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Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
In spite of the four stars, I do NOT love this book and do not consider this to be one of my favorite books. The story was hard for me to put my mind around it because I KNEW that this similar situation really took place in Austria and there are still evil perpetuators out there taking advantage of innocent children. I'm a mother and it just breaks my heart when I see news similar to this story. I gave 4 stars to the author because she managed to keep me glued to the gripping details narrated by the five year old boy who was born in a locked 11 by 11 room and never knew the outside world until he was freed. A difficult job to write the story from his point of view and still keep the reader interested until the last page!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
** spoiler alert ** The first two volumes of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen had a pretty simple concept: Transplant the concept of a Superhero team to 19th century Britain using a literary pastiche of characters from that era. They were good comics, but not what I would call groundbreaking. The Black Dossier is a completely different animal. The framing story is moves the League timeline ahead to late 1950s, sometime after the fall of Big Brother's England. Two mysterious figures steal the "Black Dossier" which catalogs all known information about the various incarnations of The League. A gadget loving womanizing spy named "Jimmy" (James Bond) and a young woman named Emma Night (pre-marriage Emma Peel) are sent to track down the thieves and retrieve the Black Dossier. The framing story is not what makes this book so interesting though, its the contents of the Black Dossier itself which are sprinkled throughout the book. There is a Shakespearean "historical" play detailing the founding of the league by Prospero under the patronage of the faerie Queen Gloriana. A sequel to Fanny Hill detailing her sexual encounters with the Lilliputians. A Bertie Wooster and Jeeves story detailing their brush with Lovecraftian horror. Even an inset Tijuana Bible. What is truly amazing is that in each of these segments Moore apes the style of the original authors. The Shakespearean section is written in iambic pentameter and contains numerous instances of Shakespearean style humor. The Bertie Wooster section could be a Bertie Wooster and Jeeves short story... if it didn't contain Cthulhu. If I have one complaint about the book, it's that it is so densely packed with literary references that it is a difficult read. Not that its not worth it, but it reminds me a bit of what it is like to read Russian literature. I highly recommend reading it through while referencing the annotations at least once.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Quỳnh Chi
i think this book was well plotted - a bit too graphic for me, sadistic and abuse threads. following the clues to a 40+ year murder was interesting.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Paula Metcalf
I was desperate for a book to read during lunch, so I went to the tiny, crappy Waldenbooks in the City Center by my work. I couldn't find anything (because they don't have anything except for romance novels and current bestsellers, much like an airport convenience store), but then I thought I might consider High Fidelity. They didn't have it. This was the only Hornby book in stock. Lame. So I read it. And it's really not very good. Kind of irritating and obnoxious. Without having read any of his other books, I've decided this is his worst.
A graphic memoir (because apparently those are the only graphic novels I read) about Sarah, a nonreligious Jew, who takes her Birthright trip to Israel as a young adult. She takes the trip after doing a lot of research on the historical and current political landscape of the region. Her boyfriend is Muslim, and she embarks on the trip believing she will "side" heavily with Palestinians and that the trip (since it is offered by a Jewish organization) will no doubt force her to swallow Israeli propaganda promoting the plight of the Israeli Jews. This is a really neat graphic novel, but it has a LOT of words within the pictures and it hurts my head to read it all. I almost think it would be better if it were zoomed in and doubled in size. She covers a lot of information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is current and explains a lot of the reasons it's still going on today. I would recommend this book to someone who liked Satrapi's Persepolis, but I would recommend they get some magnifiers or have a lot of time to really read through it all closely to fully comprehend it all.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Anh Tuấn - Đoàn Loan
Except for "The Bad Beginning," I do not own any of the Lemony Snicket books. I read all thirteen volumes at various bookstores in the U.S. and in Europe, while waiting for trains or planes. (Children's Lit)
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Linh Lan (Tuyển Chọn)
It started out a bit slow, and the plot is a bit crazy at times, but I still thoroughly enjoyed it.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hồng Thái
Good story about an old woman who "hopes" and has "faith" in a juvenile delinquent.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Mai Lan Hương & Nguyễn Thanh Loan
Gender advocacy has been a part of my system since I got inducted into the world of GABRIELA. We were partners with a group called Pro-Gay/LesboND so I was also pretty much exposed to homosexual stories of all types. When the movie Brokeback Mountain came out, pun intended, I heard too many times the comments Yuck and Eeew regarding the love scenes, especially that first encounter between Jack and Ennis. Maybe people still weren't used to homosexual or gay intimate scenes in mainstream movies, since here in the Philippines, gayness is more associated with humor than with sex. I didn't watch the movie, not because the feedback from my friends were offputting. I just wasn't able to watch. I did, however, find a copy of E. Annie Proulx's short story on which the movie was based. Brokeback Mountain is not a story about homosexuality. It's a story about two people who find themselves in an ordinary circumstance, with extraordinary consequences. It's a story about how people bond and become intimate, how relationships can last over years of silence, simply because feelings are that powerful. It's not about two men having sex. It's about two people developing a lifelong devotion and bond. This book actually made me a fan of E. Annie Proulx because she had a way of creating beautiful narratives out of ordinary people and the raw emotions that plague and/or bless them. In fact, I bought her novel The Shipping News and short story collection Heart Songs and Other Stories right after I read Brokeback.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Cẩm Tuyết
Nothing earth-shattering, but a well-drawn character with a strong voice. Enjoyable.
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.