g*k
发帖数: 92 | 1 平时闲来无事，我喜欢到书店逛，以前住的地方有books a million,於是办了卡，买了市
面上传说中的书，比如sex and the city,devils wear prenda,幽默，成长系列。那时在
学画画，买了若干画画的书。非常钟爱的是 for dummies 系列。我买回
play piano for dummies，拉小提琴的同事说，书对于我来说太困难了。
买回的书基本都是看完的，有时在外面旅行，会在路上买书看，发现书里面的和封面或者
介绍完全不一样的。这很打消我买书的积极性。
再后来，有时发现很多很有趣的书，就在里面读起来。没有，看起来。
前几天，看到一本三维图片的书。以前大学的时候我是怎么也看不出三维效果的，经过我
细细，摘眼镜，带眼镜，终於在五分钟后看出三维效果。
看了半本，第二天接着完成了下半本。我在想这本有趣的书要不要买回来
毕竟，我看出了三维效果，但是离答案里的各种具体的形状还是有距离的。
图书馆里时而会有喜欢的新书，但借回家后，往往一续在续，两个月都看不完。
於是上网看书，不知道看什么好，就看以前看过的旧书，比如平凡的世界。
闲来无事，只想问一下大家都读 | b*s
发帖数: 82482 | 2 These days, I am reading Carl Sagan and Philip K. Dick. I guess that's because
the recently Mars missions.
I am still digrest the result of my previous shopping spree, a ton of atlas
and war books. Mostly WW2. I love those fancy maps.
However, I don't have much time reading. My meager leisure time was unevenly
divided by all my hobbies: reading, gaming, HAM radio (still practicing my
morse code, don't have much time for that), constantly tweakling my sound
systems.
市
在
者
我
【在 g*k 的大作中提到】
: 平时闲来无事，我喜欢到书店逛，以前住的地方有books a million,於是办了卡，买了市
: 面上传说中的书，比如sex and the city,devils wear prenda,幽默，成长系列。那时在
: 学画画，买了若干画画的书。非常钟爱的是 for dummies 系列。我买回
: play piano for dummies，拉小提琴的同事说，书对于我来说太困难了。
: 买回的书基本都是看完的，有时在外面旅行，会在路上买书看，发现书里面的和封面或者
: 介绍完全不一样的。这很打消我买书的积极性。
: 再后来，有时发现很多很有趣的书，就在里面读起来。没有，看起来。
: 前几天，看到一本三维图片的书。以前大学的时候我是怎么也看不出三维效果的，经过我
: 细细，摘眼镜，带眼镜，终於在五分钟后看出三维效果。
: 看了半本，第二天接着完成了下半本。我在想这本有趣的书要不要买回来
| s*******d
发帖数: 126 | 3 最近书看的很杂，先是Cormac McCarthy，Border Triology和Blood Meridian, 再重新读
Woolf的Mrs Dalloway. 然后转中文书，叶兆言写的“没有玻璃的花房”, 莫言的“四十
一炮”和陈世旭的“将军镇”。本来还想看张洁的“无字”，看了几页，不知所云，也就
罢了。新年后看了不少best sellers (我列过一个书单)，看完the Pillards of the
Earth后有一种很强的失落感，目前正在找书看。可能在Kazuo Ishiguro (When we were
orphans), Chang-Rae Lee (Native Speaker) 和 Best American Travel Writing (最近
几年每年一本，都不错看的样子)里选一本来看。
市
在
者
我
【在 g*k 的大作中提到】
: 平时闲来无事，我喜欢到书店逛，以前住的地方有books a million,於是办了卡，买了市
: 面上传说中的书，比如sex and the city,devils wear prenda,幽默，成长系列。那时在
: 学画画，买了若干画画的书。非常钟爱的是 for dummies 系列。我买回
: play piano for dummies，拉小提琴的同事说，书对于我来说太困难了。
: 买回的书基本都是看完的，有时在外面旅行，会在路上买书看，发现书里面的和封面或者
: 介绍完全不一样的。这很打消我买书的积极性。
: 再后来，有时发现很多很有趣的书，就在里面读起来。没有，看起来。
: 前几天，看到一本三维图片的书。以前大学的时候我是怎么也看不出三维效果的，经过我
: 细细，摘眼镜，带眼镜，终於在五分钟后看出三维效果。
: 看了半本，第二天接着完成了下半本。我在想这本有趣的书要不要买回来
| t*******n
发帖数: 4445 | 4
读
十
就
were
近
Read “Native Speaker” and it was enjoyable. My only objection is the book
structure: two stories of the protagonist were going in alternatively
chapters, and I ended reading the even and odd chapters separately.
Other good novels on the immigrant experience in America: Jhumpa Lahiri
“Intepreter of Maladies” (Pulitzer 2000), Jeffrey Eugenides “Middlesex”
(Pulitzer 2003)
了
时
或
过
【在 s*******d 的大作中提到】
: 最近书看的很杂，先是Cormac McCarthy，Border Triology和Blood Meridian, 再重新读
: Woolf的Mrs Dalloway. 然后转中文书，叶兆言写的“没有玻璃的花房”, 莫言的“四十
: 一炮”和陈世旭的“将军镇”。本来还想看张洁的“无字”，看了几页，不知所云，也就
: 罢了。新年后看了不少best sellers (我列过一个书单)，看完the Pillards of the
: Earth后有一种很强的失落感，目前正在找书看。可能在Kazuo Ishiguro (When we were
: orphans), Chang-Rae Lee (Native Speaker) 和 Best American Travel Writing (最近
: 几年每年一本，都不错看的样子)里选一本来看。
:
: 市
: 在
| g*k
发帖数: 92 | 5 这些书会不会太严肃?我连times有时觉得很枯燥，我喜欢看people,entertainment,还有
休闲小说。我英文老师说这些东西都是5th,6th grade lever,而times是8th grade level
的。
我读书都是当消遣的，以前也大学也读些叔本华，尼采，freud的书，现在看这些原版书
都头大。哈哈，这个台阶非得上。
新
四
也
(最
买
那
面
经
【在 t*******n 的大作中提到】
:
: 读
: 十
: 就
: were
: 近
: Read “Native Speaker” and it was enjoyable. My only objection is the book
: structure: two stories of the protagonist were going in alternatively
: chapters, and I ended reading the even and odd chapters separately.
: Other good novels on the immigrant experience in America: Jhumpa Lahiri
| t*******n
发帖数: 4445 | 6
有
level
古狗了一下Lahiri那本里最喜欢的两篇，居然都找到了。严肃不严肃你自己看吧。
“A temporary matter”
http://shs.westport.k12.ct.us/chia/ContemporaryAmerican/stories/temporary_matt
er.pdf
“The third and final continent”
http://www.dequinix.com/a/continent.php
书
德文原版？？我看《茵梦湖》都头大~~
重
“
，
the
book
”
，
。
封
【在 g*k 的大作中提到】
: 这些书会不会太严肃?我连times有时觉得很枯燥，我喜欢看people,entertainment,还有
: 休闲小说。我英文老师说这些东西都是5th,6th grade lever,而times是8th grade level
: 的。
: 我读书都是当消遣的，以前也大学也读些叔本华，尼采，freud的书，现在看这些原版书
: 都头大。哈哈，这个台阶非得上。
:
: 新
: 四
: 也
: (最
| b*s
发帖数: 82482 | 7 This kind of structure is quite annoying. However, sometimes it helps to
relief the stress that built up. Shifting to another story line, you
temporarily let it go the built-up stress.
Several months ago, I read Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. It divided the
stories line into four or five parts, each in a separate time stage. In the
end, the stories end at page 900+, all converging together. That's kind of
awful.
I have yet to read his Quicksilver, another huge tome. Mixed reviews, but it
seems
【在 t*******n 的大作中提到】
:
: 有
: level
: 古狗了一下Lahiri那本里最喜欢的两篇，居然都找到了。严肃不严肃你自己看吧。
: “A temporary matter”
: http://shs.westport.k12.ct.us/chia/ContemporaryAmerican/stories/temporary_matt
: er.pdf
: “The third and final continent”
: http://www.dequinix.com/a/continent.php
: 书
| t*******n
发帖数: 4445 | 8 Yeah, the worse kind is when separate storys converge at the very end, so
during most of the reading you have no clue what one has to do with the other
.
Among Sci-Fi books, I think William Gibson's "Idoru" is an example. On ther
other hand, Arthur C. Clarke's "The Fountains of Paradise" shares a similar
structure in an enjoyable way, because the 2 stories are intricatly connected.
book
【在 b*s 的大作中提到】
: This kind of structure is quite annoying. However, sometimes it helps to
: relief the stress that built up. Shifting to another story line, you
: temporarily let it go the built-up stress.
: Several months ago, I read Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon. It divided the
: stories line into four or five parts, each in a separate time stage. In the
: end, the stories end at page 900+, all converging together. That's kind of
: awful.
: I have yet to read his Quicksilver, another huge tome. Mixed reviews, but it
: seems
| b*s
发帖数: 82482 | 9 The worst thing is: from one story line (because it happens much later than
other), you already know what happened in another thread. You lost suspension.
However, Stephenson's books are not "artificially plot driven", it actually is
pure digressions, erudite and engaging digressions. That's why although his
books are lengthy, but there are still a lot of fans. Like some of Poul
Anderson's books, lengthy but not dull.
other
connected.
【在 t*******n 的大作中提到】
: Yeah, the worse kind is when separate storys converge at the very end, so
: during most of the reading you have no clue what one has to do with the other
: .
: Among Sci-Fi books, I think William Gibson's "Idoru" is an example. On ther
: other hand, Arthur C. Clarke's "The Fountains of Paradise" shares a similar
: structure in an enjoyable way, because the 2 stories are intricatly connected.
:
: book
| s*******d
发帖数: 126 | 10 yeah, reading is definitely very personal and it's hard to trade ideas. Good
luck finding books to read, we obviously don't intersect much. :)
有
level
书
重
“
，
the
book
”
，
。
封
【在 g*k 的大作中提到】
: 这些书会不会太严肃?我连times有时觉得很枯燥，我喜欢看people,entertainment,还有
: 休闲小说。我英文老师说这些东西都是5th,6th grade lever,而times是8th grade level
: 的。
: 我读书都是当消遣的，以前也大学也读些叔本华，尼采，freud的书，现在看这些原版书
: 都头大。哈哈，这个台阶非得上。
:
: 新
: 四
: 也
: (最
| | | g*k
发帖数: 92 | 11 know what everybody else is reading. I think locating the problem is always
the first step towards changing it. :)
This weekend,i will check out all the books mentioned here and try to go from
there. Thank you for sharing.
还
版
再
的
云
we
Writing
“Middlesex | r*******w
发帖数: 121 | 12 //hand
i love interpreter of maladies
i read it during some personal life crisis many years ago...almost remember
everything in that book...
she has a first novel coming out...the namesake...though the review is not
that crazy for interpreter...i plan to read it, when i have time...i love her
writing...attention to details, and dicisive(?)...
i bought middlesex for a long time without reading it //blush
another recent immigrant novel is "brick lane"...reviews good...
and actually many novels on
【在 t*******n 的大作中提到】
: Yeah, the worse kind is when separate storys converge at the very end, so
: during most of the reading you have no clue what one has to do with the other
: .
: Among Sci-Fi books, I think William Gibson's "Idoru" is an example. On ther
: other hand, Arthur C. Clarke's "The Fountains of Paradise" shares a similar
: structure in an enjoyable way, because the 2 stories are intricatly connected.
:
: book
| r*******w
发帖数: 121 | 13 先admire一下我的记性 ;-)
居然还记得都是讲什么的
a temporary matter没有特别深的印象
但是the third and final continent确实也是我的最爱
很多句子好像都能背出来似的
i even still remember when and where i was reading it
and what happened around that time...
还
http://shs.westport.k12.ct.us/chia/ContemporaryAmerican/stories/temporary_matt
版
再
的
云
we
Writing
【在 t*******n 的大作中提到】
: Yeah, the worse kind is when separate storys converge at the very end, so
: during most of the reading you have no clue what one has to do with the other
: .
: Among Sci-Fi books, I think William Gibson's "Idoru" is an example. On ther
: other hand, Arthur C. Clarke's "The Fountains of Paradise" shares a similar
: structure in an enjoyable way, because the 2 stories are intricatly connected.
:
: book
| t*******n
发帖数: 4445 | 14
觉得故事讲的有趣：两口子在停电的黑暗里讲了很多平时不说的心声；以为最后要恩爱团
圆呢，结果…让人想起O Henry的笔法。难怪她99年弄了个同名的奖。
嗯，你为什么喜欢？我感动了半天，现在还不知道为什么。可能是语言的诗歌节奏，也可
能是身在异乡的感觉~~
这些书会不会太严肃?我连times有时觉得很枯燥，我喜欢看people,entertainment,
http://shs.westport.k12.ct.us/chia/ContemporaryAmerican/stories/temporary_matt
原
Meridian,
言
所
【在 r*******w 的大作中提到】
: 先admire一下我的记性 ;-)
: 居然还记得都是讲什么的
: a temporary matter没有特别深的印象
: 但是the third and final continent确实也是我的最爱
: 很多句子好像都能背出来似的
: i even still remember when and where i was reading it
: and what happened around that time...
:
: 还
: http://shs.westport.k12.ct.us/chia/ContemporaryAmerican/stories/temporary_matt
| s*******d
发帖数: 126 | 15 Best American Travel Writing 2000 (Ed. Bill Bryson) was an excellent read. It
made me miss my travelling days...
Lee writes with a voice I cannot quite grasp, maybe he tries too hard. I
quitted half way.
Ishiguro writes well I have to admit and I like the story.
读
十
就
were
近
了
时
或
过
【在 s*******d 的大作中提到】
: 最近书看的很杂，先是Cormac McCarthy，Border Triology和Blood Meridian, 再重新读
: Woolf的Mrs Dalloway. 然后转中文书，叶兆言写的“没有玻璃的花房”, 莫言的“四十
: 一炮”和陈世旭的“将军镇”。本来还想看张洁的“无字”，看了几页，不知所云，也就
: 罢了。新年后看了不少best sellers (我列过一个书单)，看完the Pillards of the
: Earth后有一种很强的失落感，目前正在找书看。可能在Kazuo Ishiguro (When we were
: orphans), Chang-Rae Lee (Native Speaker) 和 Best American Travel Writing (最近
: 几年每年一本，都不错看的样子)里选一本来看。
:
: 市
: 在
| or
发帖数: 720 | 16 lotr fanfiction
i've been following two pieces for a few months and it's like watching tv
drama except that there's no surety of updates and wrapping up. their quality
is wearing down as they are going really lengthy, overstretched like "butter
on the bread", yet i can't help sticking to them.;)
"the princess bride", 3rd time to mention this & 2nd time to read this. it
sparkles. puts a reader on an understanding position instead of a fully
amused one.
"jack, straight from gut"
excerpts
【在 g*k 的大作中提到】
: 平时闲来无事，我喜欢到书店逛，以前住的地方有books a million,於是办了卡，买了市
: 面上传说中的书，比如sex and the city,devils wear prenda,幽默，成长系列。那时在
: 学画画，买了若干画画的书。非常钟爱的是 for dummies 系列。我买回
: play piano for dummies，拉小提琴的同事说，书对于我来说太困难了。
: 买回的书基本都是看完的，有时在外面旅行，会在路上买书看，发现书里面的和封面或者
: 介绍完全不一样的。这很打消我买书的积极性。
: 再后来，有时发现很多很有趣的书，就在里面读起来。没有，看起来。
: 前几天，看到一本三维图片的书。以前大学的时候我是怎么也看不出三维效果的，经过我
: 细细，摘眼镜，带眼镜，终於在五分钟后看出三维效果。
: 看了半本，第二天接着完成了下半本。我在想这本有趣的书要不要买回来
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