Doris Lessing's contemporary gothic horror story—centered on the birth of a baby who seems less than human—probes society's unwillingness to recognize its own brutality.Harriet and David Lovatt, parents of four children, have created an idyll of domestic bliss in defiance of the social trends of late 1960s England. While around them crime and unrest surge, the Lovatts are certain that their old-fashioned contentment can protect them from the world outside—until the birth of their fifth baby. Gruesomely goblin-like in appearance, insatiably hungry, abnormally strong and violent, Ben has nothing innocent or infant-like about him. As he grows older and more terrifying, Harriet finds she cannot love him, David cannot bring himself to touch him, and their four older children are afraid of him. Understanding that he will never be accepted anywhere, Harriet and David are torn between their instincts as parents and their shocked reaction to this fierce and unlovable child whose existence shatters their belief in a benign world.
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我曾经做过一个关于政治倾向的测试，之前满心以为自己一定是右边的，没想到结果是一半一半。 看【第五个孩子】的时候，我忍不住老是想到这件事。 人，从生存的权利来看，是生而平等的吧。没有谁有权利剥夺别人的生命。 那么畸形儿呢？ 哦，可怜的班，他身上带着罕见...
評分每当我看完一本书，或者不等看完，脑子里就会对那本书有个印象，很多时候最终会归结成一个句子或一个词语，有时候如灵光乍现，也有的时候是慢慢慢慢地像滴水穿石。我如果写书评，通常会用那些句子或词语做标题。 扯远了，似乎。读《第五个孩子》的时候，脑子里的句子是...
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sorta half-baked, unsatisfactory ending for a novel with such emphasis on pushing the plot forward
评分Not what I expected. Thought it would be a horror story, but it is more like a book about family, about the relationship, and education
评分Presentation is a second creation.生詞太難太多，泛讀之。
评分Presentation is a second creation.生詞太難太多，泛讀之。
评分Time passed. It did pass.
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