Driely Thuane từ South Shore, SD , USA

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05/01/2024

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2019-02-17 08:30

Sài Gòn Tạp Pín Lù Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

I read the vast majority of this book a year ago, but the copy I had stayed in Mexico and I did not. The book is a series of conversations between Peter Brook and Margaret Croyden about his work. The conversations take place in the 30 year period between 1970 and 2000. The topics are interesting are interesting as it the relationship between the interviewer and the interviewee. Brook can be by turns prickly, wise, arrogant, insightful... While Croyden can be inquisitive, servile, rational, defensive.... Much of what Brook says strikes me as too declarative. I am wary of absolutes. But, I also loved many of his descriptions. The chapter on "The Tragedy of Carmen" was particularly appealing. I would have loved to see that production. Of all of his ideas, the one that remains most strongly with me after a year is in the chapter on The International Center of Theater Research. Croyden asks him "Why would theater be necessary or unnecessary?" and in his response he says, "If it isn't something people in a community demand, that people feel they can't live without, without which people would feel deprived, as if you took the sunshine away - if theater doesn't evoke the same need, it is not a real theater." Then he goes on to tell a beautiful story about Thanksgiving in New York as an example. All in all, it is a lovely book and one I am sure I will return to in the future.

2019-02-17 15:30

Soạn Thảo Và Dịch Hợp Đồng Thương Mại Quốc Tế Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

I am a huge Anne Tyler fan - I want to read her entire collection. Because this novel won a Pulitzer, I was concerned it would not live up to the hype. My concerns were unwarranted. Tyler is a highly skilled writer who is able to take ordinary people and make them both unique and interesting. She has a very important message to give readers about love, marriage, and life. The main characters are at a stage in their lives where they are looking back and trying to figure out how they got to be where they are, and where to go now. I know many dislike Maggie Moran, but I didn't. I felt an incredible amount of empathy for her. She is a good person who only wants to give the people she loves hope. She sees the best in people and wants them to live up to the potential she knows they have. She is the eternal wide-eyed optimist. Clearly, Maggie is feeling lost at the thought of having an empty nest. If she doesn't someone to take care of, she doesn't know who she is or how to live. She's lost at the thought of facing middle age. Ira is also a great character. He's Maggie's opposite. He's a pragmatic, grounded, realist. They both have regrets about their past choices, and they need to find a way to let those go and keep moving, so that the rest of their lives can have meaning. I loved the use of flashbacks in the novel. Tyler really showed the different perspectives of the characters, and she enlightened the reader as to how they came to be the people they are. I couldn't imagine Maggie or Ira turning out any differently, given their families of origin. I didn't like how Ira treated his son, Jesse, but I could understand it, because Tyler gives me enough background about Ira's youth to make it fit. I could feel the love and connection between Maggie and Ira, even when they were at their most frustrated with each other. There's a wonderful line in a Reader's Digest essay on love I once read that sums up Maggie and Ira's marriage: "We sometimes could have killed each other, but we never could have left each other." Maggie and Ira need each other's different perspectives. There were a few things missing from the novel. I did wish at times that we could've had more information about what really happened between Jesse and his ex-wife. I still don't quite understand why they broke up, and I was intrigued by those characters enough that I want to know, even though I realized that this is Maggie and Ira's story. I also wanted to know more about Daisy. What was her place in the family? How did she interact with her mother? This is one of the few novels I've read that actually could have been longer.

Người đọc Driely Thuane từ South Shore, SD , USA

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.