Hady Hussien từ Harbor, OR, USA

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12/22/2024

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2019-07-25 21:30

Sửa Đổi Lối Làm Việc (Khổ Nhỏ) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

We'd made three trips, and then we stopped to refuel, and they washed the airplane out, because so many people had thrown up. That's a detail I never considered: many Hmong refugees spent the 1974 airlift from Long Tieng into Thailand vomiting all over each other. Yet that was a cake walk compared with those who later tried to escape through the jungle into Thailand -- this book is rife with tales of parents and kids getting picked off by bullets, an infant getting tossed into a river to quiet its screams, whole families being poisoned during a starved scramble for roots, or -- most haunting -- a restless whiny child being abandoned in the jungle with a toy because he was slowing everyone down. But these are refugee stories that come after years of heroic battle, fighting on the "losing" side during the Laos civil war (aka the "Secret War"), and before some successful immigrant experiences in the U.S., France, Australia, and French Guiana. This book is organized in that tripartite fashion (war-refugee-immigrant), similar to the frame of so many Hmong lives, though obviously things are much more complex. The "People's History" aspect is mostly outside the Howard Zinn concept -- I'm guessing the title derives from the fact that this is often an oral history, based on the author's own interviews. It's clear he's familiar with the historical record, though -- dismissing Al McCoy's The Politics of Heroin in a balanced footnote, and kinda chiding Tragic Mountains for its hagiography of Vang Pao. Oh yeah, Vang Pao: he looms over this entire "people's" narrative, definitely not in the way we all expected. Hillmer does a wonderful job of giving equal time to Vang Pao the military hero (who, let the record show, did not magically deflect bullets), as well as the alleged rent-seeking schemer promising to lead his people back to a liberated Laos. But on the whole, Hillmer's dry detachment -- probably cramped by a very complex culture with emotional ties in all (OK three) directions -- makes for an illuminating history, well worth reading both as a largely ignored chapter in American warfare, and as the fate of a pastoral culture transformed into warriors damn near overnight.

2019-07-25 23:30

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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Trần Trác

The series was captivating when I first read it, though off-putting at the same time. I've just finished re-reading the series, and it's grown on me even more. A post-apocalyptic United States with a politically repressive capitol that has their meager transcontinental 12 districts under strict control, as well as put through continual retribution for an uprising attempt 75 years ago. Each district is forced to select a male and female teen tribute each year, to compete in the Hunger Games, a fight to the death in a staged arena for the Capitol's amusement, there being only one victor. Collins writes in a manner that first disturbs for seeming too demented of a premise, but later disturbs for its parallels to true human/ civilization's nature. The manner in which the Games are publicized gives thought to our own tendencies for publicity and story-telling, authentic OR contrived. Collins quite succinctly tells a story with much depth, and telling it from the perspective of Katniss, a 16 year old girl who has had to support her family by illegal hunting and who takes her younger sister's place in the Hunger Games, an almost surefire death sentence. We read as Katniss uses her hunting experience and knowledge gained from watching past Games to expose the extent of the country's ruins (and its modern attempt to revolt, as read in the last two books). Katniss is no doubt the heroine of the novels, but at times, an unlikable one (not to mention, unlikely and at times, unable). She takes the reader through a scope that is wrought with shrewd and practical survival knowledge, but also an immature teenager's whimsy and narrowmindedness/ stubborn nature. But what wins over the audience - both in the Hunger games and the readers - is her humility, passion and weaknesses. As the series progresses, the story expands beyond Katniss's story to include the story of revolution, which, surprisingly, is not lacking, even though told still from her perspective. In Hunger Games, we see only Katniss's struggles, though in Catching Fire, we see former Tributes' stories and additional forms of rebellion. In the finale to the trilogy, The Mockingjay, we see how the nation attempts to overthrow their oppressive government. Although, just like Katniss, judgments are skewed and mistakes are made. For me, this story continues to be very provoking; I think that the definition of 'happy ending' is in the eye of the reader.

Người đọc Hady Hussien từ Harbor, OR, USA

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.