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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Patrick Ness
I have really enjoyed this series. 11 books so far, each about 800 to 1000 pages. More in the Tolkien style with a very detailed and developed world. Sometimes the writer is a little too descriptive. I'm not always concerned with how every room is decorated in the scenes. Unfortunately the author is dying and probably will not finish the tale. dammit.
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This book was hard to get into but after the first two chapters I could hardly put it down. The sotry is told through a man who is little known today but whose life forever changed the New World. Tells about the little known influence of the Dutch on the founding of the US, its influence on our basic assumptions about personal liberty and offers great insight about what is so culturally unique about New York compared to the New England states. Really fascinating book! I learned about Holland as the think tank of Western Europe and how that helped form the culture of "New Amsterdam" as New York was first called. Inevitably the English spotted a great thing and took over New Amsterdam and changed the name but not without multiple changing back and forth between the Dutch and English. Someone managed to save all the documents about the Dutch period by hustling them onto a ship anchored off the bay while the fighting was going on and they were saved in a library in New York until recently a scholar began translating them and voila the book! It required someone fluent in old Dutch language to be able to recover these clues about our past. We are debating these issues about personal liberties now in post-911 US.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
It's nice to read something different. I enjoyed the story and muddled through the archaic language. It's hard to imagine speaking that way. This story is all about revenge and the hand Edmund Dante had in punishing those that had wronged him.
My very favourite book of all time!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Phạm Quang Hùng
I wanted to love this book the way I did "Interpreter of Maladies." But that didn't happen. I was impressed with Lahiri's vivid character portraits and intimate views of identity, but disappointed by the pace of the story. Whereas her short stories were perfect, gems without a word wasted or misplaced, "The Namesake" felt over-detailed, at times a bit plodding, as though Lahiri forgot that even though novels provide more space than short stories, they are not an excuse to squander words or paragraphs. It was far too long, far too detailed when unnecessary and written with too much brevity when it mattered and I wanted more depth. Boo. The most appropriate rating I could give this book would be 2.5 stars so I rounded up to 3.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ngọc Anh
I am still debating whether or not I should have given this three stars. I think 3.5 would have been great but I find myself still thinking about this book so maybe it does deserve four stars. A sweeping story set over 30 years about a woman named Delia and her posterity. Delia is 18 at the start of the novel and the new wife of Lord Conisborough. She is a rowdy American and quickly falls into life as a rich aristocrat in London. The story is in parts and each parts highlights the life of a particular character all while still keeping your abreast of the others. I liked this book. I found the characters to be enjoyable and the story, set during WWI to the start of WWII, to be quite interesting. A lot of the story is set in Cairo and I loved reading about its role in getting ready for WWII. I think my only complaint about this book is the brevity in which some incidents are just glossed over. Like one character is introduced to a certain male and in the next paragraph is marrying him. I guess the author had to fast forward through their lives at times to get everything in she wanted. I mean she does focus on five different characters and 30 years. So, I am reconciling myself to abruptness I felt at times. Overall, I really enjoyed this. I mean I read all 425 pages in about two days and that is something with two kids. I MUST have really enjoyed it. That or I have no more TV shows to watch!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hoàng Thanh
I love this book. I usually do not read anything with a science fiction feel to it at all but this was great. Thanks TASH.
The difficulty with reading Ryan's "A Bridge to Far" or Middlebrook's "Arnhem" (both excellent books) is you don't get the full sense of what's happening on the other side. It wouldn't matter so much in histories of many other battles, but Operation Market-Garden was notable for its confusion. As a result, the understanding of the whole story particularily benefits from the German viewpoint. Kershaw takes a logical method of breaking the battle down into pieces, and has added new insights to each section of the battle. Some parts are slightly sketchier than others, but I suppose that's due to the lack of available information. The book also has several series of photographs, though Kershaw takes the somewhat annoying tack of describing each photograph in the text as well -- one picture is worth a thousand words. Lastly, the author disputes the theory that the British 1st Airborne would have held the Arnhem bridge if they had landed closer to it.
An excellent book with some very good lessons which really do aid in re-thinking a view of weight and food. A few of her suggestions I found slightly unhelpful, but only a few, the majority of her insights are very good and the course of actions she recommends are truly helpful and worthwhile. I'm starting over reading it again because there is a lot to digest even though it's not a very big book. Really processing the information takes time. But is worth it. I wouldn't let the title "spiritual" lessons throw you - I mean, maybe there are some people who have no belief in a spiritual side and maybe the book wouldn't be helpful for them, but I think most people could utilize the lessons here without having to embrace any particular belief system. It's really more about believing in yourself, regardless of any other spiritual or religious belief system you might have.
a perspective on the Victorian era and possible solution for the 'Jacl The Ripper' murders
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.