“I have told myself that I am writing this because it will give you time to consider before you reply, but that may only be cowardice. To read a rejection will be more bearable than to see it in your eyes. I have no reason to hope. You know that I love you, but my love gives me no claim. Other men have said these words to you and they will againAnd I can’t promise to make you happy; it would be arrogant to assume that such a gift lay in my power. If I were your father, your brother or merely a friend I could find plenty of reasons to argue against myself. But you know them already. Only the greatest poets could speak for me, but this is not a time for other men’s words. I can only write what is in my heart. My only hope is that you may care enough to make you wish to risk this adventure to... (查看原文)
She said, ‘I suppose a museum is a celebration of death. Dead people’s lives, the objects they made, the things they thought important, their clothes, their houses, their daily comforts, their art.’
‘No. A museum is about life. It’s about the individual life,how it was lived. It’s about the corporate life of the times, men and women organizing their societies. It’s about the continuing life of the species Homo sapiens. No one with any human curiosity can dislike a museum.' (查看原文)
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P·D·詹姆斯 作者
2 有用 阳阳 2012-06-23 12:24:59
“巅峰之作”？极端存疑！要么就是翻译太糟糕。读了35页，实在是兴趣缺缺。字里行间看着眼累。
0 有用 忧郁剑士 2023-01-09 00:08:34 上海
PD詹姆斯，鲁斯·伦德尔，多萝西·L·塞耶斯，约瑟芬·铁伊，她们都是一个模子刻出来的，令人发指的啰嗦和枯燥，几乎是女作家的通病。只有阿加莎·克里斯蒂是个另类，这种人在中国古代会比喻为天上的文曲星下凡，百年难遇的奇才。
0 有用 金田一耕助 2022-05-05 06:24:03
后半本是很典型的阿加莎式推理 小范围连续死人 人人都有动机 人设和对白很精彩 最后的动机略差 大败笔是作者将近100页的嫌疑人背景放在了凶案发生前 估计劝退不少没耐心的读者
0 有用 山 2019-05-04 18:03:46
非常有思想性的推理小说，很好看啊。只是开头铺陈太多，差点放弃。又一个例子，书不读到一半不要轻易放弃。
0 有用 琉璃无声 2023-01-08 22:29:02 浙江
错字多字什么的也就算了，翻译实在太闹心了，一股机翻的呆板感