Sylvia Rowe từ Schechen, Germany

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05/05/2024

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2019-12-08 16:30

Lời Nguyền Lỗ Ban - Tập 3 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Viên Thái Cực

OMG TIME TRAVELING HISTORIANS!!!! *flails hands around in excitement* So, above you can see my first impression of this book, and it didn't disappoint. Yes, I am obsessed with time travel, and yes, I love learning about World War II. Blackout was positively fantastic. A while ago, one of my friends told me that I was going to have to go through sci-fi detox due to the massive amounts of it that I was absorbing. When I asked what that would consist of, she simply replied "a lot of historical fiction." Well, Blackout is like the perfect marriage between the two. In Blackout, time travel is possible through a device known as "the net" and the net controls when and where someone arrives in the past, if they're able to go at all. Some places, like Dunkirk, are temporal tipping points that no one can go to because they're so integral to history playing out like it's supposed to. The strange thing about Blackout is that, unlike the above example (from Doctor Who, by the way, one of the best time-travel shows ever!), time is not fluid. You can't go back and shoot Hitler (they tried, didn't work) but what you can do is insert a historian into an insignificant role and let them observe historical events, talk to the contemporaries, and bring the phrase "primary resources" to a whole new level. Blackout starts slightly strange, but does a fantastic job of setting up the characters and the world in which time travel is possible. Despite the fact that this is a time travel book, there's not a ton of time travel involved once the main characters make it to their destinations. This is largely due to the fact that there is something wrong with the net and they are unable to make it back to Oxford in the future, from which they originated. World War II has always fascinated me, and it as a historical fiction novel, Blackout DELIVERS! The characters are so well written, and as an American, it's interesting to be reading parts that are from the point of view of the English during the the Blitz and Dunkirk. I loved all the characters, though seriously (view spoiler) The only thing I didn't like about this book was THE CLIFFHANGER!!! Of all the books I've read, the cliffhanger for Blackout is one of the most extreme. If the next book in the series wasn't already out, I'd be deep in book fury. Cliffhanger aside, this is a book worth reading. It's certainly one of the best that I've read this year!

2019-12-08 20:30

Mật Ngữ Rừng Xanh Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lê Hữu Nam

The Scarlet Letter = 1.5 stars Words that Hawthorne obviously likes a lot (and that I now hate): ignominy bosom breast venerable epoch Oh... And we must not forget the exclamation marks! And the long sentences, that continue on and on, even if there should have been a period; wherewith the keyboard or thou printing press wherewithal must not have had a period; even though that's stupid because it sure did have semi-colons; and just so you know, thy is being funny and mocking Hawthorne's writing; even though seriously the sentences would be this long. Yea (he said that a lot too.) Overall, I thought this book was like a bad sequel. When I learned I had to read this for my literature class, I thought it would be about this ongoing affair. So, therefore, I thought the whole book would be this fancy, old, dirty scandalous novel. And although I wasn't very excited about this, I thought that it would at least be interesting. Wrong. Like I said, this was like a sequel of a book that was never published. The first imaginary book (the interesting one that actually detailed all the juicy stuff) should have been called The Scarlet Letter: How It Happened . This book is like the aftermath; the boring stuff no one cares about. Here, let me break it down. So there's this Puritan ("pure") chick named Hester. She lives in Boston (I think?), back in the seventeenth century. Her old hag of a husband is back in England and he was planning to meet her in the Americas. But ole Hester got tired of waiting. So she had this affair and committed adultery. Along with a prolonged "ignominy" (ugh) a scarlet letter is placed upon her "bosom"..."breast"...whatever. It is a letter "A". So now Hester is walking around with her crazy daughter, Pearl. But then her old husband, "Chillingworth" (I put the quotes because I got the impression that that was just his alias) comes to New England and plans to get revenge on Hester's "mysterious" baby daddy. Right. The thing is, by chapter...seven, I already knew who the darn father was (I won't say it, even if it's pretty obvious). Okay, maybe that's not all that impressive but I think the mystery should have gone through the whole book. The whole thing felt dry to me. I'm not saying that Hawthorne doesn't write nicely (even if I didn't understand 25% of what he said). It was just...very old. That's really the only way I can describe it. Everyone talked like this: Hath you finished ye book! Yea! Thou book hath badth! Thy ignominy tis glowing celestially! -_- Oh! And it was in third person. Ugh. Just glad I finished this thing for class.

Người đọc Sylvia Rowe từ Schechen, Germany

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.