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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Tony Buổi Sáng
"Coach" has really defined what it means to be a team. His book on leadership defined those qualities it takes to lead a team on the floor and off the floor. His priciples apply to anyone not just basketball players and coaches. I really liked his side notes and personal letters that were in the book.
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I read Caroline Goode's novel "Cupidity" as part of my research for my creative thesis project (long story). The novel features Greek gods and misunderstandings of Shakespearian proportions. But first and foremost, "Cupidity" is what most people--who don't use my expanded definition of the term--would call a chick lit novel. The cover art by Amy Saidens is possibly the best part of this novel. Sad, yes. But to date Caroline Goode doesn't have any other novels so who knows what's in store for her (Aimee Friedman started with teen "romantic comedies" too and now she's a kind of big deal). (Sidebar: Amy Saidens has done the cover art for lots of YA novels including "How to Not Spend Your Senior Year," "Spin Control," and "The V Club." All of which have ah-may-zing covers. You can see her illustrations at her website.) Okay, so that's a lot of background without saying anything about the book. Just to give a hint of what's in store, my online dictionary defines "cupidity" as "excessive desire, especially for wealth; covetousness or avarice." So, you can imagine what kind of trouble starts when Cupid is sent to a modern-day high school and decides to disguise himself as a teen girl called Cupidity. It all starts when the novel's protagonist, seventeen-year-old Laura Sweeney (a mythology buff conveniently enough) asks Jupiter to send her a boyfriend. The Gods and Goddesses of ancient Rome are still alive and kicking--just not very high. The immortals are rotting in an exclusive nursing home where they have decided to spend . . . well all eternity I guess. This is one of my biggest pet peeves with the novel. Goode is one of the few authors I have encountered with the ingenuity to put ancient gods and goddesses into a modern setting. But instead of making the most of it and creating a really interesting plot device--Goode squanders these amazing characters, having them hobble around with walkers, some bordering on senility. These are the gods that entire civilizations worshiped out of fear and awe. It's just embarrassing to read about them in a nursing home, I'm sorry. But there's more to question in the plot: In a misguided attempt to get Laura that boyfriend, Cupid/Cupidity starts wreaking havoc among the student body. Suddenly skaters are dating nerds. Jocks are hanging out with rockers. The entire social order of Laura's high school is in chaos. If any of this sounds familiar it's because every modernized version of Shakespeare's comedies has done something of a similar type. (The mistaken identity of "Twelfth Night" crossed with the mayhem of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is an apt comparison here.) This would all be tolerable. Except for the painfully obvious fact that Laura's perfect guy is right in front of her and she would be able to find him herself if she'd stop whining and really pay attention for a minute. But, of course, she doesn't do that until the end. The narrative here is also not the best. The story starts slow and always seems vaguely staged. Case in point: Instead of letting Laura's interest in mythology stand on its own, it's basically used to beat readers over the head lest they forget the mythology connection. The fact that none of the secondary characters have any dimension (or even significant roles in the narrative) also does little for the book as a whole. This comedy of errors is mildly amusing, but in the long run there are too many near-misses and mix ups to make the story anything but frustrating as Laura stumbles along trying to get things back to normal and find true love.
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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nhiều Tác Giả
Excellent: illustrates his principles of following the constitution and not redistributing wealth. Somewhat repititious in places, but congress needs it.
This is a wonderful book!
I was made to read this book by my brother and for that I owe him a debt of gratitude. I really didn't think that, as an adult, I would find this book so absorbing. It's full of imagination and great fun. In parts, chilling too. The start of an obsession.
Awww.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: David C. Robertson
I had no idea what to expect from this book. To be perfectly honest, I purchased it on my Nook Color because it was an interactive book with videos, etc. It was better than I expected. It is a small history about Harry Potter fandom, how it grew, what happened with fan web sites, fan books, fan arguments over HP canon, and everything else in between. The book's author was (and perhaps still is) a writer/employee of one of the largest HP fan sites on the internet, The Leaky Cauldron. There are several excellent chapters which detail the rise of the Potter novels from the first book being published and everything it went through to get to the printed page, to how word got out about it when it was first released. There is an extensive interview with J.K Rowling (who also writes the forward), along with details about meeting members of the cast from the films. I am a fan of the Potter books and movies, but not a die-hard, know every thing type of fan. And yet, I found this book interesting. So, I can imagine it safe to say that if you are a die-hard fan of the Potter books and movies, you'll love this book.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lê Minh Thu
A collection of short stories by mostly new authors, this book manages to provide an interesting mix of several types of fantasy and horror and while I didn't like all the individual stories, overall I think it was a nice read.
Maybe liked it even better than Housekeeping vs. the Dirt (if that's possible). All I know is that I rarely read a book by an author and immediately seek out a copy of anything else he/she has done in a similar vein. But, I did.
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.