Luca Lee từ Felonica MN, Italy

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05/02/2024

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2019-01-26 06:30

Thẻ Học Thông Minh - Học Toán Siêu Tốc Trong Phạm Vi 100: Phép Cộng Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

I hated this book. I hated it so much. I'm glad I didn't finish the series as a child (I petered out some time after the 3rd or 4th, in publishing order), because this book would have scarred me for life. As impressionable as I was as a wee bairn, I would have either run around crying for a week over the way everyone *insert spoiler here* at the end, or I would have traipsed about hoping for Armageddon so I could go play with the pretty lion. Not cool. Not cool at all. Either way, I would have been totally messed up--permanently scarred. It has all the racism of The Horse and his Boy, all the sexism of The Silver Chair, the ginormous Christian bludgeon of Lion, Etc., and all the dull, meaningless traversing of landscape of Caspian (Onward and upward, guys! Everything's green! I'VE NEVER SEEN NATURE BEFORE!). Plus, the content is morbid and depressing, and the plot line fills me with despair. And all I can think of at the end is poor Susan, left behind to deal with the real-world aftermath, excluded from the love of Jesus/Aslan because she likes panty hose? What the fuck is that shit? I always though Jesus would be a wee bit more forgiving of the foibles of teenagers. Maybe I wouldn't be full of so much haterade if I hadn't read this after The Magician's Nephew, which was actually quite delightful and appropriate for children. My husband's boxed set is missing the last book--when it comes time to share it with the future spawn, I might just leave the last book missing. I think it's better that way.

2020-08-03 13:49

12 Con Giáp Và Vận Thế Đời Người - Tuổi Mão Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Cao Hưng (Soạn dịch)

This is Trollope's worst novel. No doubt about it. It's a futuristic novel set in an imaginary island nation somewhere near New Zealand, an island originally colonized by the English. As so often happens in futuristic novels, the future technologies imagined are, in hindsight, absurd -- steam bicycles, cricket gear (including steam bowlers) that let the sides score unimaginably large number of runs (at least I assume they're unimaginable; I'm not really the person to ask). But the focus of the novel -- and I suppose this must be true generally of futuristic novels -- is not on the technology so much as it is on society. Trollope imagines a society in which it has become the law that everyone is to be euthanized upon reaching age 68. That is "the fixed period" of the title. Sounds bad, right? But what makes it even worse for Trollope lovers is that Trollope writes it as a first-person narrative. What makes Trollope great is his narrator's voice, and here he can't use it. In addition to euthanasia, Trollope's imagined society also cremated its dead, which, although hardly shocking to us now, was illegal in Trollope's England. Trollope was a member of the Cremation Society, which argued for, and eventually won, legalization of cremation. (But not in time for Trollope; he is buried at Kensal Green Cemetery, with a plaque in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey.) But I don't think Trollope was in favor of compulsory euthanasia. By the way, Trollope was 67 when he wrote The Fixed Period.

Người đọc Luca Lee từ Felonica MN, Italy

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.