The Khao San Road, Bangkok--first stop for the hordes of rootless young Westerners traveling in Southeast Asia. On Richard's first night there, in a low-budget guest house, a fellow traveler slashes his wrists, bequeathing to Richard a meticulously drawn map to "the Beach."
The Beach, as Richard has come to learn, is the subject of a legend among young travelers in Asia: a lagoon hidden from the sea, with white sand and coral gardens, freshwater falls surrounded by jungle, plants untouched for a thousand years. There, it is rumored, a carefully selected international few have settled in a communal Eden.
Haunted by the figure of Mr. Duck--the name by which the Thai police have identified the dead man--and his own obsession with Vietnam movies, Richard sets off with a young French couple to an island hidden away in an archipelago forbidden to tourists. They discover the Beach, and it is as beautiful and idyllic as it is reputed to be. Yet over time it becomes clear that Beach culture, as Richard calls it, has troubling, even deadly, undercurrents.
Spellbinding and hallucinogenic, The Beach is a look at a generation in their twenties, who, burdened with the legacy of the preceding generation and saturated by popular culture, long for an unruined landscape, but find it difficult to experience the world firsthand.
0 有用 marshmallow 2009-02-22 13:57:48
很好看
0 有用 考拉 2012-11-14 11:10:23
adventure
0 有用 ashes要打坐 2020-06-14 00:52:12
backpackers.
0 有用 Amanda 2011-04-22 14:59:33
movie is good, book is even better.
0 有用 dykttatuOB 2021-08-23 14:56:28
读到白色沙滩上的几个“兔八哥”角色时就猜这是本《蝇王》。人的人性、控制欲和奴性试探不得。为什么英语老师会要求我们读这本书?花季的年龄会产生心理阴影的(虽然我喜欢。
0 有用 Yi Jiang 2023-04-01 11:26:45 四川
英文版阅读难度适合刚开始阅读英文的初学者。没有电影里面的三角恋。和电影相比各有千秋吧。误闯海岛的sammy一伙人真的惨,sal和bugs真的是为了维持这个世外桃源丢失了人性。Francoise不仅美丽在选择天堂还是选择人性中选择了人性
0 有用 dykttatuOB 2021-08-23 14:56:28
读到白色沙滩上的几个“兔八哥”角色时就猜这是本《蝇王》。人的人性、控制欲和奴性试探不得。为什么英语老师会要求我们读这本书?花季的年龄会产生心理阴影的(虽然我喜欢。
0 有用 ashes要打坐 2020-06-14 00:52:12
backpackers.
0 有用 石头大云 2020-02-26 20:24:43
2020年特殊的假期,待着无事可做,读了这本书。词汇量不足,看得云里雾里,不过被开头书中描绘的亚洲旅游者的感觉、和一丝连绵不断不断的悬念吸引着读下去了。 可是,感觉后面的剧情有点崩,难道白人兄弟姐妹们幻想的世外桃源和人性冲突是这个样子么... 是不是有点肤浅啊,而且结尾有点莫名其妙。 好吧,作为工科生,以后还是读科普作品吧。文学作品套路深,我还是理解不能。哦,对了,这就去找2000年小李子演的同名... 2020年特殊的假期,待着无事可做,读了这本书。词汇量不足,看得云里雾里,不过被开头书中描绘的亚洲旅游者的感觉、和一丝连绵不断不断的悬念吸引着读下去了。 可是,感觉后面的剧情有点崩,难道白人兄弟姐妹们幻想的世外桃源和人性冲突是这个样子么... 是不是有点肤浅啊,而且结尾有点莫名其妙。 好吧,作为工科生,以后还是读科普作品吧。文学作品套路深,我还是理解不能。哦,对了,这就去找2000年小李子演的同名电影看看去。 (展开)
0 有用 Ygritte 2019-10-21 12:46:34
reminder me of the holiday I spent in southeast asia. An intersting adventure story. However I couldn’t imagine how the people could be so.. crazy and cruel in the end...