Shady Essam từ Crottes-en-Pithiverais, France

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11/05/2024

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Shady Essam Sách lại (10)

2019-01-27 15:30

Luyện Tập Toán 1 (Tập 2) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Tường Khôi

When starting this one, I became immediately aware that I'd missed a few in the series (hmmm...isn't Benton dead?), but was not overly worried as it's just so nice to be able to spend some time with Dr. Scarpetta again. And this is a long one--weighing in at close to 600 pages, but I simply couldn't put it down and made my way through it in two evenings. I think other fans of the genre will find it equally compelling reading. In retrospect, this may well be the most complete and well-written in the Kay Scarpetta series to date. The exchange during which Kay is in a lab of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner's (OCME) DNA Building carrying on a speakerphone conversation with Dr. Geffner regarding midwestern Gray Wolf fur vs. dog fur and the finer points of symbolism associated with the former in ritual magic while, simultaneously on the other side of the room, Lucy and Marino are tracking a muder victim's last movements via a unit she wore that recorded her vital signs and GPS locations is some of the tightest, fast-paced writing I've read in a long while. Heck, I felt my heartrate increasing as we bounced back and forth between the victim's last minutes and the painstaking range of analyses with which breaks in such cases are generated. And the fact that Kay refused to interrupt Dr. Geffner to give her full attention to Lucy and Marino was pure brilliance--is so quintessentially Dr. Scarpetta. That is, you don't interrupt the experts who make time for you out of their intensely jam-packed days simply because a hot lead develops simultaneously. Such would be as inappropriate as leaving one's cell phone sitting on the table during dinner. Kay's determination to observe manners in the face of the horrors she witnesses daily is one of the many things that makes her so endearing--okay, that and her extreme competence and determination. The Scarpetta Factor, named for a tagline used to tease viewers into watching a CNN program on which Kay appears as a forensic consultant, is Patricia Cornwell at the top of her game--in terms of the forensic and police procedural parts, in indicting cable news stations as well as the FBI in terms of how they allow out-of-control people the latitude to manipulate circumstances and ruin other peoples' lives while never acknowledging their own institutional culpability. I also very much appreciated the fact that the interpersonal tensions created between Kay and Lucy, Lucy and Berger, between Benton and Marino, etc. are not tidily resolved by book's end. Kay continues to have remarkable insight into her own circumstances and the sometimes fragile nature of what constitutes "normalcy" in her anything-but-normal existence. Altogether, this was a very fine read.

Người đọc Shady Essam từ Crottes-en-Pithiverais, France

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.