Anand Pandey từ Montazels, France

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11/24/2024

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2019-03-21 08:30

3 Sai Lầm Khiến Bạn Không Thể Trở Thành Lãnh Đạo Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Travis Bradberry

4.5/5 Stars I enjoyed The Night Birds; was captivated from the first page and could not put it down. I was introduced to the novel by my mother, was intrigued to find that it was written by a local Normadale Community College instructor, and decided to give it a shot, albeit a skeptical one. Maltman, a GoodReads Author, writes a very engaging though mostly predictable novel about the Sioux Uprising (or Dakota Conflict or a host of other names) on the unforgiving but fertile plains of southwestern Minnesota in the mid 1800s. Maltman has a very fluid, appealing writing style and makes use of a variety of narrative methods throughout, some with more success than others. If you’re looking for a fact-by-fact, date-by-date account of The Uprising, the role of Sibley, or Lincoln’s role in the largest mass execution in U.S. history than this is not the book for you. However, if you’ve never heard of the little known conflict or live outside the upper Midwest and are not a non-fiction, where-are-the-end-notes? fanatic this is the book for you. As I read I kept thinking about the Boston Globe blurb on the back of the paperback edition: "We all set our sights on the Great American Novel and Maltman comes impressively close to laying his hands on the grail..." I would wholeheartedly agree with the Globe reviewer and add that Maltman did it in fewer than 400 pages. An impressive debut performance by Thomas Maltman; I’m looking forward to his next book, Little Wolves.

2019-03-21 09:30

Dẫn Luận Về Kitô Giáo Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

Beloved is not easily accessible- the text makes you work to extract every bit of meaning and if you're not feeling up to that kind of heavy-going deconstruction, you're probably going to end up resenting it. But that caveat noted, this is probably one of the most rewarding reads I've ever embarked on. I studied it as part of a university literature class that focused on post-colonial and revolutionary literature and I know most of my classmates really disliked it- but I loved it. I thought it was just magic. Beloved is a Southern Gothic novel that tells the story of the outcast Sethe, a freed slave, attempting to reconstruct her life in the aftermath of slavery and a violent, disturbing personal tragedy. The story is told in a disjointed manner through the perspectives of a variety of characters surrounding the protagonist, including the eponymous ghost, Beloved herself. It mixes the supernatural, elements of voodoo culture and horror into a thoroughly researched history of slavery that starts in Africa and finishes in Ohio. The thread that pulls the reader through the story is an unknown sinister event lurking in Sethe's past, involving her deceased daughter, and the increasingly malevolent presence of the ghost haunting her house. It's not difficult to see why some people find the disjointed, non-linear, stream-of-consciousness delivery of the story off-putting. But if you're patient with it you'll find a narrative that not only relays a history of slavery in America, but shows (rather than simply telling) how fractured and psychologically damaged its victims were. The delivery of the narrative is designed to reflect the collective state of mind of those whose voices tell the story. I think there's also an element of Morrison's trying to argue that the story of slavery is one of such horror and violence that it simply cannot be told in ordinary language, that it has it's own vocabulary- one that's different from the words used to describe the mundane. I noticed another reviewer likened the narration to that of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury- a comparison which is spot on. Toni Morrison wrote her masters thesis on Faulkner and the southern gothic genre, so it's not surprising that she's borrowed many of his techniques. Like Faulkner, Morrison also crafts impressionist, poetic prose, which I thought was a delight to read. As with Benjy Compson's mentally handicapped narration in The Sound and the Fury, the difficulty you experience as a reader in decoding Sethe's fractured narrative highlights the plight of the victims of slavery and the difficulty they had in making their voices heard. There's so much to discover in this book, layers upon layers that can be unpacked. If you feel like you're struggling, don't try to analyse every single clause- read on and just try to absorb the over all gist of the words, because this is the kind of book where the meaning will crystallise as you progress. My last piece of advice when reading Beloved would be to pack a box of tissues- the events depicted in the book are not for the faint-hearted. They are both disturbing and very, very sad, as you would expect of any story that attempted to chronicle such an awful part of human history.

Người đọc Anand Pandey từ Montazels, France

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.