*Starred Review* Though he's been accepted by Brown University, 18-year-old James isn't sure he wants to go to college. What he really wants is to buy a nice house in a small town somewhere in the Midwest—Indiana, perhaps. In the meantime, however, he has a dull, make-work job at his thrice-married mother's Manhattan art gallery, where he finds himself attracted to her assistant, an older man named John. In a clumsy attempt to capture John's attention, James winds up accused of sexual harassment! A critically acclaimed author of adult fiction, Cameron makes a singularly auspicious entry into the world of YA with this beautifully conceived and written coming-of-age novel that is, at turns, funny, sad, tender, and sophisticated. James makes a memorable protagonist, touching in his inability to connect with the world but always entertaining in his first-person account of his New York environment, his fractured family, his disastrous trip to the nation's capital, and his ongoing bouts with psychoanalysis. In the process he dramatizes the ambivalences and uncertainties of adolescence in ways that both teen and adult readers will savor and remember. Cart, Michael --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Deliciously vital right from the start ... Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You is a piece of vocal virtuosity and possibly Cameron's best book ... The novel possesses too much emotional complexity and artfulness of construction to exclude adult readers ... Stunning. -- The New York Review of Books --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
I felt a bit shameful when I borrowed this book from the library. This title sounds like a self-empowering therapy that imply the reader must have some pain somewhere. It is in fact. I do doubt the word "useful". Cynical? I share too many agreements with ...
评分I felt a bit shameful when I borrowed this book from the library. This title sounds like a self-empowering therapy that imply the reader must have some pain somewhere. It is in fact. I do doubt the word "useful". Cynical? I share too many agreements with ...
评分I felt a bit shameful when I borrowed this book from the library. This title sounds like a self-empowering therapy that imply the reader must have some pain somewhere. It is in fact. I do doubt the word "useful". Cynical? I share too many agreements with ...
评分I felt a bit shameful when I borrowed this book from the library. This title sounds like a self-empowering therapy that imply the reader must have some pain somewhere. It is in fact. I do doubt the word "useful". Cynical? I share too many agreements with ...
评分I felt a bit shameful when I borrowed this book from the library. This title sounds like a self-empowering therapy that imply the reader must have some pain somewhere. It is in fact. I do doubt the word "useful". Cynical? I share too many agreements with ...
这本书给我的感觉是,它像一部慢炖的浓汤,味道需要时间去渗透。初尝之下,可能会觉得味道有点淡,节奏也有些拖沓,尤其是对于习惯了快餐式阅读的现代读者来说。我承认,开头的部分确实需要一些耐心去适应作者那种近乎冥想式的叙事节奏。但如果你能坚持下去,你会发现,这种慢,恰恰是它最强大的武器。它强迫你放慢自己的呼吸,去关注那些日常生活中被高速运转的生活节奏所屏蔽掉的微妙情感波动。作者对人性的洞察力简直令人胆寒,他毫不留情地揭示了我们内心深处的矛盾、怯懦与渴望,毫不美化。我最喜欢的部分是那些充满哲理思辨的段落,它们不是那种生硬的说教,而是自然地流淌在人物的内心独白和对话之中,像是在你耳边低语,却字字珠玑。这本书不提供简单的答案,它只提供更深刻的问题,让你在合上书本之后,仍然久久地思考。它更像一面镜子,映照出的,是我们自己不愿面对的真实自我。
评分读完这本书,我感到一种近乎被“洗礼”过的心绪。这可不是那种轻松愉快的阅读体验,更像是一场精神上的长途跋涉,充满了荆棘和迷雾。作者的文风非常独特,充满了对语言的掌控欲,每一个词语的选择似乎都经过了千锤百炼,拒绝任何多余的装饰。它有一种冷峻的美感,像极了冰雕艺术,精致到令人窒息,但又带着一种不易察觉的温度。我注意到,故事中人物的命运往往是悲剧性的,但这种悲剧并非来自外部的灾难,而是源于角色自身性格的缺陷和时代背景的压抑。最让我印象深刻的是其对“疏离感”的描绘,那种个体与周遭世界格格不入的痛苦,被刻画得入木三分,让作为读者的我都能感同身受那种无声的呐喊。这本书的结构也很有意思,它采用了非线性的叙事方式,像打碎的玻璃片,需要读者自己去拼凑出完整的画面,这种参与感极大地增强了阅读的深度。
评分坦白讲,这本书差点让我放弃。不是因为内容不好,而是因为它的情感浓度太高了,压得人喘不过气。作者似乎对人类的痛苦有着一种近乎痴迷的关注,他毫不留情地把最不堪、最脆弱的一面赤裸裸地展示在你面前。如果说有什么是这本书的优点,那一定是它无与伦比的真实感。它没有虚假的希望,没有廉价的安慰。书中的角色都是如此的真实可信,他们犯着错误,承受着后果,他们的挣扎和妥协,都让人觉得仿佛看到了邻居或同事的侧影。我特别欣赏作者在处理复杂道德困境时的那种克制,他从不轻易下判断,而是将所有的选择都摆在那里,让读者自己去掂量其中的重量。这本书的篇幅虽然不短,但每一页都信息量饱和,没有一句废话,读起来非常“耗费心力”,但这种“耗费”是值得的,因为它最终换来的是对人性更深刻的理解和同情。
评分对于那些寻求纯粹娱乐的读者,这本书可能不太适合。它更像是一部需要静心研读的文学经典,充满了隐喻和象征,需要读者具备一定的背景知识和耐心去解读。作者构建了一个极为复杂的世界观,在这个世界里,日常琐事与宏大的存在主义命题紧密交织在一起。我个人对书中对“记忆”与“时间”的处理方式深感着迷。很多关键情节都是通过碎片化的回忆来呈现,模糊不清的边界让人分不清什么是真实的经历,什么是被重塑的幻想。这种手法极大地增强了叙事的张力,同时也提升了阅读的难度。这本书的语言风格是典雅且富有韵律感的,即便是在描述最残酷的场景时,依然保持着一种高贵的美感,仿佛是带着手套去触碰带刺的玫瑰。它需要的不是快速翻阅,而是反复咀嚼,每一次重读,都会发现新的层次和意想不到的联系。它绝对是那种你会推荐给少数几个真正懂得欣赏深度文学的朋友的书。
评分这本书,老实说,我拿起它的时候并没有抱太高的期望。封面设计那种略显陈旧的风格,让我想起了很多年前读过的那些文学作品,总担心内容会过于晦涩或者矫揉造作。然而,一旦翻开第一页,那种扑面而来的真实感就立刻抓住了我。作者的笔触极其细腻,仿佛不是在写故事,而是在用手术刀解剖人物的灵魂。我尤其欣赏他对环境描写的精准度,那种光线如何穿过窗棂,空气中弥漫着什么样的气味,甚至是微小的心跳声都能被捕捉并放大,让读者完全沉浸在那个特定的时空里。故事的主线发展得并不算快,但每一个转折点都像是经过深思熟虑的布局,既在意料之外,又在情理之中。它没有那种高潮迭起的戏剧性冲突,更多的是一种内在的、持续的张力,让人在阅读过程中不断地自我反思。读完之后,我花了好几天时间才真正“走出来”,那种余韵悠长,简直让人对自己的生活产生了一种全新的审视角度。这本书的价值,在于它能让你看到那些我们通常选择性忽略的生命中的细枝末节,并将它们提升到哲学的高度去探讨。
评分Finally teen angst came to me, and it has become the anthem of my life.
评分改编电影男主十分可口啊可口
评分2016/07:矫情不是病,是幸。感觉Toby小男神演这个演的很开心的样子呢。
评分Finally teen angst came to me, and it has become the anthem of my life.
评分Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you. I don't think that day will come.
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