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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Minh Tuấn
wonderful, very exciting, full of hope and love.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
Just another example of why Wally Lamb is among my most favorite authors of all time. It seems impossible to me that any single person could write one story with so much interconnectedness, with so many voices and so much rich and compelling history and current events. I am astonished at the depth and breadth of this book and probably cried through half of it ... more due to its honesty and raw human emotion than it sadness and sorrow. After reading this book, I did many things. I typed and printed a copy of the seven sins, the seven virtues and the seven acts of charity and hung them next to my desk. I also got myself a little statue of Ganesha. I know I will return to this book many times for thought, inspiration and companionship. I'll put it on my bookshelf right next to "I Know This Much Is True." so that Dominic and Caelum, two of the four horsemen, can be near each other.
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel! Great writing, lyrical language and amazing imagery. I thought Portia was a detailed and fully-fleshed out character; I could relate to her (though maybe that's because we are both the guardians at the gate for people's dreams). I highly recommend this book!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Vương Nhĩ Liệt
I visited the library before a long trip and grabbed this book for my eleven year old son. He didn't read it, and it was laying around the house. So when I got sick, I picked it up and read it. The story had a really good premise, but poor execution. Instead of driving us forward into the plot, the story meandered and left us feeling listless. When things finally started happening, there didn't seem to be a meaning for most of it, and when we got clues to solve, they were solved way too quickly, and then they didn't deliver anything really worthwhile. When we finally get to the end of the story, we feel like we might as well arrived there on page 10 and have been done with it. Really, what was the point? I'm hoping that this one gets made into a movie, because it has all the right elements. It just needs someone who knows his craft to put it all together.
Just found this author. I'm not into fiction but J.A. Konrath keeps me interested. Fun book to read.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lauren Oliver
I love how Fforde will set up a pun 15 chapters in advance.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: James Tan
Banville’s prose is beautifully crafted, and his novella is punctuated by moments of insight as his protagonist Max meditates on loss and memory as he relates his coming of age from his advancing one. But Max is an equivocating narrator, both preening and self-loathing, and his inability to truly understand those around him leaves the reader blind to who they are, and ultimately to who Max is.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hoàng Thị Lệ
Josianne, the departmental secretary of an unnamed university in Paris, is in charge of allocating office space to new professors. She gives Trevor Stratton, a visiting American, "the office with the tall useless empty file cabinet in the corner." But in that useless filing cabinet, she also leaves a small box of mundane artefacts for him to discover at his leisure; a box which proves to tell a remarkable story. Stratton becomes obsessed with the artefacts, and what he is able to learn about their original owner, a woman named Louise Brunet (née Victor): born at the end of the nineteenth century, she found and lost love during the First World War, married a stable but rather stodgy after the peace, and lived the rest of her life in a flat at 13, Rue Thérèse in the 1er arrondisement. As Stratton pieces together Louise's story, we the readers are also allowed to see the love letters, photographs and other trinkets that held some special significance to the original owner. There are images throughout the book (and hyperlinks to the book's website for larger versions of the images). And so there are two plots, simultaneous and related: the current day plot of Trevor finding the artefacts and the story of Louise and her husband and her lovers. Louis's story is not chronological: the plot weaves back and forth through her life, from when she's a young woman, to the autumn of 1928, to her girl-hood, to the death of her brother in the Spanish 'Flu pandemic of 1918; dictated, it would seem, by the order in which Trevor investigates her effects. Trevor and Josianne also become lovers. Josianne lives in a flat in the same building that Louise occupied, at 13, Rue Thérèse. But, in a twist of magical realism, Trevor also meets Louise at various points in her life, like a time traveller, transported back to November 1928, back to December 1918, back to the killing fields of Flanders during the Great War. In an afterward, the author relates some of her own story. She lived in a flat at 13, Rue Thérèse. She was only a girl when the real Louise Brunet died, a widow without any relatives. The owner of the building, needing to clean out the flat, opened the doors to the other tenants, inviting them to take what they wished. The author carried the little box of artefacts with her ever since, always speculating on the possible stories behind the letters and gloves and buttons and coins: this book is the result. I enjoyed it. It was a slight and slender book, and the "magic" was a little silly. But it had a charm, and though I haven't been to the website to look at the artefacts for myself yet, I will.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Colette
I read the third book of this trilogy a few months ago and liked it, so when I saw this at the library I picked it up. Reading the third book first wasn’t an issue in this case, because these stories are much more in the companion-book line than a straight trilogy. Anyway, I really liked this one, even more than the third book. It was a sweet story and beautifully written. Unfortunately, there was a comparison to Spindle’s End on the jacket copy, which made me catch on to the twist sooner than I otherwise would have. Still, I don’t mind spoilers in general, so I wasn’t particularly bothered. [Mar. 2011]
A good, easy read with some great stories and good insights. Some other reviewers have compared it to Kerouac, which isn't far off, though I think Henry Miller would be closer in tone and era. Though without all the great sex in Miller. It's more matter of fact than Kerouac or Miller's adventures in poverty, and certainly less spiritual, but really no less interesting. The tales of Boris the Russian soldier/waiter are funny and touching, and certainly make me think of Miller's crazy friends in Paris. A good read. You have to hand it to these guys who took the time to really learn about life, the good and the bad, before they started writing and publishing. Too many authors today have barely begun to experience life, and already feel like they should lecture us all on what it's all about. Orwell earned his megaphone the hard way, and Down and Out proves it.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
3.5 estrellas
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.