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This is a collection with two distinct halves. "The Ballad of the Sad Café" takes up roughly the first half, and is a Southern Gothic meditation on love, betrayal, and solitude, told through a strange triangle; a mannish woman named Miss Amelia, a grotesque dwarf called Cousin Lymon, and a handsome criminal named Marvin. The second half is a collection of stories that are less strange and baroque, and are finely observed meditations on humanity. "Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland," "The Sojourner," and "A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud" were my favorites, but they're all good, except for "Wunderkind," which is the only story in this collection I'd dare to call sophomoric.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Christopher Hansard
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We read this for book club and it was a great book to discuss. The family was pretty screwed up and made a lot of bad decisions, but it was wonderfully written. I wasn't happy with how some things ended up, but it was a beautifully written book.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hoài Thanh
I flew threw this. I suspect it appeals most to a very particular audience (NYers, just into their 30s, etc). though these characters' NY experience isn't at all like my own, their internal struggles--the what am I doing with myself kind of questions--as well as the complex interplay between friends, particularly how that changes as we get older, that is completely relateable.
Second in the Sally Lockheart trilogy taking place in 1878 six years after the first. Sally, now 22, operates her own financial buisness as well as still working with the Garland family photography business from the first novel. This story is a bit more complicated than the first with a few more twists and turns as she and the Garlands work together on solving a multifaceted mystery. The villian in this novel is every bit as mean and dastardly as the one in the first novel. Overall, a better novel than the first.
Painful, painful, painful read. It was all I could do to finish it. And, well, actually, I didn't. I had to skip the last 40 pages of Miranda's section. I had such high hopes for this book, too. The premise (half the book is told from the point of view of the kidnapper and the other have from the perspective of his victim) was so incredibly intriguing to me. When it comes down to it, I just didn't believe the characters. They were totally false to me. I kept thinking, "there is no way these characters would behave in this manner." I recognize that part of that feeling might be due to the fact it was written in 1963 (you definitely get the sense that it's set in the late 50's or early 60's) and takes place in England... but... The characters were simply false. I couldn't buy into their actions and emotions. He was incredible weak and quite simply, stupid and Miranda was a harpy. It's funny because initially you think that perhaps Freddie is narcissistic and then wind up realizing that Miranda, in her own way, is equally as bad. Sure, she doesn't kidnap anyone but her self-absorption is tiresome. By the end, I had no sympathy for her and could care less about whether she lived or died. She's locked in the basement of a man she doesn't know and appears to have zero fear and feels completely comfortable belittling and humiliating her capture. Huh?!? Well... I could go on and on about that. Another aspect that bothered me was that I kept getting the distinct impression that the author (not just the characters) really disliked women and that much of Miranda's diatribes were really reflections of the author's opinions of society at the time. Which was, ultimately, just one more aspect of the novel that I found annoying. Seriously, had I not set a goodreads.com goal of 75 books, I would've put this book down at page 180ish; but I felt as though I'd invested too much time to just give up. So... I would say... avoid this book. It's not worth the struggle. If the topic is one you're intrigued by, then I would highly, highly recommend Still Missing by Chevy Stevens. Stevens has a MUCH better insight into human nature.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Cửu Lộ Phi Hương
Again, this was a fun series to read. This book was really interesting but not quite as philosophical as The Long Walk.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Vương Đình Chi
Nothing like her best work, but after a slow start it got quite compelling. Like in the Derkholm series, I felt there were way too many characters to keep track of, and the plot ended up being quite unexpectedly sinister, but there were enough bits of interesting magic and entertaining quirks to keep me mostly liking it.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Phạm Thị Tâm
I really liked this book. It is beautifully written and I like Mr. Darcy! I guess I don't need to write more as it is a well known classical.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
Oy, what to say about Book 2 of the Potter behemoth? It's better than the first one, still not a book I'd term "great." I get the feeling that Rowling's thinking ahead as she writes, though, and that's Smart. I enjoy Hermione, maybe because I was her male equivalent back in the day, bookish, studious, and rule-smitten. I explicitly do not enjoy the elf character Dobby. While I'm told that he has a crucial role to come in the series, here he flat-out reminded me of Jar-Jar Binks from the latter-day Star Wars flicks. That is to say that I detested the character's every scene, word, and movement. What a deplorable urchin. I mourn his creation. The second half of this one picked up, as did the first. I still eagerly await the darkening of the series in Book 4, two books from now as I pile-drive the lot of them leading up to the last installment's release.
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.