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发帖数: 82482 | 1 其实Kim Stanley Robinson不是很左，球娃就是在那里扯。
Kim Stanley Robinson的政治主张其实比较moderate，在火星三部曲里面有表现。
去年《New Yorker》上还说他是《Our Greatest Political Novelist》：
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/our-greatest-politic
What’s most powerful about the Mars books as political novels is that they
envision a credible utopia, one that doesn’t—unlike, say, Skinner’s “
Walden Two”—rely on a revision of human nature. Robinson’s characters are
cynics, opportunists, idealists, narcissists, drug-dependent, manic-
depres... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1264 | 2 The Japanese have perfected good manners and made them
indistinguishable from rudeness.
Paul Theroux (b. 1941), U.S. novelist, travel writer. The
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发帖数: 2555 | 3 又一个
Another woman has come forward with allegations that George H.W. Bush groped
her as she posed for a photo with the former president at an event.
Novelist Christina Baker Kline became the third woman this week to make such
allegations, writing in Slate that Bush inappropriately touched her in
April 2014 at a fundraiser for the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family
Literacy. While she was taking a picture with Bush at the event, Kline wrote
, Bush asked: “You wanna know my favorite book?”
“Yes, w... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2932 | 4 我对维特根斯坦一直不太感冒。不过昨天看了个8g，太特么神／牛了。。。看完很虚幻。
书作者，就像这里被评价的有点夸张。
不过一战、二战之间的奥匈帝国／奥地利確是很有趣。
顺便再隆重推荐一下，我成年以后唯一记得有印象的长篇小说，奥地利作者robert
musil 的《the man without quantities》（中译：没有个性的人）。
ps，维特根斯坦弟弟paul wittengenstein的故事里，我偶像Prokofiev还友情出演了。
。。
为什么没有我偶像maurice ravel呢？呃，以前就听说paul介个左手刚擎家，当时还想
ludwig witetngenstein他弟很牛阿，看prokofiev的评价，凡事都抗不住有钱。。。
有点点长。。。的文:
http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/016_01/3520
Sniveling Rivalry
On April 27, 1951, a few days before he died of cancer, Ludwig Wittgenstein
completed one of his ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2932 | 5 我对维特根斯坦一直不太感冒。不过昨天看了个8g，太特么神／牛了。。。看完很虚幻。
书作者，就像这里被评价的有点夸张。
不过一战、二战之间的奥匈帝国／奥地利確是很有趣。
顺便再隆重推荐一下，我成年以后唯一记得有印象的长篇小说，奥地利作者robert
musil 的《the man without quantities》（中译：没有个性的人）。
ps，维特根斯坦弟弟paul wittengenstein的故事里，我偶像Prokofiev还友情出演了。
。。
为什么没有我偶像maurice ravel呢？呃，以前就听说paul介个左手刚擎家，当时还想
ludwig witetngenstein他弟很牛阿，看prokofiev的评价，凡事都抗不住有钱。。。
有点点长。。。的文:
http://www.bookforum.com/inprint/016_01/3520
Sniveling Rivalry
On April 27, 1951, a few days before he died of cancer, Ludwig Wittgenstein
completed one of his ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2451 | 7 诗人的视频：
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khQ9e0QpEM8
The Lanyard
by Billy Collins
The other day I was ricocheting slowly
off the blue walls of this room,
moving as if underwater from typewriter to piano,
from bookshelf to an envelope lying on the floor,
when I found myself in the L section of the dictionary
where my eyes fell upon the word lanyard.
No cookie nibbled by a French novelist
could send one into the past more suddenly—
a past where I sat at a workbench at a camp
by a deep Adirondack l |
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c**i
发帖数: 6973 | 8 Patricfia Cohen, Conversation Across Centuries With the Father of All
Bloggers; A kinship with Montaigne, a master of the essay. New York Times,
Dec. 18, 2010.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/18/books/18montaigne.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=essay%20father&st=cse
(about a book: Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One
Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer. Other Press, 2010)
Quote:
"Montaigne is considered the creator of the essay, a form that melds the
intellectual and the personal * * ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 9 (1) Bill Powell, An American Dad on Raising a Tiger Daughter. Time, Jan 20,
2011.
http://www.time.com/time/world
/article/0,8599,2043296,00.html
(Abby Cui-Powell)
Note:
(a) Bill Powell. Time
http://china.blogs.time.com/author/billpowell721/
("Bill Powell is a senior writer for TIME in Shanghai. Prior to current his
post, he was Chief International correspondent for Fortune based in Beijing
and then New York. He also served as Newsweek bureau chief in Moscow, Berlin
and Tokyo. Bill is married to ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 10 Steven Hayward, Literary Camouflage; Eric Blair contemplated calling himself
H. Lewis Allways, P.S. Burton, Kenneth Miles—or George Orwell. Wall Street
Journal, June 23, 2011 (date in print) http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230365
7404576359331656789852.html?mod=WSJ_Books_LS_Books_6
(book review on Carmela Ciuraru, Nom de Plume; A (secret) history of
pseudonym. Harper, 2011)
Note:
(1) nom de plume
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nom_de_plume
("Coined in English from French nom (“name”... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6973 | 11 (1) Liao Yiwu, Walking Out on China. New York Times, Sept 15, 2011 (op-ed).
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/opinion
/walking-out-on-china.html?scp=1&sq=yiwu&st=cse
Note:
(a) LIU Xianbin 劉 賢斌
(b) International PEN
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_PEN
(PEN originally stood for "Poets, Essayists and Novelists"; world’s oldest
human rights organization and the oldest international literary organization
; founded in London in 1921 by Catherine Amy Dawson) Scott)
(c) singing bowl
http://e... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 16 | 12 我也是一直潜水，今天实在忍不住叫声好。每天都要来看看有没有更新，如果有更新，
那就是
我着一天最开心的时刻乐。月儿，多谢了！you are my favorite novelist! |
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发帖数: 212 | 13 Classic American Authors M-Q
Claude McKay
A page at the American Academy of Poets on
this Harlem Renaissance figure, poet and
fiction writer.
Herman Melville
For one of the most important American
novelists of any century, the author of Moby
Dick, a whale of a Website--one of the most
extensive and useful author pages on the Web.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
A brief biography of the New England lyric
poet, along with a large selection of her |
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发帖数: 18 | 14
acting
poet.
Hoho, here's a paragraph from the review on TIME by Richard Shickel:
'Watching The Hours, one finds oneself focusing excessively on the unfortunate
prosthetic nose Kidman affects in order to lool more like the novelist. And
wondering why the screenwriter, David Hare, and the director, Stephen Daldry,
turn Woolf, a woman of incisive mind, into a hapless ditherer. Gentlemen, she
was only a part-time madwoman. Most of the time, she possessed one of the most
interesting sensibilities o |
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发帖数: 154 | 15 Unlike those very realistic or rather popular or mandune novlels, Mann's story
is philosophical and passionate. I think it is due to the totally different
ways of writing. There are basically two types of writing: (1) write about
your experience and then forming into thoughts;(2) Write about your thoughts
and then fit it into experience. Many writers belong to the first type. These
maybe a very naive and yet intuitive way of distinction. Mann, as a
philosophical novelist, in his artisitcly flawl |
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发帖数: 720 | 16 the review was from new york times written by a novelist Byatt. i transferred
it becoz it was controversial, not becoz i liked or agreed with it. i did add
a follow-up to show this personal view.
Byatt herself wrote novels and i also thought it was *interesting* to see her
critique on others' works.
frankly, this review was humourless and being tactless to group readers so; it
was hard not to take offense. but really, our own feelings and judgement
toward a book, and about ourselves, cant be |
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发帖数: 242 | 17 Gao xingjian's Chinese novels are just so-so. He hasn't been quite crafted as
many masters and peer novelists are. Reading them in English makes them much
better.
curiosity.
exotic, |
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发帖数: 116 | 19 I bought the book after I read the post here. I became impatient at about
one third of the book, and almost threw it away when half way done. But for
the next half I read through without a pause. Nice job, and
congratulations to the author.
The technology set up is reasonable, though "as usual". But I guess it was
not the author's main purpose to picture her version of the future
technology or future way of life. At least there is no mysticism, which I
am sick of (of course this is an issue... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 116 | 20 I bought the book after I read the post here. I became impatient at about
one third of the book, and almost threw it away when half way done. But for
the next half I read through without a pause. Nice job, and
congratulations to the author.
The technology set up is reasonable, though "as usual". But I guess it was
not the author's main purpose to picture her version of the future
technology or future way of life. At least there is no mysticism, which I
am sick of (of course this is an issue... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19049 | 21 HALF-LIVES
the first luisa rey
mystery
I
Rufus Sixsmith leans over the balcony and estimates his body’s velocity
when it hits the
sidewalk and lays his dilemmas to rest. A telephone rings in the unlit room.
Sixsmith dares not
answer. Disco music booms from the next apartment, where a party is in full
swing, and
Sixsmith feels older than his sixty-six years. Smog obscures the stars, but
north and south
along the coastal strip, Buenas Yerbas’s billion lights simmer. West, the
Pacific eternity East... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19049 | 22 THE GHASTLY ORDEAL OF TIMOTHY CAVENDISH
One bright dusk, four, five, no, my God, six summers ago, I strolled along a
Greenwich
avenue of mature chestnuts and mock oranges in a state of grace. Those
Regency residences
number among London’s costliest properties, but should you ever inherit one
, dear Reader, sell
it, don’t live in it. Houses like these secrete some dark sorcery that
transforms their owners into
fruitcakes. One such victim, an ex-chief of Rhodesian police, had, on the
evening in qu... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 306 | 23 刘慈星。。。[偷笑]
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
http://www.guokr.com/post/448760/
事情是这样的，2012年8月的时候，一群天文学家、行星科学家、前太空项目执行主管
和教育学家凑在一起，成立了一家以太空为主题的新公司，起名叫Uwingu（这个词在斯
瓦希里语里是“天空”的意思）。他们的目的是，想出各种点子来筹钱，当然这筹到的
钱会用于太空探索和教育领域。
他们想到了一个点子，就是给太阳系外的行星征集名称。通常，天文学家宣布说发现了
太阳系外的某颗行星，那颗行星的名字通常都很不好听，比如开普勒42c、WASP-19b、
OGLE-TR-56b、Qatar-1b等等。懂的人知道它们是太阳系外的行星，不知道的还以为是
某种机器的某种型号呢……
去年10月，天文学家在《自然》杂志上宣布，在距离地球最近的三星系统半人马座阿尔
法星（三体呀！！！）的B星周围，发现了一颗大小差不多跟地球一样的行星。（详见@
Ent 当时发的贴子：【号外】半人马... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3781 | 24 G. Contribution of Passage to Systematic Theology
Romans 4:1-12 teaches us several things. First, the use of Genesis 15:6 to d
emonstrate an essential NT doctrine, i.e., justification by faith apart from
works demonstrates the essential, salvific unity between the testaments. Wh
ile the content of the revelation is in many respects different in the NT, t
he object of faith, namely, God, and the primacy of faith over works, has no
t changed. In Romans 4:1-12, the presupposition is that the essent... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6300 | 25 To help you make the decision, here is the original author --
Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963), commonly
referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack",
was a novelist, poet, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay
theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast, Ireland. He is known for
both his fictional work, especially The Screwtape Letters, The Chronicles of
Narnia and The Space Trilogy and his nonfiction, such as Mere Christi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7538 | 26 http://www.abundancetapestry.com/how-to-love-yourself-in-17-way
I have compiled a list on “how to love yourself” for readers who are
facing difficulty knowing what to do in embracing themselves. When I first
began to be aware that I need to love myself first prior to developing any
meaningful relationships with others, I realized that I did not know where
to start.
This was a surprise to me then as I would have thought I’d be an expert on
love and relationships by then. After all, as I recalled,... 阅读全帖 |
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t*n
发帖数: 14458 | 27 hehe.....i once read some letters he wrote to a friend.
he is very mao2 dun4 himself too. i can see some liang2 xin4
left there.
as a poet, he died after "nv3 shen2". as a novelist and
a man, he died after 1949. |
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n*****n
发帖数: 567 | 28 I do not understand either. But it is fine.
A novelist writes novels for himself/herself.
If you happen to have the same taste with
the author, you read it, enjoy it and
appreciate it, otherwise,
Jing Gui Shen Er Yuan Zhi. : ) |
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b********y
发帖数: 63 | 29 From his red book, I can conclude that he is a novelist, not a historian.
Historians should describe the history objectively, and avoid using
emotional words like "理直气壮." |
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b*****e
发帖数: 14299 | 30 即使novelist这么引经据典也挺不容易的，他到底是什么家，各人心中自有杆秤。死者
为大，作为后生们，还是让他老人家RIP吧。 |
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b********y
发帖数: 63 | 31 A historian, out of his profession, should respect what happened, and leave what could've (should've, ...) happened or what should (could, might, ...) happen to the politicians, novelists or street gossipers. |
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发帖数: 4152 | 32 显然只是你自己的理解。 历史研究不拘一格，不仅仅是史实的陈述，也包括作者主观的思考和评论。
费正清不是写小说的吧? 他的《中国新史》里面类似让你不以为然的例子也比比皆是。
比如，关于蒋介石，他说:
“。。。他的角色作用是，除他以外没有别的最后决策力量，更不用提群众参与决策的事了。他与二十年前的袁世凯一样，
发现中国的政治似乎需要一个独裁者，他虽然在不同的时候担任过各种不同的职务，却显然是唯一的最高领袖， 他的政治
手腕可是慈禧太后望尘莫及的。” (p.332)
另外，他对毛的描写：
“。。。毛在长征期间就已开始与同僚保持距离。他登上至高的唯一领导人地位之后，住处就与其他领导人分隔开来。就像
是将要登上皇帝之位的人，他从此不再有地位平等或说知心话的人。他已经陷入了统一中国者必须忍受的束缚。我们如果回
头看以往，会发现毛泽东的兴起令我们联想到汉，唐，明三朝的建立。这三朝的情形一样，都是先有一群领袖，听命于一位
带头的领袖。这些领袖在各自的区域内动员群众参加军事行动，可能是推翻暴君，也可能是驱逐外族统治者，总之，必是号
召百姓群众才能做到的事，开国皇帝不可能单人独立完成。一旦开国之君大权... 阅读全帖 |
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s*******e
发帖数: 3077 | 33 你看了原书中引用的毛自己写的反驳赣西南方面的抨击那封信以及那首讨贼的六言诗
就知道理直气壮一词用在这儿不算不恰当
高的这本书或许心描用词再斟酌一些会更好
但是因此否定整本书
乃至于直接说他是个novelist就让我感觉读者似乎更情绪化了
另外说一句，历史是被人记载下来，不可能像你说的那样完全客观的，
每个历史学者都会有或者说应该有自己看问题的角度
否则历史著作就只能成为一个巨细无遗的记事本了 |
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发帖数: 6993 | 34 Han Han
By Simon Elegant Thursday, Apr. 29, 2010
Best-selling novelist, champion race-car driver, wasp-tongued enfant
terrible of China's literary world — Han Han has been all these things. But the Shanghai native, 27, has vaulted into a unique new role in the past year. In mid-2009, Han became China's most popular blogger. He doesn't focus on the mundane details of his daily life or celebrity gossip. Instead, he zeroes in on the ills of contemporary Chinese society, his barbed posts targeting t |
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S***n
发帖数: 2932 | 35 【 以下文字转载自 Memory 讨论区 】
发信人: Swann (我蛮夷也), 信区: Memory
标 题: 8g Wittengenstein,一家子牛人／神人
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Mon Oct 17 15:39:08 2011, 美东)
我对维特根斯坦一直不太感冒。不过昨天看了个8g，太特么神／牛了。。。看完很虚幻。
书作者，就像这里被评价的有点夸张。
不过一战、二战之间的奥匈帝国／奥地利確是很有趣。
顺便再隆重推荐一下，我成年以后唯一记得有印象的长篇小说，奥地利作者robert
musil 的《the man without quantities》（中译：没有个性的人）。
ps，维特根斯坦弟弟paul wittengenstein的故事里，我偶像Prokofiev还友情出演了。
。。
为什么没有我偶像maurice ravel呢？呃，以前就听说paul介个左手刚擎家，当时还想
ludwig witetngenstein他弟很牛阿，看prokofiev的评价，凡事都抗不住有钱。。。
有点点长。。。的文:
http://www.bookforum.com/inp... 阅读全帖 |
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c******n
发帖数: 4965 | 36 check wikipedia
his sister is a professor and novelist
genes are important .... |
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发帖数: 6971 | 37 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/opinion/mona-simpsons-eulogy-
A Sister's Eulogy for Steve Jobs
I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and
because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like
Omar Sharif. I hoped he would be rich and kind and would come into our
lives (and our not yet furnished apartment) and help us. Later, after I’d
met my father, I tried to believe he’d changed his number and left no
forwarding address because he was an... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1290 | 38 Your problem is not you do not have access to insider information, you do
not have basic common knowledge of the things you are babbaling about in
great length. Conspiracy theory is cheap. Simply put together any players
together as consipiraters and you can come up with tons of evil plots any
time of the day. There are people who do it for a living, they are called
the "novelists" or "screenwirters". What they write is dabbed as "fiction".
Your articles are intellectually lazy at their best... 阅读全帖 |
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p****n
发帖数: 9263 | 39 You didn't get her point...
She was implying that people were not allowed to express their thoughts in
China, not allowed to write about the dark side of China.... B-I-A-T-C-H...
I bet she has read novels about the culture revolution by Su Tong and Mo Yan
etc, who published a lot about the dark side of hat history without problem
. Yet this bitch is still lying to the world. BTW, those novelists did
experience the culture revolution, contrast to this bitch. |
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发帖数: 9 | 40 I am reading "fine" by Sameul Shem. The author is a psychiatrist and
novelist. In this book, he wrote the story of psychiatrist whose life was a
mess because he tried to do psychoanalysis on everything and lost
spontaneity. |
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发帖数: 60932 | 42 Link:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Justice-Game-ebook/dp/B002DYMBL2/ref=
Digital List Price: $11.99 What's this?
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murderer and victim dead, the moral issue of gun control takes center stage
in the book, with a number... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 60932 | 43 Link:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0045HCJKS
Free Shipping w/ Amazon Prime, or $25 order.
Welcome to Delos, the high-tech Disneyland for adults that Michael Crichton
created for Westworld, a nifty science fiction thriller from 1973 that also
marked the popular novelist's feature-film directorial debut. The movie is
so named because the vacationing buddies who travel to Delos (James Brolin,
Richard Benjamin) choose Westworld as their destination (the other choices
being Roman World and Medie... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2517 | 44 Master crime novelist Ed McBain's "87th Precinct" is one of the longest-
running crime series ever published and helped McBain earn the Mystery
Writers of America's "Grand Master Award" for lifetime achievement.
Today only, 35 Kindle Books from the series are just $0.99 each. (No Kindle
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发帖数: 60932 | 45 Link:
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