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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Đạt Lai Lạt Ma
Truly one of the most valuable books I have ever read. I like this practical, self-help approach to Zen, since I'm not interested in becoming a religious Zen Buddhist. Americans really need the ideas in this book, as a balance to our insanely hectic and materialistic lives. This book teaches you to be truly alive and at peace with yourself. I never knew there was so much of value in Zen.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Len Deighton
haha, I have to read this book for my class this summer. Parts of it are good and somewhat inspiring...other parts are just plain lame.
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My favorite weird fiction illustrator.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Yoko Imoto
I love Hulme's The Bone People so much that I really, really wanted to love her poetry as much. And there are certainly good bits in this book, but very little that just grabs me and shakes me the way her prose has. Not worth tracking it down out of print, but if you happen on a copy, it's worth picking up.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Dominique Morin
read in 2003
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyên Bảo
The concept is thrilling, It keeps you guessing. Loved it.
A story of a German girl who steals books, living outside of Munich during Nazi Germany. The story is narrated by a very human and sympathetic Death who basically steals this book, written by the book thief, from the book thief. It's a very moving story and a gripping read.
Jonathan Oliver selected a talented bunch of writers who produced great stories. After The End Of The Line, Oliver proves that he knows what he's doing. Brilliant stuff! ... a more detailed review to follow soon.
It was probably irresponsible of me to rate this book, considering I didn't actually finish it; however, I tried to compensate by giving it the benefit of the doubt and rating it 2 stars as opposed to 1. I couldn't finish this book because I found it long-winded and inaccessible, with not much emphasis on the practical. Perhaps more importantly, although this edition was published in 2004, it clearly had not been updated since its original 1980 publication -- every single reference was from the '70s or earlier. This served as a complete disincentive to getting through this difficult book, as none of the information was current and I wasn't sure how seriously to take any of it. Maybe one could argue that this text is a classic and should be read as one, or perhaps that things haven't changed that much and the information is still useful. To the first argument, I say that I could probably find equally informative books that may deserve to be classics but contain more current information. To the second, if things in fact haven't changed, I'd like contemporary references which attest to that. And surely SOME things have, at least among the plethora of statistics they cite if nothing else.
Still mulling over the impact of this book. Unlike most important anthro books these days, Graeber writes with clarity and wit in a language that people might actually speak to each other. Graeber is post-postmodern in the sense that he is all about building grand narratives if in a more critical and measured way than most. The intial review of recent exchange theory is helpful and his rereading of Mauss as a political thinker both simultaneously helped me put into words what always bugged me about The Gift and is a tour de force well tour of Kwakiutl and Maori symbolic universes. While I usually hate looking to the ancient greeks to explain things once and for all, his contrast of Parmenidian (and Platonic) in essence categorical positivism and Heraclitian process/action/pattern theories of self and society puts this contrast in a frame which western philosophy heads (those fuckers) might actually get. And there are some choice Foucault disses as well. Still I'm not so sure I buy his rereading of Marx. Or that his big discovery -- there is a fundamental distinction between hidden and displayed potentiality is 1. that earth shattering or 2. that universalizable. Also his conclusion is disappointing. He moves far too swiftly for my tastes from an abbreviated treatment of the "fetish" in african contexts (a treatment which is particularly impoverished compared to his approach to wampum or even the hau of the gift) to his own malagasy materials. He could be read as saying hey look my research is another example of the fetish which is probably not what he means. Still overall I recommend it pretty highly.
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.