Sophie Blake từ Santa Clara, Paraguay

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05/05/2024

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2019-10-04 10:31

Tập Viết Chữ Hoa Lớp 1 (Tái Bản) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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The sequel to The King Must Die, this book picks up almost exactly where the last book ends. It covers the rest of the legend of Theseus, combining the original legend with Renault's blend of imagination and historical research. This is probably the weakest of Renault's books that I've read. The pacing of the book - cramming most of the life of one of Greece's most famous legendary heroes into less than 250 pages - means that Renault was always going to need a strong and clearly defined character in order to carry the book without it feeling rushed and uneven. Theseus never comes across to me as any of those things. In fact, he never even comes across to me as remotely likeable. There was a coldness and a remoteness to the character that I can't recall encountering when reading her Alexander trilogy, for instance. It's as if Renault was trying to create a real man from an archetypal hero, and got stalled halfway through the process. Overall, she handled the conversion from myth to novel well, providing some plausible and fairly realistic expectations for parts of the legendary cycle. The rest of the historical aspect shall be passed over in silence by me, mostly because I can appreciate that at the time Renault was writing, much of what she was saying was still accepted as historical fact. (But it's not, it's really, really not! 'Shore People'! Matriarchal religion being replaced by the patriarchy! Mycenaeans in 1500BCE!) I was more than a little irked by her representation of some aspects of gender history/interaction. I can buy that, since this novel was from Theseus' viewpoint, - and he was a pretty typical example of a Bronze Age male raised in a patriarchal society - that he would have no problem in ascribing a woman's anger to the fact that it was her 'moon time.' I had much, much greater problems with the representation of Hippolyta; not that Theseus would think of her as he did, but that a woman who was supposedly raised as an independent and self-sufficient Amazon would have thought and acted as she did, and would have what seemed to me to be a high level of internalised misogyny. It made me very, very uneasy reading those sections. I think I'll be re-reading the Alexander trilogy long before I pick this one up again. It's not a bad novel; it just didn't really do so much for me.

2019-10-04 11:31

Cô Bé Tí Hon Thumbelina Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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this book can't be reviewed <3 i m still reading it but its one of the greatest books i ve ever read <3

2019-10-04 12:31

Hướng Dẫn Luyện Viết Tiếng Anh Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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This book is a complete saviour when it comes to the Esbats. For each month's full moon, it has lore, history, an invocation, ritual ideas and activities. There's, also, a section on moon lore at the front of the book and the final third is dedicated to lunar magick and spells. Definitely recommended for beginners and advanced Pagans alike.

2019-10-04 13:31

Làm Chủ Tuổi 20 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Dương Duy Bách

Since I finished this book during a busy summer, I guess it held my interest. It's not a favorite, though, possibly because this isn't my area of historical interest: Civil War, PT Barnum. Ironically, I'm considering it for my book club choice, this year, because it's current and I'd like to hear others' opinions. One thing that bothered me is that it ended 40 years before the main character died. I did want to know more about her after she was widowed.

2019-10-04 14:31

Tiếng Việt Lịch Sử Trước Thế Kỷ XX - Những Vấn Đề Quan Yếu Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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This mom was over the top. I felt like even though she was making fun of herself, she was really saying how great she was.

2019-10-04 15:31

Tranh Truyện Dân Gian Việt Nam - Cười Ra Vàng (Tái Bản 2017) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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Ok, so I love mysteries. Val McDermid writes a good dark mystery set in Scotland and Italy. Could there be anything more Donalee-ish?

2019-10-04 16:31

Hồn Nhiên Trong Thế Giới Đảo Điên Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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Michael Behe is a perfect example of Science gone wrong. He demonstrates that science has come so far in the past several decades that we now have more questions, and fewer answers, than ever before. Rather than inspiring him to seek out the hard-to-find answers, he seems content, indeed determined, to invoke a higher being as the answer to the difficult questions of science. The logic of his arguements is frustrating, to say the least, because it can't be argued. What ever he thinks he knows about biochemistry prevents him from even considering other potencial explanations. He holds stubbornly to science and the scientific method, yet the heart of his arguements are based on analogies to man-made machines, watches and mousetraps, that have almost nothing in common with real live organisms. Not content to compare apple to oranges, he compares apples to gameboys, then argues that no one would doubt the existence of gameboy engineers. How does one respond to this? Add to this a stubborn faith in a Creator God and the arguement completely exits the realm of science. Mr. Behe's book is a painstaking read, not only for it's lackluster prose and bad science, but most especially for it's arrogance and for the blinders that so obviously obstruct his vision of reality. Here's a clue, Michael: Natural systems portray the illusion of design because only those organisms, only those biochemical systems, only those MOLECULES that conform to the laws of the universe are able to survive, to exist. What is, is because it can be. All else parishes in the struggle for survival, the struggle for resources, the struggle for reproduction. We are here because we obey natures laws, because we have been shaped, tweaked, winnowed by those laws. "Irriducible complexity" is another name for "we don't know the details (yet)." And perhaps we'll never know. But what I do know is that Intelligent Design is an unfortunate product of intelligent people mixing up there causes and effects. Mr. Behe has been thoroughly discredited by science. It's just unfortunate that there are enough laymen with enough blind faith to keep his ideas circulating through the collective consciousness. Read this book for an exercise in patience, an exercise in cheek biting, or if you're really in to masochism.

2019-10-04 17:31

Longman New Real Toeic - Actual Tests For Reading Comprehension RC - Tái bản 11/12/2012 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

A novel of magic realism detailing the entire history of a family, told from the perspective of a girl named Alba who reads her grandmother Clara's journals. Clara can predict, but not alter, the future. The story is disturbing at times, but it is a good story nevertheless.

2019-10-04 18:31

10 Vạn Câu Hỏi Vì Sao - Khoa Học Vui Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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too bad this book is completely inaccurate!

2019-10-04 19:31

Toán Học và Nghệ thuật (Tái Bản) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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This book from the sci fi genre was a little too out there for me. One reviewer said that it's like Spielberg meets Lord of the Flies. That's pretty accurate.

2020-05-04 06:11

Luật Ngầm Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tuệ Nghi

Wow ... Este libro fue una gran mejora para el primero. Creo que podría ser que me familiaricé con el estilo de escritura de Houck, ¡pero también encontré la aventura mucho más cautivadora! Y Houck realmente atrapa al lector por sorpresa en todo el libro y termina con un colgador de acantilado que termina ...

Người đọc Sophie Blake từ Santa Clara, Paraguay

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.