anyway. For some it may simply result in a deadening of certain senses, disgust or paranoia; for me it was all good for self-awareness. Damn, out of space - I'll have to try to post the rest of the review in comments!
Halfway through. Incredible!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Mike Hoeffinger
I read the whole series of James Herriot novels when I was in high school. Wonderful stories.
Amazing book!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Bà Tùng Long
i was informed that this was mandatory reading material for anyone living in new orleans. i agree, it made me understand why so many love this city. and i see the author walking his dog almost daily near my house!
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.