Emanuel Pinheiro từ De Hoogte, Netherlands

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05/05/2024

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Emanuel Pinheiro Sách lại (11)

2019-08-30 19:30

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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều dịch giả

how to woo a reluctant reader.. 3.5 - 4 stars (undecided whether to choose 3 or 4 above) I generally like/hate SJ's books..they are fun, fast or rather racy reads that I enjoy reading upto a point..somewhat like caramel hard candy..nice to savor initially, but the last bit is rather st(icky) to chew and swallow. The hero in this book leads a double life, somewhat Scarlet Pimpernelish (about 5%.. I love that book too much to make a bigger allusion) and the heroine who has been infatuated with him since she was nine years old (no.. not weird considering that he comforts her at a time when she feels lost, scared and vulnerable) ..anyway she almost but not quite discovers that the hero has secrets to hide and uses that knowledge against him creatively, in a way punishing him for not having the good taste to have fallen madly in love with her:) Creatively..how? by making him the lead character in her gothic novels which she writes using her real name (which naturally increases the "gasp!" value).. oh! but the best part is, by lead character, I mean, the hero is actually the villain in her books and she mixes real life incidents with fiction just enough to annoy him into acknowledging her existence and also add some spice to his own! Minerva is very much the trademark SJ heroine - minxish and manipulative; Giles, the troubled and secretive hero, is attracted to her for who she is rather than wanting her to be an ideal dictated by society and he even tries to get a glimpse into her real self by reading her novels which appears in a ladies journal.. aw! I liked the fact that they share a past and Minerva's brother who is also Giles' best friend senses something behind all the pseudo antagonism enough to warn him off.. titillating! *grin* Well! all that was the good part.. then the story continued in SJ's familiar path of distasteful lies, manipulation, distrust ..using sex as a weapon, love as a synonym for one-upmanship and competition.. and then finally the H&h live happily ever after leaving a reader 'like me' to vacuum and vent just so I don't have to listen to my own diatribe in the noise..but you guys aren't so lucky, if you're reading this;) In this book, Giles is distrustful and holds back the truth from Minerva but he is made to realize how that can be hurtful and he genuinely regrets it later.. Minerva, at the same time has him investigated even after she marries him and again he is made to realize that it is for his own good..hmm!..Actually she has issues because her father had many extramarital affairs but I am still not sure whether having him investigated was the justified solution. This is nothing in comparison to SJ's book with the monkey from India, where both the hero and heroine were so horrible that I created an imaginary secondary romance in my mind for the monkey just to get through the book! yup! this was a fun read initially and an ok to frustrating read, depending on the perspective, towards the end.

2019-08-30 22:30

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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tạ Minh Châu

What I liked: * The triffids. They're ungainly, amusing, and deadly. Unlike others, I didn't find them silly or ridiculous, which may be because Wyndham doesn't weight them down with a lot of supernatural or "alien" powers. They're a force of nature, not much different from lions or tigers on the loose. They're just...different, a new species, and the inherent mystery in that only deepens their appeal. * The humor. This is evidently a Wyndham staple. He's got a light touch, and he uses it well to humanize his characters and make you like them (even if you don't always agree with them). The characters with little or no humor in their bones are the ones you have to watch out for, which is pretty much like real life. - A newsreel piece on the triffids is so pitch-perfect, it's hilarious. * The focus. Give me a book called "The Day of the Triffids" and I'm thinking it's all about battling triffids--you know, "Night of the Living Triffids." But it isn't. And that's a good thing here because Wyndham, unlike a lot of zombie moviemakers, understands that his triffids aren't complex enough to make that story significantly different from a thousand other similar stories. So he keeps them on the periphery for much of the book, only bringing them on stage when they can be truly effective. Instead, he focuses on survival and, ultimately, a number of different ideas about how to rebuild human civilization. (But it's a short book, by today's standards, so these ideas aren't explored in any depth; they're more food for thought than anything else.) What I didn't like: * That every time the hero faces a tough question about what to do next, the answer is miraculously, conveniently provided for him by suddenly changed circumstances. Perhaps Wyndham couldn't bear to have his hero make a controversial decision. Funny thing is, the most controversial decision of the entire book gets made at the very beginning, and it's passed off as a no-brainer. This is when the hero decides to save himself at the expense of all the recently, helplessly blind. What didn't bother me: * The sexism. There are a lot more important things to worry about than the off-handed sexism of a story from a time and a genre that are unquestionably male-centric. Better to look at the positives: a heroine who displays more brains than the hero on at least one occasion, who is resourceful enough to escape a dying city and, by herself, travel great distances to a place of relative safety and security, a girl child who is more observant than our much older, male hero, who is quick-thinking, and who readily learns how to kick some serious triffid ass.

Người đọc Emanuel Pinheiro từ De Hoogte, Netherlands

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.