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Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
Beautiful!
S bought me this on the strength of Amazon telling him that people who bought Alice Munro books also liked Margaret Atwood. I'm not sure what the similarity could be, apart from the fact that they are both Canadian. If Alice Munro stories are as intricate and delicate as an intaglio brooch, on the evidence of The Blind Assassin Margaret Atwood's novels are like unwieldy cabin trunks bulging with old clothes, scraps of paper, newsclippings, and tattered notebooks. This is a long book and it took me a while to get into it -- for the first 100 pages I really wasn't sure whether I would finish it. It starts out with an elderly woman, Iris Chase, looking back at her childhood with her younger sister Laura in a country mansion near Toronto during the 1920s and 30s. Their father owns a local button factory, brought to the brink of ruin by the Depression. At the age of 17, Iris marries (or is married off to) one of his competitors in the belief that her father's business will be saved as a result, but things don't turn out quite the way she thought they would. This story is interspersed with extracts from newspapers spanning 60 years, hinting at the family's trials and tribulations, and instalments of Laura's posthumously published novel, in which a story of doomed lovers mingles with thirties pulp science fiction featuring spaceships, scaly aliens, sacrificed princesses, and "undead" green women with purple hair and pointy breasts. Confused? You will be ... but gradually I was drawn into the story, and the apparently conflicting parts of it started to slot together, the disordered cabin trunk turning into a Rubik's cube. You start to wonder how the repressed, exploited and apparently passive young Iris turns into the acerbic, often witty old lady who is telling the tale. Strange parallels appear between science fiction and real life. At the same time, Atwood drops subtle hints that this pattern is not telling quite the whole story -- there is still something hidden. I started to suspect at least part of the dénouement about 300 pages in, but I was still so riveted by the last 100 pages that I stayed up late to finish them, rather than put the book down. It's not just a gripping story/stories, or a feminist/political tract though -- it's about all sorts of other things as well, including why and how writers turn life into fiction. Marvellous -- I'm really glad I read it.
Cute love story with a little bit of struggles. I was glad I read it, but not one of his best feel goods.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Quý Long
The writing wasn't fantastic but the concept was and there was some interesting information about old time mining. But the crux of the story is based on real life and it is that a small village quarantines itself when it becomes infected with the plague. Several survive the epidemic but it is really all about living in the village during this time. As an historical note, there are descendents of people who have survived the plague who carry a certain immunity to it (or something like that - not being a scientist and without looking it up again I offer apology for being unclear).
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Anh Trường
Worth the read. The characters are very likeable. I don't usually read books about "normal" people so it was a very refreshing change of pace.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ming-Ju Sun
Full of surprises!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Jeffery Deaver
guessed alot of stuff. I definitely predicted quite a few "plot twists" but this is YA and I expect to. I would recommend it. There was a unique quality to it... to the story that was told.
This was the sequel to WAKE and it was JUST as good! I cannot wait for the next book to come out!!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hồng Yến
This book reads like an expanded magazine article - once I understood its central premise (that conservatives have adopted the left's (particularly labor's) grassroots strategies and rhetoric, substituting cultural 'authenticity' for class concerns) the following chapters become different iterations of the same point. So while I enjoyed reading about the history of the anti-abortion movement in Kansas and the history of the populist left in Kansas, chapters on modern-day Conservatives cheering on the culture wars (and profiting from them) were less interesting. But! If you do, somehow, believe that 'class consciousness' is an archaic concept, you should probably check out this book. At least the last chapter.
A friend described this book as "life changing." I cannot say the book touched me in that way, but I did find it enlightening. The main story line is the life of one twin boy from birth to middle age. The twins are born to an Indian nun working a a mission hospital in Ethiopia in the late 1950s. The nun dies in childbirth and the twins are raised by two doctors at the hospital. The bulk of the story is told by Marion, one of the twins, and is his journey from childhood in Ethiopia at a mission hospital, to medical training in America, and finally back to Ethiopia. Verghese is an amazing storyteller who weaves medical details into the story in a way that is interesting and easily followed. His attention to culture, politics, and religion adds to the story’s completeness. This is the first fictional work by Verghese but I hope it will not be his last. My only criticism is the event that triggers Marion’s return to Ethiopia. I will not spoil the story, but in my humble opinion, that part of the story could have ended differently.
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.