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I had a slightly hard time getting into this book, but once I got through it, I enjoyed it thoroughly. Definitely not your standard book of poems. It's the source of the title for the Tom Robbins novel "Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates".
What a beautiful and touching story! This man's struggles with life, relationships and himself are wonderfully woven together by Khaled Hosseini. You're also given an eye-opening perspective of life in Afganistan. I highly recommend!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyễn Văn Mỹ
The concept of heaven was memorable. The plot was slow. This book had a good heart.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Thúy Nhân
This is the worst book I've read by Sharon Shinn. I wish I hadn't read it. If you've read Archangel, Jovah's Angel, and the Alleluia Files, STOP THERE!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Linh Đan
Really interesting part factual, part historical and part fiction novel. It manages to tell 2 stories at the same time, really interesting and gives you a better understanding of how the Mormons developed into the religion of today and about plural marriage.
70 years after genetic engineering cured cancer but cursed new generations with a much-limited lifespan–20 years for females, 25 for males–16 year old Rhine is kidnapped from her life with her twin brother Rowan in New York and sold into a polygamous marriage 1000 miles away. Now married to the weak House Governer Linden of her own generation and under the watchful eye of his pre-disease father, the sinister Housemaster Vaughn, Rhine must navigate the politics and agendas of her sister-wives and captors if she’s to have a chance of escape. But with only 4 years of life remaining, is Rhine sure she wants to abandon her comfortable prison, or will she find love in her new life after all? Dystopias–and dystopian trilogies–are in right now. Based on the ARC synopsis, I assumed Wither would be along the same lines as Awaken or Delirium, a romance about a girl’s choice to love or act in defiance of the rules of her progressive, emotionless society. But Wither is different. Unlike the faux utopias of those books, the world of Wither is broken. People are dying too young to maintain civilization as we know it. Members of the last generation to age naturally are still alive, but most children are orphaned early and left to fend for themselves. Powerful men have the luxury of kidnapping wives. If a cure is not found–and not everyone wants one to be–it’s easy to envision the future as successive generations of Lord of the Fruitflies. Despite its heroine wrestling with her feelings toward her new husband Linden and the house servant Gabriel, Wither is not a romance novel. Reading it brought to mind Wuthering Heights (the name association between Linton and Linden helped) and Jane Eyre, with its introspective young woman trapped in a mansion of secrets and desire. Wither is more about personalities, and how each of the sister-wives responds or adjusts to her captive marriage and new social situation. Although the story seemed to slow at times, I liked that Rhine’s feelings for both Linden and Gabriel are sometimes conflicted, and that she doesn’t lose her personality or agenda to their pheromones. The sense of menace of the house and villain are palpable, and other characters, even sympathetic ones, perpetuate iniquities through either willful or oblivious ignorance. The science fiction aspect of the series seems underdeveloped and even extraneous. The science of and social response to the crisis seem glossed over at best, although they may be further explored in the continuation of the trilogy. While the age-limiting disease helps to explain the reason for Rhine’s kidnapping, this feels more like a book about captivity that could take place at any time: future, past, or even in today’s present. Consider the same synopsis as above, with a few omissions: 16 year old Rhine is kidnapped from her life with her twin brother Rowan and sold into a polygamous marriage 1000 miles away. Now married to the weak Linden and under the watchful eye of his father, the sinister Vaughn, Rhine must navigate the politics and agendas of her sister-wives and captors if she’s to have a chance of escape. But is Rhine sure she wants to abandon her comfortable prison, or will she find love in her new life after all? The future setting does distance the horror of Rhine’s situation, as well as appeal to the current YA dystopian trend. But does it really need to? In The Hunger Games, Awaken, and Delirium, there is a real sense of rebellion. In Wither, other than her captors, there’s no government or establishment to rebel against (or if there is, we don’t know enough about it). The focus is instead on how a group of individual characters deal with their own lives under the oppression of a single household–and by extension, how we might approach our own–and that’s enough.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Hector Malot
This is a beautiful novel about challenging oneself to do something which scares you and to step out of your comfort zone - about how powerful that can be. A pleasure to read and a book to share with your girlfriends.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Jeffery Deaver
Well, I mean. It's good. It's solid. Some of it feels a bit.. writer's exercize-y. But it's filled with the kind of lively word-play, and contrapuntal rhythms that really made him famous. For instance: Sun on ice, white floss on reed and bush, the bridge-iron cast in an Advent silence I drove across, -- from Nonce Words And there's lots of Ireland in it. It's hard not to at least like most of the poems. But then bits like Fiddleheads make you wonder if he's just filling space, just phoning it in.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nguyên Hương
Favorite Sherlock Holmes book, when Charles Baskervilles dies of a heart attack, Holmes and Watson must figure out whether his death was natural, or was it that he saw the demon hound that has haunted his family for generations which terrified him so much he died.
a little known mark twain novel concerning fingerprints, a case of mistaken identity, and a lawyer named puddin' head. highly entertaining, good moral, short read. A+.
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.