Rosidi Roslan từ Silua Pur, Uttar Pradesh, India

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2019-12-31 20:30

Bản Hợp Xướng Nobunaga (Tập 5) Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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I came to this book expecting something light and full of fluff, in the vein of Matthew Polly or a slightly more licentious A.J. Jacobs (whose cover quote came as no surprise whatever). Instead, it hit me really, really hard. Parts of Roose's story are weirdly resonant: I was raised an evangelical Protestant, attended 2 years of middle school in much the same conservative atmosphere, and have been surrounded by the ideas, attitudes and emphases surrounding Liberty throughout my life: I know plenty of porn-battling, Hannity-listening, purity ring-wearing creationist Christians, and have always felt out of place with my Inner-Light seeking, diversity-accepting predilections. As a matter of fact, I'm a Christian who leans decidedly Quaker-ward (I really liked his insight regarding Quakerism). Basically the book deals with the same issues I've been for years. That's why I left this book conflicted: it was easy to wish he had been more condemnatory of the more odious aspects of the Christian Right, but he also shows the importance of open-mindedness, while keeping a grip on your own convictions. While also being willing to change them. See? These are really big questions, and Roose asks them with an honesty and earnestness that forces you to answer them. I don't know that he ever really answers them for anyone but himself, but that's the point, I suppose. Interesting book, to understate it. (As a side note, I went to the website, took the quiz...and made a perfect score.)

2020-01-01 01:30

120 Thực Đơn Ăn Dặm Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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Kurzbeschreibung: Neun außerirdische Teenager und ihre Wächter fliehen auf die Erde, nachdem ihr Heimatplanet Lorien zerstört wurde. John ist einer von ihnen - immer auf der Flucht vor dem schrecklichen Feind, dessen einzige Mission es ist, ihn zu vernichten. Mit ständig wechselnder Identität zieht John von Ort zu Ort, immer der Neue ohne Verbindungen zu seiner Vergangenheit. Doch als er in Paradise, Ohio, ankommt, stellen unerwartete Ereignisse sein Leben auf den Kopf: die erste große Liebe, mächtige neue Fähigkeiten und eine Verbindung zu denen, die sein unfassbares Schicksal teilen. Zum Autor: Pittacus Lore ist der Anführer des Planeten Lorien. Die letzten zwölf Jahre hat er auf der Erde verbracht, um den Krieg vorzubereiten, der über das weitere Schicksal jeglicher Existenz entscheiden wird. Sein aktueller Aufenthaltsort ist unbekannt. Pittacus Lore ist das Pseudonym der beiden Autoren James Frey und Jobie Hughes, die gemeinsam das Buch "I Am Number Four" schrieben, welches 2010 in den USA veröffentlicht wurde. Ein Jahr später veröffentlichte DreamWorks Pictures den gleichnamigen Film. James Frey wurde am 12. September 1969 in Clebeland, Ohio, USA geboren. Mit seinen beiden autobiographisch geprägten Romane "A Million Little Pieces" und "My Friend Leonard" gelang ihm gleich zweimal ein Bestseller. Ersteres wurde in den USA kontrovers diskutiert, da es vorgeblich autobiographisch ist, Aussagen von Angehörigen und Zeugen zufolge, aber nicht wahr sein kann. Jobie Hughes wurde am 9. Juli 1980 in Renton, Washington, USA geboren, wuchs in Spencer, Ohio auf und lebt mittlerweile in New York. Er studierte Kreatives Schreiben an der Ohio University und an der Columbia University. Rezension: Der 15-jährige John Smith oder auch Nummer Vier kommt vom fernen Planeten Lorien, der von der Rasse der Mogadori zerstört wurde. Zusammen mit seinem Cêpan Henri, einer Art Wächter und Lehrer, ist John vor zehn Jahren von seinem Planeten zusammen mit acht weiteren Kindern geflohen, die die Erben von Lorien sind und alle eine gewisse übernatürliche Gabe in sich tragen. Doch die Mogadori sind auch auf der Erde weiterhin hinter den Erben her, um die Rückkehr und den Wiederaufbau des Planeten Lorien mit aller Macht zu verhindern. Die Erben können allerdings nur nach numerischer Reihenfolge getötet werden. Nachdem John und Henri erfahren haben, dass bereits Nummer Drei getötet wurde, suchen sie neue Zuflucht in einem kleinen Ort in Ohio. Dort lernt John am ersten Schultag Sarah kennen, in die er sich verliebt, und Sam, der bald ein guter Freund wird. Doch das unvermeidliche Aufeinandertreffen mit den Mogadori steht schon kurz bevor... John, einer der Erben Loriens, ist ein Charakter, bei dem ich etwas Zeit brauchte, um mit ihm warm zu werden. Anfangs ist er recht schwer greifbar, doch als er sein erstes Erbe (oder seine erste Gabe) offenbart bekommt, über das ich nichts näheres verraten möchte, wird er sympathischer und man kann gut nachvollziehen, wie er lernen muss, damit umzugehen. Auch seine ständige Furcht vor Entdeckung durch die Mogadori wird anschaulich geschildert. Sympathische Nebencharaktere findet man in Henri, Johns Cêpan, Sam, seinem neuen Schulfreund, der sich sehr für außerirdische Lebensformen interessiert, ohne anfangs zu wissen, was sich eigentlich hinter John selbst verbirgt und Johns zugelaufenem Hund Bernie Kosar, für den er sogar sein Leben riskieren wird. Sarah, in die John sich verliebt, war mir eine gänzlich zu blasse Figur. Als John ihr seine wahre Herkunft offenbart, tut sie so, als wäre ein außerirdischer Freund etwas völlig Normales und hinterfragt absolut nichts. Es kam mir so vor, als ob die Autoren einfach eine Liebesgeschichte miteinbauen wollten, die nicht näher durchdacht wurde und mehr als "Füller" herhalten sollte. Johns Geschichte wird aus seiner Sicht in Gegenwartsform erzählt, was die Handlung, vor allem als es zum unausweichlichen Kampf gegen die Mogadori kommt, sehr spannend macht und man sich als Leser hautnah am Geschehen beteiligt fühlt. Da es sich um eine auf sechs Bände angelegte Reihe handelt, bleiben einige Fragen offen. Im August 2011 wird im Englischen der zweite Band der Reihe, "The Power of Six", erscheinen, der sich dann allerdings mit Erbe Nummer Sieben beschäftigen wird, denn scheinbar soll jeder Band von einem anderen Erben handeln. Seit März 2011 läuft auch bereits der gleichnamige Film zum ersten Teil in den deutschen Kinos. "Ich bin Nummer Vier" ist ein spannender Serienauftakt, der einen guten Schuss Science-Fiction-Anteil in das Jugendbuch-Genre einbringt, der auch für männliche jugendliche Leser aufgrund seiner spannend erzählten Kampfszenen interessant sein dürfte. Zur Gestaltung des Buchs: Das Cover ist im Grundton dunkel gehalten. In der Mitte ist eine Art Feuerball oder Planet in Gelb- und Orangetönen abgebildet. Fazit: "Ich bin Nummer Vier" besticht durch sympathische Außerirdische, die sich kaum von der menschlichen Rasse unterscheiden. Der Mix aus Spannung und Science-Fiction-Anteilen bietet gute Unterhaltung und macht neugierig auf den Folgeband.

2020-01-01 05:30

Lắng Nghe Trái Đất - Cây Bút Diệu Kì Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

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I'm of two minds with this book. One part of me wants to shudder and 1-star it. The other wants to give it 4, on account of its heroine, Kristen. Kristen Hardraad is a strong willed, drop-dead gorgeous Viking maiden (Aqua eyes! Long, flowing, blonde hair!), who longs for adventure and man she can marry and love. So she stows away on her brother's ship while he's on a "Trading Voyage", with the intent of finding herself a nice man in one the "Trading Ports" he'll visit (because, you know, none of the men who are throwing themselves at her and worship the ground she walks on at home are good enough). Well, it turns out brother-dearest told a white lie when he borrowed daddy's ship. No trading for them, they're going VIKING! (Did anyone else know Viking was a verb?) This doesn't turn out as well as they hoped. Half the crew are killed, and the other half, Kristen included, taken prisoner to work as slaves. Kristen is separated from the crew, and finds herself working in the house of Lord Royce. Kristen and Royce are drawn to each other, and Kristen knows she's found her man. He just happens to be her captor. OK. So, fair enough. We're off to an interesting start. About a fifth of the way through the book they eventually meet for the first time (golly, this started off slow). Royce assumes that Kristen, being a sole woman on a Viking ship, must have been onboard to, ahem, service the ship's crew. So there are lots of longing stares, denied attractions, and "I can't be attracted to you because you're a Viking whore and Vikings killed my family and affianced! *Angst, angst, ANGST!*"'s My problem with this book is quite simple, really: Rape is never, ever, ever OK. When they inevitably fall into bed, it plays out like this: Royce: "I'm going to bone you whether you're willing or not." Kristen: "Oh, well, I'd prefer that I not be raped, so I'll say yes, and then it's not rape, right?" Royce: "Oh, yeah... totally. Now take off your clothes, wench, and get in my bed." Kristen: "OK!" Royce: "Well, this is jolly good then! ... *insert moaning and groaning* ... WTFery?! You have a HYMEN?! You tricked me! DUPLICITOUS WENCH!" Kristen: "Uh, yeah. I thought if I was a virgin you'd rape me." Royce: "Well, yeah. But I totally would have raped you either way." So. He's going to have sex with Kristen whether she wants to or not? Despite the fact that, well, yeah, she wants to, he doesn't give a damn either way? My issue is this: willingness and intent to rape are surely just as bad as the act itself. The dude set out with the intent to force himself on her, and IT. IS. REPUGNANT. Royce sees it as not rape, because she's a slave, and he's her owner, so he can do whatever the fuck he wants. So, you know, it's OK 'cos the law's on his side. Never mind, well, that you're a douchebag. I get that, taken in terms of historical context, yes, Royce's stance is—however sickeningly—'justified'. And you know what? I DO want historical accuracy in my novels, sure, but it's a romance novel written in fairly modern times for modern readers. I don't get off on rape. I want a hero with at least as much moral fibre as my Wheat Bran. I've never read a romance-novel sex scene that made my stomach turn instead of tingling. I wanted them ('them', because there are MANY) over, or not happen at all. In one particularly disturbing scene he forcibly ties Kristen up after she's fought him to the extent of attempting to physically harm him, rather than going to his bed. But, oh, she winds up quite enjoying it, thank you, so it's OK. I can't articulate my frustrations with this aspect of this book strongly enough. It's disturbing, and wrong. It rankles so badly because Kristen is awesome. She's a strong woman, and a great feminist role model; I love that she achieves this not by hating men, or compensating for her physical weakness. She's actually physically strong, sure, but it's her mind and spirit. She doesn't cry, she doesn't pity herself, she doesn't let anything break her spirit. She acknowledges the only person responsible for her situation is her, and takes it as it comes. She's fiercely devoted to those she loves, and she's not an emotional manipulator (which both Royce and I loathe). There's actually one particularly awesome event in this book, where, after Royce is gravely injured, and both he and Kristen are captured, she's about to be raped (not willingly, this time). Fighting off, and incapacitating her captor, she defeats the guards with a sword she's stolen, and breaks Royce out of the dungeons. A total reversal of the damsel in distress scenario. But I keep coming back to the kind-of-consensual-rape. We've all heard of court cases where—and I shit you not—the "but she totally wanted/enjoyed it" story has been played as some kind of sick, twisted defence for the rapist, or as an attack against the rape victim's credibility. It's why I can't make myself be OK with this element of the story. Rape is such an incredibly serious issue and such an heinous, violent act, I can't justify it as being OK, in any situation. There is no "she was asking for it," or, "she enjoyed it," (or he, for that matter). Any way in which rape is somewhat justified detracts from a violent, hateful act that destroys the lives of thousands of women, children, and—yes—men, around the world every year. I can't swallow this element of Hearts Aflame without feeling it somehow cheapens the suffering of rape victims everywhere. I guess the event in this book may not technically be rape. It was—more or less—consensual. But it could have been, and would have been, if our so-called-hero didn't get his way. How is that romantic? Attractive? Appealing? Despite his good qualities, and they're many, I couldn't see Royce as anything besides a would-be rapist. The Verdict: Our otherwise fabulous protagonist, Kristen, is let down by one aspect of the book, but it's one aspect so repellent I can't let it slide. The 'rapey' sex-scenes aside, Hearts Aflame is a good story, which is why it's so. damn. frustrating. The characters are interesting, so's the storyline, and watching the relationship between Kristen and Royce develop is lovely. I've never wanted for no sex in a romance novel more, and I just can't get past it. Please don't get me wrong: I'm not saying anything against anyone who loved this book—there are clearly many of you out there, and I can understand why. I throroughly enjoyed the story otherwise, but I couldn't get past my one, rather large issue.

Người đọc Rosidi Roslan từ Silua Pur, Uttar Pradesh, India

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.