Darren Jenkins từ Na Loen, Si Mueang Mai District, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand

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11/24/2024

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Darren Jenkins Sách lại (10)

2018-02-22 02:30

20 Minute Manager - Thuyết Trình Hiệu Quả Trong 20 Phút Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Harvard Business Review

Wow, what a find! This was such a great book, filled with beautiful writing. Too bad it's almost unheard of. There were passages I wanted to clip out and paste on the wall. But, I won't; it's a library book. A gut-wrenching tale of poverty during the Great Depression that encompasses crop failure, fire, unrequited love, suicide, etc.

2018-02-22 03:30

Postcards Giáng Sinh Diệu Kỳ (Sách tô màu dành cho người lớn) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lizzie Mary Cullen

GREAT book. I couldn't put it down!

2018-02-22 04:30

Truyền Thuyết Băng Quỷ (Tập 5) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Sugiura Shiho

Fantastic book! I loved reading about how much he was able to accomplish in a part of the world so many would never dream of even going! I also appreciated the quick time-outs he would take to give us background and history of the people (their customs, religion, feelings about Americans), the governments and the area. Yes, yes, yes, people should read this book. 4 stars only because I don't plan to read it again.

2018-02-22 05:30

Thơ Thụy Anh - Nhim Nhỉm Nhìm Nhim Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Thụy Anh

Want to read!

2018-02-22 06:30

Hello Kitty - Mơ Ước Mai Sau Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

I love all of the Shop-a-holic books b/c I think there is a little bit of Rebecca in all of us... Who doesn't like a good deal!?

2018-02-22 07:30

One: WINNER OF THE CILIP CARNEGIE MEDAL 2016 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Sarah Crossan

The only reason this doesn't get 5 stars is because it felt too open ended, as if this was the first act of a longer book. But more on that later. I was worried I wasn’t going to like this book when I started it. I think it’s because I came into Unearthly after reading some pretty intense and adult books: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, The Native Star and A Storm of Swords. It’s sort of difficult to go from George R.R. Martin’s Westeros to a YA novel about love and angels. However, Unearthly was incredibly interesting and had a very unique take on the idea of angels. All angel-bloods (Clara is only a quarter and her mom is half) have a purpose. Shortly after puberty they begin to have visions of what they were put on earth to do. Clara learns that her purpose is to save a boy from a forest fire in Wyoming, so her California family packs up and moves. There are typical high school moments in the book, but for me the most interesting thing is the mythology created about angels and angel-bloods. I want to learn more about this world, about these beings. Some angel-bloods’ purposes are to watch, others are messengers, and there are those who are supposed to interfere in human events in some way. There is conflict between angels. There are angel levels and hierarchies. It's all touched upon here, but not completely fleshed out yet. In this book, the antagonist isn’t really the Black Wings (fallen angels who have gone against their purpose and what God intends for them), although Clara does have a confrontation with one. The main antagonist is actually Clara herself. As the book progresses and she meets Christian, Clara seems certain she is supposed to fall in love with him. When she instead falls in love with someone else (love triangle! dun, dun, DUN! But seriously, it's not that annoying), Clara finds herself torn between fulfilling her purpose or being with the boy she truly loves. To me this book doesn’t really end. This felt like only the first act. I think it’s because there are so many open storylines now that Clara has made her decision and things don't go down how anyone had expected them to. There's so much to cover in the next book still: (view spoiler)

2018-02-22 08:30

Thiếu Niên Thế Hệ Mới - Cô Gái Nhỏ Duyên Dáng Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hiểu Hi

What if, stick with me here, they found Atlantis?

2018-02-22 09:30

Sức Mạnh Của Lắng Nghe Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Bernard T. Ferrari

Every story in this book is brilliant!

2018-02-22 10:30

Tạo Lập Mô Hình Kinh Doanh Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Alexander Osterwalder

I almost gave this book a 5, and I may yet go back and alter the start count before completing this review. It's definitely worth at least a "4.5". I first read this book when loaned a copy by a high school friend. Yes, I had read "The Hobbit" and the three volumes of "The Lord of The Rings" before picking up this slim, but powerful volume. As soon as I read it, I ordered two (yes, two) copies of the book from a long-since gone bookstore. Since that day, I try to maintain ownership of two copies of this book and have had to purchase several more. Why two? Quite simply, one to have as a loaner and one to have to re-read when the mood strikes me. If you paid attention to the "had to purchase several more" phrase, you'd either think me a terribly forgetful person that loses things, a compulsive cleaner that tosses things prematurely, or a well-meaning book lender that doesn't often get a certain book back - bingo! Yup, "Bored of The Rings" is like a sock in a dryer. Sometimes it seems to slip into an alternate universe and then I am down to one or occasionally none. (Yes, I have loaned out the last copy more than once.) I am considered by most to be an intelligent, smart and educated fellow, so why do I have this seeming "blind spot" to the probability of this books return? Simply because it is the parody to define all parodies, IMHO. No one would consider it "high brow literature", but it manages in about 200 paperback pages to lampoon, twist, puncture, and (if you will) defile a lengthy, intricate, and amazing tale (in six books, as defined by the author) in a way that seems so natural, so precise, so funny as to have no equal, let alone superior! I grant that humor is highly subjective, but there are certain universal concepts that funny men throughout the ages have used to get people to laugh. We have names for these tools and constructions: pathos, irony, sarcasm, hyperbole, plays-on-words (aka "puns"), jokes. We classify jokes: knock-knock, elephant, etc. We analyze verbal, written and visual comedy. Our greatest playwright wrote Comedies as well as Tragedies; both survive today as high school reading assignments and actively performed plays by our leading lights of the stage. "Bored of The Rings" uses many of these time-tested methods plus knowledge of the original tale to create a weapon of mass amusement. It has very shallow as well as mid-range and deep jokes. It assails one with its silliness and its cleverness all at once. I will never meet Henry N. Beard and I don't know if I have ever read anything else by him, but this book still brings a smile to my face just thinking about how to describe it. Don't mistake my praise for blindness. This book is not fair. This book attacks ethnic and social groups (some mythological, some more "realistic"). It blends a kind of written slapstick with the more thinking humor of witty people, but it can offend and offers no apologies. So, not everyone will embrace it or offer a kind review, but that should not stop you from trying it. It's difficult for me to say so much about how I enjoy this work without giving you examples of what I find so funny. Even today, years later, I recall certain things that I will say to friends or associates. But to present them here would be a double injustice: first to the work itself, as often a line or two may be independently funny, but in context it is hilarious; and second to you, as "spoilers" are often cherry-picked from the best of anything and thus lessen your enjoyment when you finally decide to brave the waters. (Yes, mixed metaphors are probably in the book, too.) But let me this approach: If you have read any of my previous "reviews", you'll note that I recently read a parody of Frank Herbert's "Dune". "Doon" was less than I expected and hoped for and yet I thought it was a pretty good lampoon of the classic. Nice puns, good "translation" of essential story elements and characters, etc. but it just didn't "click" in the way I wanted. As I read it I realized that I was comparing it to "Bored of The Rings". And, as I wrote that review I acknowledged that in doing so, I probably liked it less than it deserved and would someday read it again to see if it grew on me. And now a week or two after that I realize that it is the (seemingly) effortless way that Mr. Beard created his savage parody of "The Lord of The Rings" that I was judging "Doon" by. I doubt that I will ever consider another lampoon as completely funny and as well-constructed. Certainly it truncates off the end of the original, as most such books will, but it has this coherency, this clarity of wit that makes the book hold together so well in both the reading and the recollection of it. To fully appreciate it, one must have read the original. Liking the original is probably also a prerequisite since it is in the details of the parody that some of the best humor awaits you. Having watch the epic trilogy ("LOTR") of Mr. Jackson might not be enough. The visual clues created by the movies are similar to, but different from the books and of course you don't have the original language to compare against the biting prose of "BOTR". That's my take on how best to prepare yourself for this slim, tour-de-force. Now it's up to you to read it. Hope you do! (Yes, I updated it to a "5.0".)

2018-02-22 11:30

Touch and Feel Baby Animals (Scholastic Early Learning) (Scholastic Early Learners) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Scholastic

One of the few times that the movie beat the book. Amy Adams depiction of Julie Powell is incredibly more likable than Julie Powell's actual depiction of herself.

Người đọc Darren Jenkins từ Na Loen, Si Mueang Mai District, Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand

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.