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Being a fan of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (the movie), I really enjoyed exploring the life (part factual, mostly fictional) of Sundance's girlfriend, Etta Place. This was a quick, entertaining read - ideal for a summer reading list.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Guy De Maupassant
This book seemed slightly more disturbing and suspensful than the first Alex Cross novel. That could've been because the nature of the crime(s) were more violent/personal and the possible(?) safety of the vicitms were less assured than in "Along Came a Spider".
This author annoys me. I like his focus on the relational -- specifically, that it's all about having a relationship w/ Jesus. His love for Jesus shows. Unfortunately, that love hasn't permeated his heart for how he writes about "the religious right" and FOX news and various strawman conservative views that he self-righteously bashes and knocks down. He caricatures these views (maybe from reading the NY Times . . . he doesn't seem to know a lot about conservative philosophy) while claiming that his views are purely Scriptural. Uh, no. Not that conservatives do everything right, of course, but Miller seems to have no idea, for example, on what grounds anyone could claim that the United States is the greatest nation -- he thinks it's just (ignorant, naive) patriotism. But plenty of us think that the US is great b/c of what it's founded on -- the principle of liberty (and is less great to the extent it deviates from that). To claim moral equivalency of various political (and other) views is not just ignorant but dangerous too. But don't get me started! Miller is a good writer and obviously very bright . . . I hope he keeps growing closer to Jesus and then he'll stop being so judgmental and sanctimonious -- not that I don't need that too :)
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tô Ngưng
The second book I couldn't put down just like the first.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Âu Dương Mặc Tâm
my copy of this quick book mysteriously disappeared... only to turn up on my sister's reading list. a theft, indeed! :-)
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Ngô Nguyên Phi
Fun book about internet weirdos. I can somehow relate to half of the weirdo groups described there (Ron Paul supporters, healthy eaters, self-diagnosed Aspergers), but oh well. "...you can insulate yourself among like-minded freaks until you're convinced that you're normal and everyone else is just unfairly persecuting you, denying your God-given right to identify as an anime Nazi dragon." " "Are you a part of the plot?" he asked. "Who are your conspirators? What are you hiding your cameras from, Mr. Parsons?" "The furries", I replied. "They hate us." "The furries," Lou repeated bitterly. "Those motherfuckers." " - it's that kind of a book. Perfect reading when you're on medication, sleeping 15 hours a day and feel dizzy the other 9 hours. Also, I stumbled upon this book in one of Avva's "What are you currently reading?" posts - in a comment by Pavel Zavyalov, aka my childhood hero Х.Мотолог, so I didn't have much choice but to read it.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Gia Bảo - Đoàn Loan
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A classic!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hà Mã
Although the sexist language of the book and its scientific positivism dates it somewhat, Loren Eiseley's The Immense Journey remains a classic. He narrates a history of the human species in the context of life on this planet throughout the scope of time. Glimpsed through his eyes, we can see the improbable and amazing persistence and adaptability of life in the face of eons of inhospitable conditions and successful and failed experiments. I found it a fascinating lens with which to consider existential and ecological questions. I reveled in the descriptions of how angiosperms transformed the planet from green and brown to brilliant hues and made possible a great diversity of plant, insect, bird, mammalian and even specifically human life, finding it a very apt companion on a trip to Costa Rica's cloud forest in Monteverde. I puzzled with Eiseley over the mysterious naked bipedal prolonged adolescence and large brain of our species and how it came to be. Yet the part of the book that actually made me cry with delight came at the end. Three vignettes moved me greatly, because they were moments that moved Eiseley greatly and he marveled over them. One concerned a spider, another two sparrowhawks and the another a group of birds. The latter involved a raven who had caught a nestling and carried it to a branch to eat it. "The sound that awoke me was the outraged cries of the nestling's parents, who flew helplessly in circles about the clearing. The sleek black monster was indifferent to them. He gulped, whetted his beak on the dead branch a moment and sat still. Up to that point the little tragedy had followed the usual pattern. But suddenly, out of all that area of woodland, a soft sound of complaint began to rise. Into the glade fluttered small birds of half a dozen varieties drawn by the anguished outcries of the tiny parents. No one dared to attack the raven. But they cried there in some instinctive common misery, the bereaved and the unbereaved. The glade filled with their soft rustling and their cries. They fluttered as though to point their wings at the murderer. There was a dim intangible ethic he had violated, that they knew. He was a bird of death. And he, the murderer, the black bird at the heart of life, sat on there, glistening in the common light, formidable, unmoving, unperturbed, untouchable. The sighing died. It was then I saw....in the midst of protest, they forgot the violence. There, in that clearing, the crystal note of a song sparrow lifted hesitantly in the hush. And finally, after painful fluttering, another took the song, and then another, the song passing from one bird to another, doubtfully at first, as though some evil thing were being slowly forgotten. Till suddenly they took heart and sang from many throats joyously together as birds are known to sing. They sang because life is sweet and sunlight beautiful. They sang under the brooding shadow of the raven. In simple truth they had forgotten the raven, for they were the singers of life, not death." (174-175). I hope you will read the book for many reasons, not least of which might be to encounter the other two vignettes.
It was awesome!I love the story and the characters. Gabaldon is a very good writer, a real historian. We can imagine ourselves there in 1743 as Scotland. The heroine, Claire is a nurse who in 1945, second honeymoon there with Frank, her husband in Scotland. The husband is a teacher and are interested in genealogy research. When Claire goes throug the circle, finds herself in 1743 and had also met with Frank's ancestor, Captain Jonathan Randall. Save her for the Scots, who have taken away a young man who was to be curing. So meet Jamie, and an interesting relationship develops between them. The Scots brought with them, they suspect it, an English spy and monitor all steps, but is interested in Captain Randall, who is the captain's hand and Claire escape, get married Jamie. This is just the beginning, most of the complications and adventure then begins. Who is really Jamie? Why chase? Claire goes back to Frank? Read and find out.
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.