Josh French từ Oberbösa, Germany

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12/22/2024

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2019-03-30 05:31

3000 Tests - Elementary To Intermediate Level Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Edward R. Rosset

ORIGINALLY POSTED AT Fantasy Literature. The Crown of Stars series is well-thought out and obviously well-planned. It's epic in scope and it's got a lot of texture. There are many complex characters who we follow in parallel, as in Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time. Some of them are very likable, and there are some really excellent villains (e.g., Hugh). Ms. Elliott's creatures are imaginative and enjoyable, and I especially liked the way they interact with the humans. Ms. Elliott uses a lot of description and therefore her plot moves very slowly (again, similar to WOT). The writing was inconsistent throughout the series. Sometimes it seems brilliant, but at other times I'd think "why did she tell me that?" or "this could be moving a little faster." It's often wordy. Her editor could have almost arbitrarily taken out a third of the sentences with no ill effect. Sometimes she over-explains what a character is feeling or his/her motivation when it would have been better to let the dialog or action speak for the character. Sometimes she tells me something too many times (e.g., "but his voice always sounds like that"). I wonder if the inconsistency is due to different editing processes, because it's not like that in all the books, and even some individual books are internally inconsistent. I thought the fourth book, especially, was not well edited. The pace of these novels is so slow that I found my self bogged down in the middle of book 5 with not much desire to go on, so I decided to quit. I struggled with that decision because I really did want to find out what happened to the characters, but it was taking me too long to get there and the writing style wasn't good enough to make up for the crawling pace (unlike Wheel of Time). Overall, these books entertained me for a while, especially the first couple of novels. The plot was interesting and the characterization was particularly notable, but it eventually got too slow. I quit in the middle of book 5. Read more Kate Elliott book reviews at Fantasy Literature .

2019-03-30 07:31

Mỉm Cười Cho Qua Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Iris Cao

This book is a life-changing experience. I'll read it again. The title is somewhat deceptive. This is not a book about happiness, this is a book about how the mind works: how much better and faster we heal than we ever anticipate; how we "cook" our memories to suit our preferences; how our psychological immune system defends our sanity; how "presentism" colors our view of the past and our expectation of the future; how we use context, frequency and recency to "disambiguate" our experiences and then also allow them to distort the facts; how carefully elaborated myths (some of them necessary for sanity or even survival) almost always take precedence in our choices over reason, facts and experience. And the language is so special, it is a real pleasure. Humorous anecdotes and witticisms drip from every page and the style and vocabulary are *alive* (if this guy ever writes a novel, it'll be an instant classic). The suspense is rekindled with subtitles that make you want to read on all the time, such as: Journey to Elsewhen The Joy of Next Dancing about Architecture New Yeller In the Blind Spot of the Mind's Eye The Meat Loaf of Oz An Embarrassment of Tomorrows The Hound of Silence The Way We Weren't Reporting Live from Tomorrow &c Here is a quote from the foreword (and the note it refers to): "[I:]f your future self is not satisfied when it arrives at the last page [of this book:], it will at least understand why you mistakenly thought it would be. *note 1*" Note 1 reads: "…If you don't care about sources …and are annoyed by books that make you flip back and forth all the time, then be assured that the only important note in the book is this one."

Người đọc Josh French từ Oberbösa, Germany

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.