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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lê Huy Khoa
Recommended by Jim.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Pack Myoung Sig
On a ski holiday, Jake and Zoe are caught in an avalanche. When they make their way back down the mountain to their hotel, they find everyone gone. No people. No animals. And time is acting very strangely.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Thanh Thuỳ
Alluring title but really just random quotes by celebrities pertaining to Christianity or lack of faith. Then, the author follows up with the Biblical support or lack thereof....Not a heavy hitting book but a quick read....
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Yudin Nguyễn
This novel consists of three stories: This Magic Moment, Search for Love, and The Right Path. All three stories are considered romance and yes, it was indeed very romantic! I loved it and would read it again. This Magic Moment is about a woman named Ryan Swan, daughter of the Swan Productions, who couldn't trust others especially Pierce Atkins who was a magician. They did not start out great because Ryan was all business however, Pierce works otherwise. She was even scared of him! But slowly, Ryan fell harder for Pierce and Pierce starved for Ryan. "'I thought of you often,' she continued as if he hadn't spoken. 'Constantly, though I tried not to. Do you dabble in love potions, Pierce? Is that what you did to me?'" Search for Love surrounds a woman named Serenity Smith whose parents had just pasted away. Because of this, her grandmother, Comtesse de Kergallen, was finally able to contact Serenity. Serenity's grandmother did not approve of her parents' relationship and has always despised Serenity's father (a lowly artist). Comtesse de Kergallen accuses her father of crime and in this tale, Serenity sets out to prove her wrong. At the same time, she grows fond of Christophe, Comtesse de Kergallen's grandson. "'Madame, if it is your wish that I remain here for a time, we must ocme to an understanding. If we cannot, I will have no choice but to leave.' She kept her voice firm and controlled and astringently polite, but the eyes betrayed the struggle with temper. 'I loved my father very much, as I did my mother. I will not tolerate the tone you use when you speak of him.'" Lastly, The Right Path
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** spoiler alert ** Throughout this novel, I am more compulsively drawn to Bruno’s life than Michel’s. Oddly enough, I find Michel to be the more tragic and sympathetic character. Although vastly different from one another, both Michel and Bruno’s live follow a side-by-side vectors, and as the climax approaches, the vectors bend toward one another, culminating in a dénouement that could only be reached in tandem. Bruno’s obsession with getting a decent blowjob, becomes an insurmountable obstacle to his ability to connect with another human being. Likewise, as Michele gets deeper into his work, he is emotionally impotent, unable to really connect. Bruno is an over sexed, overweight, teacher while Michel is an under stimulated emotionless molecular biologist who clones the first cow. They both fail connecting with other humans: Bruno is addicted to masturbation to an extent that he is unfulfilled when engaging in intercourse with other human beings; Michel has no other world but his work and fails in connecting with anyone. In the end of the novel, both characters become involved in redeeming relationships that almost bring them to total fulfillment. I think the key here is the word “almost.” In some sense, the entire novel is an indictment against the values of a hippie generations (certainly, hippies are demonized throughout the novel), but more than casting a group of people into a bad light, the novel seems to track the period of time marked individual freedom, free love, free thinking, egalitarianism, etc, etc, to it’s logical and destructive end. In this novel, humans make choices and science and nature win out, dolling out the natural consequences of a people with an audacity to behave as if they are not mortals. And so we see: STDs, aging, emotional and sexual numbness, materialism as masturbation. The result of this freedom is discontentment (raging discontentment, displaced as racism, agism, hatred of sex gender culture …) and inevitably death. After Bruno and Michel are dead, a young biologist studies the work of Michel, which leads to the cloning of the first human. Oddly enough, Bruno’s hand in this develop goes unnoticed under the scrutiny of everyone but the narrator (who only places hints for the reader to put together). From Michel’s journals and studies, the readers find traces of Bruno’s careless rants about women, hippies, humanity in general. His influence on Michel’s study in integral to the development of a new race of people, although no one knows or even cares. This new human is of another race, asexual in its ability to reproduce, godlike, and without the desires of indulging in the pleasures of the old world in an attempt to find ultimate fulfillment; there is no perpetual desire. As a result, crime rates fall, diseases are wiped out, and the last remnants of mankind (those conservatives, usually of a religious ilk, who are morally opposed to the cloning process) slowly die as they reproduce with one another. Perhaps this speaks to the revision process of the writer. Perhaps it is the next logical step after reproduction; that art lives on. Stories are told and retold. Born out of the past and carrying humankind into the future. Art is what lifts us above the nihilism, makes us forget heartache enough to perpetuate the human race in spite of human tragedy. It is what lets evils die out so that in the face of evil, we live. I think this in the same way that I think this is what saves Cormac McCarthy’s novels from being wholly nihilistic. According to John Gardner, art is life affirming. And in a bizarre, ironic, Machiavellian, perhaps in a fascist and in a “nation cleansing” kind of way, this novel is indeed life affirming. The final line, after all, informs the reader without condescension, and with great appreciation, that the entire narrative is dedicated to mankind, even as this new race watches the old man die out in their own stubborn belief in a kind of freedom that doesn’t exist. On more minor, less thematic notes, I thoroughly enjoyed the scientific prose, much of which I didn’t understand. I appreciated Houellebecq’s ability to narrate in summary and half scene without keeping the reader at a great distance. Its structural organization is interesting, bits of history, shifting POVs, shifting tenses – yet throughout, I don’t feel disoriented (there were a few places that I felt jolted, but I believe it is largely as a result of unfortunate glitches in translation). There also seems to be different narrators throughout the novel. At one point, a personal pronoun pops up without it ever reappearing again (p. 19). Parts of the novel couldn’t have been narrated by anyone, not even Michel’s biographer/protégée. Parts of the book read like a biography of this biographer, and of course, the epilogue reads as the collective consciousness of an entire race.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lý Mẫn
An interesting non fiction read about fiber festivals! Yay!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Joanne Lipman
A fictional retelling of the story of St. Nicholas - greta for the holiday season.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lại Thế Luyện
This is as good if not better that the first of its series!! I am still in love with this book and I have read it and Fallen a million times!!! Definatly recomend it!!!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Anne Fortier
This novel started as a short-story. The characters and the landscape are so compelling. The main character, Alice Winston, is a lonely 12-year old girl living with her family in Desert Valley, Colorado. Her mother is clinically depressed and rarely leaves her room, her 16-year old sister eloped and her father is emotionally unavailable as he works to keep the family's ranch operating. The novel opens with, "Six months before Polly Cain drowned in the canal, my sister, Nona, ran off and married a cowboy." Horse lore plays a huge role and is used to explain and examine the subtleties and nuances of each character. The prose is flawless and Kyle literally transports her readers to the landscape of the west. The author is a recent graduate from the MFA program at Montana.
this book, i don't know. it was a really teenage book. but the way the author said he was an indies author at the back of the book, the beatles, the police, and the doors and pink floyd are not indie. for the most part. i mean, the major thing that happened was a break up, but it was from a guy point of view so that made it interesting. i loved the ending
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.