David Freud từ Mockingbird Valley, KY, USA

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11/05/2024

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2019-04-16 02:31

Từ Điển Anh - Việt (Trên 135.000 Từ) - Bản In Màu Đặc Biệt Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trần Mạnh Tường

Not necessarily a review, I'll just say some random things about it, as opposed to writing a "review" like I'm a fully ledged, college graduate critic. The Last Templar reads very much like Dan Brown. The only difference I noticed was that Raymond Khoury's conversations between characters tended to break my suspension of disbelief. You expect me to believe such long drawn out conversations happened in the circumstances that they did? Not to mention every main character in this story must be skilled at sitting down and feeling no inner feelings whatsoever as someone else talks! It's like a full page of exposition by one character! You expect me to believe that the listening character has no inner thoughts whatsoever? It seems like he only uses inner dialogue for the characters at random just to spice up the writing. I don't mind long monologues but there is such a thing as "moderation." Unlike Dan Brown books, this writer manages to give us random long chapters ("long" is relative of course as some of the long chapters aren't that bad) which contain loads of exposition and flashback sequences. The thing that bugs me is that the scenes (sorry when I use the word "scene"; it makes me sound like I'm talking about a movie but I'm not sure what else to call them...I'll just say chapters) which take place during the old ages seem to be random and out of place. It was like Khoury was sitting down writing and trying to decide "Should I write a historical fiction book?" and then he noticed Dan Brown's books and totally changed the whole idea of "The Last Templar." By the way, why is this called The Last Templar, when the titular character hardly appears???? (Feel free to answer as this is a literal question) Going back to the dialogue, I couldn't help but think that as some of these long discussions went on, the author was preaching to us. Maybe it wasn't fully his opinion, but these long ass monologues began to sound more fake as they drew out. One person talked, the other person listened but hardly ever rebutted (is that a word?). Sure there parts where someone did give a rebuttal but only after a long drawn out conversation. In short, I didn't care for the dialogue of The Last Templar. Or to be precise I didn't care for the dialogue of the present day characters; I would have LOVED to hear more thoughts from the actual last ****ing Templar and the rest of the historical characters. FINAL VERDICT: If you're a fan of Dan Brown you will probably enjoy this tale; if you're a fan of historical-based fiction, you also may enjoy this novel. If, however, you enjoy well written prose, try something else out. Personally, I liked the historical details of this novel more than the actual narrative between Reilly and...the forgettable female lead (cannot remember her name and I'm not breaking my current cycle of writing to look at the book or Wiki; in fact, I think I spelled Reily's name wrong, too). They say the best stories are the ones that gain the most criticism and the most-examined flaws. Well this story doesn't really get any attention from me. Just makes me want to read more about the Templars and ****. Shoulda went with non-fiction on this topic. 2/5

Người đọc David Freud từ Mockingbird Valley, KY, USA

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.