Will Huang từ Lanzena RC, Italy

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11/06/2024

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2018-03-31 03:31

Sống Như Người Paris Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Anne Berest

So, so good, maybe even better with a second reading. Some quotes (although many loose impact out of context): "You must learn to fear. I do this for your own sake. Fear is like happiness, but the smile is wider." pg 24 "He held out a written pass. 'This is what they want us to be,' he said. 'They want us to be nothing but a bill of sale and a letter explaining where we is and instructions for where we go and what we do. They want us empty. They want us flat as paper. They want to be able to carry our souls in their hands, and read them out loud in court. All the time, they're on the exploration of themselves, going on the inner journey into their own breast. But us, they want there to be nothing inside of. They want us to be writ on. They want us to be a surface. Look at me; I'm mahogany.' I protested, 'A man is known by his deeds.' 'Oh, that's sure,' said Bono. 'Just like a house is known by its deeds. The deeds say who owns it, who sold it, and who'll buying a new one when it gets knocked down.'" pg 136 "Empedocles claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; that for the child to have the spine, his back must first be broken." pg 170 "When I peer into the reaches of the most distant futurity, I fear that even in some unseen epoch when there are colonies even upon the moon itself, there shall still be gatherings like this, where the young, blinded by privilege, shall dance and giggle and compare their poxy lesions...We are a young country, a country of the young,' he said bitterly. 'The young must have their little entertainments." pg 203 (for those who've read Feed, yes, I believe this is a direct reference to it.) "And so, for a while, for perhaps some ten minutes, I was not looking at my mother, but at a woman who knew me, and I was a man who knew her; she was a girl of thirteen, newly arrived in a frigid, alien country; a woman who had been that girl; who have given birth in bondage, while men with devices and pencils had observed....We stared at one another, and in that moment, we knew each other for the first and last time." pg 219 "They gave me a tongue; and then stopped it up, so they would not have to hear it crying." pg 309 "...in all things, we are involved in commerce; and all things, Octavian, devour, and all things are for sale; and all things have their price; and all things vie and kill; and that is all we do; and all things must support themselves, or be consumed." pg 340

2018-03-31 05:31

Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo! Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nicholas Carlson

Just a note: There's a spoiler in the final third of this review, but it shouldn't matter to you because it is an annoying spoiler and part of the reason you shouldn't read The Way Home. ON WITH THE REVIEW!! I expected more from one of the writers of The Wire. I guess this is unfair to George Pelecanos. I mean it's not his fault that the other fiction writers associated with The Best Show Ever Aired are all gods of the crime-fiction realm. Not everyone can be Dennis Lehane, Richard Price, or even David Simon, who wrote one of the best nonficiton cop books ever. Not everyone can be great. But not everyone has to be George Pelecanos, either. It's not that The Way Home is terrible in every regard. In some ways, it is PERFECTLY...adequate. The plot, about a group of juvie offenders who get released and rehabilitated (to varying degrees) and then later accidentally get caught up in some Bad Things, is ok if as unoriginal as an episode of Two and a Half Men. But still, credit GP for attempting something about more than action-action-action. It's about friendship and loyalty, family and love, right and wrong. It's about a parent's decisions. It's also about some lazy-ass writing. Pelecanos DESPERATELY wants to set a mood and tone akin to those set by Price and Lehane. You can smell it. He wants to say Big Things. But he just can't do it. He graduated at the top of the class in the "Tell, Don't Show School," and the laziness (or just clumsiness)he learned there single-handedly destroys anything good that does manage to shine through. Here are two sentences, totally without context, that SHOW what I'm talking about: "Chris called Ali and had a brief conversation." Oh, DID he now? I wonder what was said in that conversation? Was it important? Were there knock-knock jokes? IF ONLY there was some way to show people what could have possibly been said! Some sort of...marks or something that could signify that, hey, people are talking here! This isn't the narrator's words! Seriously. Inexcusable and just fucking annoying. Example deux: "Renee became hysterical upon learning the news of Ben's violent death." This sentence comes during a pivotal moment after a major character gets waxed. The main character has gone to break the bad news to the new corpse's girlfriend. These are MAJOR players in this book. And that's all we get. She 'became hysterical.' Well. It's good to know that she reacted to the news! I'll bet Jackie O 'became hysterical' one day in 1963 as well! I mean, really? That's all you got? Did she break down and cry? Violate her pet bunny with a plunger handle? Or simply drink some tea that was, quite frankly, too hot? What kind of 'hysteria' we talking here? I'll admit that I stopped reading pretty much after this sentence. I skimmed the rest, just because I did have some time invested. And even though I don't know the details of the last 100 pages or so, there is a random paragraph on the final page that is so...out of place and stupid that it makes me want to go back through all 5 seasons of The Wire to see if there are any obvious parts ruined by this hack.

Người đọc Will Huang từ Lanzena RC, Italy

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.