Ollie Brant từ Wordah, Afghanistan

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2019-06-23 23:30

Vở Tập Tô Chữ (Dành Cho Trẻ 4 - 5 Tuổi) (Tập 1) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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I really wasn’t sure how much I’d enjoy this book going in, as it seems a bit like Marmite - people either rave about the A Song of Ice and Fire series or pan it, in my experience. But I’d heard mostly good things, although it has been sitting on my fiance’s bookshelf for years as a book he’d tried but could never get into, so picked it up as the ads for the TV series looked promising and I wanted to read the book before it aired. I did find it really tough to begin with - the prologue was a bit of a struggle, but I hate giving up on books so I ploughed on ahead. To begin with I was quite confused because the prologue seemed to have little to no bearing on the rest of the story, and the switching from POV to POV was a bit jarring at first. However, I’m glad I stuck with it, because before I knew it I was hooked. The perspective shifts each chapter, and at first this bothered me, as it seemed that as soon as I’d begun to get to know and feel comfortable with a character, I had to get to know another entirely. But once I’d gotten to know them all a bit more, I found that this is one of my favourite features of the novel. It’s said that everyone’s a hero in their own story, and it really is shown in this novel (and also the subsequent installments) - I may not agree with the character’s actions or even particularly like them, but understand their motivations. I wound up rooting for characters who appeared to be on different sides. I definitely have favourites - I looked forward to Arya, Jon and Tyrion chapters especially, but all the POVs serve to illustrate the story from all sides, and advance the plot. The pacing picked up quite a bit as the story progressed - it gets a bit bogged down in all the exposition and establishment of the setting, perhaps, but I enjoyed it regardless. But once things start kicking off, the pace really picks up with all the twists and turns and I just had to know what happened next. It’s not the sort of fantasy book that follows a hero’s epic quest. Rather, it’s an immense undertaking in world building, full of political intrigues, a drama more than an adventure story. If you hate cliff hangers or long reads, then this is definitely not the book for you. It can’t really stand entirely on it’s own, as when it ends you are left with the sense that it’s all only just beginning, that all the drama of the novel was just a taster for something much larger. Now that I’m midway through book 3 of the series, it seems clear to me that A Song of Ice and Fire is not one of those series where each installment has it’s own resolved story arc within the larger series arc (such as the Harry Potter books), but is more like one great big novel chopped down into more manageable chunks. There is no real resolution of the story at the end of A Game of Thrones because the end of the book isn’t where the story ends - it’s more like an intermission. A note on the TV adaptation - if you’re enjoying the show, then you should definitely pick up the book as it is a very well done and faithful depiction, and can only give you deeper insight into the motivations of the characters.

Người đọc Ollie Brant từ Wordah, Afghanistan

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.