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What a bunch of unlikable characters.
First off i would like to start this review with one word : WOW! This book is sooooo good!I probably cried through about six chapters. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is not only well written, but insightful and incredibly moving. Harry Potter is a young boy who has the great responsibility of destroying Lord Voldemort, the greatest dark wizard in history. With the help of Harry's two best friends, Ronald Weasley and Hermione Granger, Harry takes on this task left to him by the greatest headmaster Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry has ever seen, Albus Dumbledore. Along the journey of this mission the trio encounters numerous difficult desicions and sticky situations, all while keeping hidden since Harry is "Undesirable Number 1" , Hermione is a muggle born (a wich or wizard born of non magical parents), and Ron is from a family of "blood traitors" (a term used by elite "pureploods" to describe other families of purebloods who associatie with muggles and muggle borns). The Entire story is thrilling and amazingly put together. There isn't an unanswered question at the end of the book. You will find yourself wishing that it wern't over and sad that there aren't anymore to come. This is one of the best books I have ever read. J.K. Rowling is a GENIUS.
According to Roland Barthes, all literature evokes a central question open for interpretation. L’étranger, or The Stranger, written in 1946 by Albert Camus, is no exception. Throughout the novel, the meaning of human existence is frequently questioned by Meursault, the protagonist. The author uses him as a tool to provide an absurdist’s point of view of meaninglessness. Meursault believes that human life has no importance or higher purpose, supporting Camus’s negative views on existentialism. Camus presents his reasoning and conclusion on death, love, and higher power through the words and actions of Meursault. At the very beginning of the novel, the reader learns that Meursault’s mother has passed away. He says, “Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know. I got a telegram from the home: “Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.” That doesn’t mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday” (3). Meursault does not appear to be concerned, or even upset about his mother’s death. The fact that he does not even know the exact date of her death proves that he does not care in the way a typical person should. Using this, Camus supports his absurdist idea that death is a part of every human life and one should learn to accept it. There is no sense in grieving over death, because through it, all lives are created equal. Meursault does not grieve once over his mother’s death, which adds a small contribution to his existential views. Love and emotional attachment is another subject Camus touches on. Meursault meets a young woman by the name of Marie and begins a relationship with her. Eventually, she falls in love with Meursault and desires to know whether or not he feels the same way. He tells her that “it [doesn’t] mean anything but that [he doesn’t] think so” (35). Here, Meursault exposes his indifference towards love. His reply to Marie’s plea for love allows Camus to provide insight on another pointless characteristic of human life. There is no such thing as love to Camus, because it does not matter. He believes that there is no reason for a person to be on a never ending search to acquire it. Since human life has no purpose, one cannot benefit from love or emotional attachment. Meursault does not believe in God or any form of higher power. Near the end of the novel, he refuses to see the chaplain once in jail for murder. Meursault claims, “I said that I didn’t believe in God. He wanted to know if I was sure and I said that I didn’t see any reason to ask myself that question: it seemed unimportant” (116). Meursault has accepted his death sentence and sees no benefit in turning to God for guidance. Christianity is the opposite, or foil, of Camus’s absurdist views. Since the Christian faith suggests that God is the creator of all things, all things must then have a rational purpose, including human life. Camus’s beliefs suggest the contrary: human life is irrational and meaningless, which again, ties another aspect of the novel with his negative existential views. Through Meursault, Albert Camus is able to figuratively recreate himself in character form. Meursault’s views about death, love, and higher power are ultimately his own. He provides one strong opinion towards the never-ending universal question of “Why are we here?” Although his answers are not morally accepted by most of society, he exposes his ideas on the worthlessness of human life to provide a unique point of view towards existentialism.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ngọc Linh
now I need to be alone for several days, just to think about this book.
fun and funny boy book with heart
A book about insubstantial American culture that is itself kind of insubstantial. He gets off a few good ones, though, and he makes fun of "Fresh Air" and NPR in general, which is always welcome.
I got this book through the Goodreads raffle and I have been reading it from about the day it arrived in my mailbox. I have a read a little bit of Boyle before (two novels and some short stories) but mostly it has been his earlier stuff. When I started reading I realized that I had read the first chapter or two when it appeared as a short story in The New Yorker. Those chapters happen to be a bit of a curveball in terms of the overall story since they are a flashback about the protagonist's grandmother. I don't want to get into a plot summary or sound like a book report but often in the novel the narrative thread gets interrupted by a digression or flashback that sends us to a different time. But that's a good thing. I don't think that I would ever want to read a book about people fighting over their differing ecological beliefs. It seems to be almost cliched territory. But Boyle makes the characters flawed and frustrating. Several times I found myself getting angry at character's actions, which I think is a testament to Boyle's abilities to draw the reader in. The flashbacks serve to anchor these character's beliefs and actions in a collective history, one that seems to be repeating itself, or I would rather think regenerating itself, across generations. As is true to life, there are no clear-cut winners or losers. Humanity's relationship with nature is in the background of it all here, specifically to the Anacapa and Santa Cruz islands off the coast of California. However, it is the human necessity to be involved, to intentionally or inadvertently intrude, that ultimately makes the affairs and problems of the islands that of the mainland as well. From shipwrecks to capitalization to spite, humans leave their mark on the islands in increasingly disastrous ways. The "law" tries to supercede natural law. Past wrongs are tried to be rectified, but there is no cure-all. I guess what I'm trying to say in this kind of rambling is that the book got me thinking. There was no proselytizing, no prescriptive measures that had to be taken. Boyle steps back and tells a story. One that happens to include the environment. And yet without bashing you over the head with it, Boyle manages to make strong points about different sides of the "green" movement. People are tied together in many ways that seem to be as much a part of nature as that of the animals that inhabit certain climates. It is Boyle's ability to show the humanity throughout that makes this book a great read.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
I don't leave a book unfinished very often - proved by the fact that I had to create an "unfinished" shelf purely for this book. Weak, awful, no compulsion to finish it. Don't bother - Jodi Picoult has written better. Or at least written easier to read.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hồ Cúc
I can't decide whether to give this book four stars or five. The language was a lot more straightforward than the dense, breathless wordplay I usually love, but the further I got into the book the more I came to see this as another mark of Frayn's genius, because the language picks up and becomes more urgent and complex as the plot does. The plot is brilliant; no question about it. I couldn't put this book down, and those of you who know my distractible self will know that this says a LOT. I put down *everything.* I'd put down my own head if I could, I'm so bored with it. I'm sure part of my total absorption owes itself to the fact that this book handles some of my favourite themes: the fallible nature of memory, the weight of childhood mistakes. The narrator and a friend he is desperate to impress begin what seems at first like another rollicking adventure of the kind they've always played: spying on the friend's mother because they suspect she's a German spy (oh yes: it's World War II). Along the way, as you might well suspect, their game turns horrible and terrifying. Perhaps the most terrifying discovery the narrator makes, and that we achingly remake with him, is the vulnerability of adults. Could the world of adults possibly be even more lonely than that of children? What you probably *won't* suspect, though, is who did what, or how it all happened, or why. The narrative is as brilliantly plotted as the best of murder mysteries, and nothing prepared me for the shock of revelation at the end. As with the best murder mysteries, I looked back and saw that it should all have been obvious; that copious clues had been planted for my benefit, but I'd been so swept up in fear and dread that I hadn't picked up on them.
Very good story. I liked how it all fit in very well together and really opened up the general plot. It was beautifully written. I had seen the film before I read the book and found Grandfather much more likeable in the book, as did I prefer Sasha. They seemed to take out a lot of the camraderie between Jonathan, Sasha, and Grandfather, replacing it with camraderie between Jonathan and Sammy Davis, Jr., Jr. All in all, I preferred the book to the film and would definitely recommend it to anyone who has relatives that either were or likely lost in the world wars.
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.