Sunday, February 22, 2009

    

naïve

最近看了兩本很棒的書。
Einstein, His Life and Universe (Walter Isaacson)和東野圭吾的惡意。愛因斯坦傳看了一個多月才看完,英文閱讀速度還是慢慢慢,不過今天在Starbucks看到最後愛因斯坦要去世那一章時,都快哭出來了,真是丟臉哈哈哈。中文版應該很快就會出來,我覺得譯得很不錯。是喜歡愛因斯坦的人不能錯過的書。

在看日劇「伽利略」之前,其實沒看過東野圭吾的書,只有看過小白推過他的小說。後來找了預知夢來看因為跟日劇重複性太高,又我本來就對短篇小說比較沒什麼興趣,所以也覺得還好。過年在家裡看了東野圭吾原著的流星之絆,開始覺得他寫詭計還蠻有一套的(我要澄清覺得這日劇好看絕對不是因為戶田惠梨香的關係XD)。過完年看了惡意,哇真是太驚豔了,人性和轉折寫得超讚。這應該是今年以來看過最棒的小說之一(好啦我知道現在才二月)。

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書展時跑去聯經的攤位買了66折的高陽小說,胡雪巖6冊,紅樓夢斷4冊再加上安樂堂和水龍吟,看到疊起來像磚頭的小說就會很興奮啊,算是新年新希望的小小開端囉。前一陣一時衝動在露天買了語言學教科書The study of language 2nd eds./George Yule和中譯版《語言學導論》張文軒譯李靜芝校訂。兩本合購才400+運60真便宜。每章開頭都有一段引文,例如第一章引用了Otto Jespersen (1921) 的一段文字:

“The genesis of language is not to be sought in the prosaic, but in the poetic side of life; the source of speech is not gloomy seriousness, but merry play and youthful hilarity… In primitive speech I hear the laughing cries of exultation when lads and lassies vied with one another to attract the attention of the other sex, when everybody sang his merriest and danced his bravest to lure a pair of eyes to throw admiring glances in his direction. Language was born in the courting days of mankind.”

看來也是本有趣的書哩。要開學了,我要來惡補快忘光光的法文了。XD
  

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