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You know, I was never a big fan of reading books written over half a century ago. I always feel as if it's harder for me to understand things with the dialogue and the way things or phrased or whatever. But that was not the case for the Good Earth. Incredible, amazing book that anyone could relate some aspect of their life to. The things I could give if I knew how to write like Pearl S. Buck!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Dương Minh Hào
I loved this story! I can not wait to see what happens to this pair in the future. There has to be more to this couple...because I am greedy and need more!
I started reading this book without knowing what it was going to be about--turns out it is the book that the movie "Kinsey" was based on. Essentially the story of the sex researcher and his 'inner circle' of assistants who he ended up becoming very close with. Everyone ends up sleeping with each other, they travel around the country interviewing people and confusing their spouses. I love TC Boyle, and this was great!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Cheng Mengmin
Took a surprisingly long time to read, but that may have more to do with the motorcycle and camping trips to visit with family... a LOT of visiting happened and, hence, less reading. This was a tough book to pick up and put down and pick up and put down; not great with little nieces and nephews around that are consistently stealing your attention with adorable antics. That being said, I loved this book. I was undecided at first and didn't really care for the first perspective presented, but it is obviously completely necessary to fully appreciating the second perspective. This really was an amazing read and I would recommend it to anyone that has ever struggled with duplicity or self-deception... anyone that has lived, actually! :) I literally noted IN my book for this one because some passages were so keenly profound and personally acute. Shocking that this was almost like reading about recent relationships in my life. Yikes! Loved this thought: "Religion is a sublime and glorious thing, the bond of society on earth, and the connector of humanity with the Divine nature; but there is nothing so dangerous to man as the wresting of any of its principles, or forcing them beyond their due bounds: this is of all others the readiest way to destruction." pg. 119 "I sometimes fumed, and sometimes shed tears at being obliged to yield to proposals against which I had at first felt every reasoning power of my soul rise in opposition; but for all that he never failed in carrying conviction along with him in effect, for he either forced me to acquiesce in his measures, and assent to the truth of his positions, or he put me so completely down that I had not a word left to advance against them." pg. 167 "When I was by myself, I breathed freer, and my step was lighter; but, when he approached, a pang went to my heart, and, in his company, I moved and acted as if under a load that I could hardly endure. What a state to be in! And yet to shake him off was impossible--we were incorporated together--identified with one another, as it were, and the power was not in me to separate myself from him." pg. 168 "Thus was I sojourning in the midst of a chaos of confusion. I looked back on my by-past life with pain, as one looks back on a perilous journey, in which he has attained his end, without gaining any advantage either to himself or others; and I looked forward, as on a darksome waste, full of repulsive and terrific shapes, pitfalls, and precipices, to which there was no definite bourn, and from which I turned with disgust.... My principal feeling, about this time was an insatiable longing for something that I cannot describe or denominate properly, unless I say it was for utter oblivion that I longed. I desired to sleep; but it was for a deeper and longer sleep than that in which the senses were nightly steeped. I longed to be at rest and quiet, and close my eyes on the past and the future alike, as far as this frail life was concerned."
I am currently reading Fancy Pants by Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Fancy Pants Susan Elizabeth Phillips Contempory Romance 496 pages THEY'RE CAVIAR AND BEER. KEROSENE ON FIRE. AND THEY'RE FALLING HEAD-OVER-HEELS IN LOVE.... She was the most beautiful British bauble in Europe's jet-set playgrounds. Now she's broke, furious, and limping down a backwoods road in an ugly pink Southern Belle gown.... He was tall, lean, and all-American gorgeous. He liked his brews cold and women loved to keep him warm. Why in hell is he stopping his car for this woebegone, surly Scarlett? Meet Francesca Day and Dallie Beaudine, two incredible characters whose tangled love affair is at the heart of this ravishing New York Times bestseller from award-winning author Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Come enjoy the adventure of a lifetime -- an irresistible story that's touching, hilarious, and hellcat-passionate. You'll never forget Dallie and the sassy lady who needs a good swift kick in her...
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hoàng Văn Tuấn
This is the best book in the series. The religious historical setting is very interesting.
This is the story of Ponyboy Curtis. He's a "greaser", going to high school. His parents are both dead, and so he is being raised by his 2 older brothers, Darry and Sodapop. Ponyboy's friends are the other greasers and their rivals are the Socs, the rich, preppy kids from the other side of town. There are a few gang fights in this book, and Ponyboy is really affected by some of the outcomes, especially deaths of some friends. I enjoyed reading this book. Ponyboy was such a cute little narrator. I was fascinated by this sort of gang culture, because I've never read about gangs before. I loved the characters names in this, there were some very different sort of names than I'm normally used to hearing. I really loved that they were reading Gone With The Wind, as that is one of my favorite books.
I really liked the ending to this 3 part series. Book #3 was better than 2 and well worth finishing up Sarah's story.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hoàng Thanh
This book is a little depressing but it had so many beautiful, poetic passages in it that I would have to say I liked it a lot. Yes I had to write words down to look up later but it was just for curiosity's sake because it is perfectly easy to follow either way. Hawthorne just has a gift with words. I do think I could have done without the long beginning portion detailing his job and co-workers though. As I was reading I would frequently think "Oh I know just what he means but it sounds so much better when he says it"...just an example "So long estranged by fate and circumstances, they needed something slight and casual to run before, and throw open the doors of intercourse, so that their real thoughts might be led across the threshold". He just has such a beautiful way of putting things.
I really enjoyed this book of, what I would classify as, literary journalism. It reminded me of the many things I liked about Eric Schlosser's investigative works Fast Food Nation and Reefer Madness. Reding creates observant and articulate passages of day to day struggles of addicts, politicians and policymakers and town people on the fray of "methland." I equally enjoyed and was challenged by the individual portraits of those of families as well as by Reding's macro view of the parallels between the centralization and monopolies of the meth grade to the monopolies of agribusiness and how they both use rural America as their playground.
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.