The Anti-Cool Girl

作者:Rosie Waterland

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出版时间:2015-9

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装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781460750643

具体描述

Brutal, brave, hilarious - a full-frontal memoir about surviving the very worst that life can throw at you.

Rosie Waterland has never been cool. Growing up in housing commission, Rosie was cursed with a near perfect, beautiful older sister who dressed like Mariah Carey on a Best & Less budget while Rosie was still struggling with various toilet mishaps. She soon realised that she was the Doug Pitt to her sister's Brad, and that cool was not going to be her currency in this life.

But that was only one of the problems Rosie faced. With two addicts for parents, she grew up amidst rehab stays, AA meetings, overdoses, narrow escapes from drug dealers and a merry-go-round of dodgy boyfriends in her mother's life. Rosie watched as her dad passed out/was arrested/vomited, and had to talk her mum out of killing herself.

As an adult, trying to come to grips with her less than conventional childhood, Rosie navigated her way through eating disorders, nude acting roles, mental health issues and awkward Tinder dates. Then she had an epiphany: to stop pretending to be who she wasn't and embrace her true self - a girl who loved drinking wine in her underpants on Sunday nights - and become an Anti-Cool Girl.

An irrepressible, blackly comic memoir, Rosie Waterland's story is a clarion call for Anti-Cool Girls everywhere.

读后感

One day, my supervisor asked me:Have you read a book called The Anti-cool Girl? My friend read a copy from Kindle and she loooooved it. I: what the hell is that? Never hear of this book. S: do you want to read it? to see if it is good? I: well, ok. If I ...

One day, my supervisor asked me:Have you read a book called The Anti-cool Girl? My friend read a copy from Kindle and she loooooved it. I: what the hell is that? Never hear of this book. S: do you want to read it? to see if it is good? I: well, ok. If I ...

One day, my supervisor asked me:Have you read a book called The Anti-cool Girl? My friend read a copy from Kindle and she loooooved it. I: what the hell is that? Never hear of this book. S: do you want to read it? to see if it is good? I: well, ok. If I ...

One day, my supervisor asked me:Have you read a book called The Anti-cool Girl? My friend read a copy from Kindle and she loooooved it. I: what the hell is that? Never hear of this book. S: do you want to read it? to see if it is good? I: well, ok. If I ...

One day, my supervisor asked me:Have you read a book called The Anti-cool Girl? My friend read a copy from Kindle and she loooooved it. I: what the hell is that? Never hear of this book. S: do you want to read it? to see if it is good? I: well, ok. If I ...

用户评价

这本书的叙事节奏把握得极其高明，读起来让人有种欲罢不能的冲动，仿佛作者精心设置了一个个文学陷阱，而你心甘情愿地跳进去。它不是那种按部就班的自传或者理论堆砌，更像是一系列散落的、但又最终汇聚成宏大主题的片段构成的拼图。我尤其喜欢作者那种时不时蹦出来的哲学思考，它们不是那种故作高深的术语堆砌，而是基于生活最坚实的地面，向上延伸出的对存在的追问。比如，书中关于“符号消费”和“身份建构”的论述，没有用晦涩的学术语言，而是通过一些极其生活化的场景——比如一次失败的派对、一次尴尬的眼神交流——来展现宏大的社会结构是如何潜移默化地塑造我们的日常行为的。这种“用小故事讲大道理”的手法，让这本书的阅读体验极其流畅且富有层次感。我常常需要停下来，合上书本，在脑海中重新梳理刚才读到的那段话，体会它在你心底激起的涟漪。它不是那种读完就扔掉的书，更像是需要反复咀嚼的佳酿，每一次重读都会有新的领悟。

我是一个对文学形式要求很高的人，很多时候，一本内容的深度足够，但表达方式却过于平庸的“好书”，总让我感到遗憾。然而，这本书在语言的打磨上达到了令人惊叹的境界。作者的遣词造句简直是教科书级别的展示——精准、有力，并且充满了令人惊喜的画面感。她似乎能将最抽象的情绪，用最具体的感官体验描绘出来。举个例子，她描述那种被群体排斥的“边缘感”时，用的不是“孤独”或“疏离”，而是某种具体的颜色、气味，甚至是一种特定的物理温度，这种高超的文学技艺，让读者瞬间沉浸到角色或叙述者的感官世界里。这本书的每一句话似乎都经过了精心的雕琢，但却完全没有矫揉造作的痕迹，反而呈现出一种自然流淌的韵律美。对于追求文字之美的读者来说，光是欣赏作者如何驾驭语言本身，就已经值回票价了。它证明了深刻的主题完全可以通过优美而富有张力的语言来承载。

坦白说，这本书的阅读门槛稍微高了一点点，它要求读者不仅要投入时间和注意力，更要愿意放下自己预设的观念去迎接挑战。这不是一本让你在咖啡馆里轻松翻阅的消遣读物，它更像是一场思想上的“拉锯战”。作者毫不留情地挑战了我们社会建构的许多“理所当然”的前提，比如“努力就一定有回报”、“真诚一定会被看见”这类被反复灌输的信条。书中对这些假设的解构过程，逻辑链条严密，论证层层递进，需要读者保持高度的专注力去跟随作者的思维轨迹。我发现自己有好几次不得不翻回去重读某一个段落，不是因为我没看懂字面意思，而是因为作者的观点太具有颠覆性，我的大脑需要时间来调整已有的认知框架来接纳它。对于那些厌倦了肤浅论调，真正渴望一场思想交锋的读者来说，这本书绝对能提供一场酣畅淋漓的智力盛宴。它让你在合上书本时，感到思想的肌肉得到了充分的锻炼。

这本书简直是为那些在社交媒体上感到迷失的灵魂准备的解药！我一直觉得，现在社会对“完美”的定义简直是病态的，每个人都在努力扮演一个精心修饰过的角色，生怕暴露一点点真实。这本书的视角却完全不同，它毫不留情地撕开了那种光鲜亮丽背后的虚假。作者的笔触犀利而又不失洞察力，她没有采用那种高高在上的说教口吻，反而像一个经验丰富的老友，在你耳边低语着那些你心知肚明却又不敢承认的真相。读着这本书，我常常会心一笑，不是因为书里有什么惊天动地的笑料，而是因为那种“终于有人说出来了”的释然。它探讨了现代女性在自我认知和外部期待之间挣扎的复杂性，特别是那种不断与“理想自我”赛跑的疲惫感。我特别欣赏作者对细节的捕捉，那些日常生活中微妙的比较、不必要的自我审查，都被她精准地描绘了出来，让人感觉仿佛作者就住在我的脑子里，把我的内心戏完整地搬上了纸面。这种共鸣的力量是巨大的，它让人不再孤单于这种“不够好”的感觉中，反而能从中找到一种力量去接纳自己的不完美，这比任何鸡汤都来得实在。

这本书对传统“女性成长”叙事模式的颠覆性，是我最欣赏的一点。通常这类书籍总会导向一个固定的圆满结局：要么是找到真爱，要么是实现职场飞跃，总之，必须有一个清晰的“向上”的弧线。但这本书完全拒绝这种廉价的安慰剂。它更诚实地描绘了成长的本质：它充满了倒退、反复，以及对既定目标的幻灭。作者大胆地展示了那些不那么“励志”的时刻——那些怀疑自己是否选错了道路、那些面对成功却感到内心空虚的瞬间。这种对复杂人性的不加修饰的呈现，反而赋予了全书一种强大的真实感和持久的生命力。它没有提供一个现成的答案，而是提供了一个可以持续对话的平台，鼓励读者去面对自己生活中的模糊地带和未解决的矛盾。阅读过程更像是一次内省之旅，而不是被动地接受信息，这种“带着问题”而不是“带着答案”离开的阅读体验，对我来说无比珍贵。

Very powerful quasi-feminism autobiography. It's like how it goes, whatever that's ducked up between one's birth to their eighteenth birthday, it's for them to fix it for the rest of their lives. Whenever you think your life sucks and stop wanting to exist, think about Rosie and how she became what she's become today.

Very powerful quasi-feminism autobiography. It's like how it goes, whatever that's ducked up between one's birth to their eighteenth birthday, it's for them to fix it for the rest of their lives. Whenever you think your life sucks and stop wanting to exist, think about Rosie and how she became what she's become today.

Very powerful quasi-feminism autobiography. It's like how it goes, whatever that's ducked up between one's birth to their eighteenth birthday, it's for them to fix it for the rest of their lives. Whenever you think your life sucks and stop wanting to exist, think about Rosie and how she became what she's become today.

Very powerful quasi-feminism autobiography. It's like how it goes, whatever that's ducked up between one's birth to their eighteenth birthday, it's for them to fix it for the rest of their lives. Whenever you think your life sucks and stop wanting to exist, think about Rosie and how she became what she's become today.

Very powerful quasi-feminism autobiography. It's like how it goes, whatever that's ducked up between one's birth to their eighteenth birthday, it's for them to fix it for the rest of their lives. Whenever you think your life sucks and stop wanting to exist, think about Rosie and how she became what she's become today.