Ryan Benjamin từ Trnjanski Kuti, Croatia

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11/05/2024

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Ryan Benjamin Sách lại (10)

2019-12-29 13:31

Thành Phố Ngày Ta Yêu Nhau Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Phong Linh

I found this book to be a paradox in a way - I didn't like it, wouldn't recommend that any of my friends go out and read it, yet still very much want to talk with someone who's also read it to see what they thought. Why? Well, the book has an incredibly interesting topic - the narrative of a French journalist's multiple treks across the US in 2004, inspired by Alexis de Toqueville's Democracy in America. He uses his journalistic credentials to interview an array of American leaders and politicians left, right and center - just about everyone who's since run for president, cable TV talking heads, what's left of the intellectual political philosophers (apparently not much), mayors, governors, and miscellaneous politicos. Just as often as not though, his interactions are drawn from everyday Joes from parts of the country like Arab Detroit, Cuban Miami, patrols along the Mexican border, Sun Belt retirement communities excluding anyone under 55 years, mega-churches, mega-malls, mega-prisons - even Guantanamo - and plain vanilla suburbs, getting insights along the way to which the bulk of Americans, myself included, are largely oblivious. Unfortunately, Lévy sacrifices depth for breadth with his innumerable 2-3 page recantations of these interviews and wanderings, even if many of these would be fascinating as stand-alone commentaries given a bit more substance and a lot less of the author's own narrative behind them. The question I keep coming back to - and this is the part that makes me want to find someone else with an opinion of this book - is this: how representative are Lévy's random and disjointed experiences and commentaries of America as a whole? Is one coherent viewpoint even possible? And if not Lévy's picture(s), what or whose contemporary equivalent would be better?

Người đọc Ryan Benjamin từ Trnjanski Kuti, Croatia

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.