珍妮特·沃尔斯(Jeannette Walls),美国著名记者。撰有《闲聊:流言世界的内幕》、《闲聊:流言如何变成新闻,新闻怎样成为另一场秀》等书。2005年出版回忆录《玻璃城堡》,首次公开自己鲜为人知、与众不同的家庭背景和成长经历,凭借此书蜚声文坛。
现与丈夫约翰·泰勒(John Taylor)长住纽约城和长岛。
发表于2024-12-24
The Glass Castle 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
1. Jeannette Walls的这本回忆录《玻璃城堡》(The Glass Castle),其实容纳的是四个孩子艰难而颠沛的童年生活。大部分的时候,Lori、Jeannette、Brain和Maureen跟着他们的父母Rex Walls和Rose Mary睡在纸箱子里,睡在破旧的轿车里,睡在寒冷的地下室里,睡在没有阳光的廉价...
评分很早就一直盼着这本书《玻璃城堡》,最早是在洁尘的blog里,看到她的日志里说新看完的书,当时四处找,都没有找到,国庆前,chris说99读书网上有卖,哈哈,果真呢,立马买回来,说真的,刚翻起,就忍不住一口气读下去,读下去…… 玻璃城堡,这是怎样的一家,可爱,古怪的爸...
评分小时候曾经听说有个乞丐,明明有百万家财,却仍然行乞为生,那时的我实在无法理解这样的人,只觉得他们心理不正常。然而现在,我明白到每个人都有权选择自己所期望的生活方式,而没有任何一种生活是十全十美的,有些人这一辈子辛苦工作只为了每月仅够生活的薪水,也有些人赚了...
评分 评分不用怀疑这本书的可读性。既有趣又真实,让人想要一鼓作气读到结尾。 回忆并不轻松,特别是沉重的往事。作者竭力忠实的把记忆变成铅字,试图讲述真实的成长故事,带有真情实感的气血,又不使人格评判过于醒目。 我始终相信,不是所有人都有权为人父母。不负责任、没有...
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Jeannette Walls's father always called her "Mountain Goat" and there's perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically. In The Glass Castle, Walls chronicles her upbringing at the hands of eccentric, nomadic parents--Rose Mary, her frustrated-artist mother, and Rex, her brilliant, alcoholic father. To call the elder Walls's childrearing style laissez faire would be putting it mildly. As Rose Mary and Rex, motivated by whims and paranoia, uprooted their kids time and again, the youngsters (Walls, her brother and two sisters) were left largely to their own devices. But while Rex and Rose Mary firmly believed children learned best from their own mistakes, they themselves never seemed to do so, repeating the same disastrous patterns that eventually landed them on the streets. Walls describes in fascinating detail what it was to be a child in this family, from the embarrassing (wearing shoes held together with safety pins; using markers to color her skin in an effort to camouflage holes in her pants) to the horrific (being told, after a creepy uncle pleasured himself in close proximity, that sexual assault is a crime of perception; and being pimped by her father at a bar). Though Walls has well earned the right to complain, at no point does she play the victim. In fact, Walls' removed, nonjudgmental stance is initially startling, since many of the circumstances she describes could be categorized as abusive (and unquestioningly neglectful). But on the contrary, Walls respects her parents' knack for making hardships feel like adventures, and her love for them--despite their overwhelming self-absorption--resonates from cover to cover. --Brangien Davis --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
"當大人像小孩的時候,小孩只得迅速長大。"____《圓舞》 亦舒
评分I guess by far, this is the most captivating book that I have ever covered this year. It's not easy to live a childhood like that.
评分每个个体的复杂背后,也许都有连篇累牍叙述不完的坎坷,有些人停下来喘口气继续说下去,有些人再也没勇气提起。作者的坦白和毫无掩饰如此强烈,常使观者不忍促读,因为太过简单美好,因为太过残酷露骨,因为太过真实。
评分一个作者如果不能完全的隐藏在自己的作品后面,便应该完全真诚地站在读者面前。而《Glass Castle》就是一本完全坦白,不编造也不美化的书,一部比小说更情节曲折的回忆录。读完我觉得,上帝永远比任何故事的创造者更幽默,公平,讽刺,更有爱世人却也更多的试炼他们。而书就应该留给有经历的人来写。
评分4 What a life.
The Glass Castle 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书