Andrea Halt từ Russalu, Rapla County, Estonia

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12/22/2024

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Andrea Halt Sách lại (10)

2019-07-13 21:31

Công chúa và Hoàng Tử Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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General Plot Overview, or Why I Liked The Book: A sort of novel-within-a-novel-within-a-novel. Set in a time from the end of the first World War until the present, the book spans the lifetime of one Iris Griffen Chase, the narrator of the book and central character. Iris tells the story of her history, interspersed with accounts of her everyday existence, and interrupted with chapters from a tawdry Sci-Fi/Romance novel authored by her sister, who dies on the first page. What I find interesting are the ways that, throughout the book, you begin to find pieces of Iris and her sister's past woven throughout the Sci-Fi novel, little connections that you have to really be paying attention to to catch. This book was, however, mediocre. The plotline more meandered than twisted, and the conclusion was not exactly climactic. More hesitant than anything else. And you kind of saw it coming, or at least I did. I feel like I could have done with it in about half the length and still gotten the full effect. That said, the language in the book was phenomenal. Margaret Atwood has always had a flair for describing things in an unconventional but strikingly accurate (and occasionally funny) way. Examples: "Perhaps her mind is slipping, perhaps she's going off the tracks, perhaps she is coming unhinged. Unhinged, like a rammed gate, like a rusting strongbox. When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside, and other things get in that ought to be shut out." "Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes, you drown." "The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it. Impossible, of course" "We passed a few more franchises - smiling chickens offering platters of their own fried body parts, a grinning Mexican wielding tacos... by the roadside, three crows pecked at a furry burst lump of groundhog."

2019-07-13 22:31

Mọi Điều Về Nước Nhật Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed." As a devotee to Stephen King's Dark Tower series, this first sentence of The Gunslinger (and ultimately the Dark Tower series) sends a tingle down my spine. From the starting of the series in 1970 to the finish, the publishing of The Dark Tower in 2004, King has crafted a universe arguably more diverse than that of Tolkien. The Gunslinger starts as it states, with an unnamed protagonist following a strange man across a desert. The writing is simple, the reading is fast and the plot builds as you follow the gunslinger and learn about his past. The story holds aspects of old westerns, fantasies and post-apocalyptic tales. What may surprise readers about this book and the entire series is that it contains very few tinges of the horror that Stephen King has used to make a name for himself. King shows a creativity that beats many fiction authors and tops most of his non-series novels. He weaves an intricate, detailed universe with some of the most amazing plot devices, characters and fantastic stories that I've ever read. Of King's bibliography, about 60% (a rough estimate) ties into this series in some way or another. My two favorite tie-ins are The Stand (my favorite stand-alone King novel) and Hearts in Atlantis. HIA is a collection of four short stories, one of which was altered and made into a mediocre movie starring Sir Anthony Hopkins. King has since revised The Gunslinger, adding about 60 pages to fix inconsistencies with the later plots. Purists might argue that this ruined the book, but I was unable to tell much of a difference between the writing styles of the new and older material, despite decades of years between the writing of each bit. Overall, this seven volume series is my favorite "book" ever, and I'd recommend it to anyone who loves fantastic fiction and an epic story that includes all those aspects of so many great fiction pieces: friendship, betrayal, trust, love, good and evil. When King says that the series had a life of it's own, I believe him.

Người đọc Andrea Halt từ Russalu, Rapla County, Estonia

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.