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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Minh Hiểu Khê
An absorbing, eye-opening, sad and ultimately tragic book describing the events, hopeless attempts at rescuing the ship and extremely bad decisions that led to the sinking of the 'unsinkable' liner. Pellegrino uses eye-witness accounts, letters, transcripts of the inquiries in the UK and US, and knowledge derived from diving expeditions to the ship to compile as accurate a record of the timeline of April 14th, 1912. An amazing read.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hoàng Ưng
I was not engaged in this book as I have in so many others of Coetzee I have read. The biographer's chosen sources offer perspectives on an awkward, emotionally chilly, self-isolated man, show a person whose passions are limited to eccentric intellectual views. I could feel pity for his loneliness but very little sympathy, at all times aware that the author was choosing the tales that reflected so poorly on the famous author with Coetzee's name. So, what is the message? I'm not sure I much cared.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lê Hải Châu
If you haven't read this book yet, now would be a good time, what with the swine flu outbreak.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Minh Nhật
This was a pretty good book, the olny thing I didn'tlike about it was it was kinda sad and semi depressing. I guess if you like that kind of historical fiction that's sad/ depressing you'll like it more then i did. lol
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hoàng Anh Tú
I really enjoyed A Crack in Everything which is the debut mystery novel by Angela Gerst. Susan Callisto is a lawyer and a political consultant in Boston. Her world is turned upside down when possible politician Charles Renfrow walks into her life. Charles or Chaz as he is known is a charmer and he is the head of a biotech company that has questionable environmental concerns on the horizon. His $20,000 retainer is to attractive for the struggling political consultant to pass up. Then the bodies start piling up. And Susan's ex Detective Lieutenant Michael Bennett walks back into her life. As the plot thickens Susan has to examine all of the relationships in her life. All of a sudden people aren't who they seemed to be. As everyone's masks begin to slip, Susan realizes that everything in her life is filled with cracks... Highly recommend this debut mystery novel. I'm looking forward to the next installment in the Susan Callisto series by Angela Gerst.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nick Scott
A painful book to read, Hunger is the first person account of a poor man's year of poverty and near starvation; the entire book revolves around the all-consuming need for food, the moments of elation when he can sate himself and the long, tortured days of barely getting by.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều tác giả
just about to start this one
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Thích Nhất Hạnh
I really enjoyed this book - inspiring and interesting spiritual implications.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Sơn Nam
I was not sure about what to expect from Perfect Chemistry. The front cover made me think it was a romance novel, and in a way it is. But, it goes much deeper than that. It's not a light read, but it's definitely a good one and it will have you wanting to stay up late to finish it. This is the first novel I've read by Simone Elkeles but I've got the next one on order. This is number one in a series of at least three. Brittany Ellis is the definition of perfection-on the outside. Perfect hair, makeup, clothes, life. Or so everyone thinks. But on the inside she's one eggshell away from breaking down. There are so many things that could go wrong if anyone found out her secrets at home that she teeters on the edge constantly. Her perfect boyfriend is pressuring her for sex, but she suspects he did something over the summer and that's why she doesn't feel the connection to him anymore. Her parents are emotionally distant, her father treating the house more like a "hotel than a home" as she says and her mother constantly blaming her if things aren't perfect. I liked Brittany. She had a facade she put on at school, but never trusted anyone. Home was far from perfect. Her mother was always on the edge of breaking down and avoided home like the plague. Her father was a workaholic and Brittany avoided a social life so she could rush home and take care of her mentally challenged sister. That was her big secret that the rest of the world didn't know. She had to be perfect because her sister wasn't. She tried so hard to make up for it that she was like a ticking time bomb. So, on the first day of school when she almost runs over the supposed leader of a gang she doesn't freak out, she stands up to him. Alex is just trying to do the best for his family. He got "jumped" into the gang so his family would be protected after he saw his father shot to death in front of him at the age of six. His life is so different from Brittany's he thinks. He works in a garage and collects money for the actual leader of the gang. He tries to keep his younger brothers out of the gangs so they don't have to go through what he goes through. He, too, puts on a facade. He wears the tough guy one so that no one sees how smart he is and that he dreams of a better life, one he thinks he can never have. I liked Alex, even as he pushed Brittany away and his feelings aside. All he knew and had been taught was that he didn't deserve girls like Brittany. But deep down, he was the gang type. He had honor and potential, there just wasn't a way out. Not one where he could live. Then Ms. Peterson pairs Brittany and Alex together in Chemistry for their senior project and everything changes. This is a realistic look at the lives of two high school kids with real problems and how they find common ground despite their differences. There were drugs and guns and a hysterical scene in a bathroom at a wedding. I don't know much about gangs. I know they're everywhere, but if the portrayal of what Alex had to endure is true, then I'm scared. No wonder they continue to grow instead of break apart. I was satisfied with the ending and even more pleased with the first few chapters of the next book in the series Rules of Attraction. I enjoyed the plot line, which was never slow at all. In fact, it moved so quickly, I couldn't believe it was over. The chapters alternate between Brittany and Alex's point of view something I really like because we see the same thing from both characters and see how differently they see it. There is also such a difference in culture which I hope Simone Elkeles did her homework on. If you've never had a friend of dated someone from a different culture, it can be very difficult. I think she shows that really well in the novel. There is sex, drinking, drugs all the high school stuff so parents should think about that if they are buying. Kids, just be forewarned. And of course some language. A mature 14 and up I'd say.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
true story: when i was a kid, our school librarian read this to us in class. that night when i was drifting off to sleep, i found that the creature had followed me home and was scratching on the wall right outside. which was totally unfair because i hadn't even taken his damn tailypo. i mean, do your research, jerk... i had to sleep in my parents' bed for like a week. and that's why i have no younger siblings. way to go, tailypo.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Đỗ Long Hạnh
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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.