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05/19/2024

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2019-12-15 14:31

Tập Cho Con Sáng Tạo Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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.’

2019-12-15 17:31

Vì Ai Ta Mãi Phong Trần Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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.

Người đọc Equinoxx Eqnox từ Strettura PG, Italy

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.