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05/18/2024

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2019-06-28 14:31

Ai Là Quán Quân Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lương Ngân

This review refers to the SOT series through book 9. Terry Goodkind’s first book Wizard’s First Rule was great! Except for the actual First Rule ("People are Stupid"), which was...stupid. The story had so many unique and fascinating characters (especially the secondary ones). I was in love with Richard; I wanted to be a Mord-Sith. The next couple of books of The Sword of Truth were pretty good, too. Then...I don’t know what happened...it just TOTALLY lost it. The writing style became incredibly annoying and Richard was getting WAY too preachy (constant Ayn Rand-ish humanistic ranting). But, I kept going because I was really invested by this time. And each time I bought one of his $25 hardback books, I found myself rolling my eyes at every passive sentence and starting to fall asleep during the sermons (when did Richard hire a speech writer??). And the plot really got ssslllllloooowwww (just look at the book covers for Chainfire and Phantom — you can tell we're not going anywhere). But the weirdest thing is that I kept buying these 1 star books! I can’t explain my behavior, except to say that Terry Goodkind is (was) a master at plot and characterization (truly, his secondary characters are so well done). So I kept thinking that things would get better, but they did not. How did he pull off that excellent first booK?? I've learned from this experience that I can put down a book if it's not good. There's too much good literature to read. According to Mr Goodkind, those of us who have bailed out are ignorant and uneducated. Wow. That is something I have never been called before. I should have realized right from the start ("Wizard's First Rule: People are stupid") what kind of fellow Terry Goodkind is. Here is a quote from a chat session conducted with Mr Goodkind (this used to be on his website, but has now been removed. It is well-documented on the internet, however.): "Why would they continue to read books they claim are bad? Because they hate that my novels exists. Values arouse hatred in these people. Their goal is not to enjoy life, but to destroy that which is good — much like a school child who does not wish to study for a test and instead beats up a classmate who does well. These people hate what is good because it is good. Their lives are limited to loathing and indifference. It isn't that they want to read a good book, what they want is to make sure that you do not. Ignore them." —Terry Goodkind I say Terry Goodkind is the one acting like a school child having a tantrum. I regret that he got so much of my money. I hope you won't give him any of yours. If you really want to try a Goodkind book, I would recommend that you go to the library and check out the first few, and then trust me that you don't need to read any further. I will not read the last book. I'm not even tempted. What an ass. Read more Terry Goodkind book reviews at Fantasy Literature .

2019-06-28 19:31

Thiền Đích Thực Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

I never leave the house without a red ribbon. Mary Saunders, the focus of Slammerkin, is thrown out of her house after being raped for her desire for a red ribbon. Does the red ribbon establish a kinship between Mary and me? Perhaps. Lacking a common desire or situation, the reader may have difficulty opening herself to a character – in my case, the relationship between a middle-aged librarian and a doomed teenaged prostitute. Slammerkin places a very young woman in a desperately poor household, where she is neither loved nor consulted about how her life will unfold. All evidence points to a miserable and colorless continuation of her mother’s life of poverty, drudgery, and subjugation that was sealed when her father was killed in a misguided protest by men who believed that they were going to lose, literally lose, eleven days of their lives when the government changed to the Gregorian calendar in 1752 -that they would lose time. I was fascinated by the subjective inconstancy of Mary’s perception of time. In her mother’s house, time is nearly a solid mass, changing only by suffering and the family’s heartless response to Mary’s pregnancy. This response, a product of the times, is doled out without mercy. How could the family understand the depth of Mary’s need to escape the faded beige of their lives, or the magical hope symbolized by that red ribbon? And yet, how could a mother cast out her raped, pregnant daughter? (As I write, I realize that Mary’s mother is the only truly unforgivable character in the book. Perhaps my modern-time sensibility intrudes. All of the subsequent damage and tragedy that defined Mary’s brief time, and all of the bitter focus on the actual material that she craved in this world, began with this primal betrayal. If she was not loved for what was within, she could, at least, adorn herself with the transitory beauty of clothes.) Time, and the times, were different when Mary fled to London. London was fast-paced, and the woman who accepted her into the sisterhood of prostitutes were fast. Doll’s love and practical guidance showed Mary that society can tolerate – even require – actions and beliefs far larger than she had ever imagined. Through prostitution, Mary acquired financial independence and freedom to see some of thewonders of her modern world. Likethe fireworks over London, she and her sisters of the night were brief flashes of beauty, dressed in their colorful slammerkins (loose dresses) and masked behind their paint. Mary’s sudden need to escape a street thug impelled her to Magdalene Hospital, a residence founded to purge the evil from the street-wise women. Time was suspended there, with silence, blandness, and time to think without fearing starvation or death in the freezing streets. With Doll’s death, Mary realizes that she has to leave London, and her retreat ends in a desperate flight from the sanctuary to the town where her mother had grown up. Glimpses of the possibilities there almost melt her cynicism, but her nature has been formed, and she can not escape. This novel is based, loosely, on the actual life of a Mary Saunders who was executed for murder in 1764. From the beginning of the novel, when Mary is 13, to her death by hanging at age 16, Mary passes through more lifetimes than many experience in ten times the years. How many such lifetimes can a child endure? For Mary is a child, and my working-class perception of childhood makes me ache for this young girl, whose only transgression was the love of a piece of red ribbon. How does the red ribbon bind me to Mary’s life? For both the 18th -century child and the 21st century woman, the red ribbon symbolizes hope. Mary’s hope for a better life is destroyed, but the hopes of my Eastern European Jewish ancestors for the children who would be born in the new world, and would escape the Evil Eye of the old. have been realized. After reading Slammerkin, I realize anew that I am, indeed, blessed.

Người đọc Li Lang từ Nadivakarura, Fiji

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.