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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Thu Hà
I read this book for my American Ethnic Literature class in college. I tried to start reading it over the summer to get a head since it so long, but that didn't really happen. I had a bit of a hard time starting the book because I didn't really understand where or who the narrator was. Once it got to telling the story though, I really liked the book. I think my professor really helped with that though. I remember him saying that the main character never learns his lesson though or the book would be wicked short. I actually think I never read the end! Oh my, hmmmm. Maybe I should do that. I also wrote a paper I was pretty proud of on this book. I remember my professor writing that the end seemed rushed and I thought, well, the end was rushed because I didn't read it!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
What a great read! The book's setting is Tokyo in the 1890's, during the Meiji regime, when the current emperor was trying to Westernize Japan. As a result, samurais were ordered to lay down their swords and abandon samurai code. Toyo is the son of a samurai and torn between his father's samurai culture and the new Western cultural practices that Japan has adopted, including baseball. The opening chapter, during which Toyo must participate in his uncle's suppuku is riveting. Toyo does not want to be samurai, but his father teaches him bushido--the code of the samurai--which Toyo adapts to help him hone his skills in baseball. A showdown game between Toyo's school team and an American team ends the story with a bang.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
Once others find out that you're having a baby, you can expect to be bombarded with the same question ad nauseum: "Are you excited?" Stupid question really (assuming you were trying to conceive in the first place). However, my standard, and most honest answer was "I'm excited to be excited" since there's really no immediate change and it certainly doesn't sink in right away. As corny as it may sound, after reading this book my answer will now be "Yes, I am excited." The author does a wonderful job (for the most part) of establishing just the right tone: neither condescending and pretentiously academic, nor too kitschy and dumbed down. Backed in neuro science and numerous professional studies, his advice is logical and tested. Even the obvious stuff, like "pay attention to your kid" didn't just make me write "No shit" in the margins because the actual science behind it is explained. The latter half of the book, though, did get more and more "touchy feely." Apparently teaching empathy is one of the most important things to do, so I guess the mawkish shift was to be expected. Also, the author just has a really strange need to include irrelevant descriptive details about the scientists whose experiments he describes: "a crusty, wild haired old philosopher" (99) or "a handsome polymath" (135). Finally, there are times when explaining neuroscience via kitchen metaphor work well...there are also times it does not and the two paragraph aside about Bobby Flay ("has red hair and a New York accent" [199]) are completely unnecessary. Overall, though, reading this book made me excited to be a soon-to-be-dad!
I like end of the world stories. Instead of adding fear they are a source of understanding and knowledge. I like to see how people survive, but more importantly, how they live, work, grow together. Emerging like a new plant on a freshly tilled field.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Phương Chi
Weiss’s play is set in an asylum. The Marquis de Sade is one of the inmates in this asylum, and he stages a play about the death of Marat, using other inmates in the asylum as actors. The play employs Bertolt Brechtian distancing devices. In the prologue, for instance, we are told what the action of the play will be. Much of the exposition comes not from the actors acting, but from a herald who tells us about the characters (and about the asylum inmates playing the roles). The text is divided into sections that are numbered and titled. While the fact that the play is set in an asylum and includes the Marquis de Sade as a character might suggest to some the ideas of Antonin Artaud, this is Brechtian “epic theatre” rather than Artaudian “theatre of cruelty.
Interesting perspective from someone who was institutionalized for 18 months in 1967 when the general attitude of someone with a mental disorder was quite different than recent times. I didn't realize that the movie was based on a true story. I remember not really liking the movie but the real characters in the book were much more appealing.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Sơn Tùng
Honestly, don't read it. Very blah.
Book #79 of 2009 This took me awhile to finish, reading a chapter here or there between other books. I don't think I could have taken more than a little bit at a time, it is such a heavy, sad subject. Mary dreams of seeing the ocean beyond her fenced village. But beyond the fence are the "unconsecrated", the zombies that hunger for human flesh. When the unconsecrated finally breach the fence, Mary, and a small group from her village, have no choice but to set out and see what is beyond their little village. This book seemed full of teen angst that was at times, difficult for me to read. For half the book, Mary laments that she is in love with Travis, but betrothed to his brother Harry. Yet even when she gets Travis, she is not content because what she really wants is the ocean. This frustrated me. But at the same time, I felt bad for Mary and her impossible situation. What must it be like to grow up and have dreams but to have all of the adults around you try to crush those dreams? No, you cannot marry for love. Your only duty is to ensure that the species continues.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều tác giả
Set after the Dragonlance Chronicles, the Legends Trilogy continues the epic, focusing on the dynamic between the twins Caramon and Raistlin, as Raistlin attempts to become a god. An excellent continuation to the series.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Mai Bửu Minh
This is one of the few books I can truly label an official tearjerker!!! I've read it three times; one can do it in an afternoon!
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.