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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Jon Krakauer
The movie was better. I could not get into this one, at all.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Eduplanet
Dernier de la trilogie Underworld USA, il termine le cycle sur l'époque Hoover. C'est un peu moins envolé que les deux précédents et l'écriture y est encore plus saccadée. Ca reste cependant très bon.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
This is another book that Mrs. Hale would read aloud to us and would cry at the end. I didn't care for it either way at the time. Now as an adult it is more meaning. Even though I know have a child, it is the ending where the parent-child roles are reversed that gets me.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Chương Thâu
On the surface, this book seems like a passable pot-boiler. But when you think about it a bit, you realize that it has several problems. The story involves a group of American Christian fundamentalists. One of the founders of their group receives from God a technology that allows the development of faster-than-light spaceship engines. He co-founds the group with a recently widowed minister to fulfill God's mission, which is to re-locate the faithful to another planet to create a fully Christian world. They are opposed by a group of Satanists, led by the founder of a nation-wide chain of funeral homes who runs for political office to acquire enough power to stop the Christians. The Satanist leader and his personal assistant are the only ones who know they're really working for Satan. So far, so good. This blending of science fiction and Christian literature is an interesting twist on the Rapture, where the Christians lift themselves to "heaven" using God-sent technology. But although the writing is competent, the plotting isn't. Faster-than-light travel is a staple gimmick in science fiction that long-time readers accept without question. But David handles it awkwardly here, hinting at time-dilation effects, but then not following up. The technology seems mundane. Flight times to light-years-distant planets is inconsistent and glossed over. Ships are flying back and forth on regular supply runs, but the story seems to stop during the months these trips take. It's never clear how this group of civilians navigates its way through space without getting hopelessly lost. The government, urged by the Satanist leader, attacks the Christian compound, but only with ground troops. Why no aircraft to stop the spaceships? The middle section of the story covers at least 10 years, and while child characters age as expected, adult characters seem to stay in early middle age throughout. The reaction of the rest of the world to the Christian group's adventures feels wrong, understated. Their reactions to the excesses of the Satanists also seem inappropriate and strangely muted. The epilogue involves a wildly improbable set of crossed paths. The book's marketing, through blurbs on the book jacket, make this appear to be a pro-Christian novel of the Apocalypse, but I wonder if the blurb writers read the book. The Christians are portrayed as narrow-minded, bigoted, and overtly racist, not as the heroes of God the blurbs suggest they are. The only likeable character in the book is a non-fundamentalist Christian mediator, who seeks to find a middle ground between the space-going Christians and the Satanist-led government (although few of the major Christian characters knows of Satan's influence). The blurb gets the name of the Christian group wrong and mis-identifies the focus of the plot. The Christians are shown as disapproving of sex except for reproduction, but have no problem killing innocent bystanders (along with some truly evil people) to get their way. Any sex in the book is always off-stage, but graphic violence is front and centre. Finally, there are technical problems. The book has 150 chapters in 655 pages. Almost every scene gets a new chapter. It keeps the pace moving, but is tiring and unnecessary. Every chapter begins with a quotation, but one quotation appears twice, just a few chapters apart. One character's name is given incorrectly in a scene -- it's clear which character is meant, but another character's name is used for her, and the other character is nowhere near this particular scene, so it's not just a minor confusion. That's sloppy editing. Scene transitions are sometimes awkward and confusing. The action jumps forward sometimes months at a time with major plot developments given in casual dialogue as past history. Most of the characters are two-dimensional stereotypes. Motives and methods for many of the characters' actions are clumsy or absent. Overall, I cannot recommend this book.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
I like reading books that make me feel smart, and picking up on some of the fun and obscure literary references in The Eyre Affair did that. I also just REALLY enjoyed how original an idea the whole thing was (when I often feel like I'm floating around in a world devoid of original ideas) and how well Jasper Fforde pulled it off. I fully intend to read the rest of the Thursday Next books as soon as I can get around to it!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Marcel Mauss
I listened to this during a long car trip. Yes it's probably a bit sappy but I enjoyed it. Kind of like being in a dream and an easy read/listen.
i liked this book because it was different<333
read in 2008
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Bằng Giang
while the main character, ruth, is a bit crass at times, i found the frankness in which she dealt with her death to be thought provoking. it's a good story about female friendships and the strength that women can find in each other. if you enjoy this book, i recommend "the year of magical thinking" by joan didion. it is a really well written look at the grief process.
This was another one of my .49 books. It was better than I was expecting.
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.