Amr Salem từ La Flor, Honduras

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12/22/2024

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2019-03-07 14:31

Giăng Sáng Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

I really went back and forth between four and five stars on this one, but in the end a few things made me decide to pull back a bit. In my eyes, a five-star book is practically perfect and, although Poison Study came close, there are a few (small!) flaws. But first, the good: I think the strongest thing Poison Study has going for is the protagonist, Yelena. On paper, she doesn't initially seem starkly different from most YA female protagonists...she's an orphan, apparently has some kind of latent magical power, and is implied to be pretty (when she's not being jailed or beaten up). What's interesting is that Yelena actually evolves and changes so that, by the end of the novel, she's a stronger and more confident person. Prior to the novel, Yelena has been raped, tortured, and imprisoned, to the point where she looks at herself as more of a rat than a person: Like a rat, my only hope of escape was to find a hole to hide in. As the novel progresses, Yelena trains and learns to fight, and as a direct result of being able to defend herself, she becomes more confident and assertive, which I liked seeing in a female character. The world development is also very strong here, and does an excellent job of drawing you in. Yelena currently lives in a military society run by a mysterious man called the Commander, who is unsurprisingly rigid and pretty ruthless. Ms. Snyder does a very good job of juxtaposing the current dictatorial society to the previous monarchy, and to be honest, neither society comes out looking like the good option. They're both pretty flawed, and I'm curious to see where some of the societal issues will go in the next two books. Now, the not-so-good parts: despite her increased resiliency and independence, Yelena still relied on Valek, the Commander's assassin and Yelena's love interest, too much for my liking. She also seemed to have some blinds spots where Valek was concerned (at one point, she wonders why he doesn't fight off eight armed men single-handedly!) so I'm not sure she's seeing him for who he is, exactly. Still, there was a serious lack of insta-love, thank God, so I'm willing to wait and see where this goes in the next book. And the ending, while not a cliff-hanger, doesn't really wrap things up. (view spoiler) All in all, I definitely plan to continue the series. Poison Study isn't without its flaws, but the strengths did a good job distracting me from them.

2019-03-07 15:31

Việt Nam Danh Tác - Truyện Đường Rừng (Dự kiến phát hành 4/5/2016) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lan Khai

I honestly did not care much for this book, although it does not mean it doesn't prove many points on todays poverty level, as well as an in-depth look on how many people are living their lives on a minimum wage job. Overall a good journalism story yet nothing much interesting.

2019-03-07 16:31

Mẹ Ơi, Chồng Con Đang Khóc Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Thanh Nghiên

I'm hesitant to rate something before I've finished it. Not a light read by any stretch of the imagination, but it is making me think.

2019-03-07 17:31

Tự Học Tiếng Hàn Cho Người Bắt Đầu Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Quang Vũ

This has three short stories in it. They were all relatively entertaining and the language was clean, so that makes it even more enjoyable.

2019-03-07 18:31

Combo Khéo Ăn Nói Sẽ Có Được Thiên Hạ + 36 Bí Quyết Để Chiếm Được Cảm Tình + Nói Thế Nào Để Được Chào Đón, Làm Thế Nào Để Được Ghi Nhận (Trọn Bộ 3 Cuốn) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

Review: January 2005 A Dialectic without Dreams Merleau-Ponty is generally read for his work in phenomenology, not his work on dialectics. This is both a pity and a mistake. While he certainly does deserve to be remembered as the third great phenomenologist of the past century, after Husserl & Heidegger, his being forgotten as a dialectical thinker is almost inexplicable. I say almost inexplicable because, I fear, the reason he is ignored as a dialectical thinker is because he advocated, and superbly demonstrated, a dialectic without myths, utopia or dreams. In the great chapter (2) on Lukacs he says, "[t]he dialectic is this continued intuition, a consistent reading of actual history, the re-establishment of the tormented relations, of the interminable exchanges, between subject and object. There is only one knowledge, which is the knowledge of our world in a state of becoming, and this becoming embraces knowledge itself." He speaks of interminable exchanges, implies the permanence of tormented relations, affirms that knowledge always becomes. This is a dialectic scraped clean of the utopianism of the Marxist classless society, contemptuous of some miraculous Kojevean 'End of History', sans any vain 'Hegelian' promise of some never-never land in which Science will precisely equal Wisdom. So then why dialectic, or, more precisely, why use the dialectical method if it offers no goal? Immediately after the sentences quoted above M-P says, "[b]ut it is knowledge that teaches us this." The dialectic, as M-P understands it, gives us, better - can give us, an understanding of history, and our present, but as to the future it promises exactly nothing. How could it promise more? If becoming, and the unknown, press on us forever, every totalization is always in danger of being threatened by some unanticipated contingency that changes this totalization into some unpredicted, and above all, unpredictable (until it occurs) Other. By way of contrast let me now mention that for Hegel, finally, one could say that Dialectic remained a retrospective method and not a predictive science - at least until the precise end of the dialectical process. "The Owl of Minerva takes flight only at night." But, for Hegel, I think it is correct to say that when Subject and Object become One, Forever, we will be able to say that the all-knowing owl is always flying because the Absolute (Spirit) is always dark. We now perhaps better understand the content of the Hegelian characterization of (and objection to) the early position of Schelling - as a 'night in which all cows are black' - this position wasn't wrong; it was merely premature. Thus at the extreme end of Hegelian theory, one is always in danger of seeing it toppling over into the Kojevean 'End of History' position, which M-P in the epilogue characterizes as an idealization of death. M-P holds, in this book, that this is not the position of Marx and Lukacs. "In Marx spirit becomes a thing, while things become saturated with spirit. History's course is a becoming of meanings transformed into forces or institutions. This is why there is an inertia of history in Marx and also an appeal to human invention in order to complete the dialectic. Marx cannot therefore transfer to, and lay to the account of, matter the same rationality which Hegel ascribes to spirit." Hegel is pleased to be taken to mean that Spirit is an active helpful partner of humanity in dialectic; a materialist dialectic can make no such claims of matter. What Merleau-Ponty, btw, is here denying, for those who have ears, is that there can be an end to any genuine material dialectic. ...Matter itself is permanently, in every human sense, an irrational factor. In other words, being and reason can never be one. Whatever Rationality in things we find - we find it there because we put it there. "Marxism cannot hide the Welt-geist in matter." Dialectic in which a dialectical partner is permanently non-rational becomes a science of circumstances. Thus M-P maintains that for Lukacs (and, I think, himself) that only revolutionary creativity can `guarantee' "a coherent and homogenous system." ...But no system is permanent. "A dialectical conception demands only that, between capitalism, where it exists, and its antecedents, be one of an integrated society to a less integrated one." By more integrated M-P means a more `socialized' society, societies in which, since there is more common ground, "destinies can be compared." It is ultimately here in social interaction that, for M-P, dialectical knowledge arises. But, as indicated earlier, nothing is guaranteed. "The principle of the logic of history is not that all problems posed are solved in advance, that the solution precedes the problem, or that there would be no question if the answer did not pre-exist somewhere, as if history were built on exact ideas. One should rather formulate it negatively: there is no event which does not bring further precision to the permanent problem of knowing what man and his society are..." One is here tempted to say that M-P here answers two of the questions we asked at the beginning of the review. Why resort to the method of dialectic? - It brings (or exposes a) further precision to our knowledge of the problem of man. Why no certain Telos, no end to history, no grand finale that finds Science and Wisdom in permanent embrace? - The "problem of knowing what man and his society are" is permanent. For M-P the problems of society reside only in human history; neither spirit nor matter will save us. "The sense of history is then threatened at every step with going astray and constantly needs to be reinterpreted." "There is less a sense of history than an elimination of non-sense." Oh, and this indeed would be the 'reason' M-P, the dialectical thought of M-P, was forgotten. A dialectic, shorn of fairy tale, certainty or reward, would attract none of our scholarly saints, or even our Leninist `realists.' Over the last two centuries there have been only three reasons, often entwined, to turn to dialectic; the pursuit of Knowledge, the pursuit of utopia/revolution, or the pursuit of some always obscure inner `intuition' or joy. ...Apparently, given the way M-P is ignored by Hegelian and Marxist dialecticians, the only pursuit that was decisive was the last. This has only been a brief commentary on a small slice, a handful of pages, of this superb book, that, I hope, will make others interested enough to read it. The discussions of Weber, Lukacs, Trotsky and Sartre are all excellent. M-P is a political philosopher who deserves to be read along with the great and important political philosophers of the 20th century: Georg Lukacs, Antonio Gramsci, Hannah Arendt, Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss. Ignore any of them and increase your ignorance.

2019-03-07 19:31

Kinh Đạo Nam - Tủ Sách Khơi Lại Nguồn Xưa Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Đào Duy Anh

I refer to this book constantly, great book!!

2019-03-07 20:31

Bến Khách - Phát Hành Dự Kiến 03/2018 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Dương Hướng

My own little book of poetry, so yeah, read before it was actually published ;-) It contains 80 poems written in the period 1999-2005 and though not perfect poems, they came from my heart

2019-03-07 21:31

Inuyasha (Tập 7) - Bản Đặc Biệt Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

a painful, yet captivating story. a good book to turn to when considering the destructful, and healing forces in one's own life.

2019-03-07 22:31

Người Học Việc Của Đội Biệt Kích - Phần 4: Chủ Nhân Huy Hiệu Lá Sồi Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: John Flanagan

A quiet, subtle book -- with more happening in the background (i.e., illustrations) than it appears at first glance. The discerning picture book reader will appreciate this story of friendship. Where friends add the color in each picture and tint the beloved zookeeper's life. This is Philip's third (?) book, but it Erin's (his wife?) first book. Imagine winning the Caldecott gold with your first book! Wonderful marriage...of pictures and text.

2019-03-07 23:31

Heidi (Sách Bỏ Túi) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Johanna Spyri

terrible book. awful and boring, focusing way more on scenery than on plot.

Người đọc Amr Salem từ La Flor, Honduras

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.