By Walter Mosley
A good mystery has to be a good novel, and any good novel takes us on a journey where we discover, on many levels, truths about ourselves and our world in ways that are, at the same time, unexpected and familiar.
Science and regligion, capitalism and socialism, caste and character are all on the auction block. The waters are rising while we are dreaming of dancing with the stars. We call ourselves social creatures when indeed we are pack animals. We, many of us, say that we are middle class when in reality we are salt-of-the-earth working-class drones existing at the whim of systems that distribute our life's blood as so much spare change. These subjects can be addressed in fiction or plays, even in poetry, but now and again the plain talk of nonfiction is preferred.
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I like fiction by writers engaged in trying to make sense of their lives and of the world in which they find themselves, writers who palpably have skin in the game, and this makes me particularly resistant to historical fiction. (查看原文)
记录一些提到的、比较感兴趣的书。读书太少,有好多人和书都没听过。(有些懒得找了,等有空再修订吧) 雷蒙德·卡佛《当我们谈论爱情时我们在谈论什么》 [当我们谈论爱情时我们在谈论什么] 苏珊·希恩(Susan Sheehan)《地球之上无我容身之所?》 [Is There No Place on Earth...
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6 有用 ^东坡饭^ 2020-06-16 23:37:10
大型图书种草机!推荐微信读书的版本,能直接跳转至提到的书目上,可以说是非常贴心了!
8 有用 法雅和她的时间 2019-08-01 14:24:49
我曾以为作家的书单以及阅读习惯就像作家的写作癖好一样不可复制,然而读过《枕边书》后,我发现大家的童年都是《福尔摩斯探案集》《格林童话》《尼尔斯骑鹅历险记》《一千零一夜》《世界大百科全书》等等等等,喜欢阅读的地点也无非就是飞机上和躺在床上,影响无数作家的榜样翻来覆去也就那么几个,这倒是给我为孩子选书提了个醒,经典之所以成为经典,大概就在于它能够无差别地不断影响几代人的巨大魅力。
4 有用 Shirleysays 2019-08-11 12:52:37
这哪里是什么枕边书,分明就是本阅读指南!看得我心潮澎湃,小卡片记了一叠。接下来就是找书,买书!看到在大作家们眼里,海明威一会儿黑,一会儿红,好玩极了!我再也不怕被说恶趣味了!读书,真是件私事,就像枕边的那些悄悄话。
1 有用 A Happy Ghost 2020-03-31 21:00:45
清單讀物,從中也可以看出亞洲文學是多麼的非主流了.沒有人提「紅樓夢」「川端康成」,只有「村上春樹」.
1 有用 去码头整点薯条 2019-07-17 14:44:32
除了记录书单,就是羡慕人家的工作区了