Katie Farritor từ Vadanappally, Kerala, India

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12/22/2024

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Katie Farritor Sách lại (10)

2019-02-05 10:30

Thần Thoại Hy Lạp - Tập 2 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

I recommend this book to anyone interested in what Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, or general 'liberation' or 'New Age' is about. Hui-Neng is a fantastic character, more so for his simplicity, his accomplishment, his directness, and the fact of his being a real person. His account of his life and enlightenment, and those who seek but do not attain has something for everyone, the vain, the proud, the stoic, the passionate... His view of Buddhism was welcome to me because, as he says, we find Buddhism in the world, not apart from it, for without the world there is no need for Buddhism and to run from the world to find enlightenment is to look for a bird's nest at the top of a ladder, all the while wondering where the leaves and branches are. Hui-Neng is right up there with Nagarjuna and the buddha known as 'Buddha' in terms of what they offer to us, but he is so lowly in his message and emans that he may as well be our next door neighbor. Thomas Cleary is also one of my favorite translators of literature like this and he maintains a stylistic consistency that lends accessibility to hos translations yet remains transparent so as to not interfere with the translated work.

2019-02-05 11:30

Kể Chuyện Bé Nghe - Ông Tí Râu Sammy Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Beatrix Potter

Hated it--too Lifetime "television for women" for my taste. hope the movie is better.

2019-02-05 12:30

30 Việc Cha Mẹ Nên Làm Cùng Con Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

perfect crime story and in it there is a perfect love story. i just loved it in the start i was not captured by the story but towards the end i was hooked i could never have predicted the ending.

2019-02-05 13:30

Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Sheryl Sandberg

Hebrew edition

2019-02-05 14:30

Mắt Người Sơn Tây Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Quang Dũng

I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this one. i can't believe I waited so long to read it!

2019-02-05 15:30

Thất Bại Học Của Toyota Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ojt Solutions

A bitter sweet memoir from misspent youth to reconciliation.

2019-02-05 16:30

Smart Talk (Quick & Dirty Tips) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lisa B.Marshall

Total crap. Housewives of America should be appalled for popularizing this.

2019-02-05 17:30

333 Truyện Tiếu Lâm Thế Giới Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lưu Quang Hà

What a relief to find that this book is very little like the movie that Disney came out with. Light enough for kids/young adults, but entertaining enough for adults.

2019-02-05 18:30

Hướng Dẫn Giải Bài Tập Tiếng Việt Lớp 3 (Tập 2) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

this is a very well written book which was very difficult to read. i found it to be pro-palestinian, while others found it to be pro-israel. i would love to re-write some of the dialogue... should be read to see what others see

2019-02-05 19:30

Đi Tìm Lời Giải Cho Những Câu Hỏi Lớn Của Cuộc Đời Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

Feeling really burned after Nixonland, I meandered about my home horde, reading some Gass and Kronenberger essays, some of Prestowitz's Three Billion New Capitalists, dipping here and there into Borges, Scruton, and Posner, but nothing was really sticking other than my skin to the back of my chair. Then I espied my good ol' shelf of NYRB Classics, so beautifully formal, so stiffly aesthetic, redolent of that pulpy pureness that engenders almost a postcoital bliss—so why in the hell not? Summer and ciencia ficción go together like weed and inhalation psychosis, so it's Inverted World for the win. Which proved not to be much of a victory. This is one of those Eh books, so common, in my experience, to the milieu of science fiction—entertaining, certainly intriguing at the outset, but marred by paper-thin characters, clustered action, expository text that dissipates the sense of otherness so necessary to such fantastic fiction, and an ending that proved tricky but, ultimately, unsatisfying. What's more, I've got a few questions about the point-of-view of the City dwellers that haven't been answered in the course of the story's completion, and I believe that these questions undermine an integral aspect of the resolution provided: to wit, the aging effect, which I shan't get into further for fear of spoiling the plot for those yet to partake of Priest's imaginative offering, but it seems a gaping flaw that the developments at the end fail to deal with. I still mostly enjoyed this—stories that feature dystopian futures set amidst apocalyptic wastelands inhabited by the crude and regressive remnants of a once highly civilized humanity and centered upon an isolated collective vessel of said vanished civilization's descendants—struggling to preserve the faith, mores, and technologies of the old ways in the face of the mutations and temptations for a newer set to override and/or supersede them—always rock my boat: in this particular case, the conceit consists of a block-sized, multi-tiered City winching itself northwards along a tetrad of railway tracks that are immediately disassembled in the rear and positioned anew in the front as the city structure edges along, forever chasing the elusive optimum whose invisible geometric parameters are of a vital necessity to keep within a few miles of the city's physical structure. There's cool physics, archaic and hierarchical governing guilds, apprenticeship rituals, female population imbalance, and nifty perception perturbations that drive the story onwards, with a few narrative shifts that cast a new light upon what is taking place. Furthermore, Priest has crafted some sly allusions to our own hypertrophied hydrocarbonic era overlaid with a spicy sprinkling of Cold War bifurcations. So, there you have it—a book to which I bestow a somewhat tepid three-star rating. I'm sure that I've inflated its flaws in my mind, and downplayed its cleverness, but the bottom line is that my initial enthusiasm, which was appreciable, began to deflate roughly around the third part of the story, never to regain its momentum. I cannot shake the sense that I should be partaking of more serious fare, that such frivolous and flimsy material, whilst fine for a dude in his twenties, has been outgrown and should be consigned to my days of bong hits, beers, and Bits-n-Bites™. How in the hell can I possibly continue to leave Proust and Powell and Kundera and Serge and Marías idling upon the shelf to follow a track-bound city turtling across the open plains? Perhaps this explains why my Culture collection—Phlebas, Games, Weapons, Excession—gather dust in a corner. If I actually got into them, that recently promoted literary section of my reading consciousness would berate my escapist self to no end—and if Banks' fare proved no better than Inverted World, it just might have a point.

Người đọc Katie Farritor từ Vadanappally, Kerala, India

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.