Dorothy Ling từ Kromidovo, Bulgaria

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11/05/2024

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Dorothy Ling Sách lại (10)

2019-03-10 14:31

Nữ Tặc Giang Bắc - Tập 2 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tiên Chanh

Even though it is a play it is a great story

2019-03-10 15:31

Những Cuộc Phiêu Lưu Của Huck Finn - Bộ 2 Tập (Sách Bỏ Túi) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Mark Twain

This is a hard book to read; it is also a page-turner. Levy presents a well-researched account of what she calls "raunch culture" in mainstream America, and tries to find some way out of its maelstrom. Her descriptions of phenomena such as "Girls Gone Wild" and the sexual exhibitionism without enjoyment of teenage girls today are excruciatingly sad and bewildering. I kept reading because like the author I really wanted to find an answer and a way out of all this horror. I found her assessments of the generations of women since the feminist movement of the 60s thought-provoking and made me realise I have more in common with the agenda for women given then than that portrayed by raunch culture now. As one interviewee puts it, better to be breaking through the glass ceiling than the sexual ceiling (p. 195), particularly if the sexual ceiling is based on a cartoon-version of the sex-industry. Like Levy I have found it extremely disturbing in the past years to see intelligent and attractive women taken in by the antics of _Sex and the City_ chics and _Desperate Housewives_; as well as such prevalent and startling phenomenon as what I have termed "breast-art", for lack of another name: women wearing what look like uncomfortably tight t-shirts with such glorious epithets as "get it here", "you wish", "slut", "bitch" or "playboy bunny" emblazoned across their chests. In equating freedom and power with a caricaturistic understanding of male sexuality (chauvenistic, raunchy), the idea that women should have as much sex as they want when they want it (or appear to be doing so, more importantly for raunch culture), women have, says Levy, turned their bodies into a commodity and sold themselves short. I would go further to say they have sold their very souls. In the end I didn't entirely agree with the author's main presuppositions about the nature of human sexuality, which is why I only gave the book 4 stars. Yes, sexual desire is individual and intimate; but is it so idiosyncratic as to blur fundamental gender differences? A very important point remains in the background throughout: that there are differences between men and women, with far-reaching implications. Only when feminism really stands up for itself on an equal-but-different platform can the complex view of sexuality that seems to be called for here really be taken into account. A philosophy and theology of the body would be most helpful to begin to understand and attack such embodied and disembodied sicknesses of soul. Thank you Levy; this is a topic in which I intend to look for some more answers.

2019-03-10 16:31

Phát Triển Tư Duy Logic IQ - Đố Vui Đoán Giỏi Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Milan Bataveljic

I saw this book in a book store forever ago and thought it would be a good read if I could get my hands on a free copy. After finally getting it out of the library, I will say I am glad that I didn't have any monetary investment into the book. It was ok, and while most chick lit books are fairly predictable, this one was painfully predictable. I kept reading it because A) it was easy and B) I hoped it wasn't going to end the way I guessed after 30 pages...

2019-03-10 17:31

Lonely Planet Pocket Kuala Lumpur Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Robert Kelly

Economic issues in plain English, and well written. I found this book easy to read, very interesting, and informative about issues of (economic) market design. McMillan is a pragmatic economist who leans neither left nor right in his economic theory, instead describing economic issues from observing what has/does work and what hasn't/doesn't. McMillan describes many examples of markets: how they evolved, how they succeeded or failed, etc. Definitely worth checking out.

2019-03-10 18:31

Thương... Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

Re-reading 2012.

2019-03-10 19:31

Bộ Sách: Soul Screamers (Nữ Thần Báo Tử) - Tập 2 & Tập 3 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Rachel Vincent

I wanted to like this book so much! I find Ms. Walker's writing delightfully amusing and I appreciate her careful turn of phrase despite the lighter genre of chick lit, so ever since I read and loved her wonderful Snap Happy, I've been trying to find another book of hers I could appreciate that much. Unfortunately, though, despite high hopes, I found I simply didn't care about any of these characters at all. I found them all superficial and catty and kind of horrible; concerned with nothing but their looks and other people's looks. It got somewhat better in the second half, but only somewhat, and given that this is an 800+ page book, "the second half" is an awfully long wait. Plus, while the writing is still excellent at the level of phrasing, the plot is sprawly and unwieldy and there are countless secondary characters who aren't at all necessary to telling the story. This is the fourth Fiona Walker book that I've read and the third one that's let me down, so I think I'm done with her. I'll keep rereading Snap Happy when I want a fix of funny, sweet chick-lit with sex scenes that manage to be both sexy and funny at the same time.

2019-03-10 20:31

Hồng Lâu Mộng: Liên Hoàn Họa - Quyển Thượng Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tào Tuyết Cần

Stunning. Amazing. One of her best.

2019-03-10 21:31

Lửa Và Hoa - Tập 2 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

** spoiler alert ** A nouveau une histoire de diable et de tentation, mais avec une fin plus heureuse que dans "le diable" de Tolstoï cette fois. Le héros vend son ombre à un mystérieux personnage qui se révélera au fil du récit être le diable lui-même, mais il refusera résolument de vendre son âme pour racheter son ombre, malgré tous les problèmes engendrés par cette perte. L'auteur insiste ici davantage sur les péripéties et la morale finale que sur les aspects psychologiques: cela complète assez bien ma lecture précédente. C'était une lecture agréable et divertissante, mais pas plus.

2019-03-10 22:31

Robinson Crusoe Lạc Trên Hoang Đảo (Tái Bản 2016) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Daniel Defoe

Awesome! Best Regency Era Zombie-filled Love Story Ever!

2019-03-10 23:31

Tình Yêu Nơi Đâu - Tập 2 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Bộ Vi Lan

The cover of this book was one of the most-ordered pictures the National Geographic society published. The story I knew already, but there're details in the book I hadn't known

Người đọc Dorothy Ling từ Kromidovo, Bulgaria

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.