Ursula Sinnreich từ Middle Lake, SK , Canada

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12/22/2024

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2019-11-04 10:31

Tớ Muốn Làm Họa Sĩ 7 - Rau Củ Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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A first novel and clearly a 'man-book'. Requires a significant suspension of disbelief that a drifting homeless veteran, who is on a personal quest to learn about a deceased blind guitar player, coincidentally ends up in this particular town when he does and that this drifter becomes so central to the action. Reacher is, of course, a deadly weapon, supposedly bright, has a good physique, and is irresistible to women despite his drifting, jobless state. He is fearless and kills with little twinge of conscience. His trademark response is a shrug. I was going to give it 3 stars for tightening up in the last third of the book... until I read the tedious, lame ending dealing with Reacher's personal life. Won the 1998 Barry Award for best first novel. (Must have been a year of slim pickings.) A take-to-the-beach, mind-candy, guilty pleasure sort of book. Kept wanting to waive my arms in Jack Reacher's face and shout, "Clue here!" or "What! You can't guess this guy is actually a bad guy!" or "Can this be more obvious?!" Aspects of the plot were very familiar. Bugs me because I know I've read books with similar plots and I can't quite remember the titles. Am now trying to hunt down where I've read some of these things before. But so many people rave about Lee Child's books, so will probably read a few more... Who can resist mindless summer reading fare. Of course there is so much mind-candy out there it can be hard to choose.

2019-11-04 11:31

Thất Bại Để Thành Công Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

A recommendation from Davis. A quick read until the last 70 or so pages which seemed to drag on in a hot mess of depressingness. The back says: Card has taken the venerable sf concepts of a superman and interstellar war against aliens, and, with superb characterization, pacing, and language, combined them into a seamless story of compelling power. This is Card at the height of his very considerable powers —a major SF novel by any reasonable standards. Generally, the world is at intergallactic war in which the “government” is recruiting people to help fight the battle against extra-terrestrial buggars. Yes, I understand that I just lost vast cool points with that brief analysis but the book was actually far more intellectual than I expected from a YA SF novel. In fact I sorta just assumed aliens would attack people would run, Will Smith would propose and that other guy would wear dark sunglasses and carry a sweet gun. However, there is definite analysis of the hegemonic prowess the United States asserts amongst the world and the inane idea that we can in fact rule the world but more accurately put the galaxy. Ultimately the discussion of hearsay and manipulation are overpowering themes in the novel. Creating a discussion of what we will do when mentally we are torn apart and challenged. Ender, the main character’s constant evaluation of his life, state and future are both fervent and disheartening. He is at best a child who literally has the weight of the world on his shoulders. Thus as a teacher my mind immediately goes to the idea of progress in and out of the classroom and how much weight and pressure is too much. Do we function under the idea that ultimately we can push and push and push until they break but if they are meant to do it they recover. One should automatically assume that for at least a good portion of our lives we should play, right? What happens if the need and idea for play is gone? Why don’t we just start apprenticing early as the book recommends and dismantle school and education for those who aren’t worthy, that would make my classroom life vastly easy. I really enjoyed the book although the last 80 or so pages make me think about slasher films and cutting myself it was so depressing. Redemption is a key theme but even Ender’s redemption is saddening and doesn’t provide an immense amount of hope for the rest of the world.

2019-11-04 12:31

15 Day's Practice For IELTS Listening (Kèm 1 CD) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Xia Li Ping

A greater mystery than human nature and its irrepressible theological imagination is how this book managed to impress so many people. After much consideration, I can only conclude its popularity (along with Daniel Dennett's Breaking the Spell, Richard Dawkin's The God Delusion, and Christopher Hitchens' God Is Not Great) is because of the mass hysteria among secularists over religion after the 9/11 tragedy combined with increased politicalization of religion in government and education. This is to say the book's popularity is due to external factors, its timing, and cathartic tone. It isn't for the depth of argumentation, scholarship, or insight. Any reader familiar with the atheistic works of Lucretius through Bertrand Russell or Antony Flew (who recently became a deist) will find Sam Harris' treatment to be scattered, grasping, and shallow. He has been scolded by (atheist) scientists such as Scott Atran for being thoughtless, unscientific, and offering no evidence (see YouTube.com, Scott Atran vs. Sam Harris). Harris strains an evasive response. This is poignant given Harris' trite pontifications on the primacy of science, as if he is a sugared up kid ready to jump into the now-drained pool of Positivism. Too bad the same Positivism he seeks makes his own endless moral accusations empty ([http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mor...]). The book does have the verve and personal engagement that is rare. The End of Faith has a pithy prose style that might distract you from lamenting the end of logical rigor.

2019-11-04 13:31

Từ Điển Việt - Anh (Khoảng 90.000 Từ) - Sách Bỏ Túi Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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A book club selection - follows the letters that Galileo's daughter, a nun in convent, sent to him throughout her life. An okay read, but you've got to be pretty interested in the topic to get through it.

2019-11-04 14:31

100 Lời Khuyên Đầu Tư Bất Động Sản Khôn Ngoan Nhất (Tái Bản 2018) - Phát Hành Dự Kiến 18/03/2018 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Donald Trump

This is an AYA book I read for background knowledge on the Civil War for work. It was a quick and easy read with some romance, and a simple approach to explaining the history. I liked it- a good one for any junior high or high schooler.

2019-11-04 15:31

Những Câu Chuyện Khơi Nguồn Trí Tuệ - Tập 1 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trương Thiết Thành

Jhumpa Lahiri has a terrific sense of voice. This is my favorite of her fiction.

2019-11-04 16:31

Sụp Đổ (Tái Bản 2018) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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Adam Davies' two previous books, The Frog King and Goodbye Lemon, are two of my all-time favorites. This was not as good. It was just completely different--instead of being a heartfelt coming of age type book, it was a thriller/caper type book. It was still good, but not as good as a thriller could be. I guessed the identity of the big criminal near the beginning, and I am not good at guessing.

2019-11-04 17:31

Black Bird (Tập 15) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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funny and fun to read but not on the same level as Infinite Jest. A lot of the themes and the whole meta-fiction thing were very similar to Zeitgeist.

2019-11-04 18:31

Luyện Viết Chữ Đẹp Tiếng Anh (Tập 2) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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This book offers kids an easy way to learn how to draw different kinds of ancient Egyptian figures and symbols. It's fairly simple and the results are very recognizable. Our oldest has been bringing home lots of drawing books from her school library, and this is one of my favorites. Our girls have borrowed this book several times.

2019-11-04 19:31

The Whole Brain Business Book, 2nd edition Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ned Herrmann

The reason that this receives three stars and not higher is no fault of Blameless or Gail Carriger, rather that when it comes to 19th Century novels, the adventure novel has never been my favourite. If you've come to this series like I have (pretty cover art aside) it's because novels of the 19th Century form a major part of your read/reading list and Carriger knows her Victorian literature so I wouldn't be put off by this one effort as, given the different tones of each novel, Heartless can be expected to adopt another Victorian genre other than that of the adventure novel. In other words: I'm still looking forward to where and how this series is going to end.

Người đọc Ursula Sinnreich từ Middle Lake, SK , Canada

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.