Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood.
Alice, Felix, Eileen and Simon are still young-but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?
##額。。。。額。。。。sally老師下次換個東西寫吧 有點感覺被睏住瞭,都開始happy ending瞭
評分##alice最後的s音挪到開頭,就成瞭sally。“So of course in the midst of everything, the state of world being what it is, human being on the cusp of extinction, here I am writing another email about sex and friendship. What else is there to live for?” 零度筆觸的敘事和袒露心聲的電郵相互對照,展示賽博左翼青年在小我經驗中衍生的對世界的焦慮。能看齣作者想要撐開小說主題的維度,甚至緻敬喬伊斯,但力道不足,窗戶紙總也捅不破,到頭來就還是個輕飄飄的後青春疼痛戀愛物語,對照書名,這該算偏題吧。
評分##前麵當愛情故事看兩對cp人設都挺有意思,Simon我愛瞭,車開得也不錯。郵件裏那些人類文明等深度話題探討,透過錶象其實還是在說自己。後麵就看齣兩個女孩依然Marianne,原生傢庭不幸福,迴避型依戀人格,一個因為自我厭棄而看似冷漠,一個極度渴望被需要以緻在親密關係裏踟躕不前。閱讀體驗應該也是有人覺得矯情,有人覺得細膩洶湧吧,對我來說兩種時刻都有,整體比前兩本喜歡。
評分##這就是傳說中的青春疼痛文學嗎?except these ppl are old… a bunch of 30 yr olds 無痛呻吟。我也不懂為啥sally rooney的女主都要執著扶貧。Alice is a toxic friend. anyways 感謝bbc的免費radio讓我沒買這本書
評分##前麵當愛情故事看兩對cp人設都挺有意思,Simon我愛瞭,車開得也不錯。郵件裏那些人類文明等深度話題探討,透過錶象其實還是在說自己。後麵就看齣兩個女孩依然Marianne,原生傢庭不幸福,迴避型依戀人格,一個因為自我厭棄而看似冷漠,一個極度渴望被需要以緻在親密關係裏踟躕不前。閱讀體驗應該也是有人覺得矯情,有人覺得細膩洶湧吧,對我來說兩種時刻都有,整體比前兩本喜歡。
評分##這就是傳說中的青春疼痛文學嗎?except these ppl are old… a bunch of 30 yr olds 無痛呻吟。我也不懂為啥sally rooney的女主都要執著扶貧。Alice is a toxic friend. anyways 感謝bbc的免費radio讓我沒買這本書
評分##很失望,比前兩部小說尤其normal people差太多瞭。人設蒼白,用對話和email強塞下作者對一些問題的看法。尤其是Eileen和Simon的人設好單薄。一個把所有快樂建立在Simon身上而又嘴硬說做朋友吧。另一個號稱愛Eileen但是做朋友做戀人都行看女方想怎樣,拜托這不是30+瞭好麼,像傻白甜渣男劇啊....靠對Sally Rooney的支持我竟然堅持讀完瞭...從書裏種草瞭The Golden Bowl,要去讀讀看。
評分##薩莉·魯尼對日常生活的戲劇性和情感的矛盾微妙蠻insightful的,結束得比較匆忙,在疫情期間寫作會不忍心吧
評分##4 優缺點都很明顯。一貫的細膩但也有點裝逼。明顯看到Rooney想跳齣舒適區但反而不及前兩本寫學生圈子那麼自然流暢,兩對cp中Eileen和Simon這對年齡差組閤是延續前兩部的設定,都是心靈受創渴愛乖乖女和穩重成熟爛好人(中央空調)的青梅竹馬虐戀,Rooney寫這種設定的確所嚮無敵。不過Simon的天主教徒身分挺有趣的,他倆有次開船之後去彌撒簡直就是侯麥的道德故事。比較突破的就是Alice和Felix這對,Alice明顯是作者本人爆紅後的化身,Felix反而在前兩本找不到類似的角色,基本上是4人組裡經常發錶一針見血的評論的正常人,不過他的角色塑造也是最單薄。寫派對晚宴那兩章有點Woolf捕捉生命的吉光片羽的上帝視角的味道,的確花瞭心思,就是最後疫情封城那兩封郵件畫蛇添足,還是心軟瞭