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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Daniel Glattauer
If the book had focused entirely on the grandmother's story, I would have given it five stars. Throwing in all the useless stories about the grandaughter turned it into a bore for the other 200 pages.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Duy Nhường
This was the book that made me stop reading the series. Book #5 should have been the one to finalize my opinion of J.K.'s writing, plotting, character development & the overall path in which the story was going. But my curiosity of "what's going to happen?" got the best of me & I dove into this one thinking: "Maybe it'll get better?" I was wrong. It got worse. The total overuse of flashbacks really started to annoy me & for the number of pages the book has, Rowling needed to avoid keeping stuff totally hidden behind curtain #3. In other words, stop hiding everything in order to get people to buy your next book--you can reveal some aspects while keeping others wrapped in the enigma--don't worry J.K., we've throw our chips into the pot & are in for the long haul. But due to her lack of revealing, she just frustrated me to the point I said: "Enough! I have better books to read--especially in the fantasy epics department." I also hated she abandoned the plot device of Harry going to school--Hogwarts was completely cut out of the series & just became a setting/backdrop to be used when needed. Harry becomes a kind of "Wizard School Drop-out" & it really harms the story in my opinion. Or is it that Harry is such a great wizard that he doesn't need any more education? Bull. He pretty much cheats his way through classes--Tom's Potion book anyone?--& really comes off as a lazy wizard/jock who'd rather play Quiddich than learn the important secrets of becoming a wizard. & then there's the brooding crap of: "Nobody understands me" & "I'm so alone in my misery" & "why did my parents die?" What crap! He has so many people around him that love him he kind of just spits on it. What an ass! & don't give me that: "He's being a typical teenager" garbage! He's a wizard for crying out loud! It's like being a member of the X-Men! Get over it! That's it! I'm done with this series even though I'm one book away from finishing it. I've got better things to read & to do with my time.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
Awesome
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tường Vi
A really really good dystopian fiction book!!!
** spoiler alert ** Another blanket review, this one for all "Arrows" books. The rating is from my 12-year-old self, and she emphatically recommends them to all 12-year-old girls who lean toward fantasy. Being a horse-crazy preteen, I was, of course, ALL about these first Valdemar books. Insanely so. They're far more accessible than the Pern books, the language isn't as stilted or formal, the plotlines aren't utterly simplistic, but neither are they so convoluted as to be impenetrable to a 12-year-old. The characters were closer to my age, and everything they went through was much more indentifiable to me at the time. I loved them wildly, and being already somewhat twisted, I was even crazy over the whole tragic-death-and-torture angle. I don't think they hold up well over time, though. The prose is very simplistic, and as others have said, this trilogy does sort of scream "New Author" in flashing neon. I think the world is built well, and only gets better in subsequent series; there are some very nice sociological touches, and I can (usually) even overlook the Mary Sue-ness of all Heralds, simply because they're all paladins who are Heralds because of their Mary Sue/Gary Stu qualities. Lackey isn't afraid to torture the hell out of her characters, which is a selling point for me, but the books are not very challenging in prose or plot. I have recently cleared all the Lackey off my shelves except for this trilogy, and I kept these only out of nostalgia.
I seriously learned more about Islamic history, tradition, and culture in any given chapter of this book than in my visits to Malaysia (an Islamic country) or any other part of my education. This is a fascinating book, and I envy and admire Geraldine Brooks' journalistic efforts in the pre-9/11 Middle East... she has incredible personal anecdotes from several countries, and I also appreciated the epigrams quoting the Koran at the beginning of each chapter.
I think this may be one of McCullough's best books. I listened to it in my car. It took almost of month of commutes but I didn't want it to end. I've read books about or set around Americans in Paris but during the Hemingway years. McCullough takes us back further to explore the Americans who lived in Paris in the 19th Century. I love Paris and I feel like I was dropped there in a different time. This felt like a who's who of so many great American thinkers and artists and writers. John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, Oliver WEndell Holmes, JAmes Fennimore Cooper, to name a few. I know the work of many of these individuals but not much about their lives. I loved that the backdrop of their stories were set against the history of Paris in the 19th Century. Again, history I knew from my textbooks but really came alive through McCullough sharing their letters, etc. Great read.
Really good. Ignore the title.
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based on his other books (which are AMAZING) I kept reading this book in hopes that there would be some kind of point to it at the end, or an overarching narrative with resolution. no such luck. though i have to hand it to him to make what is essentially a very (very) long dream sequence readable and engaging, it was still kind of a letdown.
i liked it, not exceptional writing, but a good story told emotionally, with a nice twist. my second anita shreve novel, i will read more.
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.