Dinar Musa từ Ura, Respublika Tatarstan, Russia

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11/05/2024

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2019-11-15 20:31

Bách Thuật Giao Tiếp Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

Steve Lowe, Wolves Dressed As Men (Eternal Press, 2010) Dear Stephenie Meyer, Maggie Stiefvater, Jessica Coulter Smith, and, well, everyone back to, and maybe including, Whitley Streiber: this is how you write a werewolf novel. Or, given its length, the outline of one. But seriously, Steve Lowe just kicked all your butts around the room in a steel cage match, and you probably didn't even notice. Plot: there's a werewolf. He's not too happy with being a werewolf. (Okay, the rest of you lot got that part down.) There is also a Tracker, who's trying to kill the werewolf. (Most of you got that bit, too.) But this werewolf, who goes by the name of Thiess, is confused enough with his werewolf self that he's not acting like a regular werewolf, at least “regular” as defined by the tracker. Thiess lives in the big city, trying to blend in. He's infatuated with Maria, a co-worker (when was the last time one of your werewolves had, you know, a job?), and she's kind of drawn to him, too. Every day after work, he goes to St. Stanislaus, a local church, and begs God for forgiveness for the crimes he commits in wolf form, begs God to lift this affliction from him. You know how well that's going to work. But the longer Thiess is afflicted, the more of his humanity he loses. As a bonus hidden track, there's also a serial arsonist at work in the ghetto where Thiess lives, and he's becoming more and more active as Thiess gets worse. The cops are looking for Thiess, of course, and the arsonist as well in their spare time, but the guy who actually has a chance of finding him is a reporter, once an embedded war correspondent in Afghanistan, now reduced to writing trash articles for a local tabloid. (And if you've never seen the 1983 movie Strange Invaders, do it now. I'll wait. That goes triple if your name is Steve Lowe and you hit on this plot angle by sheer coincidence.) I've already mentioned the book's major weakness: its length. Wolves Dressed As Men reads far more like an outline than an actual novel. There's so, so, so much more that could have been done with this wonderful mix of characters and situations. The arsonist plotline, especially, is begging for a fuller treatment, and an examination of the parallel between werewolf and arsonist would have been endlessly fascinating, had it appeared. The conflict between the journalist and his buddy on the police force had a few great moments, and could have had much more. Imagine a confrontation between the police and the Tracker... I could go on like this for the rest of the review. This is a sixty-one-page book that could have been ten times as long, and Lowe (Muscle Memory) has the chops to make it work. On the other hand, what's here is as solid as they come. When you find yourself holding a book this small, what you expect to be leaving behind on the cutting room floor is characterization. And to be sure, these characters could have been more fully fleshed out, but Lowe used a lot of the space here to draw a few of his characters as well as anything you'll find in a major-label novel. The action is believable (as much as can be in a novel about a werewolf living in a ghetto, you understand), the pace is breakneck, the plot is as hooky as the premise would have you believe. I will continue to live in hope that Lowe eventually comes back to this story and turns it into the epic it so richly deserves to be. I'll buy it all over again, and be thankful for the opportunity, and if a six-hundred-page treatment of Wolves Dressed As Men is as good as a sixty-one-page treatment, there's no chance it won't show up on my best reads of the year list. Until then, I'll be glad I've got what I've got here. *** ½

2019-11-15 21:31

Cẩm Nang Sử Dụng Tính Từ - Trạng Từ Tiếng Anh Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: The Windy

I enjoyed the book but it took me longer to warm to the story and characters than it did for either Angles and Demons or The Da Vinci Code. I think Brown has more fun writing about art history than cryptology.

2019-11-15 22:31

Đại tướng Lê Trọng Tấn - Từ Đồng Quan đến Điện Biên Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Đại tướng Lê Trọng Tấn

EDITED: My review here was so worthless I was ashamed and deleted it. Maybe I'll write another one. Until then you have this as a placeholder.

2019-11-15 23:31

Mười Hai Bến Nước Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Bính

read in 2008

2019-11-16 00:31

Giải Sách Bài Tập Toán Lớp 8 (Tập 1) (Tái Bản) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

This is a interesting book, and is perfect for my age. it keeps u interested, and wanting to keep reading.

2019-11-16 01:31

Khám Phá Thiên Tài Trong Bạn (Tái Bản 2017) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Michael J. Gelb

Never really thought about how truly bloody the Civil War was and what happened to all the wounded. Amazing how far medicine has come. Good book, seemed to be well researched. Was easy to put down and get back into it.

2019-11-16 02:31

Ý Chí Quyền Lực Sinh Tồn Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Hoàng Thanh

This book was incredibly creepy. I thought the whole time something was gonna get to one of them. I almost never put the book down it was so good. I wish there was another book!

2019-11-16 03:31

Combo Sách Tô Màu Dành Cho Người Lớn: Tí Hon Xâm Lược + Đồng Vọng Bốn Mùa Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nancy Peña

amusing

2019-11-16 04:31

Bụi Sao Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Neil Gaiman

A thoughtfully creative narrative, that begins as an illuminating jaunt through the explanations of belief that ends in a rather dull climax. Recommended via e-mail from SamHarris.org (in which I am recognizing a pattern that Sam Harris likes to recommend books where his blurb appears on the dust jacket; am I giving these opinions too much agenticity because I have previously read\liked his material? – more on this later), Shermer presents an interesting framework in which beliefs are constructed. Most interestingly, he proposes that we give perceived patterns (patternicity) specialized meanings (agenticity) that form what he calls a belief-dependent realism. This book succeeds in the consistent use of these concepts with applications to various forms of the human condition. From evolution, to religion, to the formulation of political affiliations, he keeps the reader interested through biological, psychological, and physiological points. Somewhat disappointingly, for as diversely he applies his belief-dependent realism proposal, the narrative seems to begin to slow severely towards the end of the work in an entirely too exhaustive example of applying the scientific model to observations of the cosmos. It is understandable the he would what to operationalize his theory, but may have been better served by shortening this anecdote and\or including other examples form the scientific community at large. Overall, a great opportunity to aid your understanding of why you or someone else could, “possibly believe such crap,” whatever your definition of ‘crap’ may be…belief-dependent realism.

2019-11-16 05:31

Truyện Ngắn Hay Tuổi Trẻ Cuối Tuần 2006 - 2007 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả

australia. post-nuclear war. couples. slow moving. like a snapshot, no action.

Người đọc Dinar Musa từ Ura, Respublika Tatarstan, 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.