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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Mai
Interesting perspective but quite scary for a parent to read.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
The Children of the Promise series is a wonderful portrayel of LDS history during World War II. As Dean Hughes shares historical detail of this period, you are drawn into the Thomas family and how the war affects them and strengthens them.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ernie Carwile
I picked up this book during a recent visit to City Light in San Francisco. It was featured as a recommended title and when I brought it to the counter the clerk offered a sly grin and said she has just finished reading it. I could tell she knew something I didn't but was soon to find out. She offered more. "It's funny but really disturbing" she said as she rang it up. The first couple of pages confirmed her opinion. the book is best described as a train wreck you know is devastating but can't help but to stare at. Based on the real rural mid western town of Knockemstiff Ohio, this collection of stories focuses on the towns collection of greasy bib wearing degenerates who are existing only to try and forget their miserable lives. Guys looking for any high they can find including huffing Bactine and a steady diet of prescription pills and cheap liquor.The stories take place in trailors with smoke stained curtains, donut shops and the back woods of this broken town. Incest and other dark themes set the tone for a trip through debauchery and drug fueled rants and late nights. It's dark, sad and funny at the same time. The pace of the stories are rapid and light but Pollack paints such a vivid picture that I couldn't put this book down. The stories ramp us to their inevitable climax and leave you with a feeling of wanting more while providing your imagination with the opportunity to form your own conclusion. The ending's are not always pretty but then again they prove the saying that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lý Nhân Phan Thứ Lang
Pretty good so far!!!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Sun Yu Mei
After I finished reading this I discovered that I had read it previously 16 years ago. I read the entire book this time without the slightest inkling that I had read it before. Obviously it didn't make much of an impression on me last time--although I guess enough of an impression to make me want to keep it with me for the past 16 years. At any rate, this time it definitely did leave an impression. I loved the first half of this book. This won the Newbery Medal in 1985, but if I hadn't known better, I wouldn't have guessed that this book is targeted for younger audiences. This is the story of a king's only child, Aerin, a daughter from his second marriage. Rumor has it that his second wife was a witch who ensorceled the king into loving her so that she could bear his heir and take over his kingdom, but then died of despair when she gave birth to a daughter instead of a son. Aerin grows up in a court that never quite accepts her, knowing that her destiny lies elsewhere. This is the story of how she discovers exactly where her destiny lies. Aerin's character comes as alive and as real as any I've read. The author pulled me into the story and had me caring a great deal for what was going to happen to Aerin. I didn't want to put this down. But about halfway through the novel, things change a bit. All of the main battle scenes were ethereal and ambiguous and I didn't enjoy those parts. I felt like I was just slogging through those pages waiting for the story to rematerialize and get back on track. But once it did, the story picked right back up again. If it wasn't for these parts I would've given this 5 out of 5 stars.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
This book is definitely essential reading if you have any kind of interest at all in either WWII, or the agency which individual people can have within a totalitarian system. Inside the Third Reich is a lengthy - in my edition, seven hundred pages, not including notes, bibliography or index - memoir written by Albert Speer, focusing on the years between 1933 and 1945 when he was Hitler's architect, his Minister of Arms and Munitions, and probably one of the closest things Hitler had to a friend. At many points it's not an easy book to read - not because Speer goes into any detail about the mass killings or the conditions in the concentration camps, but because of the detail which he goes into about the construction and requisition projects which formed so much of his work at the time, the repetitive ways in which he documents tea-time with Hitler. In some ways I think this is one of the most important features of the book. You get to see the sheer banality of the regime, the statistics and demographics which make up such a large chunk of the book showing off the bureaucracy of the Third Reich which was not so very different from many other western countries at the time, or since. His observations on Hitler's personality, his initial hero-worship for him, and his gradual later disillusionment, are truly fascinating to read about. Hitler is shown, not as a madman or as an evil mastermind, but as an actual person; the descent into delusion and denial in later life is made all the more dramatic by how almost-normal he seemed in the earlier part of the book. Speer does express regret in the book for the crimes which the Nazi regime committed, and for his part in them. This is not something which he came to realise over the course of writing his memoirs - from the Nuremberg trials, we do have footage of him striking his breast and saying mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. Something, perhaps, of a realisation of the wrongs of the regime had already occurred to him from 1944 on, as shown by his attempts to block some or all of the scorched earth policy which Hitler tried to adopt in the last few desperate months of the war. However, I find it really and truly hard to believe that Speer was ever truly as naive and unaware as he was presented as being in the book, or that he was devoted to all the aims of Nazism with the exception of its racist ideologies. He certainly wasn't involved directly in any of the mass murder, but he did make use of slave labour in his construction projects and in the munition factories which he ran. He may have been described by others as the 'respectable Nazi'; but respectable or not, he was still a Nazi, who either found the racial policies of the regime acceptable, or capable of being ignored. Perhaps he didn't know; perhaps he didn't want to know, consciously or unconsciously. With an auto-biographical memoir of this nature and on this topic, it is hard to be certain. I think the only thing one can do is to read the book oneself, and make up one's own mind.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Thị Bích Nga
I have read this book three times, including once via audio. It is a remarkable angle on this story.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Konami Kanata
A little pluck, auburn hair, helpful chums--what a girl wants.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều tác giả
I loved the artwork, but for some reason I kept getting the characters confused. I had to reread the book just to figure out who was who.
1927 Edition
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.