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Maybe my two stars are harsh, but I was not a fan of this book and after reading it, I’m really surprised at all the positive reviews. Sparks is just becoming too cheesy for me to read and enjoy. It isn’t that I have anything against romance books, it’s that this book doesn’t have any substance in it and is very poorly written. The characters are bland and predictable, except for Kevin, who is so over dramatized, that I wanted to throw the book in the trash by the end. So Katie and Alex were suppose to be in love right? After seeing each other in the store a couple times, after Kristin takes to Katie for comfort, and then after a day at the beach together. Not such a great foundation to make me believe they can be in love. Did anybody else notice that every time Katie and Alex talked in the beginning, it mostly revolved around how great a dad Alex was? Or how busy his life must be? Geesh, mix it up a little bit Sparks. Josh, the boy, is suppose to be around the age of 7, but he didn’t act much like a 7 year old. More like a 10 year old. Jo’s character was something different, and I liked it. However, when she came into the restaurant and started in on her rant to Katie about how she doesn’t want her to “toy with his feelings”, I thought it went totally against her character. Not that she wouldn’t come out and be blunt about her feelings, but that she would accuse Katie instead of talking about it with her. Maybe asking a question like “do you plan on staying now? Have you thought about what would happen if you left? Do you love him and plan to marry him?” To me, that would have been more realistic then her coming in and pointing fingers right off the bat. Now on to Kevin. I guess Sparks was trying to vary off his normal book writing path and went for a suspense approach. It didn’t work for me and the last 100 pages were tough for me to get though. It is a fundamental move to write a story and demonize the bad guy, that way when he gets his, the reader feels happy about it instead of feeling sorry. In this story, I thought Sparks took that element way too far with Kevin. Why can’t Kevin just be a normal guy who is an asshole? Why add on top all these abnormal qualities that pushes his character to insanity in four month’s time? To me, Sparks was trying too hard and gave Kevin too many layers and it made his character very fake and the action super boring. The most stimulating part of this book was when the story of how Erin got away was told. I could have lived happy without reading the rest. I would not recommend this book, Sparks has done better.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lại Thế Luyện
Obsession, identity, werewolves, trolls, Hollywood corruption, distorted fairytales, sex, irony, angels, illusions: such is the mix of Neil Gaiman. A master of scenarios, Gaiman is terrifically imaginative and evocative in the stories and poems of Smoke and Mirrors. Gaiman manages to integrate elements of fantasy into the real-life settings of dirty streets and motel rooms. Ninety-five percent of the time, he does this without being corny. In one story, a woman finds the Holy Grail in a thrift shop. In another, a young man casually runs into the former Angel of Vengeance in the streets of LA. But not every story uses myth of fantastical creatures-some thrive on subtle horror. In one of my favorite stories, a man travels on a less-than-ideal walking tour of the British Coastline and meets two fellows who, inside a drunken haze, may or may not exist. Gaiman also experiments with uncanny what-ifs: in one story, a man's venereal disease changes his identity against his will. He experiments with form and style, in one case writing in the dialect of an 11-year-old. He twists on traditional tales, as a sinister version of Snow White appears at the end. A couple pieces could have been omitted from this collection, simply because they were amateurish or reeked of bad metaphors. I' m also not sure how well fantasy and poetry merge together, as none of the poems in the collection particularly shined for me. But it's a collection I'll certainly turn to again in the future to experience its surreal and bizarre mood.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Maxim Gorky
Myron and I go way back. I first discovered the series around the third or fourth book so that's at least ten years ago. And boy, was I hooked! Coben really ruined Myron when he "gave" Myron a son. Myron is not the kind of person who can be a father without being a daddy. Maybe that's why he took several years away from Myron and focused on standalones (never as good as Myron). So, the last one (Promise Me) was good but I think Coben didn't quite know how to deal with son, parents, and an aging Myron so he put the son and the parents on the shelf. This one brings back the parents and I've always enjoyed the relationship he has with them. This book is dark and sad. Myron becomes broken. It brings back a love interest that wasn't very interesting the first time around. The banter between Myron and Win just isn't the same... but enough about Mee (you'll get that when you read the book.). Do I still love Myron? Yes, I'd cheat on my husband in a second for Myron (but Myron's not that kind of guy.) But if I was starting the series with this book, I doubt I would go back and start from number 1. And I've read the earlier ones in the series at least twice.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Spencer Johnson, M.D.
Actually, Coehlo actually writes in Portuguese, but the Spanish comes out immediately. This is a sweet, gentle fable. The pace and sense of wonder reminded me of The Little Prince. Read it in any language.
Whether you're dipping in unfamiliar or obsessively familiar with the Manson family murders, any reader will be fascinated by the artistry of this novel that reinvents those narrative atrocities in such well-crafted, artful prose that sometimes you feel as if you're reading the romantic poets as imagined by the free verse of Chuck Palaniuk. It's disconcerting and haunting and strange. "Henry," the Manson archtype, is so charismatic and compelling and narrator Mel is such a broken bird of a teenager who delivers herself to him, that right from the start the read is fraught-- you know this isn't an even match, and you know things won't end pretty. And yet the tension, the supporting cast, and the "family" dynamic is layered and tightened deftly, with precision and cunning, so you need to keep moving forward yourself, marching into the cult, the crime, and the madness no matter how much you want to turn around. The cadence of the writing is the perfect form for this function, word patterns and rhythms seem to echo Mel's own looping, slipping, desperate hold. It's a risky book, not for wimps, and it delivers. There are always lots of jumbo summer books out there where page counts far exceed my interest (these I will abandon and not post to Goodreads) so I'm always grateful to an author seeking economy of language-- here's an example of great writing also being great editing.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Richmond
4.5
Good second book in the maze runner trilogy. Keeps you guessing and delivers a very different experience from the first book. Excited for the 3rd one to come out in October
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: VN-Guide
Shaw, another one of my favorites
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Yếm Đào Lẳng Lơ
This was a lot better than I expected. I was kind of afraid to read it because I assumed there'd be quite a lot of violence towards the animals, which I'm just not down with. And not to say there was none, but she didn't dwell on it or go into a lot of graphic descriptions.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Jason Fox
Read Junior Year, American Literature, Mrs. Bailey's Class.
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.