亲爱的安德烈英语读后感（汇总20篇）

Recently,I have just finished reading a famous novel written by Margaret mitchellGone with the Wind，which is one of the most popular works among American novels.It took the auther about 10 years to finish this great novel,the only novel in her life.

The story happened during the Civil War eve.Scarlett O"Hara,a 16-year-old girl,who was living in Tala manor in Georgia,was loving her neighbor Ashley Wilkes.However,after the war have broken out, Ashley Wilkes married his yonger cousin Melanie. Scarlett was so angry that she decided to marry a man she didn’t really love---- Charles Hamilton.Not long after that, Charles Hamilton joined the Army and died of illness in the war.So Scarlett had to act as a widow.Afterwards,at a donating dance party,Scarlett is acquainted with a captain named Rhett Butler. Then the flames of war approached Atlanta.Everyone was busy leaving away from the war.Scarlett managed to escape from Atlanta with the help of captain Rhett.Having come back to Tala manor,Scarlett made up her mind to rally her homeland at any cost when she saw that the former manor had been ruined.Later,her second husband died in the fight,she was a widow again.Durling that time, Rhett had been loving Scarlett sincerely and warmly.Seeing that Rhett could help her rally the manor,Scarlett married him.Although Rhett had similar characteristic attracting her,Scarlett still loved Ashley.Later,their only daughter died accidently,Rhett left Scarlett sorrowly.And then Scarlett realized that Rhett was the only one who could fall in love with her.

The novel takes the US Civil War as the background.It takes Scarlett’s individual activity as the thread.The book show us a tragic love story .A couple who could have a perfect future,but finnally go in opposite direction.As a matter of fact,their charactristics have decided their tragic result inevitably.We feel sorry about the end because we are looking forward to a perfect end,just like Scarlett and Rhett.In fact,ferfect is always a excessive damand.

I affirm Rhett.He brings excitement to Scarlett’s life and encourages her impulse to change and succeed.Like Scarlett,he goes after what he wants and refuses to take ‘no’ for an answer.He is humorous,intelligent and cynical with a hint of treason.He is really a respectable man.I think he finnally left because of love .Otherwise,he couldn’t have gone without hesitation.

Ashley Wilkes is the foil to Rhett’s dark, realistic opportunism.If there was no Civil War,he is surely a nobility of grace and charm.But history cannot be changed.He bocame a victim of the war.His era was gone with the defeat of the war.At the same time,we cannot deny the fact that he had a chear understanding about reality,which just contribute to his tragedy.

In this book,what I appreciate most is not Melanie’skindness or Rheet’s dedication and patience,but Scarlett’s courage to throw her long-standing morality and tradition whe faced with diffiiculties.At the beginning of the war,she didn’t care about this.In her world are endless dinner parties and dance parties.In her body are her father’s brave Irish blood and her mother’s noble French pure blood.She had a vast farm as her home.She had hundreds of slaves.This is Scarlett.,a member of noblity,proud and different.However,the war changed everything.Her mother died of illness.Her father become silent and the farm was nearly deserted.Even food became a big problem.All the pressure was put on Scarlett’s shoulder.She must feed a family of 9 people in it.What a big difference of level.If all this happened to someone else,he or she may choose to escape.On the contrary,Scarlett choose to face the change of life bravely.How can we not admire her courage of to change herself.Life is like a mountain.The road can’t be completely smooth.When we fall down from the peak,we may get hert ,we may get disappointed,we may feel despair.But if you want to survive,you must stand up to face it.

It is obvious that 《Gone with the wind》 is really a good book,even if a long time has passed away,it is still suitable for today’s society.It is of great importance to change ourselves,change our value even our thoughts when our life chages.

On the other hand,I think there is no real perfect in the world.Everybody has his shortcomings.It is necessary for us to learn to forgive others’ faults.If we keep good-tempered,Ibelieve there will be more comedy and less tragedy.

The novel by the pungent satire and humorous, the strange imagination and the exaggeration, Gulliver who the description is very fond of the navigation risk, travels around the world in all directions, has experienced every large or small thrilling and the interesting fortuitous encounter.

In travel notes adult the country, Lilliput"s strange story has attracted me deeply, however the impression deepest in 1710 Gulliver went boating North America for me, on the chance encounter desert island brightly because of the country, knew had, the honest moral excellence benevolently brightly because of the country king"s story. Does not have because in bright country"s language to lie and the deceit such inscription, the people do not understand their meaning. They do not understand anything are suspect， anything is does not trust。 In theirs state, all are real, transparent.

I envy Gulliver to be able very much to arrive fortunately brightly because of the country, where is the ideal region which we pursue and yearned for, does not need to worry others speech in here you the genuine and fake. But in the realistic society, some people swindles others" hard-earned money with the honeyed words; Some people kidnap and sell the child to seek the sudden and huge profits; Some people even abandon their for the money birth parents No wonder, our teacher, the elder since childhood educates us to want to enhance vigilance, carefully is deceived.

I was also hoping the one day of our society also to be able to look like brightly because of country such, in children"s eye no longer has the anxiety, the education and the reality is unified. I hope for this reason diligently, also hopes everybody same place, starts from me, starts from the side, lets this social many spots be sincere, the few spot is false.

Life such as the siege.Republishes from 1980 to now, scholars qianzhongshu unique novel fortress besieged has remained constant: sell like hot cakes in November 1980 after the first run of 130000 copies, total sales of 3.98 million copies to date.More was adapted into a novel flow, TV series and other art forms, research works and papers are also countless.Or impact from sales, fortress besieged is a unique scenery, in the history of 30 years of reading as a model of intellectuals novels, fortress besieged has affected the generations of readers.

The author in "besieged city" title, perhaps is to want to tell us: marriage is like siege, not only life, life, career, etc. More like the siege.In fact, we have been going round in circles, repeat do the same thing;Find a cage shut yourself up and soon found that the scenery there than here as well, and out of the cage into the cage.So repeated and enthusiasm.

There was a strange stillness. The birds, for examplewhere had they gone? The feeding stations in the backyards were deserted. The few birds seen anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was spring without voices. On the farms the hens brooded, but no chicks hatched. The roadsides, once so attractive, were now lined with browned and withered vegetation as though swept by fire. These, too, were silent, deserted by all living things. Even the streams were now lifeless.

This is a strange scene described by Rachel Carson, who is regarded as the mother of modern environmental protection movement。 Silent Spring is her representative work which lighted the fire of environmental protection in America and the whole world. Before 1960s, no books or magazines talked about things like environment and ecosystem. Such a phenomenon means that environmental protection had not come to people’s mind and the social consciousness. Indeed, the main opinion in human society from the very past about nature is to set war against or conquer it. In fact, many of human’s progresses are made on the base of such opinion. Rachel Carson was the first person who doubted the correctness of the belief and brought the topic under focus.

In Silent Spring, Carson described a miserable village which was dying under the using of DDT. The village used to be prosperous and beautiful. In spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines. Then foxed barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields, half hidden in the mists of the fall mornings. She thought that with the using of variety kinds of pesticide, especially DDTs, the village suffered enormous and irreversible damage and gradually withered and died. Soon it became just like the one described in the beginning. From her fine and smooth describing, I can even feel the groan of the town. Moreover Carson also sharply pointed out that the deep-seated cause for the environmental problem is the human’s arrogance and ignorance. So she asked people to correct the attitude toward the nature and reconsidered the developing path of human being.

Carson thought that because of the antibody and differentiation, pesticides would never be completely useful. On the contrary, those more and more poisonous medicines, because of the enrichment effect, would accumulate in humans’ body. It’s quite sarcastic that we hurt ourselves much badly while hurting the others. Then she analyzed many poisonous components in pesticides. Those are all unfamiliar names except DDT, such as chlordane, chloronaphthalene, compound 497, etc.

Those things really make me feel scared. We are on the top of the food chain, and it is such a perfect and fragile system. We human beings are just part of it and we depend on all of the creatures who stay on the lower positions. It is so hard and ridiculous to try to match the nature. Only in the state does man have a rational existence. Every species have their value to be on this world. Then no one knows what would happened if we force them to disappear. For example, let’s imagine the food chain as a meticulously made castle built by billions of little blocks and we human beings are the top one. There might be several tiny blocks on the bottom which you think is useless and dispensable. But what would happen if we take them away? Perhaps nothing happened, and perhaps the whole castle ruined.

Destruction is always much easier than recovery, not counting those incurable ones. Humans always think that we are much cleverer than the other animals, so we become more and more conceited and firmly believe that we are the king. We didn’t see that the nature is so magical and knows how to revenge. The pay back is much more violent and cruel. We need balance and order. The nature has its own rule. Our aim is to use it and live in harmony with it. The ecosystem is so delicate that even a tiny disturbance could lead an unexpected consequence, just like the butterfly effect.

At the last chapter, some scientists came up with other ways to solve the pest problem----biotic control. There is now a bly running tide of interest in chemical sterility. Those sterile insects are released and mate the normal ones so that they won’t have any larva and get extinct gradually. This solution seems to be reasonable and helpful, but thinking about it carefully, you’ll find that it is just another way to ruin the food chain castle. Not only spring, but also summer and autumn would be still and silent in the future.

It is lucky that Rachel still kept her mind clear. She didn’t agree with the way of conquering the nature. At the very end of the book, she wrote, The ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man. This sentence can be regarded as the book’s theme topic which is widely quoted in all kinds of articles about environmental protection.

Carson is a great woman and fighter. When writing the book, she was suffering from huge pain of the operation for mammary cancer. After the book was published, the widely affect brought her not honor and fortune, but fierce attack from the chemical estate. She died only one year after the book’s publishing. On the spring of 1964, the great woman passed away, but Silent Spring made her voice never silent.

The 20st century was a time that technology and economy developed rapidly, especially the 40 years after Silent Spring was published. But every spring, when flowers bloom, trees sprout, and water begins to flow, we used to recall a woman and her enduring works. We opened the window, and wonder if the spring is silent today, if it will be silent tomorrow.

Impressions after reading Charlottes Web

Charlottes Web is a wonderful and entertaining book, which written by E B.White. It mainly talks about the friendship between a spring pig and a spider.

A spring pig, just a simple pig wants to see the winter snow. But it should be killed at the Christmas dinner. The pig lived in the farm, where also lived many other kinds of animals, such as horses, cows, geese, a rat and a spider. And who is Charlotte ? It is the spider. At first, when the little pig came into the house, other animals didn’t like him, except a spider. She asked him be quiet so that she could work hard at night, and she would like to make friends with the pig. It made the pig so happy that he had a nice sleep. And then they became good friends. The pig told the spider that his dream, then the spider promised that she would help him to make his dream come true. In the way she made some miracles to make people know the pig cannot be killed. At last, the pig saw the winter snow but the spider died. However, the pig knew the spider was always living nearby him.

The spider said that she wasn’t the maker of those miracles but the pig was, because of the friendship, the great friendship. It is so moving.

[《夏洛特的网》的英语读后感

Forrest gump is a very obedient child, he have to remember these words, he said, stupid people have stupid people. When Jenny told him to run, he stumbled to his feet and ran away the first pair of magic shoes in his memory, also discovered his first potential: run. He has been running, the first run, and later he ran to the football team, and then ran into the university, ran got a degree. In the Vietnam war battlefield, he is still remember Jenny, ran back to his own soul, and ran back to honor and friendship.

You have to admit that, in fact, the success of a lot of things has its accidental factors, it will not because of your deliberate and closer to the finish line, but will when you inadvertently, for your efforts to one of the most appropriate praise of the reward. His loyalty, so he was alone in the Vietnam war out of danger, he still ran back to the jungle to find his comrades. He and trustworthy, he promised his comrades to buy a shrimp boat, but his comrades died, but he was incredible in the eyes of him reach his wishes, also won the huge wealth for themselves. His perseverance, so he will be a run for three years after Jenny left, across the whole of the United States, has been kept, he told you that he just wanted to run, he ran measurement of life, it doesnt need a peaceful freedom or any grandiose things for reason. He is friendly, after his lieutenant save lives, lt has been losing his legs to oneself cant die in the battlefield to drag out an ignoble existence still with deformed body and shame, and anger, because lt is such a person: he saw honor above all else, he cant stand, is forrest gump with friendly back his confidence in life, he found that, even without legs, life can still be alive.

Forrest gump is not great ideal, he also has a lot of lost, he had little friends, he was always laughed at by a wise man, he loved mother and Jenny has left him... But to him and because of that and sinking, love continues, he also have their own children, a clever little forrest gump, his life continues, he is not clever, but he always know how to make life full of hope. So he also won the honor, wealth and love, these ordinary people may never have it all.

The film why so popular? Although gumps IQ is only 75, but on him, we see the loyal, honest, persistent, friendly these in human nature most yi yi is unripe brightness, outstanding valuable quality, see the persistence of life, to the life of hope, of faith in the firm. Ordinary life, no ordinary life.

When we grow old, looking back from, if you can for yesterdays all regret, then you already have a very successful life.

阿甘是个非常听话的孩子，这些话他都记住了，他说，笨人有笨人的作为。当珍妮叫他快跑的时候，他跌跌撞撞地跑了起来，跑散了他记忆中第一双神奇的鞋子，也发掘出了他的第一项潜质：跑。他一直在跑，开始是逃跑，后来他跑进了橄榄球队，再后来跑进了大学，跑得了学位。在越战战场上，他仍是牢记珍妮的话，跑回了自己的性命，也跑回荣誉和友情。

你不得不承认，其实很多事情的成功是有其偶然因素的，它并不会因你的处心积虑而更接近终点，却会在你不经意的时候，给你的努力以一个最恰当的褒赏。他忠诚，所以在越战中他独自脱离了危险的时候，他仍然跑回丛林中去找他的战友。他守信，他答应了战友要共买一艘捕虾船，但战友死了，他却在旁人不可思议的眼神中为他实现了遗愿，也为自己赢得了巨大的财富。他执着，所以他会在珍妮离开后一跑三年，穿越了整个美国，一直不停，他告诉你，他只是想跑，他用跑步丈量人生，这不需要以和平自由或任何冠冕堂皇的东西为理由。他友善，在他救回中尉的性命后，失去了双腿的中尉一直对自己不能战死在战场上却仍以残废之躯苟且偷生而羞愧,而恼怒，因为中尉是这样一种人:他视荣誉高于一切，他不能忍受平凡，是阿甘用友善唤回他对生命的信心，使他发现，即使没有双腿，人生依然可以充满生机。

阿甘并没有远大的理想，他失去的也有很多，他很少有朋友，他总是被聪明人嘲笑，他最爱的母亲和珍妮先后离开了他......但对他并因为如此而沉没,爱还在延续，他还有自己的孩子，一个聪明的小阿甘，他的人生还在继续，他不聪明，但他永远知道如何让生命充满希望。所以他也就赢得了荣誉，财富和爱,这些常人可能永远不能兼得的东西。

这部电影为什么如此深受喜爱?虽然阿甘的智商只有75,但在他身上,我们看到了忠诚，守信，执着，友善这些人性中最为熠熠生辉,优秀可贵的品质,看到了对生命的执着,对生活的希望,对信念的坚定.平凡的生命,不平凡的人生.

当我们年华老去,回首来路,如果你可以对昨天的一切无悔，那么你已经拥有了非常成功的一生。

这个礼拜四，学校组织初一在操场上看电影，这个电影的名字叫《背着爸爸上学》，其实一听名字就知道是一部感人片，记得当时，有许多同学都在抱怨说，这个片子太老了，不好看什么之类的，我暗暗发笑，心里说道，学校给学生看电影肯定放的是对学生有启发，有益的，怎么可能会跟随学生的思路走呢。说值得，看完之隔电影之后，我真的被感动了，也受到了许多启发。

我记得有人说过，感动只是在一瞬间，但真情却永远存生。用这句话来形容这场电影实在是再好不过了，反复这句话就是为这场电影而量身制作的。这场电影不短也不长，看了一个多小时吧，它主要讲了一个小男孩和他的姐姐父亲之间的事，小男孩的母亲去世的很早，只剩下她和姐姐，父亲相依为命，父亲用转勺的方法决定他和姐姐谁去上学，谁辍学ue，最后小男孩上学，姐姐则照顾这个家。刚开始，小男孩因为亲眼目睹自己的同学被河水淹死的情景害怕所以逃学，被父亲知道后教训了他一顿。从此，小男孩便开始努力学习，一直到高中，并且在一次奥林匹克化学竞赛中获得了陕西省的一名，就在此不久，他的姐姐出嫁了，他得知后，非常难过，于是，他便开始照顾自己的父亲。

终于，他考上了大学，可父亲生病了，于是他决定不去上大学在家照顾自己的父亲，父亲知道后，非常生气，便在一天晚上投井自尽了，幸好男孩及时发现，要不然父亲就死了，最终，男孩答应父亲自己去上大学，但为了要照顾父亲所以背着父亲一起去了大学。在看完这场电影后，我才明白原来父母对我们寄存的希望是非常大的，可我么却不懂得珍惜，有时还和父母乱发脾气，通过这场电影，可以知道一个人只有在艰难中走出来才能得到胜利。所谓俗话说的好：吃得苦中苦，方为人上人。

我希望大家把握现在的美好时光，不要让自己的黄金时期一点一点的溜走，一起说加油吧！

那个家伙端出一副非常刻薄的嘴脸说：“啊，是吗?哼，当然我也料到您没有带零钱。我看像您这样的阔人只会带大票子的。”这可叫我冒火了，于是我就说：“朋友，对一个陌生人可别单凭他的衣帽来判断他的身份吧。这套衣服我买得起，我不过不愿叫你们为难，怕你们换不开一张大钞票罢了。”

这就是《百万英镑》里的精彩片段。当时店员对流浪汉亚当斯蔑视、讥笑后见到百万英镑的惊讶表情，作者描述的入木三分。这里面的幽默故事情节深深的吸引了我。

这本书是美国的马克·吐温经典之作。书中讲述了一个矿山经纪人的办事员因开游艇开的太远，迷失方向，被一艘开往伦敦的双桅帆船救起，并以作为水手来作为路费。抵达伦敦后，他仍旧身无分文。这时，一位年长的绅士，把它叫去，并给他了一封信，便叫他走了。他来到一个小饭店，打开信，他被信里的东西几乎吓晕了!里面有一张一百万元英镑的钞票!就这样，一夜间，他成了家喻户晓的名人，在伦敦，谁都知道他。在一次晚宴上，他爱上了一位名叫波霞·朗汉姆英国姑娘并和她结了婚，事后他才知道，那位给他钱的老绅士就是波霞的义父。在他和波霞的结婚典礼上，老绅士把那张一百万英镑的钞票作为礼物送给了他，他也找到了一份好工作。

这本书讽刺了某些人抵制不住金钱对人的诱惑，认为金钱是万能的，现实中我认为金钱绝对不是万能的，金钱万能论是非常错误的。金钱能买到床铺，却买不到睡眠;金钱能买到食物，却买不到口味;金钱可以买到书本，却买不到知识……金钱的确可以满足人们的虚荣心，但是这些都是虚假的，最真实的还是人坦荡的生活。就像亚当斯一样，他失去了金钱，但是他依然乐观。

[百万英镑英语的读后感作文

I believe that one of the factors that makes a piece of literature or even a movie a masterpiece is how well the reader can relate to the story. This is definitely a book everyone can relate to.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a literary masterpieces, written in 1876 by the famous author Mark Twain. Tom Sawyer is a mischievous young boy who lives in the small town on the Mississippi River called St. Petersburg. The story line is simple, the book reads like a biography or a memoir of a summer in Tom Sawyers life.

Tom Sawyer seems to be the precursor of and the template for misfit kids such as Dennis the Menace, Malcolm in the Middle, and Calvin and Hobbs. What makes this story great is that Tom Sawyer represents everything that is great about childhood. The book is filled with Toms adventures playing pirates and war with his friend Joe Harper. Tom has a trusted friend, Huck Finn, who few of the adults approve of. The book is filled with ideas of how the world works, such as how pirates and robbers work, that are so innocent, they could only come from a child. It is a story filled with action, adventure, ingenious ideas, love, and schoolyard politics. The whole story is seemingly a complication of what people did or wish they did during their childhood.

The book is a little difficult to read at first. Personally, it takes me a little while to get used to the 19th century dialect in the book. Other than referring to persons of African decent in derogatory terms (which Im sure uses terms even young children already know)， the book would be an enjoyable read for people of all ages. I highly recommend this book for anyone looking to feel young again, if just for a few hundred pages.

故事的主人公汤姆是个天真、活泼而又顽皮的典型美国少年。他和野孩子夏克，各干出了许多令人捧腹的妙事。像汤姆被罚粉刷围墙，竟施出诡计，不但使别的孩子心甘情愿代替他工作，还自动奉上谢礼。后来和夏克逃到荒岛去，人们以为他们淹死了，正在教堂为他们举行丧礼，而他们却躲在教堂的钟楼上偷听。这些顽皮的举动，虽然不能给我们做模范，但是，他为了正义，毅然地挺身出来作证人，拯救那无辜的罪犯沫夫彼得。并在顽皮之余，居然和夏克破获了一桩谋杀案，成为众人钦佩的小英雄。看来，汤姆也有值得我们学习的地方。

人总是会长大的，除了个儿长高了，身子强壮了以外，人的思想也在长。你对世界的看法不同了，懂事了，不再幼稚了。不过人是要越变越好才是。千万不能像历险记里的那个心狠手辣的坏蛋卓伊一样，他坏事做尽，人见人憎。但最后他还是恶有恶报，得到了一个活活饿死在山洞里的下场。

看完《汤姆索亚历险记》，我真羡慕汤姆能有如此有趣的经历。这本书让人看起来津津有味，甚至废寝忘食。我想，《汤姆索亚历险记》在你烦闷的时候或许能让你一笑解千愁。

Recently, I read the attempt to write a novel: "root bird". I read a book, suddenly suspicious: root bird is a name, or a bird? I dont understand and cant wait mood, open the book...

Ah! I found the answer: a bird is a boy, his home in chrysanthemum slope. One day he was out hunting alone, accidentally shot by a white eagle. White eagle leg have a piece of paper, it read: "my name is purple smoke, when I was in flowers fell into the valley, come and save me!" That night, the root bird nook near the valley with his father after nothing, duty-bound to root bird on the road to the west to find purple smoke. On the way, root bird met board Mr Kim. Board Mr Kims family got a super surprise, all the family man, at the age of 18, then suddenly cant dream. Mr Kim to follow a dream, walk to the west. Sheet metal and root birds are all in order to reach own purpose, continuous efforts, even if, on wheels, so be it.

Board Mr Kim arrived at warbler shop, his life is about to come to an end. His deathbed, he told the root bird: to walk to the west, to persevere, be sure to find the grand canyon. Root bird has experienced all sorts of difficulties, these difficulties. Finally, he arrived at the full of the grand canyon of the lilies, see white eagle flying in the air...

Root bird is a boy who dared to pursue their dreams! After reading this book, let me know the person on the way to pursue your dream, will encounter various difficulties, frustration, confusion, but must not give up. Like root birds, although the money lost, but he still go forward; Although being hired, he was still trying to come up with various way; Despite his illness had a high fever, but he still wont stop down, clinging to go forward!

In fact, persistence is a kind of power, but also the steps of success and victory! I think it is the same and we are learning, no matter how far from ideal, as long as our goal towards their own unremitting efforts, is likely to get the final success.

最近，我读了曹文轩写的一本小说：《根鸟》。我一看书名，顿时起了疑心：根鸟是一个人名，还是一只鸟?我怀着不解而迫不及待的心情，翻开了书……

呀!我找到了答案：根鸟是个男孩，他家在菊坡。有一天他独自外出打猎的时候，无意中射到了一只白鹰。白鹰的腿上有一张纸条，上面写着：“我叫紫烟，我在采花的时候掉进了峡谷里，快来救救我呀!”当晚，根鸟与父亲寻遍了附近的山谷毫无收获后，根鸟义不容辞地踏上了西寻紫烟之路。途中，根鸟结识了板金先生。板金先生的家族得了一种超级奇怪的毛病，凡是这个家族的男子，一到十八岁，便突然不能做梦。板金先生为了追随梦，一直向西走。板金和根鸟都是为了达到自己的目的，不断努力，就算上刀山、下火海，也在所不惜。

板金先生到达莺店时，他的人生就要走到尽头了。临终时，他告诉根鸟：要一直往西走，要坚持不懈，一定要找到那个大峡谷。根鸟经历了各种困难，这些困难磨练了他。终于，他到达了开满百合花的大峡谷，看见白色的鹰在空中飞翔……

根鸟是一个敢于追求梦想的男孩!读完这部书，让我知道了人在追求自己梦想的道路上，会遇到各种困难、挫折、迷惑，但一定不能放弃。要像根鸟一样：尽管钱丢了，但他还是勇往直前;虽然被人雇佣了，但他还是努力想出各种办法;尽管生病发高烧，但他仍不会停歇下来，执着地往前走!

其实，坚持是一种力量，更是获得成功与胜利的脚步!我想这和我们学习是一样的，不管理想有多远，只要我们向着自己的目标坚持不懈的努力，才有可能获得最后的成功。

Guy de Maupassant（18501893）， one of the greatest critical realist writers in the world, is considered as one of three kings of world short story。 Maupassant created six novels and 359 medium forms during his brief lifetime, engendering a momentous effect on the later literature. And it’s his maiden work, Suet Ball that won him world-wide prestige.

In1870, with the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, the real-based story Suet Ball happened. The heroine of the story is a humble harlot called Suet Ball. With a group of French residents of Rouen, recently occupied by the Prussian army, the 11 travelers are on their way fleeing to Le Havre in a stagecoach. In virtue of the appalling weather, the stagecoach moves rather slowly and has just covered a few miles by midday. Initially, those occupants snub Suet Ball whereas their attitudes alters with the emergence of a basket filled with scrumptious food and she caters for those hungry travelers selflessly.

The carriage doesn’t stop until they blunders into a Prussian-held territory called T?tes. A Prussian officer detains the coach with no definite reasons. In the next two days, the occupants wait with barely concealed impatience and eventually Suet Ball tells that they will be detained perpetually unless she approves of sleeping with the officer. Out of her patriotism, Suet Ball gives him a point-blank refusal. As it should be, those travelers behave furiously to the officer"s arrogance while during the next two days, they exemplify logic and morality in diverse ways to convince Suet Ball of its validity. What a kind-hearted girl! Finally Suet Ball gives up and sacrifices her body for everyone’s freedom.

The next morning, they are permitted to leave. But those "representatives of Virtue" totally neglect Suet Ball, casting scathing sights on the poor young woman while even disdaining talking to her and rejecting sharing their food with her in the same way that she did at the beginning. From their perspectives, Suet Ball turns out to be no more utilizable and should be condemned for her ashamed conduct. As the stagecoach travels deeper into the night, she seethes with rage against those hypocrites, and ultimately weeps for her lost dignity.

In this story, Maupassant highlighted the intense comparison between Suet Ball and the so-called nobles. Rapacity, hypocrisy, sexuality and nobility intertwine in the spotlight，eulogizing the underclass’ patriotism and lampooning the sham of the aristocracy. Maupassant portrays the inhabitants of the stagecoach in varied disparaging ways. The most luminous character belongs to the two nuns. At first they are portrayed as tranquil and subservient to Lord and demonstrate their fiery patriotic desire to dedicate to their motherland rather than a sordid intention like the other passengers: the nuns profess to haste to a military hospital to heal the wounded French soldiers, hence presenting the argument towards instigating Suet Ball to abandon her resistance. How absurd it is! Nuns are supposed to take strait vows and treat others benevolently. They fill Suet Ball"s head with arguments, arguing that it is not morally wrong to sleep with the officer in order to let the travelers leave, and that the longer she waits, the more young French soldiers will die as the nuns are not there to look after them. Superficially, they claim that it is for the good of the country but indeed they’re just taking advantage of her. Suet Ball"s resistance to the officer"s sexual advances again indicate her patriotism. Cruel wars have stripped all the external stuffs. In contrast to all of these is Suet Ball, a prostitute, revealed to be the most fiercely patriotic, virtuous, and morally admirable character, which Maupassant contrasts with the hypocrisy and snobbery of the others.

It is arguably Maupassant’s most famous short story. The carriage constitutes a microcosm of French society as a whole. And the narrative techniques of this story are rather sophisticated and carefully conceived. On balance, a real noble person like Suet Ball can’t be judged by the appearance or the occupation, his/ her moral quality will glitter when confronting the real ordeal. Consequently, I deem that Suet Ball is worth reading lingeringly, savoring every word.

I watched the movie "beauty and beast"this vacation.Its romantic love story.Bell is a very kind and beastuiful girl,living with her father in a small town,and the prince is a selfish guy trapped in a beasts body for his rudeness angering the enchantress.The beast has to find a person willing to fall in love with him.Then,in a occation,it met Bell and gradually fould out that Bell is a lovely girl and begin to fall in love with her, so it went to any length to help her.Bell was finally moved and fell in love with it and the prince escaped from the beasts body and led a happy life for ever.

Love is the topic of the whole story which can change any dark and evil stuff.Love means everything，and this is the reason the movie can get into the gate of Oscar.The real world is full of war and darkness，which turns peoples life in to chaos.Humans life lacks of Love,and if the love exists,humen have the power and the dream and the ideal "man can conquer nature"will no longer be a myth.

Love, the topic of humanbeings life.

我观看了电影“美女与野兽”这个假期。这是浪漫的爱情故事。贝尔是一个非常善良和漂亮女孩,和她的父亲住在一个小镇,王子是一个自私的人被困在一个野兽的身体对他的无礼激怒了女巫。野兽必须找到人愿意爱上他。然后,在日后,它遇到了贝尔和逐渐fould,贝尔是一个可爱的女孩,开始爱上她,所以去任何长度帮助她。贝尔终于感动并爱上了它和王子从野兽的身体,永远幸福的生活。

爱是整个故事的主题可以改变任何黑暗和邪恶的东西。爱就是一切,这就是为什么这部电影可以进入奥斯卡的城门。现实世界充满了战争和黑暗,它把人们的生活混乱。人类的生活缺少爱,如果爱存在,虎门有权力和梦想和理想的“人定胜天”将不再是一个神话。

爱,人类的生活的主题。

After I read "the destruction of the old Summer Palace", I think the robbers very hateful!

In 1860, British and French troops robbed the old Summer Palace treasures, later gave burning yuanmingyuan. Later came to rob the eight yuanmingyuan artefacts. This proves that the qing dynasty backward and corruption. Only man can have a good life in the palace in qing dynasty, the beggar day all the people will come in.

When the bad guys to the emperor ran, garden soldiers had to keep watching cultural relics were robbed. Many people committed suicide. Delays are dangerous, so, we want to be strong. Only in this way will not be bullied.

We cant forget about the old Summer Palace, yuanmingyuan many treasures were lost to overseas, spent tens of millions of Chinese people bought things looted, let us make more think more angry, it also suggests that weaker underdeveloped countries at that time, will in this way, if the country strong we will not be bullied, also wont spend money to buy back their own stuff.

Now the old Summer Palace was the invaders to its former glory, thought of these I felt so angry and infinite regret.

我读了《圆明园的毁灭》后，我觉得那些强盗十分可恶!

1860年英法联军抢了圆明园的宝物，后来把圆明园给烧了。后来八国联军又来抢圆明园的文物。这证明了清朝的落后和腐败。在清朝只有皇宫里的人才能过好日子，百姓全部要过那种要饭的日子。

在坏人来的时候，皇帝跑了，守园士兵只好眼睁睁的看着文物被人抢走。许多人都自杀了。落后就要挨打，所以，我们要强大起来。只有这样才不会被人欺负。

我们不可以忘了圆明园的事，圆明园许多宝物都流失到了海外，中国人花了几千万买回了被掠夺的东西，让我们后人越想越气愤，这也说明国家那时候弱小不发达，才会这样，如果国家强大我们也不会被欺负，也不会再花冤枉钱买回属于自己的东西。

如今的圆明园已被侵略者掠去了昔日的辉煌，想到这些我感到无比的愤怒和无限的惋惜。

Huckleberry Finn was a great literary work published in 1885 and written by Mark Twain. One of the most positive things about the book would be that the reading level is not very advanced and that it shows us a glimpse of the past. Along with the reading level not being very advanced, the book itself is extremely well thought out, and brings the stories, characters, and imagery to life. One of the negatives is the amount of cursing that takes place throughout the book. This is a negative because it is at a children"s reading level and it does not add any literary value to the book as a piece of history. The ugly but I believe necessary part of the book is the use of the n-word. This is a necessary part of the book because it shows to our children and everyone the meaning behind the word. If anything it makes the reader more understanding of the troubles that the slaves when though and understand the meaning of the word a little more deeply.

This book was great, a masterpiece for the lack of words to describe how entirely wonderful it is. The book was a great classic, the only reason that I did read it is because we have to read a classic for school, however, now that I have read it I realize that it was a great book. I would read this book two or three times, and I do not like reading books again. The book was really able to portray the idea of childhood innocence and foolishness in the book, especially the end. I thought that this book was really an eye opener for people who may think that life is not worth living or maybe derpessed. Because, as you can see, Huck was a young boy who had an alcoholic father who beat him all the time, even kidnapped him after he was adopted by other people. Huck even decided to run away from his father, yet he is still a young, fun loving kid in the end, especially when Tom reveals to him how the whole trip was just a game. The only thing I have to say against the book is that it did seem a little racist with its words, however maybe this is just how they talked in that time period? Overall a great read that I highly reccomend.

Thoughts given by Sherlock Holmes and the Duke’s Son

Written in the first chapter of the book Pride and Prejudice is an extraordinary sentence of which even a person who has had only a brief look upon the book will not fail to receive a deep impression-It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. In terms of Sherlock Holmes, we’d better alter the sentence into “It is a fact universally accepted by readers throughout the world that an excellent book in possession of our famous detective Sherlock Holmes is undoubtedly a masterpiece of all times.” Perhaps this is one of the most obvious explanations for the unrivaled popularity of “Holmes series” in the field of detective stories. Overwhelmed by the recommendations provided by my friends, I decided to take a look on this Sherlock Holmes and the Duke’s Son originally published by Oxford University Press.

As a whole, this book is about a case concerning the Duke’s missing son. Arthur, the Duke’s son, was found out in a certain morning to have disappeared, accompanied with which was also the disappearance of the German teacher. The school master Dr. Huxtable then turned to the famous detective of the time Sherlock Holmes for help. Realizing how tough and important the case is, Holmes immediately made up his mind to accept the case and followed Dr. Huxtable back to Mackleton by train. Having formed a rough idea about the wholle matter, Holmes probed into the case immediately and had a careful investigation of the entire area shortly after the arrival, during the process of which he discovered the body of the German teacher Heidegger. Finally, primarily due to his prominent ability as a detective, he managed to unravel the mystery and obtained the twelve thousand pounds promised by the Duke.

Having once started reading this fiction, I was completely immersed in the mysterious story presented by the book. As the saying goes, “Well begun, half done”. At the beginning of the story, just like many other detective stories, the author gives us a brief description of the condition by the words of a client. However, unlike other ones, this story first delineates the client’s strange behavior at length to indicate the severity of the incident in order to attract the readers to continue reading it. As is known to all, vivid depiction is essential to detective stories since it can help the readers understand each figure’s characteristics and visualize the scenes, thus making the story more authentic and attractive. Therefore, trying to present a “real world” to his readership, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the original “Holmes series”, has skillfully arranged the plots of the whole story from the perspective of Dr. Watson, a character not so specialized in discovering the truth hidden behind the enigmatic happenings as Holmes but so loyal to Sherlock Homes as a friend that he always accompanies Holmes wherever he goes. In this way, he elaborately depicted every scene and character in the book, Apart from the special start, the ending of the whole story, being dramatic but reasonable, is certainly an outstanding one. After all, except the author himself, who knows that the Duke’s seemingly ordinary secretary is in fact the Duke’s bastard? In addition, who knows that the Duke actually has already been acquainted with the whole thing before Holmes solves this complicated problem? Yet, surprising as it is, this ending seems so natural that it fits all the plots of the story perfectly well. While enjoying this wonderful story, I could do nothing but admire the wonderful design of this masterpiece as well as the author’s gorgeous writing skill. Closing my eyes, I can even “see” the story happening just like watching a film. Not until then did I understand why the Japanese cartoon film Detective Conan used this “Conan” as the name of its hero.

As far as I am concerned, nothing is more admirable and surprising in the hero Sherlock Homes than his profound knowledge which has certainly assisted him a lot when he was studying the case. Take the bicycle tyres for instance, Holmes actually is capable of recognizing 42 different varieties of bicycle tyres. What’s more, according to his other stories, Holmes has studied different kinds of newspapers, cigarettes, people’s footprints and other special things as well. Therefore, he seems to have the mastery of anything relevant to the cases he deals with. Except for his illimitable knowledge, Holmes also specializes in arranging the facts in order and then finding the fact leading him to a GREat discovery or even the truth itself. From his speaking “Every mystery has an answer”, we can readily shape the impression of a man with great intelligence and inflexible will. In this case, after getting rid of unrelated facts, Sherlock Homes eventually grasped the clue and discovered the amazing fact.

I read the Chinese version of “Camille” a few years ago. At that time I was deeply moved by the main character Marguerite Gautier. “Camille” or “The Lady of the Camellias” by Alexandre Dumas, fils, is the story of Marguerite Gautier,

[英语故事读后感

statue of the legislation in the city center onto a piece of pure gold. His eyes are two bright sapphires, there is a big ruby in his hand holds the hilt on sparkling. Can to help poor people, the Flying Swallow with the help of the pure gold and precious stones film gave people in need of help. Finally, the Flying Swallow has been frozen to death. The Happy Prince is also due to dilapidated and were removed. Later, someone asked The Happy Prince: Do you help others, they destroyed themselves, worth it? The Happy Prince without regret to say: As long as I have made to give others happiness, I have been happier. Is certainly worthwhile.

Yes ah, this is how a simple if it! Others happy, is his happiness. Our happiness based on other people"s happiness above. Britain"s Prince Fan Zhongyan ancients of China"s first and worry about all over the world, after everyone else to enjoy, the famous saying. Which is not that we are advocating the moral life it?

On the initiative of such thinking, in our lives appear as numerous as the Happy Prince, it is respected.

However, I can not do. I am afraid of hardship, fear of pay. In a school clean-up, I only taught me the work, it was unwilling to help the students complete the common task of tired and dirty. Normally, also pick and choose in the labor, the lack of the spirit to endure hardship. In learning too afraid repeatedly practicing the task view. Do not want to study in depth.

Today truly understand: I the usual so-called happiness and the Happy Prince"s happiness is essentially the difference.

I don’t remember the exact year I first read The Little Prince . Though the golden snake in the book plays a cameo role , I never forget the scene that he flashed kissed gently on the little prince’s ankle. It made me be afraid to reread this book.

Later, I listened a Michael Wong’s song named Fairy-tale Story, the prince in his song is different from the prince in The Little Prince, the prince in the song is the same as Andersen’s tales’ princes, they all have happy endings.

However, I think The Little Prince is a sad story. There is a saying: There are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand peoples eyes. Now, let me talk about my reading feeling. This simple story flies over every corner of the world: a pilot (the narrator) who had an accident with his plane and crashed in the Desert of Sahara then he met the little prince from the planet B-612, and the narrator listened little prince’s travel experience of seven planets. On the seven planets, he met a variety of persons. They are the king, the conceited man, the businessman, the tippler, the lamplighter, the geographer and so on.

The Little Prince is a story belongs to adults who have childlike innocence.because children don’t understand the little prince’s deep sadness.This is not so much a fairy tale, as it is a tragedy. This story tells the grow-ups’ world is full of empty，lost and loneliness with kids’ perspective. Among the story, the alcoholic is impressive. He was surrounded by a pile of beer bottles when the little prince saw him, and prince asked him why he is drinking, but he answered he want to forget his shame of drinking. This short planet visit plunged little prince into deep puzzled. He think the grow-ups are certainly very, very odd. In kids eyes, beautiful things must look with heart. But the adults pay more attention on things’ appearance that is just a shell and they don’t believe the eyes are blind and the heart is true.

Through this story, it also made me understand what’s the love---loves more mineral, more dense, more bitter and more weighty than the earths profoundest matter.

When I first read The Little Prince, I can’t understand the mean of love and never to think why should the little prince leave alone since he love his rose so deeply. For years, I reread the story and think about it. The simple true was first love. The little prince didn’t know how to love and It was difficult to make him understand the rose’s heart, so it may lead to misunderstanding and hurts from time to time. He leaved his planet because he can not accept the rose and himself.

This is why the little prince don’t know he have to leave : at that time, he had no idea he was in it. The little prince don’t understand the meaning of tame until he met the fox later. Then he produced the endless yearning for the roses and realized his responsibility.

"Do you want to be domesticated?" For me, this is a profound question. In the book, the little prince met a fox and invited the fox to play with him, but he was refused. The fox told him that he was not tamed. “what does that mean--tame?” little prince asked. The fox answered:” it means to establish ties: to me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you, I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me , you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.”

Gradually the little prince was beginning to understand, because he remembered his rose and he thought his rose had tamed him. So he chose to go back to his planet in the end. But to the fox, the little prince’s farewell will make her sad, but the hurts because of love, she should learn to accept it gradually. I believe there are full of hurts within serious and true love.

As long as the little prince flied to different planets and met a variety of persons can he understand himself and his rose. So I think traveling is a good way to experience life.

I have got a lot of interesting scientific knowledge from the books of National Geographic Reading Expeditions, some of which are about life, physics. I really can’t help losing myself in the colorful pictures and clear words in the books. After reading the books, I have been considering a question: What if we lived without science? Great changes have taken place in the world with the help of science. In the past, life was nasty, brutish and short. It is hard to imagine how our forefathers could do without so many conveniences that modern science brings about. Back then, only a small group of people enjoyed the very few comforts. But the majority of people didn’t even have sufficient food, let along their privilege to be educated. Anyway, it is science that changes the world and makes people’s life better and better, although it also leads to some bad aspects at the same time.

From the discovery of the gravity to the first step on the moon, we human beings have experienced a long process of developing science. And now, this process is still continuing much faster. New organisms are already being engineered, and new genetically modified crops promise benefits from higher yields and less use of harmful chemicals and so on. A lot of examples are showing this point. In the future, changes are likely to be even much greater as science reaches out to shape life itself. Maybe one day, the possibility that life existed on Mars billions of years ago will be potentially one of the greatest discoveries of our time. It is the force of the competition, we human beings’ inquiring mind and initiative that bring about the non-stopped development of science. Therefore, it is difficult and impossible to prevent science from changing the world and our life as well.

At present, we are in two minds about science. On the one hand, we are enjoying the sweet life as a result of the evelopment of science, and expect it to continue. And we are showing our interests into some scientific expeditions, such as the astronomy, the alien civilization, etc. On the other hand, we are distrustful of it, due to the lack of understanding of science. Some people thus far are still very superstitious, and they would even believe in superstitions rather than believe in science.

Stephen Hawking, one of the most remarkable scientists in the world, once said, “In a democratic society, the public needs to have a basic understanding of the science, so that it can make informed decisions and not leave them in the hands of experts.” This has reminded me of Professor Alan G. MacDiarmid from America, the person who got the Nobel Prize for chemistry in the year of XX. In his lecture at Peking University this year, he put forward that science is people. He also expounded the importance of the basic science for the public. Evidently, every one of us does need science, or we can’t live without it.

Now that everyone needs science, why not take advantage of some means to give the public the right basic scientific knowledge? So when they face the problems such as acid rain, the greenhouse effect, nuclear weapons, environment destruction and some other problems, they can also make informed decisions on these subjects, just as what Hawking said. One aspect relies on what is taught in schools. But science is often taught in an uninteresting way and most students just learn it by rote to pass examinations. However, the final goal of learning science is not to pass examinations or to get a higher score; instead, we should try to make full use of it to change our world and life. While learning, we should try to ask more questions and we should have the courage of suspecting the knowledge in the books, as some of the scientific conclusions are likely to be corrected in the future. Who knows. So not only must we change our attitude towards science, but also the way of teaching and learning science.

“在期待中失望，在孤独中疗伤，在告别后坚强，受伤也绝不投降。”这是影片的片尾曲，也概括出哪吒的成长经历。

哪吒本应该是灵珠转世的大英雄，但因为申公豹的阻挠，意外成为无恶不作的魔丸转世，并且三年后的生辰将有天雷下凡劈裂魔丸。哪吒刚出生就被大家当做妖怪关在家里，不能出去玩。

一岁的哪吒想出去和小朋友们玩，偷偷溜出家门，却被大家排挤欺负。“既然人们说我是妖怪，我就当妖怪给他们瞧瞧！”哪吒越来越空虚，李靖夫妇希望哪吒振作起来，斩妖除魔保护百姓，为了鼓励哪吒，谎称他是灵珠转世，哪吒信以为真，拜太乙真人为师，学习法术。在一次捉妖救下小女孩时，认识了真正灵珠转世的敖丙，两人成了彼此唯一的朋友，但是又被陈塘关的百姓误会。禁足家中。人心中的成见就犹如一座大山，任凭你如何去努力也无法移动它，哪吒十分想被人们接受认可，但他每次满心期待地尝试，换来的却是人们的排挤谩骂。

哪吒兴高采烈地邀请唯一的朋友敖丙参加自己的三岁生日宴会，全然不知他才是自己最大的敌人。生日宴会上得知自己身份的哪吒走火入魔，六亲不认，敖丙及时控制住了他，却暴露了龙族的身份，迫不得已的敖丙决定埋掉陈塘关，而此时的哪吒从一个杀人不眨眼的混世魔王变成了守护全村百姓的大英雄，打破了敖丙的计谋。

“若命运不公，就和他斗到底！”敖丙和哪吒合力抵抗天雷，经过太乙真人的帮助，保住了魂魄。这部电影中有许多令人难忘的地方：“白白搭上一条命，你傻不傻？”“不傻，谁和你做朋友？”哪吒与敖丙真挚的友情感动了我；“我命由我不由天，是魔是神，我自己说了算！”“我的命我自己扛！”哪吒不屈不挠的精神触碰到了我。

生活中，像哪吒这样向命运斗争的人仅有区区几个呢？人们通常遇到一些困难挫折就会说命该如此、命中注定、听天由命吧！哪吒虽然是魔丸转世，虽然也有过，但最终还是突破了自我，勇于抗争命运，改变了人们对他的成见，成为百姓心中的大英雄，这种精神值得我们学习，做最好的自己，也会成为自己心中的英雄！

Published in 1847, Wuthering Heights was not well received by the reading public, many of whom condemned it as sordid, vulgar, and unnatural--and author Emily Bronte went to her grave in 1848 believing that her only novel was a failure. It was not until 1850, when Wuthering Heights received a second printing with an introduction by Emilys sister Charlotte, that it attracted a wide readership. And from that point the reputation of the book has never looked back. Today it is widely recognized as one of the GREat novels of English literature.

Even so, Wuthering Heights continues to divide readers. It is not a pretty love story; rather, it is swirling tale of largely unlikeable people caught up in obsessive love that turns to dark madness. It is cruel, violent, dark and brooding, and many people find it extremely unpleasant. And yet--it possesses a grandeur of language and design, a sense of tremendous pity and GREat loss that sets it apart from virtually every other novel written.

The novel is told in the form of an extended FLASHback. After a visit to his strange landlord, a newcomer to the area desires to know the history of the family--which he receives from Nelly Deans, a servant who introduces us to the Earnshaw family who once resided in the house known as Wuthering Heights. It was once a cheerful place, but Old Earnshaw adopted a "Gipsy" child who he named Heathcliff. And Catherine, daughter of the house, found in him the perfect companion: wild, rude, and as proud and cruel as she. But although Catherine loves him, even recognizes him as her soulmate, she cannot lower herself to marry so far below her social station. She instead marries another, and in so doing sets in motion an obsession that will destroy them all.

Wuthering Heights is a bit difficult to "get into;" the opening chapters are so dark in their portrait of the end result of this obsessive love that they are somewhat off-putting. But they feed into the flow of the work in a remarkable way, setting the stage for one of the most remarkable structures in all of literature, a story that circles upon itself in a series of repetitions as it plays out across two generations. Catherine and Heathcliff are equally remarkable, both vicious and cruel, and yet never able to shed their impossible love no matter how brutally one may wound the other.

As the novel coils further into alcoholism, seduction, and one of the most elaborately imagined plans of revenge it gathers into a ghostly tone: Heathcliff, driven to madness by a woman who is not there but who seems reflected in every part of his world--dragging her corpse from the grave, hearing her calling to him from the moors, escalating his brutality not for the sake of brutality but so that her memory will never fade, so that she may never leave his mind until death itself. Yes, this is madness, insanity, and there is no peace this side of the grave or even beyond.

It is a stunning novel, frightening, inexorable, unsettling, filled with unbridled passion that makes one cringe. Even if you do not like it, you should read it at least once--and those who do like it will return to it again and again.