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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Long Phi
I enjoyed this book. A main character that finally reclaims her life and realizes she deserves better for herself and her child.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
Much better, it felt like a smooth lead in to the next one.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lam Giang
Good book, written about the Revolutionary War with a slant toward the English (which is okay), but I felt Mr. Corwell left off the ending.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Vương Thục Nhi
This is a good series, each book has a great twist. Careful though, they are all murder mysteries, but they all also have mushy romance in them so don't read if that puts you off.
a little out there, but awesome read if you like history!
A five because of the power of the story and the life - I am captivated by this story and hope there will be more.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Phạm Đình Ân
BATMAN: PREY (4/5) Most readers are accustomed to the cozy little arrangement Batman has with GCPD. He helps (sometimes even works with) them and in return they leave him the hell alone. That's mainly due to his friendship with Police Comissioner James Gordon who understands Batman's intentions. But that hasn't always be the way things were. Back to Batman's early days as a crimefighter, he was relentlessly hunted down by the police as an illegal vigilante. Everyone, from cops to mobsters, wanted Batman dead for the changes he made to Gotham's society of corruption. He upset the balance between those two. Then captain of police Jim Gordon couldn't do much to help Batman without risking his job. Especially when the mayor of the city appoints him leader of a special task force to arrest the vigilante. And to cap it all, a high-profile psychologist named Hugo Strange is participating in the pursuit by making a psychological profile on the Dark Knight. Acording to Dr. Strange, Batman is extremely obsessed and probably motivated by some sort of tragedy occuring to him in his early life. He is a control freak who craves individualistic power and harbors a paranoid mistrust of others. So, I trust that right about now you are beginning to get the meaning of the title. First published in Legends of the Dark Knight 11-15 and written by Doug Moench, "Prey" is an intense look on Batman's inner world. The way the character is tormented is beyond words, reaching to the point of doubting his own sanity. Batman almost gives up on his mission a little longer than a year after he first wore the cowl. All because of the actions of one man who through cruel mind games and tricks manages to reach the darkest corners of Batman's mind. Truly, the character who saves the day might as well be Gordon, who not only believes in Batman but builds a way to contact him via a beacon on the roof of Gotham Central. The examination of the relation between the two men here is one of the best I have ever seen, second only to Miller's "Year One". Same with that writer, Moench chooses to portray Gordon as an acute detective who has figured out Bruce Wayne is actually Batman but chooses to allow him to continue, without ever bringing the issue under discussion. Catwoman is also featured in this story, as an extra bonus. She commits numerous crimes, always trying to change the media's opinion about her being Batman's night partner. On the other hand, Batman nervously tries to ignore Catwoman's playful and flirting attitude whenever they meet one another. The art is of impressively high quality, uncommon for 1990 (publish date) even for a graphic novel. That said, it's also very nice to look at, rolling with the story with no problem. Penciller Paul Gulacy really does it here. Colorist Terry Austin's work is also exemplary and commendable. Together they deliver an artistically impeccable tale.
This one was a disappointment. The premise sounded so promising: a historical novel about the viking exploration of Newfoundland in about the year 1000 or so, told from the point of view of a woman who is the wife of the leader. The narrator was a little boring. It was written as if the main character, Gudrid, was telling her life story to a monk, and what we are reading is exactly as she told him and as he recorded it. Unfortunately, Gudrid does not tell her story in an exciting way. The dialogue was not very interesting and not believable. The only really exciting part came at the very end, and it wasn't even part of Gudrid's story; she is retelling a story that she heard from someone else. I'm not sure how the Globe and Mail can declare that this is "historical fiction at its best," as claimed on the book cover. The Globe and I definitely have different opinions!
Oppen's eye is unparalleled. His meditations come from deep looking, penetrating the layer of essence to discover the multiplicities of being which lie beneath. His series "Of Being Numerous" is one of the most important poetic pieces of the 20th century. Here's a quote There are things we live among and to see them is to know ourselves.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: series
Uglies is a look into a dystopian society, where children, at age sixteen, are made "pretty", supposedly the highest aspiration for a child to become. Pretties get to spend all day being vacuous, uninteresting party boys and girls, drifting through life drinking, carousing, and doing nothing with their time. Sound appealing? Perhaps to a certain type of teenager it might, but it never would have appealed to me, even at the age this book is aimed. Tally is a thoroughly unpleasant protagonist, shallow at the beginning and wanting nothing more than to be a "pretty", not even enjoying the fact that as an ugly, she has her own faculties, freedom, and individualist looks. She is willing to betray a good friend all to become pretty (which shows just how strong her loyalty is) and therefore, follows her friend, who has fled Uglyville in order to escape the pretty operation. Tally fears being found out and, if anyone in Smokes had half a brain, perhaps it wouldn't have taken them almost the entire book to realize she was a spy. (And these are the people without the brain lesions, mind you...) In general, the characterization was flat and uninteresting, the characters not compelling or intriguing, and nothing within the book made me particularly care what happened as an outcome. It reminded me of a Stephenie Meyer book...except I prefer Stephenie Meyer to this, which should tell you something about the quality of the book. It is highly predictable- why else would "Special Circumstances" give her a tracking necklace if they didn't eventually plan to use it? How could they have depended on a sixteen year old to keep her word? Tally vacillates between her own selfish desires and realizing, suddenly, how much her selfishness could and does cost her. People died because she wanted to be pretty. She seems like she regrets her actions, but, like everything else in the book, her opinions seem superficial. Did she change? Perhaps. The end of the book suggests all her character development was for nothing, to become "pretty". Was it worth it? Only the brain lesions know for sure. While we're on the subject, although getting the operation seems like something you don't want to do, it also has some beneficial qualities. So why would you fight to prevent it if not everything about it is bad? It felt like things were very uneven in this book, without things being fully explained, and then we're left with a 'pretty' Tally, vacuous as she'd wanted to be.
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.