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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Kasara
Blunt and powerful, like Zola at his best.
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I finished this book within a day and I have to say that I really enjoyed it. I had never thought about picking up another one of Meg Cabot's books despite the fact that I loved the Airhead series, but I can confidently say that I am eager to read some of her other books. I would definitely recommend Jinx to others because it has relatable characters with paranormal elements thrown into the mixture.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
atish zadam be malam!haraj shod!hishki az in ketaba nemikahd bekhoone?;)
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: David Foenkinos
This book has its ups and downs. My biggest problem with it is the author's use of the term special operations is too broad. Sometimes he called operations special when I think the term espionage would suffice. Nonetheless, this book is impressive in the way it covers so much ground, so many interesting turning points in history. My favorite chapter is the one on the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire -- not that it was the result of what we would call a special operation, but there are parallels to what is expected today of SEALs and their bretheren. I also like how the author uses popular fiction of the times that he describes as source material. In a chapter on the British conflict with Napoleon's France, he writes about how a real-life British hero, Thomas Lord Cochrane, perhaps the first great special ops leader at sea, inspired C.S. Forester to write his Horatio Horblower novels. I've never read any of the Hornblower books, but that's about to change. I just bought the first in the 11-book series and look forward to entering Forester's world of daring deeds and memorable characters.
The writing was excellent, but I found the technophobia more than a little embarrassing.
I studied the odyssey in high school and was put off by the length, by the vocabulary, by the number of mythical creatures, etc. Now that I have more familiarity with Greek mythology, the story in general is less intimidating, but it was still much easier to take in through this graphic novel format. The gods and goddesses were drawn in light blue to look as if they were transparent, the action was easy to follow, and it did not take nearly as long to get through. Highly recommended.
I enjoyed it, very similar to Anne of Green Gables and is actually a predecessor to it. A country tale about smart but precocious girl who wheedles her way into the entire towns' heart.
I loved the girl's voice in this book. She was spot on as an angsty teen!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Macaw Book
I worked in the emergency room of a hospital for about 3 years. While working there I had the opportunity to talk to and come in contact with a lot of people who had attempted suicide. I also have had a couple of people in my life who have experienced severe depression and other mental illnesses. This being said, I wish I would have read this book earlier in my life, because I would have had the opportunity to understand a little more what these people were going through. The Bell Jar gave me a little bit of insight into the mind of someone with a mental illness. There were so many things that I hadn't really thought of before, but this book mad me stop and think. I loved this book and would suggest it to anyone. (Maybe not young people, it is a little disturbing at times) I really enjoyed the style of the book, how the book was written with Ester's thoughts, so it jumped around to different topics just like your thoughts would.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tâm Bùi
Sometimes you know from the very first words in a novel: I’m gonna’ like where this takes me. Now, as I start All Souls (and this review), I’ve read over 1600 pages penned by Marías, and he never fails to catch me up immediately and run with me. In this novel’s case, by the narrator’s distancing of himself from the character he was at the time of the events he’s yet to reveal. An unnamed Spanish professor at Oxford teaching contemporary Spanish literature and translation (during the classes for which he lies outrageously to his students about the meanings and etymologies of obscure Spanish words) recounts his experiences at the university, the true natures of the faculty, and his affair with the wife of another faculty member. His account of high tables, the dinner where he meets his future lover, is Marías operating at the most comic level I’ve yet seen in his work. Amid the formality of high tables’ etiquette, which in this case degenerates rather quickly due, in part. to the drunken lechery of the Warden [he who officiates at said dinner], Marías glides effortlessly from the rendering of the evening’s havoc to a characteristic passage of great beauty: It’s getting close to the girl’s bedtime, but before she goes one more train must pass, just one more, because the fresh image of the passing train and of the river illuminated by its windows (the men on the barge look up at it and grow dizzy) helps her to go to sleep and come to terms with the idea of spending another day in a city to which she does not belong and which she will only perceive as hers once she has left it and when her only chance to recall it out loud will be with her son or her lover. The description is that of the narrator considering, not only the childhood of his soon-to-be lover and her earliest years spent in India or Egypt, but also the evaluative looks the two share over the course of the dinner; one of those passages which seems to say everything, and then ultimately says even more. The high tables debacle briefly mentions the attendance of one Toby Rylands, a character who plays a significant role in the Your Face Tomorrow sequence and leads me to assume the narrator of that sequence is the narrator of this book (I could verify that, I suppose, but I’m too lazy, think it doesn’t really matter, and would rather readers of this review read those novels as well—having read further now, it seems apparent the narrator of this and YFT are in fact the same man, he goes unnamed in this novel). At turns reflective, comic, then poignant, this is the one I wish I’d started my Marías odyssey with—characters pop in and out of subsequent novels, playing large roles in one and minor roles in the next—weaving stories back on themselves and other stories—for fans of The Sea Came in at Midnight, the works of Marías operate on a larger, if not epic scale. This one leaves me psyched for Dark Back of Time, a novel in which the Real members of the Oxford community during the narrator’s (Marías’ ?) stay there react to their portrayal in this novel. Called a ‘false novel’ by its creator (odd itself, in that, the characters of that novel are supposed to be the real Oxfordians, promises to be equally compelling.
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.