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Medieval Civilization 400 - 1500 by Jacques Le Goff
3.0
Open University's Cultural History course book
The early chapters were a nightmare because of all the lists of barbarian attacks. It just got me all dizzy and I wished he would have just told about the ones that were of great signifigance to medieval culture. Also, some of the foreign language phrases weren't even translated. Not all bad but it came across as a bit too heavy for me.
The early chapters were a nightmare because of all the lists of barbarian attacks. It just got me all dizzy and I wished he would have just told about the ones that were of great signifigance to medieval culture. Also, some of the foreign language phrases weren't even translated. Not all bad but it came across as a bit too heavy for me.
Jalo velvollisuus: Virkanaisena 1800-luvun lopun Suomessa by Anne Ollila
2.0
A Noble Duty: Woman as an Official in the End of 19th Century Finland
Open University's Cultural History course book
Deals with being a teacher by examining the lives of three women but also in general the position of a working woman when gender segregation was strong. Or at least it should. It gave a very light aftertaste: I don't really know anything about being a teacher at that time more than before. The title is misleading because there's mostly info on what the position of women were.
And there's lots of sentence repeating, sometimes even after only a couple of chapters. Another thing that irritated me was the lack of translation of Swedish quotes. Now I strongly disagree with the author that they supposedly don't even need one. I suck at Swedish even though I live in Finland so I would really appreciate knowing what they said.
Open University's Cultural History course book
Deals with being a teacher by examining the lives of three women but also in general the position of a working woman when gender segregation was strong. Or at least it should. It gave a very light aftertaste: I don't really know anything about being a teacher at that time more than before. The title is misleading because there's mostly info on what the position of women were.
And there's lots of sentence repeating, sometimes even after only a couple of chapters. Another thing that irritated me was the lack of translation of Swedish quotes. Now I strongly disagree with the author that they supposedly don't even need one. I suck at Swedish even though I live in Finland so I would really appreciate knowing what they said.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
1.0
The writing is too stark and laconic for my taste. It does have this hopeless and oppressing atmosphere (especially when you know that someday the world will look like this) but it's also horribly monotonic. At times it feels like some horrendous list and doesn't give the reader any chance to connect with the characters at an emotional level.