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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hồ Biểu Chánh
this book is freaky!!!! very absorbing.
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it was a great book and the story was addicting but Christopher P. wrote it so long and it started to get boring after a while. I mean the story of it was short but the book was so long, there was more pages in it than it should be, though the expression of the book was good.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: TS Nguyễn Vǎn Luận
I watched and listened to this story on storyline online, a website where children's books are read by actors. Having read this book previously and loved it, I was curious to see if I would enjoy the audio/visual version. It held up pretty nicely. The pacing was even and not too slow, it was read with expression and the captions would be helpful for beginning readers. It was about 16 minutes long and showed the illustrations from most of the pages. I saved the website's address to use for the future - the selection isn't too large, but the quality is nice.
Not as good as Glory of Their Times (to which this is a sort of sequel), but it's very good. The author tracked down baseball players from the 30s and 40s and the book contains their interviews (with the questions removed so that it reads more like a narrative). The charm is that these are old men, who had long ago given up baseball to pursue normal lives, describe their playing days as the most exciting period in their lives. You can feel their enthusiasm.
"Land of Unreason" first saw the light of day in 1941, in a shorter form, in "Unknown" magazine; it was later expanded to novel length. Just as there is a genre of science fiction known as "hard" sci-fi, as typified by the works of Hal Clement and Larry Niven, this novel impresses me as a "hard" fantasy novel. Not only do authors deCamp and Pratt usher us into Fairyland, and show us the court of Oberon and Titania, but we are also shown all manner of elves, sprites, nymphs, fairies, ogres, kobolds and the like; even a leprechaun and a unicorn are thrown into the mix. This journey into the fantastic begins when Fred Barber--an American vice-consul in Spain who has been injured during World War II and who is convalescing on the Yorkshire moors--impulsively drinks the milk that his hostess has superstitiously left for the fairies on St. John's Eve. He is kidnapped by a fairy named Sneckett and brought to Oberon's palace, where he is given the task of going to the Kobold Hills and preventing the kobolds from making metallic swords (a substance that no fairy can touch). Thus, Barber begins his picaresque wanderings, and the reader is propelled into a very strange world indeed. Fairyland has been going through a series of so-called "shapings"; even the normally bizarre physical laws of the realm don't apply anymore. In his travels, Barber encounters a talking whirlwind, an apple-tree sprite, a monster from a plum tree, and two-headed eagles. He resides for a while with a marooned, 19th century farmer from New England, and is transformed into a frog and, later, a batlike creature, all leading to his ultimate transformation. The reader will never be able to guess where the story is going next; it's one darn thing after another for poor Fred Barber, as he tries to find his way back home. Perhaps I have not adequately suggested, in this capsule description, what a very strange book "Land of Unreason" is. At times I was reminded of Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland"; at others, of David Lindsay's weird-in-the-extreme "A Voyage to Arcturus." All feature crazy worlds where the physical laws of our reality are in abeyance; all feature strange characters and even stranger events. "Land of Unreason" even pays homage to Carroll's work, in making Titania's footmen liveried frogs. This is one very bizarre book indeed. I should also point out to prospective readers of "Land of Unreason" that both deCamp and Pratt were history buffs, and that perhaps the most impressive single aspect of this novel is the seemingly authentic medieval manner in which the characters converse. The authors have obviously done their homework, to say the least. Readers of this book will run into many obscure Scottish words and archaic language, as well as loads of unusual English. This reader is a professional copy editor, and even I had to resort to an UNabridged dictionary repeatedly to look up words such as "nympholept," "strappado," "rounce," "jobbernowl," "equerry," "yataghan," "lambrequin," "armet," "thill," "armigerous," "anlace," "cousin-german," "alate," "oriflamme," "crapulous," "catenary," "pule," "thrip," "gramercy," "widdershins," "adossed," "barry-wavy," "stirk," "wight," "springald," "bedad" and "metic," among others. The book is a challenge in this respect, but, as always, a little research on the part of the reader will be repaid with a deeper appreciation. On the down side, "Land of Unreason" contains many plot points that lead nowhere, and the denouement--for me, anyway--is something of a letdown. This reader was thoroughly entertained while reading the book, but was ultimately left with the feeling that he'd read a piece of well-crafted piffle. I should perhaps also mention that this novel has been included in James Cawthorn and Michael Moorcock's overview volume "Fantasy: The 100 Best Books." I'm not sure that it deserves inclusion, but it certainly does make for one strange ride.
Such an endearing story, as beautiful as it is heartbreaking.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Songkha
A good easy read. Almost identical in plot line to the DaVinci code (but not as good). If you need a beach read, this could work.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều tác giả
Hands down one of the best books that I have ever read. Dave Eggers is a genius, and he just continues to prove it with every book that he releases.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Thương Hùng
Eh? Didn't love it, didn't hate it. I like the metaphor of 'losing it' as it applies to Tess and her life. Her friend's around the bend over her parents' split, with both of them already hooked up with someone else. Her mother, then her father, lose it and drop out of their lives to live in a survival camp. Her grandmother, one of my favorite characters by the way, is losing her credibility with her daughter...the woman who ran away to live in a survival camp. In the middle of all this chaos is Tess, plotting to lose her virginity to hunky Ben. Lots of directions this book could have taken, but the book seemed very superficial. Neither Tess nor anyone else seemed to truly reflect on what's to be gained by losing it. I was left wanting so much more. Maybe my expectations are too high.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Vũ Hùng
Despite the great title, this book is really stupid
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.