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i tried again, but i still just don't like hemingway. after discussing it in class for weeks, i understand the premise. perhaps if i could have hung out with him/them i would like it better.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Văn Tú
And this too.
Another good one in this series! I think I could read books like this forever. I didn't like this one quite as much as Sarah, but it was still good. The only thing I really didn't like was the portrayal of Abraham and Isaac. Abraham went from being a nearly flawless character in Sarah to a cantankerous old man was was rude and grouchy. I don't buy that. And Isaac wasn't my favorite either, but I loved everything else about it.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Iginio Straffi
This was the first Balzac that I read. I, in haste, thought I would hate it, but I ended up really liking it. I think it's so good because Balzac really makes the reader feel the frustration with the father who is such a miser. And we also feel sympathy for Eugenie... she's naive, but sweet and, in my opinion, a fairly likable character. After having read this, I will definitely read more Balzac.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Disney
via audiobook, related the familial struggles between Lincoln and the Todds, giving further insight into the Civil War era and Lincoln's life. While not very exciting, I like Lincoln and will be looking for more books re: Abe. I get the feeling there are more direct ways of learning about him.
i think if i were totally honest i would have to say that this books ideas were better than the actual writing. but since im not honest i think i'll say that this book is awesome. Go Kurt!
surprisingly good, but as i read it, i kept on wondering how amy tan sustained the voice of bibi chen throughout the novel. and how i wouldn't be able to do it. it can't be a good thing to be so conscious of how difficult and annoying it is to write in a certain character's voice while you're reading the book.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nancie McKinnon
My favorite Stephen King book so far. This book was scary, but not in the way I thought it would be. It was scary because it made me sympathize with someone who was an abusive alchoholic (it was just an accident...). The way the Overlook slowly twisted his mind was also frightening.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hammalawa Saddhatissa
“And the successor to that Catholic dogma? Believe it or not, it’s us, with our all-benevolent health-obsessed society. Bodies once received from God are, under the rules of a lifeist admedistrative society, public property. God doesn’t own us anymore, everyone does. Never before in history has ‘the importance of life’ been such a loaded term.” Miach was right, of course. And that was why we had to die. Because our lives were being made too important. Because everyone was too concerned about everyone else. Of course, it wasn’t enough to simply die. We had to die in a way that made a mockery of the health regime we were supposed to uphold by law. At least, that was what we thought back then. *** As a Brave New World-esque satire of the utopian/dystopian formula, Project Itoh’s Harmony treads disturbing waters through the approach of death being the instigating factor that can offer change for entire social trajectories. Not just death, in fact, but murder and suicide, specifically. Taking place mostly in a Japan of the somewhat-near future, Harmony envisions a world that has at once sterilized and commodified itself. Following the Maelstrom—the much alluded to nuclear holocaust that nearly wiped out humanity—admedistrations have taken over, treating the health and welfare of citizens as tasks guided by perfectionism. However, all is not well in a medically infused wonderland. Three young women—Miach Mihie, Cian Reikado, and the protagonist, Tuan Kirie—decide, at Miach’s insistence, to challenge the admedistrations and the WatchMe technology that monitors their bodies and minds by committing suicide. They intend to starve themselves to take back their bodies—to own their physical and emotional selves in a way that the admedistrations have all but made impossible. Though the attempt is mostly a failure, it pushes Tuan down a contradictory path as a World Health Organization officer who delights in punishing her body through nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine, which can still be found and acquired in other nations. When Cian re-enters Tuan’s life and their suicide pact is recalled, events unfold that may threaten to not only topple their admedistration-focused society, but to transform the face of the world. Employing an HTML mark-up style for memories, emotions, and internal questions, Itoh constructs Harmony as a potentially dishonest narrative—especially given then the book’s welcome yet disheartening conclusion. At first the HTML styling seems cumbersome, disrupting the book’s rhythm with point-form lists. By the book’s conclusion, the HTML styling serves a dual purpose: first, it enforces the pervasiveness of the admedistrations and the WatchMe programming; second, upon completion, it offers a possible alternate meaning to the entire novel, one predicated on the possibility that it has been less a mystery and more a cautionary retelling of events, to instil fear of “unhealthy” motivations in the minds of a technologically placated society. It’s a unique reversal of perspective that feels earned and not in any way meant to pull the rug out from beneath the feet of the readers. The subject matter of Harmony seems especially prescient given our growing obsession with health, and more importantly, misdirected fear over what is and is not indicative of health. Starvation and gluttony are the parallels most employed in Harmony, perhaps as it is for Miach, Cian and Tuan, because they are two of the least visible ways in which these girls could, at such a young age, attempt to destroy their bodies. Itoh is also making a clear statement that these associative problems are legion, and their impact on children—especially young women—in the future will be as persuasive and deadly as it is today, given the force by which the culture in power seeks to reconcile its own bodily fears and misconceptions. Harmony works as much as a commentary on current and future health and social practices as it does a story of friendship found, manipulated, and destroyed beyond any point of return. Perhaps most unnerving, given the story’s admedistrative totalitarianism, is knowing that Project Itoh finished this novel while in the hospital, dying of cancer. He passed away in 2009. Harmony is his final work.
Best sequel ever! Can't believe how addictive I'm getting to this story. It's exciting to be so in love with characters and being on the edge of my seat to know what will happen next. I'm thinking this needs to be more than a movie - a tv show with 10 seasons! I'm loving the idea that there is another book - but what will happen with my life after the Hunger Games??? he he he
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.