Neuroscientist and debut novelist Genova mines years of experience in her field to craft a realistic portrait of early onset Alzheimer's disease. Alice Howland has a career not unlike Genova's—she's an esteemed psychology professor at Harvard, living a comfortable life in Cambridge with her husband, John, arguing about the usual (making quality time together, their daughter's move to L.A.) when the first symptoms of Alzheimer's begin to emerge. First, Alice can't find her Blackberry, then she becomes hopelessly disoriented in her own town. Alice is shocked to be diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's (she had suspected a brain tumor or menopause), after which her life begins steadily to unravel. She loses track of rooms in her home, resigns from Harvard and eventually cannot recognize her own children. The brutal facts of Alzheimer's are heartbreaking, and it's impossible not to feel for Alice and her loved ones, but Genova's prose style is clumsy and her dialogue heavy-handed. This novel will appeal to those dealing with the disease and may prove helpful, but beyond the heartbreaking record of illness there's little here to remember.
Read the paper book in metro, it give me a complex feeling of Alice who diagnosed as early Alzheimer's. The confession of her iner mind and the reaction between her family is so detailed. It also let me ask myself how can I live a life with the Alzheimer's....
評分无论有没有在读这本书,我总是不由自主地不同时刻地沉浸在此书里,我觉得难过压抑无可奈何甚至会无声哭泣,我想起了我的爸爸妈妈,如果他们得了老年痴呆症,他们在发现的过程中会不会像爱丽丝一样焦虑难堪耻辱无力暴躁愤怒得不到理解甚至有一种抑郁的征兆,他们也会感觉孤独吗...
評分书读了3/4的时候去看了电影 个人对书里的几个情节的触动比较深: 1. Alzheimer's disease的三个阶段:The rating scale for each activity ranged from 0 (no problems, same as always) to 3 (severely impaired, totally dependent on others). She scanned down the descr...
評分严格遵守只在通勤的Skytrain上的15分钟里才会去看断断续续一个月才读完的《Still Alice》。我不得不说这是除悬疑和情色小说以外唯一一部让我感受到了自己心跳的一部作品。身为哈佛大学语言学教授的Alice被一纸早期阿尔海默症(旧称老年痴呆症,由于其消极及歧视涵义而今不再被...
評分今晚一口气读完了,后半段开始一直哭到不能自已。在去年这个时候看了改编的电影,在Alice演讲的时候无法言语的感动与鼓舞人心的力量,从被诊断到病情慢慢恶化,慌张茫然,手足无措,这一切一切都是我说最害怕的。从小到大记忆力好算是我最引以为豪的一件事之一,看到书中Alice...
很有意思的一本書,以前對老年癡呆癥一無所知,看完瞭有瞭更人性深刻的認識。
评分阿爾茨海默癥
评分Heartbreaking to see an extremely accomplished woman losing/forgetting everything. Picturing Julianne Moore the whole time I was reading it makes it even harder.
评分Read in 2 days during holidays in the US. Such a great a book about Alzheimer’s Disease.
评分二十歲真好
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