Ferran Bustillo từ Fedorikha, Tverskaya oblast', Russia

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11/22/2024

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2019-11-01 08:31

Ngàn Cánh Sen Xanh Biếc (TB 2016) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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Had to buy it for the Meerut reference - but not expecting much!

2019-11-01 09:31

Tê Dại Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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A little bit simplistic in the telling, the story reads like a Victorian novel. Relayed through a series of letters sent between several characters, the story of this little known English island and their trials during WWII is sweet and satisfying - as long as you like your plots neatly wrapped and tightly tied with no loose ends to ponder.

2019-11-01 10:31

Tập Văn Cúng Gia Tiên Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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Re-reading this, just for the poetry of language.

2019-11-01 11:31

Ngữ Pháp Tình Yêu - Truyện Ngắn Nga Chọn Lọc Thế Kỷ XX - XXI Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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If you ever get irritated at the sexism in America past or present, get a load of this book and be glad you are not a female in China. Gripping stories and a fascinating glimpse of a foreign culture. Hopefully things have gotten better with the advent of globalization and China's opening economy, but who knows. I was impressed all over again at women's emotional strength.

2019-11-01 12:31

Thầy Lang Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tadeusz Dolega Mostowicz

Please see my blog for my thoughts: The House At Riverton

2019-11-01 13:31

Quy Trình Giải Quyết Tranh Chấp Dân Sự Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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I thought Fablehaven was a bit better. The plot seemed too formulaic: evil wizard, kid goes from place to place learning how to defeat said wizard doing impossible things. However, by the end of the book, Mull had me hooked and wanting to find out more. I'll be buying the next one next Spring.

2019-11-01 14:31

3000 Câu Đàm Thoại Tiếng Anh (Kèm CD) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Thanh Hà

Very moving.

2019-11-01 15:31

Phát Triển Tư Duy Toán Học Cùng Thỏ Mặt To (4 - 5 Tuổi) - Tập 2 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Waiwaitu

** spoiler alert ** Throughout this novel, I am more compulsively drawn to Bruno’s life than Michel’s. Oddly enough, I find Michel to be the more tragic and sympathetic character. Although vastly different from one another, both Michel and Bruno’s live follow a side-by-side vectors, and as the climax approaches, the vectors bend toward one another, culminating in a dénouement that could only be reached in tandem. Bruno’s obsession with getting a decent blowjob, becomes an insurmountable obstacle to his ability to connect with another human being. Likewise, as Michele gets deeper into his work, he is emotionally impotent, unable to really connect. Bruno is an over sexed, overweight, teacher while Michel is an under stimulated emotionless molecular biologist who clones the first cow. They both fail connecting with other humans: Bruno is addicted to masturbation to an extent that he is unfulfilled when engaging in intercourse with other human beings; Michel has no other world but his work and fails in connecting with anyone. In the end of the novel, both characters become involved in redeeming relationships that almost bring them to total fulfillment. I think the key here is the word “almost.” In some sense, the entire novel is an indictment against the values of a hippie generations (certainly, hippies are demonized throughout the novel), but more than casting a group of people into a bad light, the novel seems to track the period of time marked individual freedom, free love, free thinking, egalitarianism, etc, etc, to it’s logical and destructive end. In this novel, humans make choices and science and nature win out, dolling out the natural consequences of a people with an audacity to behave as if they are not mortals. And so we see: STDs, aging, emotional and sexual numbness, materialism as masturbation. The result of this freedom is discontentment (raging discontentment, displaced as racism, agism, hatred of sex gender culture …) and inevitably death. After Bruno and Michel are dead, a young biologist studies the work of Michel, which leads to the cloning of the first human. Oddly enough, Bruno’s hand in this develop goes unnoticed under the scrutiny of everyone but the narrator (who only places hints for the reader to put together). From Michel’s journals and studies, the readers find traces of Bruno’s careless rants about women, hippies, humanity in general. His influence on Michel’s study in integral to the development of a new race of people, although no one knows or even cares. This new human is of another race, asexual in its ability to reproduce, godlike, and without the desires of indulging in the pleasures of the old world in an attempt to find ultimate fulfillment; there is no perpetual desire. As a result, crime rates fall, diseases are wiped out, and the last remnants of mankind (those conservatives, usually of a religious ilk, who are morally opposed to the cloning process) slowly die as they reproduce with one another. Perhaps this speaks to the revision process of the writer. Perhaps it is the next logical step after reproduction; that art lives on. Stories are told and retold. Born out of the past and carrying humankind into the future. Art is what lifts us above the nihilism, makes us forget heartache enough to perpetuate the human race in spite of human tragedy. It is what lets evils die out so that in the face of evil, we live. I think this in the same way that I think this is what saves Cormac McCarthy’s novels from being wholly nihilistic. According to John Gardner, art is life affirming. And in a bizarre, ironic, Machiavellian, perhaps in a fascist and in a “nation cleansing” kind of way, this novel is indeed life affirming. The final line, after all, informs the reader without condescension, and with great appreciation, that the entire narrative is dedicated to mankind, even as this new race watches the old man die out in their own stubborn belief in a kind of freedom that doesn’t exist. On more minor, less thematic notes, I thoroughly enjoyed the scientific prose, much of which I didn’t understand. I appreciated Houellebecq’s ability to narrate in summary and half scene without keeping the reader at a great distance. Its structural organization is interesting, bits of history, shifting POVs, shifting tenses – yet throughout, I don’t feel disoriented (there were a few places that I felt jolted, but I believe it is largely as a result of unfortunate glitches in translation). There also seems to be different narrators throughout the novel. At one point, a personal pronoun pops up without it ever reappearing again (p. 19). Parts of the novel couldn’t have been narrated by anyone, not even Michel’s biographer/protégée. Parts of the book read like a biography of this biographer, and of course, the epilogue reads as the collective consciousness of an entire race.

2019-11-01 16:31

Năm 2112 Doaremon Ra Đời Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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I can't wait to read this book! However, I'm probably not actually choosing to read it... if I'm to believe Hawking and Mlodinow: "It is hard to imagine how free will can operate if our behavior is determined by physical law, so it seems that we are no more than biological machines and that free will is just an illusion." (pg 32)

2019-11-01 17:31

Trên Sa Mạc Và Trong Rừng Thẳm (Minh Long) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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Beautifully written, a very melodic and flowing read that pulls you in...BUT the actual subject matter is not so pretty or melodic. It's like a big poem about dark and adventurous things.

Người đọc Ferran Bustillo từ Fedorikha, Tverskaya oblast', Russia

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.