Fritz Helm từ Wincentynów, Poland

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12/22/2024

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2019-01-22 00:30

Văn Khấn Nôm Truyền Thống Của Người Việt (Tái Bản 2016) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Duy Hòa

The second book of The Troy Game series, and it's excellent. The characters are reborn into their second lives, and it adds a whole new dimension to their interactions, goals, and plans. I absolutely couldn't put it down.

2019-01-22 01:30

Bộ Truyện Candybook - Thiên Thần Hộ Mệnh Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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Roger has betrayed his country. He helped the Japanese sink a helpless hospital ship during WWII. A few survivors were able to escape the wreckage and swim to a nearby uninhabited island... including Roger, and a Japanese POW. The survivors must now make do with the barest of necessities and hope that the Americans find them first. But they're in big trouble if Roger gets his way...

2019-01-22 02:30

Combo Chồng Xứ Lạ (Bộ 3 Cuốn) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trang Hạ

This second installment starts off well and in keeping with the author's description (claim?) that SotT is an action series. We're taken into a heist-in-progress and into the opening chapter where Simon and his team are debriefed on their next case. Following their fuckfest weekend, Simon is back at work and Jeremy has taken off for parts unknown. When Simon and his team hit on the fact that the thief they are after is strikingly similar to Jeremy, Simon calls his intermittent lover and offers him a consultancy job on the team, to the horror and objection of his team members who, of course, don't know their boss is sleeping (now and then) with the 'enemy'. I enjoyed the first half of Double Down and, to my surprise, found that the incessant bantering between the members, despite the childish overtones, did not irritate me. Nonetheless, I would have liked to have it cut down by half because I found the time spent on this slowed the book down considerably. If this series is meant to be an action-oriented one, Double Down would have been that if some of the banter had been left out in favor of more action sequences. There's a lot of build-up towards catching the copycat thief then a surprisingly anti-climactic end. However, there's an explanation for that though you'll have to wade through all the banter between everyone, and especially between Simon and Dorothy Langridge when they meet in the Arboretum, in order not to miss it. The repartees between this hard-nosed CIA operative and Simon are good but that post-op secret meeting they had was one instance when the bantering needed to have been dispensed with. The info divulged here was significant and I was exasperated to have to read through the relevant chapters twice and some portions more than twice just to mentally filter out the extraneous banter to get to the relevant stuff. There's also important things going on in Jeremy that I wanted to dwell on (the copycat thief was someone significant in his past) but this, too, was overwhelmed by the noise that just never let up from page to page! Anyway, the suspense kicks in from the time Simon and Langridge meet and the following chapters - until our guys get to NYC - are the best part of the book. MAJOR WARNING!!!MAJOR WARNING!!!MAJOR WARNING!!! There is a Lacuna that occurs in the middle of Chapter 13. Read this, by all means, but do NOT read the author's comment at the end of this lacuna as it contains a major spoiler. I don't normally mind spoilers but this was one that I wish I didn't come across. It was totally unnecessary of the author to give that info away and I can only put it down to her uncontrollable need to justify and defend her decision not to write the sex scenes into the main story that she didn't realize this particular spoiler served no purpose. Anyway, back to the book... After the meeting at the Arboretum, and the suspense sequences following, the book switches focus over to Jeremy and Simon. Simon has descended into a deep funk following the events of the last chapter and spends days holed up in his apartment, not really eating or sleeping and not bathing either. As we, the reader has come to expect, Jeremy turns up to rescue Simon from his depression and from here the book changes from an action-romance to straight-up contemporary romance but minus the sex! It got really long here and while I can understand the need, perhaps, to show a side of their relationship that isn't all 'flash-bang-ka-boom-fuck', it was just way too long. Jeremy whisks Simon off to New York after Simon is suspended pending an investigation into the recent incident (to understate it) and while Jeremy succeeds in lifting the cloud of depression off Simon, their relationship has taken several steps back instead of forward. This would have added some depth to the love that's developing (albeit grudgingly and unacknowledged probably till death do us part!) between the two men but it was too frickin' long and when they part ways after that long no-sex weekend, it's the Epilogue! ...and it's an epilogue that would have been better off as part of the next book as it is all about Nate and so made the last portion of the story terribly disjointed. I would have preferred that Double Down ended with more insight into Simon and Jeremy's relationship. After all, I'd been made to read through 100 reader-pages of their NY trip, more bantering, withholding of natural relations (or should that be 'unnatural'?) because, you know - stuff is happening inside the two men that they don't want to talk about. So yeah, 100 pages of Jeremy and Simon in NY after the mission but no sex. So that's enough to get me grumbling and muttering so when it all ends with this odd little epilogue, I am not a happy fan. Having started Book 3 and read the opening chapter, I'll say that a better ending would be Jeremy and Simon saying goodbye, leaving their tenuous affair on a cliffhanger. Instead, I was pulled out of the story by this non sequitur of an epilogue. Again, the weak part of the book is that the sex scenes were side stories you have to get out of the book to read. I didn't, don't and can't, buy the author's rationalization that leaving those scenes out improved the book. It was a dumb idea. IMO, they would have made the series so much better. As it is, the series suffers from being undecided whether it's an action story or a light, contemporary MM romance despite the author's claim to the former. There's not enough action to make it an action series and leaving out the sex scenes made the sexual chemistry between Jeremy and Simon pointless. If the bantering had been sacrificed instead, I'd have gotten more action sequences and if the sex scenes were left in, that would have heightened the tension all round. I would have had a ball watching Simon struggle - and fail - to handle keeping Jeremy at arm's (cock's) length, getting extremely twitchy because of he can't and Jeremy, irrepressible as always, continuing to bait Simon - and winning. Every damn time. I am sufficiently exasperated this time to give what could easily have been a strong 5 stars a mere 3. Not because Double Down is bad but because I'm annoyed with the author. She explains (somewhere) that she loves banter. I enjoy that, too, but in this case, M. Chandler was being indulgent and as a result, spoilt what would have been a great follow-up to The Morning Star. 3 stars from me but I still highly recommend that you read it to the end and then go on to Book 3. I've been assured that the plot gets better and the team members become more three-dimensional.

2019-01-22 03:30

Truyện Tranh Lịch Sử Việt Nam - Khúc Thừa Dụ Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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I had heard some mention of this as an expose of what happens inside the private rooms and behind closed doors of the mansion. I will say there is a certain element of expose and a bit of the seedy world that is the playboy industry at the time of Jill Ann's arrival. And I am in no way naive enough to believe there isn't a certain tit for tat in the Playboy world. Some of the goings on are strange, and there is a sort of paranoid universe feeling to it. Mostly your impression after the novel isn't about what is going in the mansion but the desperation this author had for being connected to the playboy world. She is terrible at moving on her with her life and is sort of strangely obsessed with the Playboy world. The book has a certain conversational tone, and I would say she is a bit below average in her writing. I am surprised the editors of her book let it go to publishing as is as there are errors in print and some continuity errors as well.

2019-01-22 04:30

Mẹ Ghẻ Con Ghẻ - Phát Hành Dự Kiến 03/2018 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hồ Biểu Chánh

Couldn't finish it. Too dense, convoluted and difficult to follow. Eloquent in spurts but lacking the focus and narrative drive of his best storytelling.

2019-01-22 05:30

Bộ Sách Rèn Luyện Trí Thông Minh - Phát Triển Trí Tuệ 1088 Câu Đố - Dành Cho Trẻ Từ 5 Đến 6 Tuổi (Tập 4) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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Fun read like all of the ones in the series. Could not put it down.

2019-01-22 06:30

Vở Thực Hành Tiếng Việt Lớp 5 - Tập 2 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

Original post at One More Page I was planning to put off reading Jasper Fforde's latest Thursday Next book until I found the time to reread the first five books. It's been years since I last read any of them, so I thought I'd appreciate reading this latest one better if I read the first ones again. Never mind that there are five of them and it would take significant time off my real TBR. But then I got sick a few weeks before I had to fly to Europe, which got me worried about all kinds of things especially because of that trip to Europe. I needed a book to get my mind off the possibilities that my 48-hour on/off fever could mean, so I finally decided to unearth TN #6 out of the TBR pile. If there was an ultimate escape novel, I figured Thursday Next should be one. Some spoilers for the first five books -- be warned! So the last time Thursday Next was in the Book World, she ended up looking for a replacement for her character in her series because the original fictional Thursday Next was too violent to be her. One of Our Thursdays is Missing is told from this new fictional Thursday's point of view -- a gentler, bohemian character who never tries to make waves even if it means being the boring Thursday Next that no one likes. But when she gets called by the Jurisfiction to investigate a crashed TransGenre Taxi. Fictional Thursday Next finds herself in the middle of a mystery that gets her involved in all sorts of fictional drama, and a robot butler to boot. With the real Thursday Next missing, it's up to fictional Thursday Next to save the day. I think it was Aaron who mentioned the perfect word to describe the Thursday Next series: it's so meta. The first five Thursday Next books are pretty much meta-fiction - fiction about fiction. It's what makes all the books so much fun to read especially for book-lovers, because we're basically reading about books that we may or may not have read. And just as when you think that Jasper Fforde has no way to impress longtime fans of the series, he does something completely surprising and makes it work. If the first five books were meta-fiction, the sixth book is meta-Thursday Next. Meta-meta-fiction - that's what this is. Kind of hard to wrap my mind around it, but it still works. One of Our Thursdays is Missing has all elements of a Fforde novel: seemingly random characters, odd accidents, mystery, murder, all wrapped in a fun, seemingly absurd package. Jasper Fforde is a genius, I tell you. :) This book cheered me up so much while I was sick, especially after reading lines like these: The Snooze button was reserved only for dire emergencies. Once utilised, a reverse throughput capacitor on the ImaginoTransference engines would cause the reader instantaneous yawning, drowsiness and then sleep...To discourage misuse, every time the button was pressed one or more kittens were put to death somewhere in the Book World. (p. 26-27) I fell asleep several times while I was reading this. I wonder who was hitting the Snooze button. Harry Potter was seriously pissed off that he'd have to spend the rest of his life looking like Daniel Radcliffe. (p. 75) Hee hee! "The Great Gatsby drives taxis in his spare time?" "No, his younger and less handsome or less intelligent brother -- the Mediocre Gatsby." (p. 273) I was a bit afraid that it would be hard to get back into the series again especially since it's been so long since I read the first five books, but given that this book is narrated by the fictional Thursday Next, I didn't have such a hard time. I don't recommend starting the series with this book, though, but there is no need to reread the other books to make sense of this one. One of Our Thursdays is Missing probably isn't as witty as the first four books (best one for me is still Something Rotten ), but it's a good and fun addition to an already awesome series. :) The question is: will there be a next Thursday Next book? I sure hope so! :)

2019-01-22 07:30

Rèn Luyện Kỹ Năng Giải Quyết Bài Toán Trắc Nghiệm Thực Tế Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

I enjoyed the second book in the trilogy. From the story to the writing style there really is nothing to disappoint.

2019-01-22 08:30

Tự Học Thiết Kế Web Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trung Hiếu

A quick read. It was exactly what I wanted. I had been hearing on the radio how the US was in some respects similar to Rome and following in some of the same footsteps as Rome, prior to it's fall. This addressed issues in a very readable way on how Rome fell, or at least issues that likely helped lead to its fall. I was then able to decide for myself if there was some similarity with the way the US is now.

2019-01-22 09:30

Truyện Tranh Lịch Sử Việt Nam - Trạng Nguyên Trịnh Tuệ Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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Novel by author of Gosford Park. Interesting, humorous look at the class system in Britain in the 90s.

Người đọc Fritz Helm từ Wincentynów, Poland

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.