比尔·布莱森,世界知名的非虚构作家,1951年出生于美国艾奥瓦州,曾任职于伦敦《泰晤士报》与《独立报》,同时也为《纽约时报》、《国家地理杂志》等撰文。作品主要包括旅游类随笔、幽默独特的科普作品——比如《万物简史》、《母语》等等,横跨多种领域,皆为非学院派的幽默之作。他的作品诙谐嘲谑的风格堪称一绝,整体上举重若轻,能让普通读者产生很强的认同感,不失为雅俗共赏的典范,深受读者喜爱,也获得很高的评价。每部作品均高踞美国、英国、加拿大畅销排行榜前茅。
比尔·布莱森之所以能在二十世纪的旅游文学中占据一席之地,并成为目前世界公认的最有趣的旅游文学作家,是因为他擅长用不同的眼光来看待他所游历的世界,他真切地捕捉到了一个旅人的内心感受。自然地理、生活情趣、社会时态,布莱森信手拈来无不奇趣。他的尖刻加上他的博学,让他的文字充满了智慧、机敏和幽默。作为在英国生活了二十多年的美国人,他的作品又兼具了开朗风趣、绝不怕粗俗的美式调侃和冷峻犀利、一针见血的英式嘲讽。
发表于2025-02-07
Notes From A Small Island 2025 pdf epub mobi 电子书
前些日子偶然看到英国《卫报》曾经举行过一个“生命中不可缺少的100本书”的评选活动。浏览一下上榜的作家和作品,大都是我们耳熟能详的人物,莎士比亚、陀思妥耶夫斯基、托尔斯泰如此等等。本来觉得这个榜单没什么新奇的,漫不经心地往下看,在狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》之后,乔伊...
评分笑,笑,笑,大笑,喷水,喷饭…… 如果你打算看这本书,时刻记住不要在吃东西喝水的时候,或者不要看得太认真,唉,否则就会和我一样喷过水、牛奶、豆浆…… 作者多年写作经验使得他在词句运用上游刃有余,并且善于观察生活 将在英国20年的生活经历,串连在一本书中 描绘嬉笑...
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After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson took the decision to move back to the States for a while, to let his kids experience life in another country, to give his wife the chance to shop until 10 p.m. seven nights a week, and, most of all, because he had read the 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another, and it was thus clear to him that his people needed him. But before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire, Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of the nation's public face and private parts (as it were), and to analyse what precisely it was he loved so much about a country that had produced Marmite, a military hero whose dying wish was to be kissed by a fellow named Hardy, place names like Farleigh Wallop, Titsey and Shellow Bowells, people who said 'Mustn't grumble', and Gardeners' Question Time. So in Notes from a Small Island, Bryson turns a laconic but affectionate eye on his adopted country. Britain will never seem the same again.
humorous people aren't always kind
评分與尋常的遊記不同,比爾·布萊森並沒有直接描繪迷人旖旎的風光或是推薦吃喝玩樂的去處,卻反其道而行之,這位作家通篇都在吐槽英國人有多死心眼、英國的城鎮規劃有多荒謬、英國的鐵路時間表有多不人性化,令人讀來忍俊不禁。不過,比爾·布萊森說到底也只是“刀子嘴豆腐心”,他雖然對英國這般毒舌,但是心底裡卻對這個國家有著深厚的感情,4顆星
评分miss this small island
评分well with expectation as such, disappointment is perhaps all too natural... managed to extract from my dried up being a few laughs at the very beginning, very much due to my glorious mood in retrospect, but bored me considerably till the very end...esp. after a reading experience like Dorian Gray, most unfortunately...
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