William Oliveira từ Kacperków, Poland

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05/03/2024

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William Oliveira Sách lại (11)

2019-03-22 08:30

Sách Chuyển Động Thông Minh Đa Ngữ Việt - Anh - Pháp: Đồ Vật Trong Nhà Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nathalie Choux

I absolutely loved this book. The mystery was very exciting and creative.

2019-03-22 09:30

Vận Dụng Kiến Thức Liên Môn Trong Giải Bài Tập Sinh Học Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

I enjoyed this book, though it's not an uplifting topic. For a book covering economic policy, it's very well written because I couldn't but it down and I don't usually like economics as a subject.

2019-03-22 10:30

60 Đề Kiểm Tra Và Đề Thi Toán 5 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

This is one of the books that defined my childhood. I am constantly recommending it to my younger cousins.

2019-03-22 11:30

Tủ Sách Tuổi Hoa - Mật Lệnh U-Đỏ Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hoàng Đăng Cấp

It is possible - though somewhat distressing - that my love affair with Mary Renault is beginning to draw to a close. It began about eight years ago, when I first read The King Must Die and The Bull from the Sea surrounding a passionate, pilgrimage-like trip to Greece. I was amazed that Renault possessed the same respect, reverence even for the Greeks and the Greek culture that I did. The care and seriousness with which she endowed her historical novels impressed me - here, I thought, is another person like me! It didn't bother me that much, then, that her books were so universally lacking in female characters - she wrote about Greek, mostly homosexual (though all of them, with the possible exception of Bagoas, are at least slightly bisexual, which touch of realism I also appreciated) men, and those were important stories that needed to be told, even though there was little room for women in them. However, several years later, having just now finished the last of her historical novels that I will ever read for the first time (two of her earlier, contemporary set efforts I haven't been able to secure yet), I find that I can look at her with clearer, more judgmental eyes. I see flaws, now, in her writing, that I never noticed before - shortcuts she makes in her characterization, the way the persistent marginalization of the women in her stories moves beyond a quirk of plot and into a troubling, almost, Anne Rice-like pattern, the way the structure of her novels is almost always oddly anti-climactic, with the plot petering out in a manner that, while it may be quite realistic, proves distinctly unsatisfying. I don't fall into a sort of contented adoration when reading her books any longer - I don't feel quite so much at home. But, nonetheless, she remains good, and strangely unique. She writes about Greek men, Greek masculinity with this astonishing clarity and compassion that I don't think anyone else has quite managed on that particular topic. She is still the only author I know who writes men in love with one another and remaining - realistically - warriors, without a hint of stereotype (this turns into a quite ugly denigration of effeminate gay men in The Charioteer, which is enormously problematic, but we'll leave that alone for now). And what I found most interesting in The Persian Boy was the freedom that she found, in the person of this entirely unexpected narrative voice, to explore this really fascinating dialogue about what the classical Greek culture means, what makes it what it is and how much of that is actually worthwhile. The Persian Boy is a strange book. It is the story of Bagoas, a eunuch in the court of King Darius III of Persia, who became the eromenos of Alexander the Great after Alexander's conquest of Persia. It's a brilliant example of an author taking a minor figure in history and opening them up, making them into a very wonderful and unique window into a large and important time while still giving them realistic prominence as an individual. I appreciated it as a book that gave voice to a voiceless figure in history, for eunuchs and concubines get mentioned on the sidelines of both of histories and novels - for a character to rise to the rank of protagonist, normally they must daringly and implausibly escape both of those situations. Bagoas' position also gave him a unique and interesting perspective on the aforementioned Greek/Persian dialogue that runs throughout the book. While he loves Alexander unerringly, and loves the Greek qualities in him because they are part of him, he finds Greek ideals and ideas, generally speaking, ludicrous and laughable (but, of course, he loves Homer, because I don't think Mary Renault could bear to write a point of view character who didn't like Homer). His paeans to the dignity and power of hierarchical Persian court rituals, especially the ritual of vassals' prostration before their king, are startling and powerful, and almost convincing. You side with him for a long time, sharing his frustration as Alexander's Macedonian comrades proudly refuse to bow before him as though for an oriental monarch - Bagoas does not only consider them old-fashioned, as Alexander himself does, but insolent, uncouth, and disloyal, as well as entirely irrational. And then, midway through the book, the limits of Bagoas' vision came into focus a little more clearly. Alexander is committing hubris, and most dreadfully - claiming that his deeds outshine those of Herakles and Dionysus is a blasphemy that would shock me in the most arrogant of Roman emperors. Alexander may, as Renault and Bagoas claim, want nothing more than the love and devotion of his subjects - but the devotion he wants is that due to a deity, not to an equal and citizen. Moreover, Bagoas was trained in the rites of respect and hierarchy of which he speaks so highly at the same time as his training in concubinage - at the age of twelve. I was impressed, at the beginning of the book, by how seriously Renault took Bagoas' trauma (in this she does not resemble Anne Rice and The Vampire Armand, which has some suspiciously similar plot points), but by the time Bagoas meets Alexander it has seemingly faded to the background, to be replaced with a cool professionalism and a pride in his 'work' as a concubine and courtesan. I distrust this, and thus anything Bagoas says about sexuality or power dynamics following his formalized training in the court of Darius. The moral tapestry Renault is weaving is a little more complex than that - are we really sympathizing with these tyrants, who habitually mutilate children for use has sex slaves, over the Greeks, with their wonderful 'undignified' nudity and their belief in democracy? Perhaps Alexander should have been murdered after making his his comrades prostrate themselves before him. I may be reading too much into it. It is clear from the afterword of the book that Renault loves Alexander almost as much as Bagoas does - she may have been willing to excuse him both the ways in which he was Greek and the ways in which he was Persian. But I, at least, was stimulated by the ethical dialogue, by having my sympathies jolted so. Other problems I had with the book - because the central character is a trauma survivor whose sense of his masculinity has been seriously (and literally) damaged, the exclusion of women felt even more arbitrary than it normally does. We hear Bagoas speak with anger and nuance about his own violations, as though they are serious crimes worthy of our attention as readers, but the screams of captive women being raped are referred to, more or less casually, throughout the book. I wanted to hear their stories as well, not just Bagoas'. Also, Bagoas monogamy was a mild irritation the whole time - his jealousy of Hephaiston just felt utterly stupid. I wanted them to have good, sympathetic conversations with one another.

2019-03-22 12:30

Liên Hoa Lâu - Tập 3: Thanh Long Quyển Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Đằng Bình

The title has it right: its the perfect book for a dreamer. Think Tim Burton's Big Fish crossing with an Andrew Carnegie biography and you got a very accurate description of whats in store if you read this book. Surprising, funny, sweet and an interesting look at the life of a self made man. I couldn't put it down. And I'm just waiting for Tim Burton to make this into a movie.

2019-03-22 13:30

162 Bài Văn Chọn Lọc Lớp 8 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

I liked this book but I hated the ending.

2019-03-22 14:30

Giáo Dục Kỹ Năng Sống Đẹp - Ti Giả Ơi, Tạm Biệt! (Song Ngữ) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Elizabeth Verdick

I keep reading Flannery O’ Connor, because she is was a talented writer, and I do enjoy her Southern Grotesque characters in her books and stories. I know that she was a devout Catholic in an area of the world where Catholics are very rare, and thereby grew up in an attitude of what I call “siege Catholicism” – us against the world. (Trust me, I know of this, having lived for ten years as a Catholic in West Virginia.) But I’ll be hog-tied and branded if I can ever see anything “Catholic” in her writing; so far as I can tell, it matters not to her work if she was Catholic or Baptist or Jehovah’s Witness. But I did enjoy this collection of stories for my bedtime reading. The stories date from the latter part of O’ Connor’s writing career, before she died. (She did not die of lupus; lupus is an auto-immune disease that leaves you open for everything else to come and try to kill you.) The Wikipedia entry for the title story states, “In the story after which the work is titled, human weaknesses are exposed and important moral questions are explored through everyday situations.” In a nutshell, that statement could be used to define all the stories – the situations are ordinary, but raise questions because of how her characters act and re-act in those situations. These nine stories include such gems as “Greenleaf” (which I read in an anthology short story collection, not long ago), ”The Lame Shall Enter First”, and “Parker’s Back”. Most of the characters either have a distorted view of God, or a distorted view of society, or, not unusually, both. I am not sure who would come out ahead in Celebrity Deathmath if we were to pit Flannery O’ Connor and William Faulkner together, but it’s an interesting mental exercise. I did enjoy these stories, but I can’t explain why, because I can’t explain the stories; they leave you feeling like you have been around too much static electricity, somehow; and that is where I will leave this book review.

2019-03-22 15:30

Bá Tước Dracula (Kèm 1 CD) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

** spoiler alert ** 2010 bookcrossing review: Horay, I have finally finished this book!!! I have been reading it for quite a few weeks now, whilst on and off reading several other books at the same time. It's funny how these things don't seem to be quite as you remember. This wasn't the most gripping of books, and at times was a bit inoffensively drivly. Also maybe because it was a bit of a string of unconnected episodes of little magnitude from Anne's early childhood, it's hard to keep your attention up. It got better towards the end, as she got a bit older and a plot started to build when she was off to college and you're starting to wonder how the plot of her life is going to continue. Some parts are very obvious, both because I've read these before, seen the series, have the other books so the photos and blurbs are a bit of a giveaway; and also because it is just plain obvious with issues such as Gilbert, the boy she refuses to speak to until the end of this book and is her main competitor for academic success. So, for the unacquainted, this is the first in the Anne books, about how orphan girl Anne comes to live at Green Gables with Marilla and Matthew (brother and sister) on an island in Canada at the turn of the century (1800s to 1900s). And although a lot of it is a child of its time, with attitudes, fashions, lifestyles having changed a lot; a lot of the gossipy neighbours, childhood friends, games and carryings on are still just the same. I suppose its a look back at a kind of more innocent, wholesome kind of childhood.

2019-03-22 16:30

Writing Academic English Third Edition (Tái Bản) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ann Hogue

The only reason I picked If I Stay off of the library shelf was because I heard an enormous amount of buzz surrounding it. That seems to be a habit for me lately. Anyway, I really didn't know much about the book. I had a very vague idea what it was about, which I'm glad, because if I would gave read the synopsis or something, I probably would not have checked it out. Reading the synopsis now, I realize that it doesn't sound like my personal cup of tea. Therefore, I was taken on a stunning adventure with this book that exceeded all of my expectations, which rarely happens when books are built by the hype. Get ready for a gush-fest, because when it comes to good books, I've been known to gush with the best of them. If I Stay was one of those books that grabbed me from the very first page and held me like an unshakable vise. I think I may have set a new world record on how fast it is possible to turn pages! I read this book in one sitting, afraid that if I put it down it would magically dissolve or something. I had to go to bed after finishing it last night, but I wasn't worried about writing the review, because I was certain that this story was going to remain inprinted in my mind for weeks to come. The plot was original. The idea that Mia gets to make the choice whether to live or die seems rather hard to pull of to me. There were so many directions it could have gone. It could have been totally unrealistic or annoying, or so many other bad adjectives. Instead, it was tear-jerking, heart-wrenching, and just plain gorgeous. I felt Mia's pain, I cried for her. At first it did seem a little silly, because if you could choose to stay in the world or go, why wouldn't you want to stay? But Mia's got reasons. Tons of them. And the fact that she wants to go becomes completely understandable, and a part of me wanted her to go, just so she didn't have to deal with everything that was going on around her. Of course, I really really really wanted her to stay. Mia's narration of the story is perfect. There's a noticeable tinge of nostalgia, darkness, insecurity, longing...you name it. She was just a delight to read about. This book is told a lot through memories, which is a style that I have always loved. This is only the second separate book series that I've read that is like that, and I loved it just as much! There is a beautiful romance in this book (once again, mostly told in memories, but the parts that are happening in the present are, well, beautiful) but not an overwhelming amount. Adam is sexy and sweet and wonderful, and I am so excited that the sequel, Where She Went, is told in his point of view. This book is one of my new favorites, and I'm not even going to add a "Reasons I Liked It" section, because I cannot pick out individual reasons. The prose was breath-taking, heart-breaking, and pure magic. I loved absolutely every aspect! You can see this review and many more on my blog BookBreather.

2019-03-22 17:30

Bước Chậm Lại Giữa Thế Gian Vội Vã Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hae Min

This book is incredible. Easy to grasp, entirely awesome mathematics told from a laymen but created by one of the greatest from the last century. Character study of a strange man with some severe social issues. Tangential looks into the lives of other modern mathematicians. Philosophy, artistry, romance... I loved it.

2020-07-29 21:50

Combo Sức Mạnh Tự Thân - Tái Bản (Bộ 6 Cuốn) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều tác giả

Çok yakında sona erdi. Lance evine döndükten sonra olanlar hakkında biraz daha fazla okumak isterdim. Hikaye Gallagher Girls dizisi kadar iyi değildi ama iyi bir okumaydı.

Người đọc William Oliveira từ Kacperków, Poland

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.