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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Mai Hương (Sưu tầm và tuyển chọn)
Not my favourite book of hers but still I enjoyed it! A few predictable twists but a few unpredictable ones thrown in too!!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Vương Hồng Sến
Guys with cups full of mead telling stories about killing demons: Friday nights never change.
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I enjoyed Smith's writing style far more than I enjoyed the plot (which promised some things but delivered others) or the characters (who are neatly drawn, but on paper that is very thin indeed); but even the sometimes whimsical, sometimes nervy, sometimes delightful turns of her prose weren't enough to save The Autograph Man from being something of a disappointment. It's more mature in some ways than White Teeth, darker, and I would imagine in many ways a reflection on Smith's part on the fame which she received thanks to her first novel—certainly, I think, that was the reason behind the emphasis on fame and multiculturalism in this novel. And yet a lot of it seems ephemeral, shallow: full of aphorisms which seem fake and showy in her characters' mouths; reflections and obsessions on Judaism that seem like they could only have come from someone who isn't Jewish; signs and symbols which mean nothing, an empty kind of moralism. Disappointing.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Giảo Giảo
Great to listen to!
The Sherlock Holmes classic... always engaging, no matter how many times I read it.
Confession - I started reading the Christy Miller series by Robin Jones Gunn back in Jr. High/High School and I still love them! So when I found out she had continued the series with new books about one of the characters, I had to read it, even though the target audience is really college girls!
Very insightful and motivating. The ideas and concepts you can take away from this book are applicable to any career. I would recommend this book to anyone looking to improve their career or life status. It appeals to those who are seeking wealth but I took a lot more away from it that just secrets of the very very wealthy.
i read this very quickly-- the main character, Oskar, is quite unique. He's such a little boy in so many ways, and so adult and awkward in others. Foer, again (just like in Everything is Illuminatd) does a wonderful job of layering characters, slowly revealing them to create complex and very real people. the struggles oskar faces in post-9/11 nyc as he deals with his father's death (never actually mentioning 9/11 by name, but always alluding to it), is poignant and touching. the boy's search for his father and his father's supposedly secret key consume him entirely-- Oskar's coming to terms with his current life and his guilt for not answering the phone when his father had called during the trade center attacks was extremely well written and moving-- Foer is an excellent writer and has great insight into the humanity of horrible events like the holocaust and 9/11.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Seamus Oriordaz
Inspiring positive events in American history
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Phương Huyền
I have finished reading Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke. I've never really been a fan of Clarke, which is probably a holdover from HOW FREAKING MUCH I hated the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, although granted I hate most movies and I haven't read the book. In fact, I don't know that I've read ANY other books by Clarke; my exposure to his style has been short stories in compilations here and there. He's always struck me as a technically efficient writer, but with little insight into human nature (which, let's face it, is most of the reason I read). So if nothing else, Childhood's End was a bit of a departure from that and throughout the course of the story some interesting observations are made. We are introduced to the concept of this world in "present day" which I guess is sometime in the 1950s when the book was written. Man is developing scientifically and looking toward the stars only to be thwarted by the benign arrival of a technologically superior alien race we come to know as "the Overlords". Not there to conquer exactly, but mastering the human race all the same, the Overlords guide mankind into a utopian state free of war and wanting where everyone has access to all he needs. Some of the characters struggle with this and lash out against it. Perhaps it's just because it is a concept that resonates with me (the sense of struggling to find a purpose in utopia, that is), but I would like to have seen more of this explored. Clarke predicts a great shift in morals and dogma as demanded by scientific acheivement. I found this particularly humorous: "This extention of human apprenticeship so far past the beginning of physical maturity had given rise to many social changes. Some of these had been necessary for generations, but earlier periods had refused to face the challenge - or had pretended that it did not exist. In particular, the patterns of sexual mores - insofar as there had ever been one pattern - had altered radically. It had been virtually shattered by two inventions, which were, ironically enough, of purely human origin and owed nothing to the Overlords. The first was a completely reliable oral contraceptive: the second was an equally infallible method - as certain as fingerprinting, and based on a very detailed analysis of the blood - of identifying the father of any child. The effect of these two inventions upon human society could only be described as devastating, and they had swept away the last remnants of the Puritan aberration." So hmm, oops. Guess DNA tests were bound to ruin mankind eventually, I just always figured it would be borne of a particularly violent episode of Maury Povich. Instead of continuing down this examination of the impact of advancement on morals, the plot switches abruptly again. I say "again" because it switches a lot. Rather than reading like a comprehensive novel, it seems more like a series of intertwined short stories. And when I say "plot" it's sort of a loose term. It really seems that mid way through he just changed his mind about what exactly the idea here was and went off on some completely different direction. A direction that REALLY fell apart at the end. At first it was about the Overlords on earth, and then humanity's reaction to that, and then about the supernatural, and then about travel into space, and then back to humanity and its boredom with perfection, and then its evolution, and then about the Overmind and then some weird shit happens and... yeah. I'm not sure I know what the point WAS other than an odd chronicle of the growth, evolution, and destruction of mankind. But that criticism aside, it actually was an enjoyable read. The characters, although you only barely get to know them before they are gone, are interesting and have hints of complexity. The concepts are thought provoking enough that I wonder if Clarke ever pursued them in other stories. There were a few surprises along the way, and a discussion as to the importance of art and innovative creation to the human psyche, so all in all I'd say it was pretty good. I'm not going to be rushing out to buy any of his other novels, but I might not avoid Arthur C. Clarke so much in the future. You know, assuming any of us HAVE a future.
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.