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The Economic Naturalist: Why Economics Explains Almost Everything By Robert H. Frank
Reading since Aug 25, 2008

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Microtrends: Surprising tales of the ways we live today
Reading since Aug 21, 2008

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The Life And Times of the Thunderbolt Kid By Bill Bryson
Reading since Aug 13, 2008

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Vernon God Little By Dbc Pierre
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Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Reading since Jun 19, 2008

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The Thirteenth Tale. By Diane Setterfield
Finished on Sep 10, 2008

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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running By Haruki Murakami
Finished on Aug 28, 2008

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The Ghost By Robert Harris
Finished on Jul 27, 2008

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The Dante Club: A Novel By Matthew Pearl
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    有點沉悶呢。偵探過程不夠曲折離奇,四位詩人學者,加上一個黑人巡警,竟然沒什麼火花。關於但丁和《神曲》的敘述有點勉強,硬加進去似的,老讓人忍不住跳過。最後兇手揭盅的部分更是無趣得很,光交代動機而犯案手法草草帶過。說是thriller,看了卻完全thrill不起來。看偵探小說,想看的是犯案者和查案者之間如何角力,這一本,兩者都很平庸。也難怪《達文西密碼》暢銷,相比起來真的好看許多。

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A Lover's Soliloquy By Eddie Tay
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    午飯時老師拿給我看,推薦說:I like the flow of it。我只匆匆翻了幾頁就下定決心要買,結果在書店看到有,欣喜若狂。

    反正,有些詩就是好,有些詩就是不好;正如有的人就是順眼,有的人就是不順眼。

    讀到好詩仍然歡喜,我慶幸自己未死。

    BTW, can you ever finish reading a poem when it is a good one? I wonder.

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Shakespeare: The World as a Stage (Eminent Lives) By Bill Bryson
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    我沒有認真讀過一部莎劇,遑論傳記。唯一是看了Shakespeare in Love,但聽說是虛構成分居多。一時衝動買了這本,沒想過會一口氣看完。

    我不太喜歡看傳記,因為很怕那種真假難分的敘述口吻,某些傳記作者寫來彷如親身經歷,「筆尖常帶感情」,那就很噁心,也很虛偽。這一本完全沒有這個毛病,如作者所說,只是把已知的事實說清楚,也把不知道的問題擺出來。也許沒有一般傳記的「精彩」,甚至打破了不少關於莎翁的美麗想像,但我認為,這才是我心目中真正的傳記。

    由此想到中國文學史上的傳奇人物曹雪芹,想到這些年來一眾專家學者憑藉《紅樓夢》裡的蛛絲馬跡,對他的身世、生平所作的推測,又有多少 ... (continue)

    我沒有認真讀過一部莎劇,遑論傳記。唯一是看了Shakespeare in Love,但聽說是虛構成分居多。一時衝動買了這本,沒想過會一口氣看完。

    我不太喜歡看傳記,因為很怕那種真假難分的敘述口吻,某些傳記作者寫來彷如親身經歷,「筆尖常帶感情」,那就很噁心,也很虛偽。這一本完全沒有這個毛病,如作者所說,只是把已知的事實說清楚,也把不知道的問題擺出來。也許沒有一般傳記的「精彩」,甚至打破了不少關於莎翁的美麗想像,但我認為,這才是我心目中真正的傳記。

    由此想到中國文學史上的傳奇人物曹雪芹,想到這些年來一眾專家學者憑藉《紅樓夢》裡的蛛絲馬跡,對他的身世、生平所作的推測,又有多少不是牽強附會的呢?

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Memories of My Melancholy Whores By Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Simple but intense; short but heavily packed. I like its description of love, but adore the passages on old age, on nostalgia, on memory.

    Borrowed the book from a friend. Will get my own copy soon and reread it.

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Dance, Dance, Dance By Haruki Murakami
  • 1 person find this helpful

    忘了在哪裡看過的,有人說自己沒有完全看懂村上的書,但是仍然很喜歡。

    兩票。

    喜歡什麼?就喜歡那個feel!什麼feel?形容不了。看完有無數問題,想問:這個代表什麼?那個代表什麼?但想想知不知道也沒關係,有些東西不必太落實。自己揣摸也許更好。

    有朋友說,看完村上會很抑鬱;我在想,是不是我恰巧看了最不抑鬱的一本?都幾乎要把它歸入「勵志」類了。不過我很喜歡其中摻雜的、淡淡的幽默,什麼樣的事,能夠笑著去想,大概就未必太差了。

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Kafka on the Shore By Haruki Murakami
Finished on Jan 1, 2008

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How to Be Alone: Essays By Jonathan Franzen
Finished on Dec 13, 2007

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Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl-A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship By Sherry Argov

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  • 2 people find this helpful

    書名也真夠騙人,還想看看男人愛什麼樣的bitch,有空效法效法,原來說穿了也就是獨立自主的女人,老調子了。

    不過,看這些寫男女關係的書,有趣之處未必在內容,有時反而在寫法。這本書就很有那種「姊姊妹妹站起來」的勁頭,至少看著覺得爽。

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The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl By Belle De Jour
Finished on Aug 27, 2007

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Book 7 By J. K. Rowling
  • 2 people find this helpful

    雖說看Harry Potter的興頭已經不及十年前大,但是終於看了完結篇,還是有點失落。好書不多,好的故事更少,更難得的是配合了好的公關行銷策略……我也不韙言,興趣有一部份是被「吊」出來的;七本書一下子齊齊整整地放在眼前,必定沒有那種由等待萌生的期待。

    不過,真希望自己開始看的時候是十歲而不是二十歲,那樣的話,一定更能投入故事,像網上許多和Harry Potter同齡的讀者。畢竟還是老了一點,不屬於HP Generation。

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Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl: A Novel By Tracy Quan
Finished on Feb 10, 2007

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Mortals and Others: American Essays 1931-1935 (Bertrand Russell Paperbacks) By Bertrand Russell
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    喜歡羅素,自王小波起。小波最喜歡引用:「須知參差多態,乃是幸福的本源」,正合我心。不過後來上網查過,原文好像根本不是這樣。罷了,即使這句是小波杜撰的也無所謂,羅素知道了大概也肯認是自己說的。

    羅素的文字真是乾淨利索,句子不短,但再怎麼長,讀起來也不痛苦。一看到底,不用看來看去。再者真是辭鋒犀利,挖苦調侃不留情面,十分好看──只要你不是被挖苦調侃的人。

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The Historian By Elizabeth Kostova
What Do You Care What Other People Think: Further Adventures of a Curious Character By Richard P. Feynman
Finished on Dec 6, 2006

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'Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman!': (Adventures of a Curious Character) By Richard P. Feynman
Finished on Dec 6, 2006

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Freakonomics. A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything By Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex By John Gray
Lost for Words By John Humphrys
An Obsession With Butterflies: Our Long Love Affair with a Singular Insect By Sharman Apt Russell
On Personality: (Thinking in Action) By Peter Goldie
Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking By D.Q. McInerny
The Secret Power of Beauty By John Armstrong
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time By Mark Haddon
  • 看完太久,忘了到底好在哪裡,只記得清新可喜,可算是一年中讀到的最好的一本書。看來要找時間重看一遍了。

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Eleven Minutes By Paulo Coelho

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  • 4 people find this helpful

    看Alchemist看得入迷,其後陸續買了別的;這是最後一本,大概不會再買了。開始有點不知他想說什麼的感覺。

    和某個作者「相遇」的過程,倒真像愛情。一見鍾情也有,日久生情也有;有些感情漸漸淡下來,有些是越看越可愛。

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Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader By Anne Fadiman
  • 喜歡看有關書的書。這本記得很不錯,但……也是相隔太久,忘記詳細內容了。看來等著重讀的書還真多呢。

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How to Walk in High Heels By Camilla Morton
Autobiography of a Geisha: (Vintage Original S.) By Sayo Masuda
Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation By Lynne Truss
  • 整本書最精彩的是書背上的熊貓笑話,買書時在書店裡笑了個人仰馬翻。

    是我看過的第一本用這種方式解說文法的書(popular grammar?)。據說後來有人撰文抨擊作者錯漏百出,強充專家云云。但在這方面,我傾向認同鄧伯伯:無論如何,至少是一隻會捉老鼠的好貓,讓不少人意識到還有punctuation這回事存在。

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The White Hotel By D. M. Thomas
The Consolations of Philosophy By Alain de Botton
  • 4 people find this helpful

    第一次看一本書,是把哲學運用在生活上,且又真實可行的。「論憤怒」一章於我如當頭棒喝;此後每次怒不可遏時都會想一想,看看是不是自己把隨機發生的事歸罪於別人。當然,不能保證不會發脾氣。

    之後也買了作者別的作品,都不及這本好了。

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Fingerprints of the Gods By Graham Hancock

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  • 從此相信我們不是第一批在地球建立文明的人類;相信我們的文明也會有終結的一天;相信自己信奉「及時行樂」是對的。呵呵!

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Jane Eyre: (World's Classics) By Charlotte Bronte
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    要選最受歡迎的女性小說,這本一定入圍吧。至今仍然覺得是最好的愛情故事:情節是其次,寫得實在太好。還記得那段在花園裡的告白──是我喜歡的典雅含蓄。

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One Hundred Years of Solitude By Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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    過去是打死了也不相信自己有本事看完這本書的,現在仍然覺得不可思議。那時竟然就這樣不眠不休地抱著書在床上躺了兩天,一口氣看完了。不能否認是有點囫圇吞棗的,但看小說的有趣之處,大概不在查字典。這麼含含糊糊、混混沌沌地沉入書裡的世界,才可以暫時忘卻現實中的許多煩惱。記得那時的我,的確急於找一個可以逃離現實的機會。

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The Rule of Four By Thomason, Dustin, Ian Caldwell
  • Entertaining, but not that brilliant.

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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian By Marina Lewycka
  • Funny, sometimes. But as long as I know, it aims to be a serious book: about ideology, country, history, family, and the like. Certainly I can see what the writer wants to say; I just can't get it from the book.

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A Wild Sheep Chase By Haruki Murakami
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    開始看《尋羊冒險記》了。《聽風的歌》、《一九七三年的彈珠玩具》和《尋羊冒險記》為他最早期寫的三部曲,《舞舞舞》是數年後的後續。我這是在溯本歸源呢。

    也不知道我的「村上印象」是從哪裡來的,一方面認定他是文藝腔、假高深、鬱悶死人不賠命的純文學,一方面又把他歸入流行文學一類。呀?流行的純文學?想想也有點沒頭沒腦。因為第一個印象,我拖到現在才看他的書,因為第二個印象,我以為滿街都賣他的書。傻呼呼的。

    走了幾家書店,英譯本都不全,通常只有《挪威的森林》、《海邊的卡夫卡》和他選編的短篇小說集《Birthday Stories》。週末晚上去新開的圓方玩,發現竟有一家超大的Metro ... (continue)

    開始看《尋羊冒險記》了。《聽風的歌》、《一九七三年的彈珠玩具》和《尋羊冒險記》為他最早期寫的三部曲,《舞舞舞》是數年後的後續。我這是在溯本歸源呢。

    也不知道我的「村上印象」是從哪裡來的,一方面認定他是文藝腔、假高深、鬱悶死人不賠命的純文學,一方面又把他歸入流行文學一類。呀?流行的純文學?想想也有點沒頭沒腦。因為第一個印象,我拖到現在才看他的書,因為第二個印象,我以為滿街都賣他的書。傻呼呼的。

    走了幾家書店,英譯本都不全,通常只有《挪威的森林》、《海邊的卡夫卡》和他選編的短篇小說集《Birthday Stories》。週末晚上去新開的圓方玩,發現竟有一家超大的Metro Books,滿滿一架Vintage版的村上,簡直是壯觀呀,幾乎一口氣把還沒有的都買下來。結果買了《尋羊冒險記》,找來找去找不到三部曲的前兩部。

    今天上Amazon一查,哇塞!原來那兩部的英譯就只有講談社出過,村上還不讓重印,結果成了rare books,價格不菲。琢磨著怎麼不讓重印呢?難道是英譯太爛了?今天得趕快去圖書館借了……

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The History of Love By Krauss Nicole
Silk By Alessandro Baricco
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    真沒看過這樣寫法的書。雖然是譯本,但相信原文也是這樣寫的。全都是短句,短得幾乎有點無頭無尾。幾乎全是敘事,沒什麼描寫。有個別情節根本就是原封不動、一字不改地複述一遍、兩遍……十分「偷懶」。

    看起來很輕鬆,一兩個小時就看完了。只是完了以後,心情就一直墜在低處,花了好幾倍時間也浮不上來。

    拍成電影了,有點好奇究竟可以怎麼拍、拍成什麼樣。

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Portraits from Memory and Other Essays By Bertrand Russell
700 Sundays By Billy Crystal
Status Anxiety By Alain de Botton
How Proust Can Change Your Life By Alain de Botton

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