Thomas Pynchon brings us to New York in the early days of the internet
It is 2001 in New York City, in the lull between the collapse of the dot-com boom and the terrible events of September 11th. Silicon Alley is a ghost town, Web 1.0 is having adolescent angst, Google has yet to IPO, Microsoft is still considered the Evil Empire. There may not be quite as much money around as there was at the height of the tech bubble, but there’s no shortage of swindlers looking to grab a piece of what’s left.
Maxine Tarnow is running a nice little fraud investigation business on the Upper West Side, chasing down different kinds of small-scale con artists. She used to be legally certified but her license got pulled a while back, which has actually turned out to be a blessing because now she can follow her own code of ethics—carry a Beretta, do business with sleazebags, hack into people’s bank accounts—without having too much guilt about any of it. Otherwise, just your average working mom—two boys in elementary school, an off-and-on situation with her sort of semi-ex-husband Horst, life as normal as it ever gets in the neighborhood—till Maxine starts looking into the finances of a computer-security firm and its billionaire geek CEO, whereupon things begin rapidly to jam onto the subway and head downtown. She soon finds herself mixed up with a drug runner in an art deco motorboat, a professional nose obsessed with Hitler’s aftershave, a neoliberal enforcer with footwear issues, plus elements of the Russian mob and various bloggers, hackers, code monkeys, and entrepreneurs, some of whom begin to show up mysteriously dead. Foul play, of course.
With occasional excursions into the DeepWeb and out to Long Island, Thomas Pynchon, channeling his inner Jewish mother, brings us a historical romance of New York in the early days of the internet, not that distant in calendar time but galactically remote from where we’ve journeyed to since.
Will perpetrators be revealed, forget about brought to justice? Will Maxine have to take the handgun out of her purse? Will she and Horst get back together? Will Jerry Seinfeld make an unscheduled guest appearance? Will accounts secular and karmic be brought into balance?
Hey. Who wants to know?
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这本书的魅力在于其无与伦比的想象力和对“未知领域”的探索精神。它敢于打破常规的叙事框架,在情节推进中不断抛出新的设定和概念,每一次以为自己掌握了故事的脉络,作者总能迅速地将地基抽走,让你重新定位。这种持续的惊喜感是很多小说难以企及的。不同于许多依靠宏大场面堆砌的故事,本书的张力更多来自于人物之间的智力博弈和心理战,每一次对话都充满了试探与反试探,不到最后一刻,你根本不知道谁才是真正的赢家。而且,书中对于“可能性”的探讨非常大胆,它没有给出一个简单的答案,而是将选择的权利交给了读者,这使得阅读过程变成了一种主动参与的体验,而不是被动的接受信息。总而言之,这是一部结构精巧、内涵丰富、并且极具颠覆性的作品,强烈推荐给所有厌倦了套路、渴望新鲜阅读体验的同道中人。
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评分这本小说真的让人欲罢不能,那种紧张刺激的感觉从第一页一直持续到最后一页。作者对角色心理的刻画细腻入微,让你仿佛能感受到他们内心的挣扎与矛盾。尤其是主角,他的成长弧线处理得非常自然,从一个初出茅庐的新手,一步步成长为能够独当一面的关键人物,其中的心路历程和关键转折点都写得极其真实可信。我特别喜欢书中对世界观的构建,宏大而不失细节,那种庞大复杂的背景设定,作者却能用非常流畅的叙事将之娓娓道来,没有丝毫晦涩感。战斗场面的描写更是精彩绝伦,动作设计富有想象力,力量的碰撞和策略的运用都让人热血沸腾,每次读到高潮部分,我都会忍不住屏住呼吸,生怕错过任何一个细节。更难得的是,在这么快节奏的故事中,作者还能巧妙地穿插一些关于人性和道德的深刻探讨,让你在享受阅读快感的同时,也能引发一些思考。这本书无疑是一部值得反复品读的佳作,它成功地在商业性和艺术性之间找到了一个绝妙的平衡点,让人读完之后回味无穷。
评分说实话,一开始是被封面吸引的,但真正让我“陷进去”的,是它那种近乎偏执的细节还原度。无论是描绘的城市风貌,还是特定场景下的光影变化,都仿佛是用高清镜头捕捉下来的一样,代入感极强。这本书成功地营造了一种独特的氛围,那种介于赛博朋克和古典史诗之间的混合体,既有冰冷的科技感,又不失人类情感的温度。我尤其欣赏作者在处理情感戏份时的克制与爆发力的结合,没有过度的煽情,而是通过细微的动作和眼神来传递深层的情感纠葛,这种“留白”的处理方式,反而更能触动人心。这本书的配乐感极强,我甚至能在脑海中自动播放背景音乐,想象着那些恢弘的场景和紧张的对峙。对于那些追求“沉浸式阅读体验”的读者来说,这本书绝对是首选。它不仅仅是在讲述一个故事,更是在构建一个可以让你完全栖居进去的、栩涌的世界。
评分这部作品的深度远超我的预期,它没有停留在简单的善恶对立层面,而是深入探讨了权力结构、社会阶层固化以及个体在巨大系统面前的抗争与异化。作者的观点非常犀利,通过故事中的事件和人物的命运,无声地提出了许多发人深省的问题。我个人对书中对于“体制内”矛盾的描写感触最深,那种温水煮青蛙式的腐蚀和压抑,被刻画得入木三分。语言风格上,这本书展现出一种冷峻而精准的风格,用词考究,句式多变,极富画面感和冲击力。它不是那种读起来轻松愉快的消遣读物,更像是一次思想上的远征,需要你全神贯注地去跟上作者的逻辑和节奏。读完之后,我花了很长时间来消化其中的信息量和哲学意味,这种能引发深度思考的书籍,才是真正有价值的阅读体验。
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评分和二十世紀的百科全書相比,這二十一世紀的故事簡直就退化成了家禽。
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评分纽约还是开口了,太多可说又不可说的。这种自然而然的风度,可能唯托尔斯泰,金宇澄,波拉尼奥等少数天择之人可以驾驭吧。
评分Both of them standing just like this, folded in just this precarious light, ready to step out into their peaceable city, still safe from the spiders and bots that one day too soon will be coming for it, to claim-jump it in the name of the indexed world.
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