Up in the Air

出版者:Anchor

作者:Walter Kirn

页数:384

出版时间:2009-11-24

价格:USD 7.99

装帧:Mass Market Paperback

isbn号码:9780307476296

具体描述

Ryan Bingham’s job as a Career Transition Counselor–he fires people–has kept him airborne for years. Although he has come to despise his line of work, he has come to love the culture of what he calls “Airworld,” finding contentment within pressurized cabins, anonymous hotel rooms, and a wardrobe of wrinkle-free slacks. With a letter of resignation sitting on his boss’s desk, and the hope of a job with a mysterious consulting firm, Ryan Bingham is agonizingly close to his ultimate goal, his Holy Grail: one million frequent flier miles. But before he achieves this long-desired freedom, conditions begin to deteriorate.

With perception, wit, and wisdom, Up in the Air combines brilliant social observation with an acute sense of the psychic costs of our rootless existence, and confirms Walter Kirn as one of the most savvy chroniclers of American life.

读后感

每个人每天的生活就像是在云端，明白了，什么都可以放下，却什么也放不下，那些放不下的，就成了心头的结，而那些放下的，就像空中的云！忙碌重要，但不要忘记了自己所爱~  

这本书和同名电影几乎完全不同。 当初看完电影，我就写下感想，我羡慕电影里的男主角，能够不停地乘坐飞机往返各大城市，不辞劳苦，风光无限，而他的工作也很特殊——职业转换咨询（没看书之前我脑子里没有一个词形容他，只知道他是专门去跟各种公司的职员说“你被解雇”了），...  

I got to the last page, I was outraged. Another abrupt ending, what was that all about? It left me hanging there, dangled. "Just that. No more. 'We are here'." Short, succinct sentences like this are powerful. Just as the protagonist who used these sentence...  

在云端 就是一种感觉 飘着！ 书没看 只看电影了！！ 整篇就一个感觉 飘着 工作飘着 路途飘着 情感飘着 看完后自己不能出差 总感觉飘着 下不来 不踏实 喜欢飞机落地的感觉  

生活在云端，是现代都市人的真实写照，为工作奔波，来不及关心身边的亲人，等到回头才发现，失去了最珍贵的东西！  

用户评价

看的我脑袋都碎了。。。。。。

生词一般多

小说有点杂乱，没有电影那么脉络清晰。

看的我脑袋都碎了。。。。。。

我被这本书总结的体无完肤，重新认识了自我