Dữ liệu người dùng, đánh giá và đề xuất cho sách
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Việt Linh
Eine alptraumische Phantasie über Goya und einen Mann, der mit dem Maler besessen ist. Sehr originell, aber auch sehr gut.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Phạm Thị Sen
similar dilemmas, different city.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Châu Thị Hoàng Yến
i have one word for this book -- sublime. i've never felt so fulfilled by a book as i did when i finished this one.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Aesop
This is a chilling story about a dentist who brutally killed his wife. This fellow had a few wives and was unpleasant to some extent to each of them. This story takes you through his marriages, the children he helped produce, the murder of his last wife and a double court battle. One for the murder and another for the custody battle of his son. Unbelievable story, but not written in gory detail. From the back cover: "In 1984, the hideously beaten body of Teresa Benigno Taylor, a young wife and mother, was found in a remote ditch in eastern Pennsylvania. Almost immediately suspicion focused on her husband, Dr. Kenneth Taylor, an engaging, successful dentist. Slowly, local investigators uncovered the dark truth of Taylor's past - a secret history of deception and violence. Taylor abandoned his first wife in her ninth month of pregnancy and tried to chloroform to death his second wife, and was suspected of savagely beating his third wife, Teresa, on their Mexican honeymoon - foreshadowing his terrible crime against her. At his headline-making trial Taylor was convicted, but for Teresa's family the anguish had just begun. Pitting Taylor's Midwestern parents against Teresa's Italian-American family in New York City, a bitter custody battle over the couple's infant son ensued, a struggle as spellbinding as the murder and trial."
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I'm growing bored with this series. I started getting bored while reading Voyager and I waited a year after finishing if before starting Drums of Autumn. I am 3/4 of the way through and growing bored with Drums of Autumn as well. The few big plot points get stretched so thin with meaningless dialogue and pointless events. By the time the crisis is resolved, I no longer care about the outcome. This book feels like it could be a lot shorter without effecting the story. Unless there is an amazing ending, I doubt I am going to continue with the series.
Enjoying this one quite a bit - fun read, engaging characters. This was a fun escape read with like-able characters. Curious how they do after this book ended - I hope they are mentioned in later books.
I'm not really sure what to say about this book. It seemed to be a great start to a book. It's only one chapter and I have to say that when I finished it I wanted more.
Search for “Hélène Jeanty Raven” in Google Books she appears to be little more than footnote, referenced in passing due to her late marriage to the Anglican theologian Charles Raven, or because of some letters she received from Albert Speer that came to light in 2007. Her memoir Without Frontiers shows why she is of interest in her own right. The story can be divided into two halves: in the first, we read of her war work and suffering under the Nazis, and in the second, of her post-war activism on behalf of refugees, for the fair treatment of German prisoners, and for international reconciliation. At the start of World War Two, Hélène and her first husband Paul Jeanty were living an upper-middle class life in Belgium. War brought dislocation, and eventually tragedy when the two of them were arrested after taking in an RAF airman. They both faced execution, but there was a chance of survival if she could convince the court that she was mentally unstable and had brought the airman to her house without her husband’s permission. Following some contrived courtroom histrionics she was committed to a mental hospital and moved to Germany, but Paul – as she discovered only after her release – was eventually shot by the Nazis. After the war, Hélène was asked by the Judge Adovate-General to return to Germany to give evidence about Nazi war crimes. She did so, confirming that the director of the German asylum where she had been held was a non-Nazi who had colluded in her feigned illness to protect her. She then took an apartment in Paris, where she became friends with “Gabriel Marcel, Jean Schlumberger, Daniel Halévy, and Raymond Aron”. Back in London, she was asked by Rev Henry Carter to represent the World Council of Churches’ refugee work in Germany, despite being religiously uncommitted. In Germany she helped to process displaced Jews, but also became involved with the plight a group for whom there was less general sympathy: displaced Germans from the east, who included dispossessed ex-farmers and “exiled intellectuals” who were unable to find suitable employment. Back in France, she concerned herself with SS soldiers imprisoned for the massacre at Oradour. Apparently, under French law any SS member in France was deemed culpable, whether they had been at Oradour or not – this law was reconsidered when it was realised that some SS men had been conscripts from Alsace, but in the meantime German prisoners spent several years languishing in prison in Bordeaux while awaiting trial. Hélène met the prisoners and attended to some of their needs, and was present at the eventual trial. High-profile prisoners she encountered included Constantin Canaris, head of the Brussels Gestapo. In Jeany’s judgement – once she had got past her visceral revulsion at the position he had held –Canaris “had been pushed into” the job “by his anti-Nazi uncle, who had urged him to try to moderate the horrors of the Hitlerite regime”, and he had undergone a “spiritual transformation” while in prison. It was difficult to read this without some resistance, especially having recently read Blind Eye to Murder, Tom Bower’s polemical book on post-war Nazi rehabilitations. Hélène also held a number of discussion meetings after the war. One introduced Belgians to German anti-Nazis resistors, while another was on Constantine Brunner, a Jewish philosopher whose works had been banned by the Nazis. Hélène had been approached by Brunner’s follower Magdalena Kasch, who was attempting raise funds to have his books republished, and a local industrialist was persuaded to support the effort after Hélène arranged for him to have lunch with Yehudi Menuhin. A further colloquy, on race relations, included Trevor Huddleston, Laurens van der Post, and the son of a Gold Coast chief. Curiously, she made of point of not allowing women to take part in these events. An epilogue explains how in 1954 she was asked by Canon McKay, Head of Religious Broadcasting at the BBC, to appear in a television discussion with Canon Charles Raven. The book ends with her married to Raven and settled in Cambridge. Of course, while a memoir has immediacy and intimacy, it may lack critical distance: Hélène seems to have been reasonably self-aware, and she just about avoids tipping into sentimentality, but there’s not enough here to assess her role in post-war public life in any deep sense. Perhaps it’s time for a biographer to take up the challenge.
I used to love Dumas' books
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ernie Carwile
Now that I've seen the movie, I really want to read the graphic novel again.
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.