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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Adrian Poole
This series is ending up to be a really good series. The first book took me a little while to get into it but now I am starting on the 3rd and can't wait to read it. It covers a lot of elements in it, romance, suspense, mystery, murder, rebellion.... all wrapped up in one neat package.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Joseph Sugarman
Pareil que pour Chroniques Martiennes, j'ai lu ce roman cette année. Vraiment original, sans concessions. J'ai souri beaucoup, mais sans joie.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Joanne Schwartz
This was a totally charming book---and it shares a tone with the lovely painting that is its subject. It is romantic; somewhat wistful; filled with hope and promise; and a tad bit fluffy. I thoroughly enjoyed it, just as I've enjoyed viewing Renoirs paintings but it wasn't particularly thought provoking or fulfilling. That said, all books don't need to be and reading it was a delightful way to share the experience of what kind of work and passion goes into a painting.
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An elderly woman in a nursing home shares her story with her young nurse who is about to make a bad choice regarding her unhappy marriage. very touching. 1or 2 hour quick uplifting read;Christian Fiction.
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Eleni Livanios
Read the 1984 edition, which has the simple text on the Right, and notes, explanations, footnotes, on the Left. Being more spaced out, it was easier to read, plus I actually understood the book... sort of. The Second volume was much more difficult. The last section, written like a play, made absolutely no sense to me. I feel like I need to read this again in about 20 years.
It end quite abruptly but was otherwise good
The quickest read I've ever read by this writer (aside from The Graveyard Book). Stardust is an amazing journey composed of many adventures, both big and small, and I loved that about the book. However, regardless of my first intentions of reading the book (I wanted to read it because I've seen the movie adaptation so many times ♥ ), I found that the third person omniscient perspective (and narrative) is typically the way fairytales are often told. Following along with how well Neil Gaiman meshes description and action, I felt both like I had enough and didn't have quite enough. Yet, it wasn't until I reached the ending (ohmygoodness, the ending), that I realized that it was enough. Not all stories have a happy ending, and he was keeping it real the whole time. There aren't enough young adult books or adult books (I will bring this up later) that introduce us to the real perspective of a young man in his early twenties (or the brink of a young man's twenties). In a way, this was a guy book because of that, but it kept to the fairytale side of things. Many adults step away from young adult fiction or children's books simply because they are genres immersed in the magic of the incredible burst of infinite opportunities and possibilities typically found in childhood. Some are more attached to the more brief and concrete adult world where fairytales and stories of myth and legend are nonexistent. This totally reminds me of something C.S. Lewis wrote about being able to read fairytales again, because he had been embarrassed of reading fairytales when he'd been younger. Reading fairytales or anything of the like is shunned because we're apparently supposed to be grown up and wake up from childish ideas to the world of "reality" and apparently "reality" is a world without that magic or hope. (My words, not C.S. Lewis'.) In many ways, I could see that through the land of Faerie and the town of Wall. The townfolk were afraid of the strange foreigners who came by for market because they were not at all like them (perhaps not of the same drab practicality of Wall). The colorfulness of these characters leads to that division of the magical realm and the mortal world. I was surprised that there was even mention of more mundane things that aren't often expressed in writing (such as pissing and sex). Of course, there are many mentions of that in American Gods, but the fact that they are included just secures the fact that they are part of life just as anything else - making your own choices in a world where many are often raised to believe they have no choice of making their own lives to find their own version of happiness (many times because of monetary problems). The narrative itself takes after what each character is looking for, and I have started to like that increasingly in novels where it is direly needed. For one, you'll want to know how the chase is going, and for another, you get to know more about the world you're reading about. There's also the theme of the good of helping others. It echoes the Grimm Brothers' "The White Snake" pretty well in how Tristran Thorne receives help from a few strangers he selflessly helped along the way (one of them being his uncle, and two others as those his father took in before the Market was open). It not only teaches something, but it definitely moved the narrative down to where it needed to go. Now, to the differences of the movie adaptation and book. A few of the minor things were taken out, and some were even changed, which is a given. I was disappointed when I got to the part of the flying ship, because its part in the book is so much smaller than that of the film. The lack of dying witches goes by the same way. Now, to the epilogue. Despite it being a fantastic and satisfying ending, I found myself being more sad than disappointing. Then again, it's what I expected from having read the difference from another fan a year ago. In many ways, I do encourage both versions of the tale, but it will always be a favorite of mine regardless of how it ends or how it goes. All that matters is that it was written and that it exists.
Great book, but a little too long!
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Edmondo De Amicis
read in 2002
Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Cressida Cowell
What it is like to be an adolescent girl- and that they can be evil....
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.