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Not essential Philip Roth, but damn good anyway. For those who claim he's a misogynist who stereotypes his female roles, check out how well he draws the female characters using ONLY dialogue here. There are maybe five non-dialogue sentences in the whole book. Nifty trick, and a quick read.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trương Tại Tân
Great book really liked it
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tuyết Hường
Repost from http://booknerds.net Please no throwing of any type of rocks. Or cake. I think there might be something wrong with me, just to let you know before I start this review. I have not out of the million of reviews I have read for this book, read a bad one. Yet somehow, despite how excited I was about it, and despite how much I wanted to luuurve it, after reading it, I’m left feeling ‘ehhh’. First of all, let me start by saying I am not in any means exaggerating at the amount of main characters above. All of those people are quite important characters, and all have quite a few lines. This however is one of the reasons I will buy Act II (Perchance To Dream). She’s got 13 main characters, and yet none of them get lost in the story. Well, figuratively speaking. You don’t forget any of them either. The characters are so well made, and so unique that none of them are enough like the others to get them mixed up. Which leads me to the second reason I will buy Act II: Imagery. I’ll be damned if Lisa didn’t manage to create some of the best imagery possible. There was never once a time where I couldn’t picture what was going on. Never once where I wondered what a character looked like, or what a scene looked like. It was all there, every single detail. I think the thing that put me off of the book the most was the ‘enter from stage left,’ ‘exit from stage right,’ ‘dim the lights,’ etc. I was never a Drama/Theatre person, I had friends that were, but never me. So some of the things were lost on me. Some of the references that were given might have been understood by others, but not myself. This however isn’t Lisa’s fault. I willingly purchased the book knowing what it was about (in fact when I saw it on the shelf, I think I even did a little dance in the middle of Borders. Maybe.) and I willingly read it. No one forced me to. So the two missing stars are less of a ‘this book is bad’ and more of a ‘this isn’t exactly the perfect book for me.’
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
Very clever writing, but nothing really happens in the book.
I liked the story and I believe it is one that unfortunately many girls will relate to or knwo someone who can. I had a hard time reading it though. The story is so intense that I had to put it down and walk away several times. I think it can be available to middle school students, mostly the girls. The story has a believable ending, but I think it sounded a little removed from character after the intensity of pretty much the entire book. I liked the story. I gave it four stars. I think Anderson is a fantastic writer. I will not read this book again. I just can't handle the story; it's too much emotionally.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Vũ Từ Trang
Though I think Pynchon wastes a lot of everyone’s time with some sloppy digressions that don’t lead anywhere, mostly, he has a point and sticks to it, and mostly, the main narrative of Slothrup’s dithering knight errantry, succeeds in being gripping. In the end I enjoyed GR, even though I’d estimate that there are 150 pages of filler in this book, made up of dated pop culture references, mildly amusing songs, dead end characters, and anecdotes that aren’t good enough to warrant deep analysis, however historically accurate. The whole lets describe sex a la Henry Miller thing, may have rattled cages and shaken up the man in ’71, but it feels self indulgent now. I understand we live in horrible, depraved world, where horrible depraved things happen, but Pynchon appears to get a masochistic thrill of rubbing our faces in it (Kajte ‘gift’ to Brigadeer Pudding and Slothrup and Bianca’s introduction/relationship spring to mind). What purpose do these depraved anecdotes serve? What I am interested in, and why I think most people would bother to read a book as meandering and Important as GR, is to divine the meaning, some irreducible Point, about the nature of the world. Towards the end it seems like P lets his guard down when he says, “human consciousness, that poor cripple, that deformed and doomed thing,”839 leads us blindly in a world where, “generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone …desperately addicted to the comforts others sells them, however useless, ugly or shallow, willing to have life defined for them by men whose only talent is for death.” (872 in a crappy bantam paperback editions) it is difficult to see where exactly the hope lies, and some amount of hope, I would argue, is needed in all great works of art. I would summarize P’s perspective in GR as: People are deluded, nasty creatures whose morals and behaviors are easily conditioned and manipulated. And then you die. I understand that in GR, nothing is as it seems. Maybe that's the point...war causes disconnect. It turns us on our heads and makes us question meaning and purpose.
I received this book as a pre release and felt that it was a good job due to editing/proofing..much better than in some pre release books I have read. The story was good but it fell a little flat for me in truly engaging me to keep reading. It took me a few weeks to get through this when I normally would have gone through a book this size in two days. I had trouble staying focused and enjoying the story as it didn't seem to flow in the way it should have. I was disappointed as it seems to end without a concrete ending.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Huỳnh Kim Sen
When my mom recommended this book to me, I have to admit I was a bit skeptical at first. Not for any particular reason. It's just it wasn't my usual fare. But once I got into it, I found an intrigueing, funny, brilliantly crafted mystery with great characters and fantastic layering. And I'm sure you will too, when you play the Westing Game. (haha)
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Phạm Thị Thanh Mai
I really wanted to like this book. I ended up despising most of it--Unamuno's insistence on the need for faith in God is highly offensive. I would say, though, that some of the chapters ("Love, Suffering, and Pity" and "Faith, Hope, and Charity") contained a lot of excellent points regarding love, suffering, death, etc., that did not necessitate his theistic bent. I also think, though, that some of what he says in the context of belief in God can be divorced from the religious ethic and applied in more useful ways. Some of his claims, though, seemed entirely unjustified and (in my view) unsupportable--but he is a more-or-less traditional Catholic Spaniard.
This time I liked Timon less than the two other times I read it. Much of it is probably not even by Shakespeare. and--although Middleton does his professional best to keep the first few acts chugging along--most of it lacks the spark of genius. There are moments in Timon's rants that are characteristically Shakespearean and memorable not only for their poetic intensity but also for the savagery of their vitriol, but they are not enough to save this pathetic pageant (no, it is nothing close to a tragedy!) of a man of extremes who passes from gullibility to misanthrope without any discernible struggle. Sure, it sounds a little like Lear . . . but Lear--trust me!--it ain't.
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.