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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Michael Coughlin
Fascinating, leftist journalistic look at natural disaster in Southern California. Of particular interest in the chapter on the destruction of Los Angeles in film and fiction. A representative sentence: "Post-apocalyptic Los Angeles, overrun by terminators, androids, and gangs, has become as much a cliché as Marlowe’s mean streets or Gidget’s beach party."
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hanry Burnett
Always wanted to read "The Wealth of Nations" so I could better understand the greatest mind on the subject, but alas, I am alarmingly ill-equipped to decipher economic brilliance. Happily, one of my most favorite essayists and authors, PJ O'Rourke, does it for me. What's interesting is that he plumbs moral nuances from a text that I assumed would be theory only. And, of course, it being PJ O'Rourke, there is an abundance of flip and irreverance to make even the more arcane topics entertaining.
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Book sequels can be disappointing (i.e. the Ellen Foster follow-up), but I was very pleasantly surprised by this. "The Sparrow" was so powerful that being able to get back into that world with those characters was like a relief.
Well-written crime spoof although the joke wears thin by the end.
Sing Me to Sleep has gotten rave reviews from most people here in GR but I just couldn't stomach how whiny and needy the MC, Beth was.
I was in an airport in Germany without a book and there was a slim selection of books in English. I bought this one, having heard it described as an American Classic, and it was a decent read. I wonder how I would've felt about the book when it was originally published.
Generally, in battle, use the common to engage the enemy and the uncommon to gain victory. Those skilled at uncommon maneuvers are as endless as the heavens and earth, and as inexhaustible as the rivers and seas. ? Like the sun and the moon, they set and rise again. Like the four seasons, they pass and return again. There are no more than five musical notes, yet the variations in the five notes cannot all be heard. There are no more than five basic colors, yet the variations in the five colors cannot all be seen. There are no more than five basic flavors, yet the variations in the five flavors cannot all be tasted. ? In battle, there are no more than two types of attacks: Uncommon and common, yet the variations of the uncommon and common cannot all be comprehended. ? The uncommon and the common produce each other, like an endless circle. Who can comprehend them? ? source "Read this", Garret did say. "It will turn you into a better StarCraft player." And he handed it to me. And read it I did. It is the kind of small ancient book filled with wisdom you might find yourself reading again and again throughout the years, seeking its advice time and time again, much like the Lao Tzu (or Tao Te Ching), which was interestingly supposedly written around the same period as The Art of War. It is interesting how Sun Tzu's ancient writings are not only applicable to war-craft (heh, get it? :P) -- I mean, I cannot imagine I'll be leading armies of rice-eating dudes any time soon or, indeed, ever -- they can be useful spiritual guidance to pretty much any conflict's successful resolution, from playing StarCraft and other war games, like Europa Universalis, to trying to regain that girl's attention: 'all's fair in love and war', after all. It was also a satisfying experience to get a first-hand experience with such a widely quoted work, especially by games like Total War.
I loved the inspiring message, but the writing could have been crisper.
This book lit me onto Scotland. I loved the historical setting, and the storyline right up my alley - time-travel, history, Scotland, hot Scottish warrior, LOL, need I go on? LOL! There are more books in the series, but the earlier books are the best.
Number 3.
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.