B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction.
A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes—only to discover that claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational spea...
B.J. Novak's One More Thing: Stories and Other Stories is an endlessly entertaining, surprisingly sensitive, and startlingly original debut that signals the arrival of a brilliant new voice in American fiction.
A boy wins a $100,000 prize in a box of Frosted Flakes—only to discover that claiming the winnings might unravel his family. A woman sets out to seduce motivational speaker Tony Robbins—turning for help to the famed motivator himself. A new arrival in Heaven, overwhelmed with options, procrastinates over a long-ago promise to visit his grandmother. We meet Sophia, the first artificially intelligent being capable of love, who falls for a man who might not be ready for it himself; a vengeance-minded hare, obsessed with scoring a rematch against the tortoise who ruined his life; and post-college friends who try to figure out how to host an intervention in the era of Facebook. Along the way, we learn why wearing a red T-shirt every day is the key to finding love, how February got its name, and why the stock market is sometimes just . . . down.
Finding inspiration in questions from the nature of perfection to the icing on carrot cake, One More Thing has at its heart the most human of phenomena: love, fear, hope, ambition, and the inner stirring for the one elusive element just that might make a person complete. Across a dazzling range of subjects, themes, tones, and narrative voices, the many pieces in this collection are like nothing else, but they have one thing in common: they share the playful humor, deep heart, sharp eye, inquisitive mind, and altogether electrifying spirit of a writer with a fierce devotion to the entertainment of the reader.
“One more thing” she said.
“You meet a finite number of people in your life. It feels to you like it’s infinite; but it’s not. I think it’s the biggest thing I can see that you can’t…You think you meet an infinite number of taxi drivers, but you don’t, it’s probably not even a thousand, in your whole life. Or doctors or nurses – do you get what I’m trying to say? At all?”
I answered honestly that I didn’t
“Okay!” she rushed away from that idea frantically. “New topic: what’s something funny that happened to you while we were apart, that you thought about sharing with me, even if it was just for a second?”
I laughed, to try to make her laugh, and said that she had said that she had only one more thing to say.
“Yes!” she said. 'That’s what I was trying to say before! There’s always goin... (查看原文)
Didn't they reallize how much interesting shit there was to see and do in this world if you just woke up at a normal fucking time like a normal fucking person? (查看原文)
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0 有用 米子 2015-07-06 02:09:43
很好的马桶/飞机/公车读物
3 有用 jo 2014-05-28 11:47:42
because carrot cake needs all the best icing there is
1 有用 Sponge.F 2017-06-28 15:06:56
故事都不咸不淡不够刺激
2 有用 至秦 2017-07-14 23:10:56
一开始读好玩，很快就审美疲劳了
0 有用 Monkey 2021-09-12 18:28:24
挑了一些看，最喜欢超短篇幅的，比如胡萝卜蛋糕needs最好的icing。不知道是不是人工痕迹还是技巧比较明显甚至超过了message？总之虽然很喜欢这类略微发散思维的短小说但是不够喜欢这个。