发表于2024-04-26
Less 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
赶在六一读完了Less。最后莱斯去的城市是京都,体验了日本的怀石料理,中途得知了旧爱Robert中风住院。Robert算是见证Less从青年到中年的全过程。在他眼中,莱斯还是当年海滩上见过的二十一岁少年,那个错将多伦多当做加拿大首都的少年。人人都说年轻时遇到的爱恋最让人难忘,...
评分小说很迷人,作家的生活更迷人,这是我之前说过的。理所当然的,一本写作家生活的小说也很有意思。 许多要做的事情来不及做,没有兴趣做,被其他纷繁的事情打扰忘记做,这我之前说过,但现在深有体会,花花世界,迷乱人眼,倒不是说哪件事情更有意义,而是感受到了自己的有限而...
评分赶在六一读完了Less。最后莱斯去的城市是京都,体验了日本的怀石料理,中途得知了旧爱Robert中风住院。Robert算是见证Less从青年到中年的全过程。在他眼中,莱斯还是当年海滩上见过的二十一岁少年,那个错将多伦多当做加拿大首都的少年。人人都说年轻时遇到的爱恋最让人难忘,...
评分小说很迷人,作家的生活更迷人,这是我之前说过的。理所当然的,一本写作家生活的小说也很有意思。 许多要做的事情来不及做,没有兴趣做,被其他纷繁的事情打扰忘记做,这我之前说过,但现在深有体会,花花世界,迷乱人眼,倒不是说哪件事情更有意义,而是感受到了自己的有限而...
评分赶在六一读完了Less。最后莱斯去的城市是京都,体验了日本的怀石料理,中途得知了旧爱Robert中风住院。Robert算是见证Less从青年到中年的全过程。在他眼中,莱斯还是当年海滩上见过的二十一岁少年,那个错将多伦多当做加拿大首都的少年。人人都说年轻时遇到的爱恋最让人难忘,...
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Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world.
QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town?
ANSWER: You accept them all.
What would possibly go wrong? Arthur Less will almost fall in love in Paris, almost fall to his death in Berlin, barely escape to a Moroccan ski chalet from a Saharan sandstorm, accidentally book himself as the (only) writer-in-residence at a Christian Retreat Center in Southern India, and encounter, on a desert island in the Arabian Sea, the last person on Earth he wants to face. Somewhere in there: he will turn fifty. Through it all, there is his first love. And there is his last.
Because, despite all these mishaps, missteps, misunderstandings and mistakes, Less is, above all, a love story.
A scintillating satire of the American abroad, a rumination on time and the human heart, a bittersweet romance of chances lost, by an author The New York Times has hailed as "inspired, lyrical," "elegiac," "ingenious," as well as "too sappy by half," Less shows a writer at the peak of his talents raising the curtain on our shared human comedy.
这么看的话,Less这一生的故事真的不坏。要形容他,也无非是一颗永远长不大的心,没有盔甲,没有防备,即使到了五十岁,仍然与这世界赤裸相对。这笔触的幽默和温柔,也在最后揭开答案。所以爱的本质是什么。如果你花了几个月穿越半个地球,并没能走出去,反而明白过来,谁能说你不爱他呢。
评分When that final sentence appeared, I was like Arthur Less after five years of reading In Search of Lost Time, deprived of the joy of savoring the last few paragraphs. The book carries an interesting form, natural humor and great depth. Mesmerized by the true beauty of that kiss, & forever grateful for that unexpected light, at home, awaiting him.
评分前四分之三都是上等佳作,尤其体现在行文上。近几年读虚构类的英文书很少读到这么流畅的。情绪感染力也一流,话题依也非常值得探讨:当一个人是一个少数群体的一员的时候,他是很难不说这个群体的好话的,否则他瞬间就会变成“坏人”。后四分之一则有些垮掉了,简直误以为在看一部旅游浪漫剧。
评分其实是个纯爱故事...
评分基佬版eat pray love. 结尾那句精华从看到书名就期待着出现了,但可能是因为过程太过繁琐,稍显无力。
Less 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书