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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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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)
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores



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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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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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