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Retelling of Robin Hood legend -- she tells it straight, but in the modern interior-psychological style. The writing is extraordinarily clumsy, from the sentence-structure level to the introduction of backstory (which often shows up five seconds before it's needed to support some new development). I'm not familiar enough with the canon to evaluate the story's effectiveness as fanfic. I have some minor plausibility problesm -- how does a lord's daughter get to be best buddies with two working men's sons? and what, nobody notices when Marian develops the muscle to shoot a longbow? Her dresses would stop fitting! Sexual tension between Robin and Marian simply isn't there unless you bring it in with you. Between Cecily and Little John it's present but could stand some improvement, plus insert Girl Dressed As Boy Rant here: let's play a game with homoeroticism and then pretend it never happened! The book could have developed the characters if it had been twice as long; as it is, some of them (Cecily, John, Marian) come across as real people who simply haven't been portrayed in any detail, but others (Alan and Marjorie, Tuck) were tagged with one or two characteristics, and that's all they have. Despite being the POV character, Robin himself deosn't come through very well. We hear the other characters describe him (as pessimistic, for example), but we don't see it.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
Absolutely brilliant. Definitely one of the best horror stories I've ever read and I've read quite a few. I'll for sure be reading more from Algernon Blackwood after this.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Quỳnh Tân
Metaphysical, philosophical, mythological, spiritual, theological. All those -al's. And still excellent, if difficult for some to read.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Sophie-Charlotte Moatti
one of the funniest books I have ever read. Embarassing to read in public, it makes you snort and cry because you're laughing so hard.
Setelah diberitakan pemergian allahyarham, aku telah berjanji pada diri sendiri untuk membaca sekurang-kurangnya satu karya dari beliau selaku penghormatan kepada tokoh penulis yang tidak sempat untuk ku kenal karyanya semasa hayat penulis. Inilah naskhah pertama dari Allahyarham Sasterawan Negara, Arena Wati. Burung Badai menghimpunkan 15 cerpen dan diterbitkan pada 1990 sebuah naskhah usang yang ku capai dari rak perpustakaan negara. Dan dari situ aku mula meminati tulisan-tulisan allahyarham. Johor Baru adalah naskhah yang sedang ku tekuni. Antara cerpen pilihan ku dari Burung Badai adalah - Dunia yang Ku tinggalkan, Muara Sebatang Lorong, Kata, Jawapan dan Dialog. Cerpen-cerpen allahyarham punya sentuhan yang membuatkan ku terpana, merenung dalam. Cerpen Jawapan misalnya- memperkatakan tentang individualistik. Aku teringat antara kata-kata Hiroshi Abe dalam Kekkon Dekinai Otoko: “Architect is the best when he can demonstrate his individuality”. Dalam kata-kata Pak Arena Wati: “… bersenang hatilah. Tak ada satu yang harus yang mengecilkan hatimu dan hatiku tentang anggapanmu bahawa aku individualis itu. Malah itu suatu dorongan suatu pengakuan. Dan ku ketahui benar betapa pentingnya individu itu….. Renungkan ini dalam-dalam. Fungsi individu ke arah penyempurnaan bakti itu amat penting. Kerana dari tenaga-tenaga individu itulah dunia ini berkembang. Kita menikmati peradaban ialah hasil dari karya-karya individu itulah. Karya agung tidak dapat kita harapkan dari manusia yang berkumpul. Karya agung lahir dari muzik batin. Dan muzik batin hanya berbunyi kalau diberikan kesempatan dan kebebasan dalam wujudnya sebagai individu.” (Jawapan, Burung Badai, m/s 134) Kata-kata ini mengingatkan aku pada pak Hamka yang hanya menamatkan karya agungnya, ‘Tafsir Al-Azhar’ di penjara, dan tidaklah Imam Al-Ghazali akan dapat menulis Ihya’ Ulumuddin tanpa berpergian dan lain-lain sekian ramai tokoh. Namun apa yang menggerakkan jiwa-jiwa besar ini tidak lain adalah kecintaan pada manusia. “Tetapi aku individu, tak akan wujud tanpa hubungan dengan manusia lain.” (Jawapan, Burung Badai m/s 135) Nah, sekian dan jalan terus!!!
An interesting look at how someone could have "everything" and still be misereable.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Huỳnh Quang Nam
So this book is hilariously satirical and clever almost like Douglas Adams or Jasper Fforde but. For some reason it overwhelms my attention span, when I don't want to keep a thousand of his details in my head.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Marie Ndiaye
When I was in college, I read about two chemists that won a Nobel Prize in an experiment that culminated in creating amino acids from a methane test tube environment. I never lost sight of the significance of this achievement. In the 80's I was involved in Bible Study that included a reading of the Pentateuch. I never thought that the experiment of the Nobel prize winners was necessarily inconsistent with the creation story in Genesis. Years later I was drawn to the Unitarian Church by biographical information relating to Thomas Jefferson. McLennan identifies Jefferson as a Liberal Christian which makes sense to me. I think McLennan's book is required reading for those attempting to formulate a personal theology. I particularly appreciate McLennan's "proof for God" being based on his study of mathematical infinity. I also appreciate McLennan's presentation of a Liberal Christianity being based on rational and faith concepts. He refutes the idea that faith should be blind. McLennan presents love as the motive force in the universe and this is a theological reflection that strikes me as "Truth". McLennan's book is excellent and he presents a cogent rational approach to being a Christian. I think all persons have a hunger for the transcendent in our lives. Living a live entirely devoted to our own sensory pleasures and experiences is not enough. One of the other things I enjoyed about this book is McLennan postulates that indeed evolution may be "God". A thought provoking idea. In summary, I think this book is excellent and thought provoking and calls me onward to more fully explore the tenets of "Liberal" Christianity.
Ugh...from the first page the main character annoyed me. There's no way I'm finishing this one.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Trường Sinh
I just didn't have the will left in me to read this book page by page. So I skipped (more than half of the book) and come to the conclusion that I haven't missed anything important. Oh, I did try to enjoy it, very much so, but having read the first seven chapters (all of them, and I mean ALL), revolving around sex between the main characters, it got boring. A flat line of boorishness, because as much as I love sex scenes, the idea that a book must revolve around sex is stupid to me. Sex is not the reason for people to fall in love (especially of we're speaking about eternity here - they are vampires after all), sex is the consequence, and this book tried to convince me otherwise. I am not impressed by it's reasoning. The characters are in no way complex - I think that Carney got a little too carried away with writing about sex to properly introduce characters to us. I believe that, if sex was put aside (and even not mentioned at all) this book would have been way better (because half of the stuff wouldn't be in it), and Dee Carney has some potential in the writing department, if she had a little bit more creativity when it comes to the storyline. Continuing along this way, I don't see if I'll ever read another book of hers. But well, for the erotica fans, this is the stuff of their dreams. This review is based on a digital ARC received via netGalley.
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.