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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ngọc Linh
Set in post-apocalyptic America, “The Road” is moving story of love and survival. McCarthy writes with a unique (and occasionally distracting) style, but once one gets used to it, this is a truly fine book. There are definitely messianic overtones to this story; however, unlike many who use this technique, McCarthy does not overdo it, and thus it does not detract from the telling. The boy is not our savior, merely our conscience.
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It was ok, just not my favorite. I've read this author before and thought her books were better.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: James Rollins
Another winner from Mo. Kids will want to do "The Gerald" when you're finished.:)
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Chu Đình Tới
Games as a tool for social change. Interesting ideas, but it seemed a little light on empirical evidence. Some of the "games" mentioned like https://www.sparked.com/ and http://groundcrew.us/ were particularly interesting.
2.5 stars. I wanted to like this book. It's been on my list forever, and when it finally came up for book club, I was excited. Until I started reading. And reading. Oh, we're traveling. And traveling. Now in a forest. Traveling. Not until about page 145 does anything really happen. Many of the reviews mention how great the author's writing is. Uhm... it was simple. Easy to understand. (Sorry, I'm used to much better fantasy writers.) A little too descriptive without a point of reference, and the characters were ... okay. Yes, the narrator is probably the most likable, but even that isn't saying much. We get TOLD a lot of things. I feel like some of the characters are just in the story to world-build for us. I would have liked the story to show us what the world was like, and to let the world unfold on its own. We don't need instructors and apprentices to continuously tell us things. Then there's a twist at the end. I did find that enjoyable, but even then I was a little let down. Where was THIS story? THIS writing? Too little, too late. In fantasy readers sometimes make fun of being "stuck in the forest" which is a way of saying that characters aren't doing anything. And we were literally in the forest or traveling for so much of this book. Other reviews mention how good the second book is. Maybe it is, but if the first book doesn't garner my attention, doesn't make me care enough ... to pick up the next one.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lê Xuân Soan
This was such a fun book to read. I was surprised that some of the reviews didn't care for it. But I couldn't put it down! I literally would've stayed home from work to finish this book if I could have. But reading it in less than 24 hrs. isn't bad either! Isabell (aka Belly)her brother Stephen and their mother Laurel go to a beach house every summer to visit Laurel's best friend Susannah and her 2 boys Conrad, (the oldest) and Jeremiah, the younger brother. They have been doing this their whole lives. Belly thinks its cool that she gets to hang with the boys, even though when they were younger they always left her out of their games and what-not. But Jeremiah was a sweetheart and she loves him like a brother while Conrad, she has been in total love with since she was 10 yrs. old. This summer is going to be different because Belly is weeks away from turning 16 and she has changed, which is something the boys do a double-take at when they first see her come to the beachhouse. I loved this story of Belly being friends with these boys and their mother, who treats Belly like one of her own. And Belly always wanting Conrad but for some strange and unknown reason, this summer he is dealing with some inner conflicts and starts drinking and smoking and brooding. I won't spoil the story, but there are reasons for this. My only problem with this book is that Jeremiah is much more suited for Belly and I wish she would love him not like a brother but like a boyfriend. His character is so much more of a man and so much more genuine than that of Conrad, who I don't even particularly like. I'm hoping that maybe in the next installment she will see the light and go for Jeremiah and forget about Conrad! Read this book! It's a great summer read and you won't be able to put it down!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
I enjoyed this military/terrorist type thriller. The writing style was different from most military thrillers. It was less immediate than most. The author told the story from a degree of separation. There was a lot of technical stuff and descriptions of who was doing what, watching what, planning what. Still the story revolved around the character of Mike and ex SAS man who had the skills to pass as an Afghan. He went deep undercover to discover and foil a terrorist plot. Even though the story was told at a certain distance you still knew his character well and were invested in his story/quest. I wasn't real fond of the ending but it fitted the book.
This book tells a truly amazing story, one that is in turns disturbing, sobering, and highly inspirational. While the writing at times leaves something to be desired, the very fact of Dr. Jacob Bolotin's numerous and very impressive accomplishments make this more than worthwhile read. The feats Dr. Bolotin accomplished would be impressive for anyone, much less for a sightless individual in a time and place that staunchly refused to make any accommodations to "disability." There are many references to Dr. Bolotin as being in the same league as Helen Keller, and there is no question that he should be remembered as an exemplary person but unfortunately his accomplishments are lesser known. I cannot recommend this book highly enough. Do yourself a favor and challenge your presumptions -- perhaps unconscious -- about what the differently abled can accomplish! Once you read about Dr. Bolotin's drive, intelligence, and accomplishments you will certainly think differently about
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lin Lougheed
‘Patriotism’ became a clarion call for conservative political commentators after 9/11. Conservatives used it to marginalize political competitors who expressed doubts about the prudence of national security policy. How did ‘patriotism’ have such rhetorical power in the aftermath of 9/11 when political debates in America are more commonly dominated by the language of individual rights? Why is patriotism a value in a political system founded to protect citizens against an abusive government? Paul Kahn writes Putting Liberalism in its Place to tackle just this problem: how can the American government both have the authority to exert a claim of sacrifice on its citizens and be founded to protect individual rights, most essential of all the right to life? A traditional response to this question would rationalize this seeming paradox by arguing that a state to protect individual rights cannot exist unless citizens are willing to defend it. Citizens should thus be willing to sacrifice their lives if they want to live in a state that protects their individual rights. Kahn instead avoids this rationalization and insists on a radical alternative. He argues that people understand the state as the popular sovereign, as the manifestation of a transcendental ideal of communal self-governance. Kahn understands this popular sovereign as a mirror in which citizens see themselves and thus understand themselves as part of larger, historical project that extends backwards and forwards into time. Through this self-identification, citizens become willing to sacrifice themselves for the state because they derive substantial meaning and purpose from the historical, state project. To the citizen, this derivation of her purpose from the state makes the state’s death worse than her own death. Kahn boldly refutes liberalism in its description of the American state as an entity separate from the citizenry that exists to protect individual rights and instead insists that the American state exists as the manifestation of the body politic; the American citizenry. Under Kahn’s explanation, patriotism, not individual rights, is the ultimate value of the American state. His theory argues that the American Constitution is valuable not because of any particular system of government or set of individual rights that it enumerates, but because it is the American Constitution; our Constitution. Kahn radically places the state above the individual by not merely equating the state with the individual, but by rendering the state as a source of ultimate meaning for the individual. In Putting Liberalism in its Place, Kahn subtly but dramatically argues that America is not a culture that places individualism above all other values. For Kahn, patriotism, love of self-governance by the popular sovereign, first defines American politics. The strength of Putting Liberalism in its Place rests in the multiple analytical frameworks that Kahn pulls together from historical, literary, biblical, philosophical, and legal sources to radically revaluate the practiced values of American politics. Although this approach results in a somewhat fragmented, non-linear argument, it also results in a series of thought-provoking re-castings of the American political experience. The book is highly recommended for anyone tired of the standard political speak of contemporary commentators and in search of a new lens to view American politics.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: J. Lee
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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.