Midwest Book Review The expensive price tag of this title may limit its acquisition potential for smaller institutions; but any with a concern about gang activity in suburbs and schools will find it an important key to understanding youth gang appeal and activities. Based on interviews with over 400 youths between the ages of ten and twenty, this provides many first-person accounts of gangs. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review "This is a book that generates rich insights into a disturbing societal problem bedevilling our entire nation. People who deal with children but who have little personal knowledge about the neighborhoods and streets where children live their private lives ... will gain a new outlook on the emotional scarring that children suffer in gangs, a new appreciation of the scope and extent of the destructive dilemma gangs pose for our way of life, and a new understanding of how best to approach the challenge of formulating constructive efforts of prevention and rehabilitation in local urban, suburban, and rural communities across the United States." Thomas Shannon, National School Boards Association, USA "Wannabe is a poignant reminder of just how difficult it will be to develop public policy designed to control the 'youth gangs' which so terrorize both urban and suburban neighborhoods. Dan Monti's contribution is the brutal honesty of his work. The words, however, are not his own. He lets the gang-bangers and wannabes tell their stories. Chilling stories, 'out of the mouths of babes', about children and young adults who moonlight as organized criminals and contract killers. God help us! We will need it." Robert Destro, Catholic University School of Law, Former member United States Commission on Civil Rights"Dan Monti's study of the Fairview School District was in-depth and a revealing description of the impact of gangs on school-age youth and the school environment .... Read and take heed, this is happening in your school district." Superintendent, Fairview School District"Wannabe is very well written, very interesting, and certainly of great importance in understanding how our society is to deal with some of its most intractable problems. I was struck by the fact that gangs serve as a focus of identity for those who join them, not because it is a new idea, but because our schools have been systematically stripped of any affective qualities - anything that might provide an alternative sense of identity." Diane Ravitch, The Brookings Institution See all Editorial Reviews
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令人费解的是,书中对于“冲突”的设置,似乎总是围绕着一些微不足道的小摩擦展开,而那些真正可能引发深刻变革或情感高潮的潜在冲突,却总是在临界点被莫名其妙地化解或忽略。例如,主角团队在面对一个巨大的外部威胁时,他们内部本应产生巨大的意见分歧和信任危机,但这种张力只停留在了表面,很快就因为一个不太重要的共同目标而被强行拧到了一起。这使得整个故事缺乏必要的戏剧张力,读起来就像是温水煮青蛙,慢慢地,连“温”的感觉都快消失了。缺乏有效的冲突铺垫和释放,使得角色的“成长”显得非常虚假。如果一个人从未真正面对过足以将他撕裂的压力,那么他声称的转变和胜利,在读者看来不过是一场精心编排的戏剧,没有重量,没有回响。我期待的是能够感受到那种撕心裂肺的拉扯,但这本书提供的,只是一条平坦得有些无聊的单行道。
评分这本书的文笔,说实话,与其说是“成熟”,不如说是“过度雕琢”。我总能感觉到作者在每一个句子后面都带着一股强烈的“我要写出深刻感”的企图心,结果反而弄巧成拙。那些形容词和比喻句密集得让人喘不过气来,仿佛他生怕漏掉任何一个可以炫技的机会。举个例子,描述一个普通的清晨光线,他能用上“如同液态黄金般倾泻而下的、带着宇宙初开尘埃微粒的、带着远古海洋深处幽蓝回响的”这样一串华丽到令人发指的修饰。这种堆砌带来的不是美感,而是阅读疲劳。而且,这种浮夸的风格贯穿始终,使得真正应该爆发情感张力的地方,反而因为被过多的形容词包裹而显得失真和空洞。读者期待的是情感的共鸣,而不是一场关于如何运用最高级词汇的词典展示会。每次翻开这本书,我都得做好“翻译”这些文字的准备,试图剥去那层厚重的辞藻外衣,才能勉强触及可能存在的内核,但很遗憾,内核似乎比想象中要单薄得多,难以支撑起如此宏大的修辞结构。
评分从结构上看,这本书的处理简直像是一场对时间线的大规模破坏行动。作者似乎深信非线性叙事是唯一的“高级”写法,于是频繁地在过去、现在、未来之间进行跳跃,但这种跳跃缺乏清晰的提示或明确的章节标识。有时候,一个段落前几句还在描述角色童年的一个阴影,后几句突然就切换到了一个发生在十年后的场景,而且没有明确的时间过渡词。这迫使我不得不反复翻阅前几页,试图重新定位自己所处的时空坐标。这种阅读体验,与解谜游戏不同,它带来的不是“豁然开朗”的乐趣,而是持续的挫败感和迷失感。我能欣赏大胆的结构尝试,但前提是它能服务于故事的表达,而不是成为阻碍理解的障碍。这本书中的这种混乱,让人感觉作者并没有真正掌握他想讲述的故事,只是在随意地打乱时间碎片,期待读者能自行拼凑出他脑海中那个模糊的蓝图,这对普通读者来说,要求未免过高了。
评分初读这本所谓的“Wannabe”,我真是被它那散乱无章的叙事方式搞得一头雾水。作者似乎总是在试图塞进太多不相干的元素,故事线索如同打了结的毛线团,怎么拉扯都理不清头绪。比如,书中有一大段落详细描绘了一个完全脱离主线情节的次要角色,他如何与一只流浪猫建立了奇特的友谊,以及他们一起在城市角落寻找废弃食物的过程。我理解文学创作需要细节填充,但这段描写冗长得近乎折磨人,没有为推动任何核心冲突或人物发展添砖加瓦,纯粹是作者自我陶醉式的文字堆砌。更令人困惑的是,人物的动机转变常常是突兀且缺乏铺垫的,前一秒还在为某个目标奋力挣扎,下一秒就轻描淡写地放弃了,仿佛作者写累了,随手给人物换了个方向。角色的对话也显得非常刻意,总是在说一些大道理,却鲜少能捕捉到真实生活中人与人交流时的那种微妙的停顿、误解或潜台词。读完下来,感觉就像是看了一部没有主题、没有重点的纪录片,只留下了一堆零碎的、毫无关联的影像片段在脑海中盘旋,消化不良的感觉非常强烈。
评分这本书中对于社会议题的探讨,显得非常肤浅和说教化。作者显然对某些深刻的社会现象抱有强烈的批判倾向,但在处理这些议题时,他没有选择通过人物的真实困境和复杂的人性来展现,而是直接将抽象的口号和立场生硬地植入到角色的对话中。你很容易就能分辨出哪个角色是“作者的代言人”,因为他们会突然停下来,用一段近乎演讲稿的独白来阐述某种社会观点,而这段话与他们当下的情绪和处境毫无关系。这种方式极大地损害了故事的可信度。文学的力量在于展示复杂性,在于揭示那些难以言说的灰色地带,而不是简单地把“好”与“坏”、“对”与“错”标签贴在人物身上。我希望看到角色在挣扎中自然而然地反映出时代的弊病,而不是被强行架上讲台宣读一篇预先写好的宣言。结果就是,那些本应引人深思的议题,因为处理得过于直白和平面化,最终沦为了无关痛痒的背景噪音。
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