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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Bang Mi Jin
Very, very good book. It's really intersting and I could not stop read it. Sometimes I've read it 'till morning.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Dalai Laima
this is one of those books that i pick up every now and then for inspiration.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
I totally loved this book when I read it in October 1998, and re-read it again recently and loved it just as much the second time. Emily "Blue" McCarron is a social psychologist, lesbian, loving owner of a doberman, Bronte, who consults with business owners on how to improve their businesses. In this book, first of a series of two (Abigail Padgett has not written a book since the sequel, The Last Blue Plate Special, came out in 2001--don't know why, and am somewhat distressed about it.) a man comes to Blue's desert hideaway to ask her to help him prove that his sister, Muffin Crandell, is innocent of killing a man and freezing him in her deceased husband's game freezer in a storage facility. When the storage facility was hit by an earthquake, the electricity was disrupted and the smell alerted authorities to the presence of the body. Muffin has confessed to the crime, but her brother is sure she is innocent, and is willing to pay Blue up to $15,000 to prove it. Some of my favorite passages: p.46-47 ...When I explained that the part-time job I'd advertised would involve keeping the courtyard area clean and alerting the police about drug deals and illegal drinking, she lowered gold-shadowed lids over coffee-brown eyes and shook her head. The beads rattled. She just said, "Girl..." The way black women say "girl" can be magical. Frankly, I have no solid beliefs about the survival of consciousness after physical death. But if it's going to happen I know what I want to see after my trek toward the light. I want to see a black woman who will smile and say, "Girl...." The word's resonance is utterly female, the opening syllable of a story that will explain what's really going on. It says, "You don't have a clue, but I'm going to give you the inside scoop." The sound is hypnotic, like an audio version of that top-of-the-Ferris-wheel moment just before the downward rush. At that moment after my death, I would like to be told exactly what the universe is, and why. I would like to see the point. And in my fantasy the story will begin with that word on the tongue of a black woman. page 60 ...It's one of my favorite notions that the universe is essentially music, and that we came from there. Psychoneurologists document cases in which people with brain deficits who can't talk or read or understand words at all can nevertheless sing entire arias after one or two exposures to the music. Mute and autistic idiots savants have surprised their caregivers by sitting down at a piano and playing the themes from every commercial on television in the dayroom that morning. Even the ancient reptile brains of certain snakes respond dramatically to music. I think music is the original language of life, half-buried in the crumpled map of the brain. I think verbal discourse is an evolutionary newcomer, like opposable thumbs and politics. Music about communal utility bills would be like a mountain wearing a sweater. Beyond incongruous. Music has to be, and always is, about joy and despair, illumination and darkness, life and death. Even reptiles know this....
This book is about as 'sci fi' as an episode of CSI. Moon basically takes 'Flowers for Algernon' and hacks off the ending. The writing was alright, and there was some interesting characterization, but I suspect it only got the Nebula and Clarke because award committees love nothing as much as political correctness. This book is the equivalent of an actor making an Oscar bid by playing a mentally-challenged character. I know Moon is a sci fi author, but in this book, it feels like she just stamped on the 'Sci-Fi' label in order to draw an audience, or perhaps because her publisher refused to authorize a genre switch. I hope that isn't true, because that's always a cheap move. This is just modern pop-fiction, an 'emotionally confessional' book with a veneer of 'vaguely near-future'. This wouldn't have been a problem if Moon had used this opportunity to explore human psychology, which was how 'Algernon' and 'A Clockwork Orange' treated this same theme, but she didn't. She rehashed half of an interesting idea, and failed to capitalize on it. Speculative Fiction has always been obsessed with what makes us human, and how much we can change before we stop being human at all. While that should be the main theme of this book, it goes almost unexplored. The climax is rushed and inauthentic. We never actually see the character change, we don't witness the effects as they happen, instead they are lightly explained in choppy montage at the end. Compared to the rest of the book--an internal, step-by-step presentation of a fairly different mind--this sudden, convenient, external ending is disappointing and jarring. The denouement following the climax is particularly tidy, with all the subtlety of the end of an 80's college movie where we learn through super-imposed text that "Barry went on to win the Nobel prize" to the strains of Simple Minds. And it's a shame, because the story leading up to the climax is interesting enough, presenting the psychological workings of autism. Moon researched this disorder much better than Mark Haddon in his laughably flawed 'Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time', but then, Moon's son is actually autistic. There was also a part about fencing, which excited me at first, being a former competitive fencer and coach, but instead, it was just weird SCA dressup boffing. Not that I have anything against SCA dressup boffing (or do I?). It's an alright read, goes pretty quick, and it might give you some insight into brain disorders, but it doesn't tie human experiences together; which is really a shame, because other sci fi books have successfully used this topic to ask some very difficult and profound questions about how the future of technology might change the way we think, and about the different ways people process information. 'Flowers for Algernon' tackled the exact same themes and was written sixty years before Moon's less profound attempt. You'd think we'd have something more to say after sixty years of neurology and psychology, but apparently not. It also pales in comparison with 'A Clockwork Orange', another good light sci fi which explores the morality of changing the way that people think. This book was light and fluffy, especially given its subject matter, and while it will probably make soccer moms feel proud of themselves for reading something so 'different', it doesn't endeavor to change the way they think about humanity, the mind, or the possibilities within us.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
3,5 star ahirnya dapet juga nih ebooknya, penasaran sama cerita ketiga dari keluarga fuentes i like the cover... jgn berharap terlalu tinggi, diawal2 saya ngerasa bosen untuk ngelanjutin bacanya, perlu waktu seminggu buat selesein baca ini, ga kaya buku ke 1 dan dua yg cuma baca sehari. tapi saya suka dengan endingnya, ditutup dengan sedikit cerita luis junior anak ketiganya luis, mungkinkah akan dibuat cerita kelanjutannya..
I liked to movie and found more detail in the book. It was light and funny, but the movie has a better ending.
it was really slow and kind of dragged on with unnecessary details.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Richard Templar
** spoiler alert ** NOTE: Any name misspellings are entirely due to the fact that I listened to this book rather than read it. Thx! Ah, sinking back into the world of Gemma Doyle and the Realms was so blissful! I came to love these characters so much in the first book that I immediately jumped into the next and settled in for another amazing story. And Ms. Bray delievered! In Rebel Angels, we pick up with the girls shortly after the end of A Great and Terrible Beauty but the tone is more ominous: Pippa is dead, stuck in the Realms and unwilling to move on, Felicity blames Gemma for leaving Pippa behind and Ann is still, well, Ann. But Christmas is soon upon the girls, which means a chance to go to London, even for Ann! But the magic is free in the Realms and Gemma needs to find the temple to bind it, lest the Realms sink into total anarchy. And just because the girls are in London, doesn't mean that Circes isn't still after them, dogging their steps and as intent as ever to get her hands on the power of the Realms. And so are the Rakshana. But what girl could focus on that when she's being dressed and feted by the ton's best and brightest. Courted even by the swoon-worthy Simon? And when the girls apply a little magic to make things smoother for Ann, who as a charity case at school and a social no-one has no standing or place among the ton, what could possibly go wrong? Right.... And she has other distractions as well, as her father's addiction worsens and her family starts to unravel. Still it's up to Gemma to put all of it, mystical and mundane, to rights. Again, Libba Bray brings her amazing skills as a story teller to the fore in this enthralling, enchanting book. For me, another must read!!!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Rodd Wagner
I had some issues with the way the trilogy wrapped up, but a pretty fantastic read- couldn't put it down.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Kiya
Amazing history book through Arab eyes as the title mentions..If you liked Kingdom of Heaven, you should read this book because it will give you a very good background..
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.