Gabriel Rocha từ Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA

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11/06/2024

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2019-12-13 20:30

Who? Chuyện Kể Về Danh Nhân Thế Giới - Audrey Hepburn Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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I loved the first half of this novel. Una, the narrator, has a solid, true voice, and the book has an essence of the Gothic novels I read as a kid. But then, everything goes terribly, terribly wrong. The narrative loses momentum when Una is on Nantucket, waiting for her husband Ahab to come home. We, of course, know that he is dead. But she doesn’t. This goes on, and on and on, until finally she receives word of his death. Phew! Okay, so now we’re anxiously reading on to discover what happens next (and hoping the pace picks back up). But sadly, the novel turns from visceral to cerebral. Una begins cavorting with various historical characters, many of whom would have been in Melville’s own circuit. She meets Emerson, Thoreau, Margaret Fuller. I am utterly yanked from the dream. Do not yank me from the dream! (Has Naslund never read John Gardiner?) The topping on the cerebral cake is when Una happens upon the “minister” (Nathaniel Hawthorne) in the woods and has a lengthy conversation with him about the first line of one of his stories, the same line that Melville used as an epigram in Moby-Dick. By this point I no longer care about Una; instead I am wondering, where is Melville? How can Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau exist without Melville? I’m fully expecting old Herman to show up. In fact, I want him to. I’m already completely out of the dream anyway, so why not throw him in and stir things up even more? But no. Melville doesn’t appear, and Naslund tries to pull us back into Una’s story, even though we no longer believe in its reality or plausibility. The ending, too, is a complete groaner. Ugh. Such promise, such a let-down. Naslund seems more concerned with exorcising her literary knowledge and playing mind-games than with telling a good story.

2019-12-14 01:30

Cách Mạng Ý Tưởng Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Barry Nalebuff

"A real disappointment. Like most religious fiction, this tells us that all of life is a mystery and gosh aren't we stupid for not figuring it out. It presents us with a real life tragedy and then presents us with a god who not only doesn't care but it busy turning the crime scene into a laughing stock. I really have to wonder how anyone can call this spiritual? It presents us with a divinity so out of touch as to be offensive. This could almost be a parody of progressive christianity written by an angry fundamentalist." I wrote this when I read the book before in August. However, our church is using it for a book study, and I am so hungary for talk of books that I am attending. So how knows, I may change my attitude about this book or I may hate it even more. I read it a second time, and while I do see that I have a point, I do find the characters representing the trinity aren't as uncaring as before. I did find the book much more interesting the second time around. Now I do have flaws in the book. You can't on the one hand praise man for his independence but then clearly state that such independence has to go if man is going to be a true believer. You can't have it both ways. I think that the author wants to needle conservative religious types, while at the the same time throw them a bone. If the world and universe depends on a love that is givin freely, than how can the giving involve giving up your independence? There does seem some problematical elements here. Not the least is that ultimatly, it isn't as much about believing but about how helpless we are in the face of everything, and how that helplessness does to some extent carry on through the heavens. Now theologically, the whole notion that God can't love us without Christ really ignores a lot of the Old Testament. Hasn't God always laid out the promise of forgiveness if you chose to follow the right path? "Old Testament" theology is really one of many myths that surround the Bible and makes people who have read it shake their head. I think that Jesus' message is this, that God loves us and wants and can save every soul. That is truly good news. So I did disagree with a lot of the theology of this book, but I think a good book shouldn't confirm you in what you believe, it should create a dialouge, make you defend and clarify your beliefs.

Người đọc Gabriel Rocha từ Rancho Cucamonga, CA, USA

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.