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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Emma Barnes
To be fair, I would give this 3.5 but I don't have that option! I enjoyed this book, but I'm really over the subject matter of Virgin Mary appearances. I realise that this is only a part of the plot line, but I read Our Lady of the Forest by Dave Gutterson a few years ago, and that was enough VM to last me another decade.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Dương Minh Hào
It seems that many people must have a love or a hate relationship with Ayn Rand's literature. I'm struggling to find many that can objectively discuss objectivism without getting up in arms on one side or the other. First. I enjoyed this book. I did not fall in love with it. In my opinion, it couldn't hold a candle to The Fountainhead. Rand's characters are formed around their beliefs, work ethic, and sense of pride. The snivelling, stealing, crying, almost-men who refuse to make decisions, expect things to be given to them, and proceed to try to loot from the hard working, dedicated, brilliant industrialists are easy to hate. She makes it so. However, it's also easy to relate them to our current government and a good portion of our population. The ones crying about the rich having money and the poor without, but not creating wealth on their own terms with which to help. I thought the reverse Robin Hood theory interesting... Giving back what was stolen. Whether it's to the rich or poor. If it's unearned, it's taken and returned to those from whom it was stolen. If it was earned, and earned honestly. Keep it. There are parts of the book I thought brilliant. Such a simple answer to solve the overall problem...looters drop out...drop income tax...yet the looters refused, wanting everything to be solved in some way that wouldn't change their comforts and control. This concept of squeezing the hardest worker until they are dry can apply to so many facets of life, but I see it the most in middle level workers and our government. Expecting unconditional unearned love, unearned respect, unearned money are all pretty pathetic. If you don't love yourself, respect yourself, and live within your means without feeling envy for those around you, you fit into the category of the looter...With this, I agree. On the other hand, the whole unabashedly anti-community feel of the book made me cringe, although Rand has a way of writing that can pull you into the moment and beg you to continue on. I think these values can apply, and can apply full force, not necessarily only in business and industry...but in life. The people who can truly achieve happiness, truly appreciate life, are those who have a real purpose. That purpose may not be Rearden Steel or Taggart Transcontinental. It may not be coal mining or oil. It might be building yourself a life you enjoy, communing with nature,getting a plot of land and building a yurt, understanding your soul, wandering the earth,studying languages, maybe even devoting yourself wholly to altruism. As long as your purpose is what you feel and know is right based on your and ONLY your values, the positively secure and comfortably happy energy that the "Thinkers" had can be yours. When you look at the looters from this light as well, they are less the lazy, worthless, nonthinking money grubbing gold diggers Rand paints, and more like cancerous tumors metasticizing in your soul, attempting to steal that light energy from you with their negativity and obvious discontent drawn from envy and endless misery. (In less colorful language, the shit talkers, drama starters, and haters.) They are the government stealing your small freedoms bill by bill, tax by tax. They are the ones trying to circle your goals in red tape, making them harder and harder to reach because they can't understand why you'd drive on, but they do know that you'll drive on. When you are doing the right things, there's never a question in life. You feel great, you wake up at peace and aching to experience the same amazing feeling you create with movement. Not necessarily movement of the physical sense, but movement nonetheless. Dagny described this feeling often, waking up with excitement to face another day of challenges. It's when you start trading your integrity to gain things that truly don't matter to you nor should belong to you that you begin to doubt...and become that snivelling looter, envious of those who have more...money, stature, inner peace, whatever it is that makes them richer in your eyes. Applying her views to these other facets of life, I can accept them in part...However, claiming the poor are incapable, needy, beggars that can't think for themselves and shouldn't get any help because they didn't create the wealth themselves...seems pretty anti-altruistic. I'm a firm believer in Karma. A trader WILL get something in return for his or her efforts, it might not be gold...It might be a friendship. It might be a meal worth monetarily much less than was traded, but exact financial and trade values are not a means by which to measure life and willingness to be kind. Another problem I have with this book is...well, probably just a restatement of the last paragraph. Everything is black and white. There is no gray. In life there is gray. I understand the irritation with the fence sitters, but some situation can't be handled with a thick pre-printed never adjusted rule book. Acceptance, patience, and understanding have a lot to do with achieving "success," whatever that may mean. So, I say, read this book. Read it with an open mind and an open heart. Read it and keep in mind it was written by a Russian woman in the 50's. Read it...but read it AFTER you've read The Fountainhead. Long live the Wyatt Torch...as a symbol of the fire in your heart to achieve YOUR dreams, and as a refusal to submit to anybody undeserving of your time and work (which are honestly the same thing). P.S. I'm in love with John Galt, but not even nearly as much as I am with Howard Roark...the sandy hair wins out over the homely ginger, but Roark is the overall winner hands down.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Waiwaitu
A good read; reasonably imaginative and entertaining. While the descriptions of Martian life were very compelling, the descriptions of life on Earth were less so. The political mechanics in particular seemed a bit forced and difficult to accept. The characters were compelling, inspiring and entertaining. Having the main character be native American was a nice twist, though again, the notion that Mars would be placed under Navaho control by the powers that be is more difficult to believe than the notion that there is life on Mars.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trần Duy Liên
I enjoyed reading this book, it had a fast pace and good message at the end. Looking forward to reading another book by Francine Rivers.
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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Bảo Trâm
A really nice romance.... and happy endings... a great combination of both!!! Feel Good Book!!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Đại Tướng Văn Tiến Dũng
Over and over and over and over and over and over....
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
This review was done for http://scorchingbookreviews.blogspot.com This is a short read from Cat Johnson but that didn't detract from my enjoyment of the tale! Maryam is living in London in a dead-end relationship with a job that is going nowhere. After chatting to rodeo fans in the US on the internet she decides to visit Texas to see exactly what it is she is missing. En route she finds out that the boyfriend is a loser (she refers to him as a "Wanker" at one point which made me chuckle....a seriously under-used word in literature) and breaks ties with him and lands in the USA free and single. A series of events means that the person who meets her at the airport isn't the woman she has been chatting to, but her brother Wes and his friend Shooter. They take her out, get her blind drunk and what results is a night that she never imagined herself being part of! I really enjoyed this short read (it was less that 50 pages) I wish it was longer (I know....greedy old me!) because I would have liked to learn more about Shooter and Wes, but it was enough to leave me wanting more! The plot was fluffy but, in this short of a read, there was no way that any major developments were going to happen. The chemistry between the three of them was very well written and the sex scenes were steamy enough to keep me happy (I had to look up pigging string after this book!) The characters were very animated and I liked all three of them, but my favourite was definitely Shooter. I'm always a sucker for a charming lothario and this buckle-bunnny collector will (and I have this on good authority) feature in future books. All in all this is a very solid 4 star story. I recommend Cat Johnson to anyone and this is a lovely little taster of her writing and style of characters. Definitely a good buy :)
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Chu Nam Chiếu
I cannot wait to read this book!!! I am impatiently waiting until I can READ THIS BOOK!! I hope it is everything I want it to be: my questions answered, everyone in the right place, and-well, Han and Raisa together! will write more when I actually read it. _________ Later Read it. after waiting all this time, I finally read it, and what does it have? Middle-book syndrome. Yes, you know what I'm talking about. 4 stars because I didn't get all the Raisa/Han scenes I wanted.
not nearly as good as its prequel.
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.