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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Disney
This novel is middling Trollope, or worse. Twenty years or so after reading it, I find I can remember few details. The subplot, involving the division by Arthur Wilkinson and his mother of the benefice of his vicarage is, as I recall, more entertaining than the Bertram romance that provides the main plot.
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If you are going to get a book of Lorca's poetry, this is the absolute best you can get. It's a bilingual edition and it contains pretty much everything other than his plays. I wish I had been around to see him speak and perform his poetry.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hồi ký của Lê Mạnh Thái
After seeing the Vampire Academy books always at the top of the 'Most Anticipated' lists and rolling my eyes, I realized it was unjust to judge them before actually reading them and giving them a chance. So, I actually read it. And it wasn't AMAZING. It was pretty good, and fun to read, which is more than I can say of a lot of books I've read recently. But the series has potential. The vampires seem more mythological than most (they don't sparkle, thankfully). And there seems to be hints of an uprising revolution, and I enjoy anything about overthrowing authority, whether it's the Capital or some sort of vampire monarchy. And sometimes, it's even funny. Unfortunately for me, there is one copy of Frostbite at the library, and five holds, which means it is unlikely that I will be reading book two before May. Sigh.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Abe Hiroshi
I have read all the Shopaholic books and I really loved them. They are funny, clever & a quick read. I generally don't like to read books that are in a series, but the shopaholic books are great. I look forward to the next one as soon as I am done with the one I'm reading. Scores a 10 from me!!!
This is the second novel in the MacDonnell Brides Trilogy. The most intriguing part of the book is the mystery surrounding Nicholas Lyons and his past. The gradual development of the relationship between Nicholas and Gillian also provided some nice romantic moments.
These days my sole criterion for a good book is whether it can draw me in enough that I don't notice the names of the subway stops on my long commute. This one passed the test. The "big reveal" was nothing special - I had it as my primary hypothesis before the half-way mark of the book. And I was uneasy about the ending, which seemed to me way over the top, although it did have the air of being an almost snarky and ironic comment about mystery readers' desire for poetic justice (the guilty must not go unpunished, and the more symbolic the punishment the better). My main complaint was the sheer unloveliness of the characters; one spends a great deal of time being dismayed and disgusted by them. Perhaps I look for a rather more escapist view of human nature in my mysteries. Nonetheless, I rarely noticed those subway stops.
There is alot about this book I don't are for, but it did end better than I thought.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
This review is also posted on my blog, In The Good Books. Stay follows Clara, who details the story of why she came to the seaside interwoven with her story that begun there. She and her father are leaving for the summer to escape Clara's emotionally abusive and obsessive ex-boyfriend, and realise that the past will follow them, but that doesn't mean they can't create a new future. Clara's recount of her relationship with Christian originally made their relationship feel normal, but in hindsight, she pointed out problems she didn't see at the time. Christian's obsessive behaviour worsened gradually, and Clara thinking she was always in the wrong, waiting for it to get better, was a realistic reaction. Their relationship felt so true to abusive ones in real life that I could almost believe the book to be non-fiction. Deb Caletti's writing style is beautiful and has a poetic flow to it. Her prose is captivating and her characters' voice shines through. Also, including a present parental figure like Clara's dad added an interesting dynamic. Is anyone else sick of protagonist's with absentee parents/are orphaned? The book took me on an emotional roller coaster. I was completely enthralled like I didn't expect I would be about a book with a premise so new to me. The ending didn't bring complete closure, but it got as close I expect a situation like Clara's would get to being settled in real life. The ending had a hopeful tone, and I felt genuinely pleased for Clara and her father. Stay is the first book by Deb Caletti I've read, and it definitely will not be the last. Look out for it after the 5th of April, 2011. I give it a 5 out of 5.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Võ Như Cầu
I read this after the Year of the Flood, and as such, found the pacing to be a bit slower as a result. I'd hoped for some light to be shed on the identity of the two non-Blanco painballers, but no such luck. I found it interesting that the world described in The Year of the Flood was dystopian in nature, but the class privilege in Jimmy's narrative lens showed it to be safer, if you knew the right people and kept your nose clean, though we did get glimpses of the disturbing margins. I still don't quite understand why Crake went along with the design of wolvogs - it's difficult to believe that such a scientific genius would believe their escape into the larger world was impossible. His vision of an improved version of humanity was portrayed as flawed, as ultimately they developed the faith, doubt, and abstraction he tried to design out. Reasonably, we can conclude that, if they've developed these traits so early, they'll come to recognize, anticipate, and possibly fear their deaths. In this view, logic and reason are not, and can never be, dominant in higher intelligence. I think - or hope - Asperger's U is intended to be a tongue-in-cheek name for Crake's university. Crake understands Jimmy - far better than Jimmy understands Crake - far too well to believably have an ASD, and I find it hard to believe that a person with Asperger's would find small talk irritating, particularly the kind favored by the Crakers, and would have eliminated it.
Terkel has a knack for enabling folks to be comfortable enough to discuss difficult issues, resulting in powerfully poignant interviews.
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.