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Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
You know I love this sort of history nerd stuff. Quick read for planes or for looking cool without having to read the Da Vinci Code.
For all that she talks about her brother's sermons, and his poetry, I really wish she had quoted his words more. And I wish she wasn't so vague when she talked about how his parish reacted. But overall, it's really a touching story, and very well-told.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tần Minh
AHmazing..
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
I recently bought this book in paperback with fancy color cover after a decade of borrowing from my writing mentor the hardback with a black and white dust jacket. The book is a straight forward tale about a woman who finally decides to recognize that her marriage has failed, that her husband is a bad fuck and a lousy person, and that only she can decide what she wants to do, or as LouEllen aka Eddie, paraphrases and says to me, "Get off the razor blade and stop cutting your pretty cunt." LouEllen loaned it to me to read when I was going through the first of a series of bad relationships with men who were okay in bed and that was the best thing going for them (just okay and only okay). It was a manual of sorts for me and certainly helped guide me to making swifter decisions that have always been dead on since. Never again will I sit on the razorblade cutting my pretty- It's a more interesting read than Fear of Flying, which I find a little dull. Given the erection Fruits and Vegetables gave me when I first read those poems, this was reassured me that sex, love, marriage like writing and anything else worth pursing is trial and error and a whole lot of practice.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Đức Cường
In this story, Goldilocks (some blond chick) breaks into a bear family's house while they're out for a walk. She eats their food, breaks their furniture and eventually falls asleep in the baby bear's bed. When the bears come back, they discover their home has been ransacked. Understandably upset, they go from room to room surveying the damage, until they come upon Goldilocks sleeping in their child's bed. What happens next left me completely flummoxed. Rather getting savagely devoured, all that happens to Goldilocks is that she gets chased out of the house by mama bear! The bears shrug "oh well," make some more porridge, THE END. Are you shitting me? It's preposterous! You're telling me this girl invades their home, eats their food and sleeps in their baby's bed, and all they do is give half-hearted chase? Imagine if the situation was reversed and it was some bear breaking into a human house. They'd shoot her on sight. Why doesn't Goldilocks have to suffer similar consequences? Even if you accept that she gets away, couldn't they have at least written a more clever escape? She literally just runs away!! No subterfuge, no mind games, no hand to hand combat or fairy godmother or anything. It's like the writers just gave up. Were they called away in a hurry before they could write a proper ending? I was so flabbergasted by the abruptness of this story's ending that I went on Wikipedia to see if it had been bowdlerized. You know, like those stories from Brothers Grimm et al. started out full of death and gore but got sanitized to avoid traumatizing kids in today's more wussy clime. But nope, the story has always been like that. What kind of lesson is this book teaching our children? That blonds can steal with impunity? I really would like to see it rewritten so that Goldilocks gets torn limb from limb, or else has to use her wits to escape. At least make her pay restitution for the chair!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Anthony Doerr
The excellent thing about this book is that it’s gothic, overwrought, and ridiculous (decadent? Baroque?) cover to cover. These poems don't live in a hum-drum world that's sometimes, melodramatically, punctured by the horrible. They live in an inverted world where things without shape or skin are devouring each other all the time. What seems initially absurd-- "The gorge is swarming with guinea pigs." --taps into weirdly fundamental anxieties "...She gives birth and groans, she moans and bleeds. Everywhere the membranes, everywhere their bloated puff bellies. We run with the heart in the tunnel, you and I, while nervous systems break down behind us, while the amniotic fluid surges in the pumping, pulsing chasm..." Where some prose poems have fun transforming one thing into another--here's a turtle--Poof--it's a hat!--these seem to confront us with the liminal. It's figures seem mutated, change is painful, uncontrollable-- "...His hands sank into her as if into clay, which amorphously and muddily enclosed in his soft stumps. The girl could no longer be distinguished from the whining animal. The creature got up on its legs and wobbled across the slippery floor. Again a kind of moan rose toward the brown skies..." The language plugged right into my animal brain. Couldn't put it down.
A little girl begins planning her birthday party and the details become more and more elaborate as the day comes closer. Love the twist at the end. This will be a fun read aloud.
Very sexy read, oh how I would love to be bought at an auction and spend a weekend like that wth two hott as men;) Probably would have givin it 5 stars if it were longer I was upset it ended so soon, I need more!!
Breakfast of Champions can be viewed lightly for its quirky humor, but is most enjoyable and meaningful if one extends the humor to a witty, no-holds-barred critique of this society. I say viewed, instead of read, because Vonnegut intersperses his own comical sketches to help illustrate the often bizarre situations described in his colorful, sometimes playful, textual adventure. The opening line, "This is a tale of a meeting of two lonesome, skinny, fairly old white men on a planet which was dying fast" basically describes the importance of the plot to this novel. That is, the plot isn't meant to be as compelling as the humorous, subtle and insightful observations of the characters. Vonnegut directly or indirectly touches on subjects such as race, labor, and washing machines; and 'copper-colored Native Americans' and white 'Sea Pirates' during North American colonization. The sometimes shocking descriptions are not politically correct, and indeed would lose their humor and therefore impact if this book were edited by, say, Ann Coulter. Vonnegut's pessimism and sometimes obscure/extreme perspective can overwhelm the humor if the reader lets it, and the novel comes off as flat and even mindless when this happens. So pick up this book expecting not elaborate prose and exacting diction, but a satiric and hilarious viewing.
Clever, poignant, and darkly brilliant, these books are worth every moment of the read.
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.