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Lulu Miller 出版社: Simon & Schuster 副标题: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life 出版年: 2020-4-14 页数: 224 定价: USD 23.00 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9781501160271
A wondrous nonfiction debut from the cofounder of NPR’s Invisibilia, Why Fish Don’t Exist tells the story of a 19th-century scientist possessed with bringing order to the natural world—a dark and astonishing tale that becomes an investigation into some of the biggest questions of our lives.
When Lulu Miller was starting out as a science reporter, she encountered a story that wo...
A wondrous nonfiction debut from the cofounder of NPR’s Invisibilia, Why Fish Don’t Exist tells the story of a 19th-century scientist possessed with bringing order to the natural world—a dark and astonishing tale that becomes an investigation into some of the biggest questions of our lives.
When Lulu Miller was starting out as a science reporter, she encountered a story that would stick with her for a decade. It was the strange tale of a scientist named David Starr Jordan, who set out to discover as many of the world’s fish as he could. Decade by decade, he built one of the most important specimen collections ever seen. Until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake hit—sending over a thousand of his fish, housed in fragile glass jars, plummeting to the floor. In an instant, his life’s work was shattered.
Miller knew what she would do if she were in Jordan’s shoes. She would give up, give in to despair. But Jordan? He surveyed the wreckage at his feet, found the first fish he recognized, and painstakingly began to rebuild his collection. And this time, he introduced one clever innovation that, he believed, would protect it against the chaos of the world.
In Why Fish Don’t Exist, Miller digs into the passing anecdote she once heard about David Starr Jordan to tell his whole story. What was it that kept him going that day in 1906? What became of him? And who does he prove to be, in the end: a role model for how to thrive in a chaotic world, or a cautionary tale? Filled with suspense, surprise, and even a questionable death, this enchanting book interweaves science, biography, and a dash of memoir to investigate the age-old question of how to go on when everything seems lost.
Louisa Elizabeth Miller, better known as Lulu Miller, is an American writer, artist, and science reporter for National Public Radio. Miller's career in radio started as a producer for the WNYC program Radiolab. She now co-hosts the NPR show Invisibilia with Alix Spiegel.
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1 有用 乌鸦呱呱嘎 2025-02-07 07:00:44 美国
前半截写得好烂，莫名其妙的；故事的节奏一直到Jane被谋杀的一节才变得有趣起来。我觉得整体的结构里应该完全去掉和chaos斗争的这一个主题。这个主题，过于莫名其妙了，还老提entropy，让人眉毛一挑一挑的。写得精彩的是对优生学与宗教和生物分类学的发展一起讨论的段落。
1 有用 斯泫泫泫 2025-02-25 14:41:15 新加坡
又被恋爱脑创到，开头是因为失恋，结尾是找到了命运的爱人，太多感性的文字了，反而是我觉得有意思的科学内容一笔带过，你倒是细讲一下鱼为什么不存在啊。整本书缺少专业和严谨，主要是作者个人的情感抒发…前半本一直皱着眉头看完，后半本才稍微有点意思，一些twists and turns，但最后立意的拔高还是不够深刻…
8 有用 califlo 2020-10-19 19:46:27
好看！特别有意思！没办法定义这本书是什么，里面有上个世纪初的科学家的故事，有作者自己的经历，有关于chaos，existence和eugenics起源的哲学问题的讨论，还有些…鱼。要记住let the fish go 🐟
1 有用 阿涅丝丙氨酸 2024-11-30 23:58:32 美国
好难喝的心灵鱼汤啊！一开始以为是斯通纳传记版，直到我发现主人公是那个臭名昭著的斯坦福首任校长。文字非常咯噔，作者极尽矫饰之能也没把主人公做的那一系列一言难尽的事赋予什么伟大意义，退一步甚至不能品味到一丝复杂，自始至终这就是一个自以为是到甚至没人性的白男起高楼、宴宾客、楼塌了的故事。本书充分说明人类的自恋有多么令人反胃，一开始以为作者只是爱男，没想到作者居然是把爱男当作自我投射的出口！受够了白男白... 好难喝的心灵鱼汤啊！一开始以为是斯通纳传记版，直到我发现主人公是那个臭名昭著的斯坦福首任校长。文字非常咯噔，作者极尽矫饰之能也没把主人公做的那一系列一言难尽的事赋予什么伟大意义，退一步甚至不能品味到一丝复杂，自始至终这就是一个自以为是到甚至没人性的白男起高楼、宴宾客、楼塌了的故事。本书充分说明人类的自恋有多么令人反胃，一开始以为作者只是爱男，没想到作者居然是把爱男当作自我投射的出口！受够了白男白女那一套，太做作太无病呻吟了。一个分类学家收拾地震后的鱼类标本残骸的时候把标签直接钉到鱼身上就叫against the onslaughts of chaos，我们科研民工做实验把数据写手上岂不是可以说为科学牺牲了追求洁净的权利？听起来还是不如他们做作，你看，我们发展中国家的人说话就是朴实得多。 (展开)
22 有用 ZZ 2020-10-08 10:40:12
非常喜欢这本书，把人的终极疑惑写得淋漓尽致。这本书易读，但是却引人思考。虽然看似是写的他人的传记，实际上是把自己的成长写了遍。也就是在他人的故事中找自己。围绕着人生的意义是什么，人生究竟是混沌的吗？那么我们可能找到秩序吗？看完最后一页，立刻想重新再读一遍。