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Jeannette Walls's father always called her "Mountain Goat" and there's perhaps no more apt nickname for a girl who navigated a sheer and towering cliff of childhood both daily and stoically. In The Glass Castle, Walls chronicles her upbringing at the hands of eccentric, nomadic parents--Rose Mary, her frustrated-artist mother, and Rex, her brilliant, alcoholic father. To call the elder Walls's childrearing style laissez faire would be putting it mildly. As Rose Mary and Rex, motivated by whims and paranoia, uprooted their kids time and again, the youngsters (Walls, her brother and two sisters) were left largely to their own devices. But while Rex and Rose Mary firmly believed children learned best from their own mistakes, they themselves never seemed to do so, repeating the same disastrous patterns that eventually landed them on the streets. Walls describes in fascinating detail what it was to be a child in this family, from the embarrassing (wearing shoes held together with safety pins; using markers to color her skin in an effort to camouflage holes in her pants) to the horrific (being told, after a creepy uncle pleasured himself in close proximity, that sexual assault is a crime of perception; and being pimped by her father at a bar). Though Walls has well earned the right to complain, at no point does she play the victim. In fact, Walls' removed, nonjudgmental stance is initially startling, since many of the circumstances she describes could be categorized as abusive (and unquestioningly neglectful). But on the contrary, Walls respects her parents' knack for making hardships feel like adventures, and her love for them--despite their overwhelming self-absorption--resonates from cover to cover. --Brangien Davis --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
作者简介
珍妮特·沃尔斯（Jeannette Walls），美国著名记者。撰有《闲聊：流言世界的内幕》、《闲聊：流言如何变成新闻，新闻怎样成为另一场秀》等书。2005年出版回忆录《玻璃城堡》，首次公开自己鲜为人知、与众不同的家庭背景和成长经历，凭借此书蜚声文坛。
现与丈夫约翰·泰勒（John Taylor）长住纽约城和长岛。
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每一个有趣的人都有一段有趣的过去。但何为有趣呢？是不是必须有一些不堪为首、不忍重复的重型回忆？你知道，二十岁的时候我们会向往波澜起伏、奢望惊心动魄的人生，有的人过了三十岁便转而向往平静，波澜不惊、养尊处优被认可为一种成功的都市生活理想。可珍妮特用亲身经历告...
评分对于这本书来说，真的是每一个人的感受都会不一样；我深刻的觉得，父母一开始的教育模式---放任自流，教导孩子爱好自然，去幻想，去大胆---有时候会觉得一些观念是很正确的，也是值得学习的，可是后来看到孩子们生活艰苦，衣食不足，很觉得父母其实最后也并没有完全尽到父母的...
评分 评分小时候曾经听说有个乞丐，明明有百万家财，却仍然行乞为生，那时的我实在无法理解这样的人，只觉得他们心理不正常。然而现在，我明白到每个人都有权选择自己所期望的生活方式，而没有任何一种生活是十全十美的，有些人这一辈子辛苦工作只为了每月仅够生活的薪水，也有些人赚了...
评分Ever since I covered the first several pages of this memoir, I decided I would write something for this book, not only for the miserable childhood Jeanette and her siblings came through, but also, for the toughness they displayed facing the unfairness that ...
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Smooth is boring, but textured is interesting
评分是一个探讨家庭教育、酒瘾治疗、原著和电影改编差异的原因的好案例...看的时候觉得人是很多面的，但这对放任型的parents真的很不负责任..
评分I guess by far, this is the most captivating book that I have ever covered this year. It's not easy to live a childhood like that.
评分这本书读到后半部分才开始觉得有趣，作者开始出现强烈的自我意识，并且具有非常独立的人格之后，试图去改变自己的父母，让生活变得更好，但是未果，失败之后，她没有灰心丧气，提出了更远大的目标，要去纽约。作者并没有空想，而是通过各种渠道赚钱，了解纽约的大学，和自己的兄妹交流等等来不断为接近自己的目标做准备，而且她的选择几乎都是对的（我认为来自于作者独立人格），最终她实现了梦想，改变了命运。能够在welch这样的环境以及她父母这样的原生家庭，作者能够健康的成长（主要指心理），并且实现自己的梦想，找到理想的工作和爱人，真是厉害。
评分"當大人像小孩的時候，小孩只得迅速長大。"____《圓舞》 亦舒
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