S U từ Orega, Ourense, Spain

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12/22/2024

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2019-04-05 14:30

Mị Hương Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Cống Trà

Of Mice and Men was a book I was assigned to read in English class. I don’t usually like reading books written a long time ago, they don’t seem interesting. But I really like this book. There were a lot of interesting characters; none of their personalites were alike. I also liked how John Steinbeck used characters to symbolize different things. The setting is good too. I like how he used details he described it really well. George and Lennie are the main characters in Of Mice and Men. George and Lennie are really close but really different. Like other characters they have their own personality. Slim is the guy everyone likes. Curley is mean; he doesn’t like anyone who goes near his wife. Curley’s wife starts trouble. She walks around talking to the men on the ranch because she doesn’t have anything to do. George is over protective, the hard guy. He protects Lennie from people like Curley. Lennie is the dumb one. Easily distracted, gets into a lot of trouble when he doesn’t even know it. Some characters in this book represent different things going on in that time period. Curley’s wife represents all the women. Women than were allowed to do a few things stay home, cook, clean, and take care of the husband and kids. But she didn’t do that. She frustrated Curley by walking around the ranch, talking to the other guys. Then there is Crooks. He is the African American stable buck. He represents African Americans. Even after slavery people like Crooks were still treated bad. He had to sleep in the barn with the horses by himself because he was black. The setting is a very important part of the book. It sets the scene, sometimes even the mood. I don’t like books when the setting is a while back; I prefer them to be written before at least 1970. But I could honestly make an exception for Of Mice and Men. John Steinbeck did a good job describing the setting. He used a lot of details and it made the book a lot better. It was like you were in there. Some books you can see something if you knew what they were saying, but since it was in the 1920’s its hard to imagine what it looked like. Overall I really liked Of Mice and Men. The characters were all different. They had their own qualities that made them, them. John Steinbeck also used he characters to symbolize other things, like what it was like for women and African Americans. To bring it all together he did a good job describing setting. At first I didn’t think I would like the book, I really did.

2019-04-05 18:30

Phù Thủy Peter Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Steven Jeong

This was the first Mary Roach book I read, but now I'm interested in picking up some of her other nonfiction. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers was very informative and covered a vast number of topics having to do with what happens to human bodies after death: she tours a "body farm", where scientists study rates of decomposition in various environments, sits in on a plastic surgery class where students practice procedures on severed heads, and visits an automotive testing facility where cadavers are used when crash test dummies aren't enough to provide reliable data, among others. She also explores the history of body-snatching as well as "cannibalism" in early eastern medicine and the modern western world (such as the trend of new mothers eating placenta for the purported health benefits). There are some serious gross-out sections, of course. I have a very strong stomach, but there were moments when I sat up and went "Ew, ew, ew!" In addition to being informative and easily understandable by the layperson, Roach tackles the subject matter with humor while still maintaining respect for the dead - a difficult undertaking. For the most part, I appreciated the humor, as it made what could potentially be a depressing and academic text into quite a light read, but at times it felt like the jokes were a bit forced. She was like that girl at the party who just keeps cracking jokes, with less material each time - the first few are funny, but then it gets grating. You shouldn't have to keep reassuring your readers that you are, in fact, funny. We get it. And don't even get me started on the number of times she referred to herself as "quirky" or similar. Despite that, I enjoyed this book quite a bit and will definitely read more of the author's work.

Người đọc S U từ Orega, Ourense, Spain

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.