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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Minh Đạo
An enjoyable enough read that pokes fun at the perception of good and evil. Nice light reading for when you need a break. If you like Pratchett you'll like this too.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trần Mạnh Tường
Tras once años, una mujer se reencuentra con su amado. La última vez que se vieron eran todavía adolescentes. Hoy, la vida les ha llevado por caminos muy distintos: ella vive en Zaragoza, prepara oposiciones y ha aprendido a dominar sus sentimientos. Él ha viajado por todo el mundo, posee el don de la curación y ha encontrado en la religión un refugio para huir de sus conflictos interiores. Pero en el reencuentro, a ambos les unirá un único deseo: el de cumplir sus sueños. A orillas del río Piedra me senté y lloré es una novela sobre el amor y la esencia de la vida, porque las historias de amor encierran en sí todos los secretos del mundo.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Charles Dickens
The War That Never Was first came out in 1995, when a book of this nature was more in the line of 'current events' than 'history'. At that point in time, there were quite a lot of people around who were very willing to talk about the part they had played in the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Editor and author David Pryce-Jones travelled around the former Soviet Union and its constituent republics, collecting interviews with politicians, bureaucrats, former dissidents, and political commentators who had been in at the end of things, as it were. Through these interviews, Pryce-Jones is attempting to piece together the greater puzzle of how one of the world's two superpowers simply fell apart in the space of less than a decade. I wish I had more to say about the book, but to be perfectly truthful I found it incredibly difficult to get through. My difficulties started off with bits of Pryce-Jones' running commentary that made me raise an eyebrow. Take, for instance, this passage: 'President Reagan and Mrs Thatcher were unusual among world leaders in their genuine detestation of communism. It was a question of right and wrong. Moral outlook of the sort troubled neither post-war French Presidents nor German Chancellors.' In my opinion, I would say that it's remarkably easy to make moral judgments when you're not facing either immediate internal (French) or external (German) pressure from native communist movements. I could keep quoting passages in a similarly conservative vein, ones where he damns the Helsinki Accords or snipes at President George H.W. Bush for not being more aggressive to act in support of the nationalist movements in the Baltic countries. In essence, he seems to think that if the Soviet Union was on its last legs by the late 1980s, the West would've been better off getting out the knives and finishing the job with more than a bit of relish. By the time I was halfway through the book, I was more than tempted to get out some knives of my own to hack and slash my way to the end. I'm honestly not sure if I'd even keep this book on my shelf. I've no problem with debating the different choices that might have been made by Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and others -- but Pryce-Jones seems to keep repeating a few pet ideas and picking only the interviews to support his views. It might be moderately useful to keep The War That Never Was as a representation of a particular kind of ideological mindset that shouldn't be ignored outright, but I can't imagine rereading except to pull quotations from it. And as far as that goes, I may simply end up copying out the quotes that I think I might find useful and consigning this polemic masquerading as history to a used book store.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Gary Chapman
As I went through this collection, I immediately recalled a dozen or so of these old tales that I'd been told as a small child. Lessons of 'Don't cry wolf', Greedy greedy makes a hungry puppy', and 'Necessity is the mother of invention' all stayed with me in one form or another, just as vividly as the parables that Jesus told in an effort to teach...and with the advantage (at least to my young mind) of involving animals. With an abundance of talking animals and a few recurring Greek gods, these gathered metaphors are as elegant as they are timeless. Let slide the fact that every third or fourth story seems to involve an Ass, along with the issue that a few of these tidbits of wisdom might be seen as contradictory to each other. There are still plenty of universal truths to be gleaned, and recycled references in current culture to be identified.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi:
Pretty much your run of the mill story following two wives and a man. Why a man- I really don't know b/c the title of the book is Young Wives Tales. ??? It is a pretty long book- about 16 hours on audio book time..and a lot of that is the characters "thinking" and "realizing" things. I am glad I listened to it, and not read it. I would have been skipping some pages. All in all, I am glad that got it. Parts of it made me laugh out loud.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Vương Vũ Chấn
1983 Newbery Medal Winner
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Đức Tấn
Hadn't read this book in decades. It's still great.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Suzanne Growder Han
Yo I want to go back in time and ask my AP English teacher why we had to read fucking Grapes of Wrath when we could have read The Good Earth instead. Fuck Grapes of Wrath, man.
I remember really loving this book. I hope the Shapiro has written something else.
I loved it. I love her. It has been awhile that I read a book that would make me laugh out loud hard! I secretly wish we were friends :) I first saw her on Pushing Daisies (why did that show have to end! There is nothing but dumb shows on and that one was clever and colorful!) and then I got into Wicked and have been a fan ever since. Fun 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.