Mohamed Mady từ Vlkaneč, Czech Republic

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05/07/2024

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2020-01-05 23:30

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Several times I found myself liking then hating the author, so he must have struck a chord with me. First I have become interested in ID over the last 10 years so I am always interested in a fresh perspective. I bought this book knowing I might not agree with the author but that was intentional. To start with I was very pleased when Mr. Slack admitted his prejudice in this affair, that he is an atheist and even if evolution was proved incorrect he would still have "faith" that there is a naturalistic explanation for everything, we just haven't found it yet. The setting of the book is the Dover School Board trial in 2005, where members of the board were sued after introducing a one page statement to be read at the beginning of freshman biology to the effect that evolution does not answer all the questions about the origin of life and that students may find more information in the reference section of the library, specifically in "Of Pandas and People". We learn how badly the case was botched by the Board's defense team (with a lot of help from board members who lied under oath) and how the Judge then ruled beyond the fact that the Board was doing this to impose their religious view, which they were, but that Intelligent Design was not science. I agree with the author and the judge on the first point but have trouble with the second, and there is where the authors pointed prejudice most bothered me. there is a real interesting part where we meet a fellow journalist from Italy covering the case. His perspective was most illuminating in that while he did believe in natural selection but also thought that the evangelical movement in the US was doing so much good in protecting the country and even the world from the slide into humanism that he sees in his own country that you feel is routing for the IDers Slack, by the way believes Christians of all types are destroying the world and evangelicals are just the worst of the group. Oh well, it is a good book for conversation starters, but best be with friends who can debate without rancor.

2020-01-06 03:30

Yếu Quyết Bài Trí Phòng Ngủ Và Phòng Đọc Sách Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Dương Hồng

The book takes place in Edinburgh in the 1930s, and Miss Jean Brodie is a junior school teacher at the Marcia Blaine School for Girls. She is a highly individualistic teacher: one who prefers her own tangents and flights of fancy to any set curriculum. Her idiosyncrasies and feelings of superiority keep her right on the knife-edge, at all times, of retaining her job. This sense of being embattled against Philistines is part of personality -- and also part of her appeal. She admits five girls into her confidence and they become her "set" -- and remain so, long after she ceases to be their teacher. To these five girls, she imparts selective and highly edited bits of knowledge, opinion, gossip and romantic experience, and in return, they become her acolytes. I had never read this book, nor even seen the movie, and yet there was still this image of a young Maggie Smith -- speaking of "her girls," and the "creme de la creme" -- fixed in my mind. It is one of those books that you feel you know, even when you haven't been properly acquainted. Miss Jean Brodie is almost a protype of the kind of teacher who seeks to influence young pupils beyond the bounds of what is healthy or desirable -- for either teacher or student. The novel is set during a time when Fascism is on the rise in Europe, and the names of Hitler and Mussolini are not reviled -- but actually admired in some circles. Miss Jean Brodie is one of those admirers, and the reader can't help but make the mental connection that she herself is a natural fascist. It is a slippery sort of novel, though; and mostly, the character of Jean Brodie is rather ridiculous -- and even pitiable. Although the novel is told from the third-person point-of-view, there is a particularly perceptive girl called Sandy -- and we see Jean Brodie through her gradually disillusioned eyes. In a time when it is unusual for women to have careers, we understand that this teacher has eschewed the more narrow existence of wife/mother in order that she may exert the full range of her talents and abilities. She is, as she so insistently repeats, in her "prime." In many ways, though, it is a sad and lonely life. Muriel Spark, the author, has an interesting way of dealing with time -- and the novel goes back and forth between the past and present in particularly artful way. There are lots of repetitions, of words and phrases, and there is a voice and style in this book that is like no other. In Candia McWilliam's introduction, she claims that this novel is "technically beyond praise." I don't really understand how a novel can be beyond praise, but I certainly agree that it is a tightly written, clever book.

Người đọc Mohamed Mady từ Vlkaneč, Czech Republic

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.