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I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to' And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England, he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of trim and sunny place where the films of his youth were set. Instead, his search led him to Anywhere, USA; a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by lookalike people with a penchant for synthetic fibres. Travelling around thirty-eight of the lower states - united only in their mind-numbingly dreary uniformity - he discovered a continent that was doubly lost; lost to itself because blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a stranger in his own land. The Lost Continent is a classic of travel literature - hilariously, stomach-achingly funny, yet tinged with heartache - and the book that first staked Bill Bryson's claim as the most beloved writer of his generation.
有点不忍给3星,但是给4星的话又觉得不实在。怎么说呢,期望太高,看过好多人说这Bill Bryson的第一本书是最能体现他幽默的一本,我就相应的期待它为一本能让我“捧腹大笑”的书。不过很明显Bryson的幽默也需要适当的心情去体会,最近工作的忙碌以及Boston爆炸案的影响,常常让我没办法去读这本充满揶揄的作品。读最后四分之一部分时终于结束了心情的阴霾,似乎有更多处让我能笑出声来(though still sporatic, if compared to A Walk in the Woods),不确定是这部分的确更好笑,还是我不再受消极情绪的影响。总之Bryson的幽默有时过于smart & cynical,双刃剑,小失望。
评分内容过于无聊了…但边干活边听感觉正是strangely serene, 吐槽也不时让我笑出来,William Roberts读得非常好
评分Bryson自成一派的调侃文风,印象比较深的是Cape Cod,还有卡波特的Cold Blood的原型地挺想去,旅程最后因为对Baseball players不再熟悉而遗憾收场,这股子sense of dislocation总算是画上了句号。
评分an interesting and not unbiased way of learning about the America. finished it just about the time when I've had enough of bryson-humour.
评分an interesting and not unbiased way of learning about the America. finished it just about the time when I've had enough of bryson-humour.
看过杰克凯鲁亚克的《在路上》之后可以看看比尔•布莱森的“在路上”,比尔•布莱森(1951-)被称为最幽默的旅游文学作家,他之于旅游文学就像日本导演宫崎骏之于动漫界,不仅因为他们都有漂亮的大胡子,而且都在全球拥有无可撼动的业界核心地位。他们出现之前,业界混沌...
评分通宵看的这本书,大半夜的在床上笑到打滚。Bill Bryson太擅长损人了,而且都那么一针见血。一面读一面佩服他怎么可以把话说的这么幽默讽刺,恨不得背下来用。可以感觉到,他虽然以移民英国为幸事,又看不惯美国人的种种无知陋习,还有些反商业化反庸俗化,但心底对那片土地还是...
评分在2天之内划过所有地点人名, 这个BILL无数次在加油站,无数次在café点炸薯条和炸鸡套餐...永远在说"我到了某某公路,某某城市,这里很picturesque, 这里poor 或rich,这里有某某纪念馆..." 作为travel literature也许只能在tedious之间找点妙语连珠了... 当然他确实也算是美国...
评分在2天之内划过所有地点人名, 这个BILL无数次在加油站,无数次在café点炸薯条和炸鸡套餐...永远在说"我到了某某公路,某某城市,这里很picturesque, 这里poor 或rich,这里有某某纪念馆..." 作为travel literature也许只能在tedious之间找点妙语连珠了... 当然他确实也算是美国...
评分“幽默”大概是最常放在Bryson身上的标签了。个人感觉他的书最适合马上枕上厕上等零碎时间看,因为笑点密集,随便拎出几句话,都能让人笑出来。比如他形容美中大平原的平:摞起两本电话黄页站上,能看出去一个州(原文是很大一片风景,get a view)。 但用大块时间一口气读下去...
The Lost Continent pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024