Yong Vang từ Panchalankurichi, Tamil Nadu , India

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2019-10-11 19:31

Thẻ Flash Card Thông Minh - Bé Tô Màu Chữ Cái Tiếng Việt ABC, 123 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Thanh Mai

I shall start off my review by stating this one fact: I love Chuck Klosterman. I really do. I recommend him to anyone that will lend an ear. Sex, Drugs, And Cocoa Puffs is one my absolute favorite books EVAR. So forgive me if my review of Chuck Klosterman IV (who's title is a reference to the classic, untitled fourth Zeppelin album) seems a tad less than impartial. You now know why. IV is a collection of stories, essays, and a single piece of short fiction that Chuck has done for various publications, including Spin and Esquire. The first portion of the book is a collection of profiles on artists and other people of note. In this section, we discover that Chuck was once told by several psychics that he was supposed to be a professional bowler, that he once lost a pound on the Chicken McNugget Diet (it ties in to an interview he later did with Supersize Me documentarian Morgan Spurlock), and what he considers the worst conversation of his professional career (hint: the interviewee has been known to seek and destroy). While this section is by no means bad, it is certainly the weakest part of the book. I occasionally found myself struggling to get through this portion of the book, although I concede that this may have to do with the fact that I can only take so many artist profiles at once (it's why a single issue of Decibel magazine can last me until the next one comes out). Next is the essay portion of the book. It consists of stories on things such as VH1 Classic, the difference between nemeses and archenemies, and why Johnny Carson was the last ubiquitous figure of popular culture. This is, far and away, my favorite part of the book. The stories here are examples of why I hold Klosterman up as the greatest pop culture writer of all time. The story on the time he watched VH1 Classic for 24 hours straight is a classic, as is his story on the modern day Pirate renaissance. The 3rd and final section of the book is a short piece of fiction he wrote about an amoral (okay, maybe not amoral, but damn close), PCP addled newspaper movie critic who, while driving to pick a friend's sister, has a woman land on his car. Like, she just falls out of the sky. This is somewhere between the profiles and the articles. I mean, it's really good, but not as earth-shatteringly great as the articles. What I really love about this piece is how Klosterman pulls a Tarantino and makes a PCP-addicted, rather narcissistic dude completely relatable, at least to me (but then again, I related to Michael Keaton's character in Pacific Heights more than I related to the "good guys" of the film). Also, the major event of the story is regarded with what's almost a sense of normalcy. Like, it doesn't really happen until later in the story, and it's done with such realism, one begins to suspect that Klosterman has actually had this happen to him once, which an angle I really appreciate. Most authors would take this from the angle of "OMG A WOMAN FELL FROM THE SKY OMGOMG!!1!11", but Klosterman realizes that the reader already realizes that what transpires in the story is rather extraordinary, so he doesn't really need to push it. Overall, this book deserves about a 4.5, but friggin' Goodreads won't allow half points. Argghh. Score normalcy irritates me. So, the final score is Chuck Klosterman IV: 4.5, Goodreads: 2. Take THAT, you lousy website.

2019-10-11 22:31

Tổng Hợp Ngữ Pháp Và Bài Tập Tiếng Anh Lớp 9 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

I had begun and stoppped reading this book several times before now. Glad I finished. Safran Foer structures the book somewhat disjointedly. Readers of his fiction won't find that strange, but for a non-fiction book that is (at least on some level) making an argument that he hopes will convince others... it seemed a little strange. On to the content, though. The book could be retitled "The Case Against Factory Farming," and in this he succeeds with all pistons firing. It seems hard to me to see how the case can be made to support such practices, and the fact that I have personally been able to ignore or forget a lot of it says something about how disconnected I am (dare I say 'we'?) from the systems and the processes and the industries that produce food. I liked that Safran Foer isn't afraid to complicate the argument. This book isn't just a straightforward slam-dunk case for veganism, though following certain parts to their logical conclusions might be such. The alternatives to factory farming that he highlights are so small-scale that it's hard to see how they are anything outside interesting edge and exception cases. Also, the fact that the practices of the US meat industry (where many of the commonplace practices were begun) are now spreading to other parts of the world -- China, India and Europe -- makes the bits of the book about factory farming the most important, I felt. To me, a lot of it came down to this quote: "Whether we’re talking about fish species, pigs, or some other eaten animal, is such suffering the most important thing in the world? Obviously not. But that’s not the question. Is it more important than sushi, bacon, or chicken nuggets? That’s the question." Safran Foer -- in an attempt to make the book readable, I'm guessing -- leaves out a bunch of side issues relating to our eating animals, most notably things relating to human labour and the environment, but it's tough to write books and this one already does a lot.

Người đọc Yong Vang từ Panchalankurichi, Tamil Nadu , India

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.