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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Viên Như
I have some major problems with this one, but did enjoy pondering some of the over and under developed ideas about the jesus family line and wife motifs.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Đỗ Anh Thơ
Pssss.. tras leer Castellio contra Calvino esperaba mucho más del autor. No está mal, aunque no me dijo mucho, la verdad.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
I first read this book when I was about thirteen, and it was my introduction to the whole War of the Roses, the Plantagenets, and the Tudors. From there, I started looking up more on the players and haven't stopped. Coming back and reading this again reminds me of why Richard III is one of my favorites.
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I picked this up tonight after dinner and couldn't put it down. Just Marvelous!!!
I loved the first half of this novel. Una, the narrator, has a solid, true voice, and the book has an essence of the Gothic novels I read as a kid. But then, everything goes terribly, terribly wrong. The narrative loses momentum when Una is on Nantucket, waiting for her husband Ahab to come home. We, of course, know that he is dead. But she doesn’t. This goes on, and on and on, until finally she receives word of his death. Phew! Okay, so now we’re anxiously reading on to discover what happens next (and hoping the pace picks back up). But sadly, the novel turns from visceral to cerebral. Una begins cavorting with various historical characters, many of whom would have been in Melville’s own circuit. She meets Emerson, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller. I am utterly yanked from the dream. Do not yank me from the dream! (Has Naslund never read John Gardiner?) The topping on the cerebral cake is when Una happens upon the “minister” (Nathaniel Hawthorne) in the woods and has a lengthy conversation with him about the first line of one of his stories, the same line that Melville used as an epigram in Moby-Dick. By this point I no longer care about Una; instead I am wondering, where is Melville? How can Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau exist without Melville? I’m fully expecting old Herman to show up. In fact, I want him to. I’m already completely out of the dream anyway, so why not throw him in and stir things up even more? But no. Melville doesn’t appear, and Naslund tries to pull us back into Una’s story, even though we no longer believe in its reality or plausibility. The ending, too, is a complete groaner. Ugh. Such promise, such a let-down. Naslund seems more concerned with exorcising her literary knowledge and playing mind-games than with telling a good story.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Dora Nguyễn
read in high school, reread in college. definitely the type of book that demands a second reading. my professor in college made us read some of the more poetic/lyrical parts aloud, and i remember thinking that toni morrison must have intended for the reader to read certain passages like that. amazing!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Peter Singer
I enjoy Elizabeth Berg's novels sooo much!! I read this in one evening, just couldn't put it down. From the back cover: "When is a marriage worth saving and when is it best to let go? When do half truths turn into full blown lies? When does betrayal end and passion begin? Say When is a compelling, complex novel that takes readers into the heart of a modern marriage where companionship and intimacy, and denial and pain, so often collide. Of course he knew she was seeing someone, begins the story of Frank Griffin, a man who's willing to overlook his wife's infidelity for the sake of keeping his family intact. But when the forty year old Ellen requests a divorce on the basis that she has finally found true, romantic love, Griffin must decide whether to fight or flee...or search elsewhere for the kind of life he always dreamed of."
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
I want to drive to Virginia and punch Jeannette Walls' mother in the face. Hands down the most infuriating character that I can't believe is a real person.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Phạm Mai
Honestly, I don't know if I can recommend this book. I liked parts of it, but never felt fully invested in what happens to the characters. There was just too much crammed into the storyline (and too much sketchy science) for me to believe it well enough to lose myself in it. It wasn't bad writing, exactly, and I can't fully articulate what bothered me about it, but I am not sure I'm willing to pick up what is clearly going to be a sequel. (On the other hand, I said that about the Stieg Larsson series, and that's a good two months of my life that I'll never get back.) ------- edited after hearing an interview with Deborah Harkness. I appreciate this book (and her background as a write) a little more now. I'm upping it to 4 stars.
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.