修红,我去年读过“The Six Poeple You Meet In Haven”,但我更喜欢,“Tuesdays
with Morrie”。读书是幸福的事,"We should be looking at our potential, stretching
ourselves into everything we can become...." 书给我们启发,助我们外观内视,
是心灵的养料。我只读过一本Amy Tan写的书“The Joy Luck Club”,喜欢。
蔚虹别客气,这样交流,对大家都有好处啊:)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
荆棘鸟是爱情故事,很好看,好象拍过电影,但是我没看过。
修尔曼虹 发表评论于
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忘了说,“Tuesdays with Morrie” by Mitch Albom这本书我也看了。我很喜欢。也自然的很喜欢Mitch Albom这个人。我很少看体育节目,不过老公看时凡是有Mitch Albom评论,我都会驻足。这是一两年前的事了吧。 后来我又买了他写的《The Six Poeple You Meet In Haven》不过是audio book。一边儿开车一边听。
你读过Amy Tan写的书了吗?
我刚从Amazon.com买了一本书:One Billion Customers。下周应该会寄到。我看到的对此书的评论还不错。你们有感兴趣的吗?愿和你们一起读。The World is Flat 和 Adventure Capitalist也都在我要读的名单上。以上这几本书都和在中国做生意有多多少少的关系。
我看书很杂,什么都看,就是一本医学手册也可以津津有味地看上老半天。如今的日子书、报、杂志均成了我的“进出口”文学(吃饭,出恭时的读物),倒是花了不少时间看电影和电视连续。从那些电影和电视剧中总能学到那么一两句,上台面的如《断背山》中的:"If I know how to quit you";这句话对我们每个人都很适用,人的无可奈何在于常常管不住自己。中性的如《少年天子》中太监总管训导太监们时说得:“别人不把咱当人,可咱一定要把自个儿当个东西。若连咱也不把自个儿当个东西,那活着还有什么意思。”;每当我和家里的那口子生气时候我就会对自己说:“别人不把咱当人,可咱得把自己当个东西”,于是一定会找一个理由好好地犒赏犒赏自己一番。带色的如刚看过的《亮剑》:“你他妈的狗娘养得,屁眼朝天有眼无珠!”;这话若是在搁在中国,我每天都会在心里骂上它一百遍。
诗呢喜欢纪伯伦的还有席慕荣的抒情诗。
心灵探索: <> by James Redfield; <> by Mitch Albom, <<穿越生命之界>> by Carlos Castaneda.
这些书都激发我想一些日常生活以外的问题。
英文小说里我觉得优美动人的是Jean M Auel写的Earth's Children 系列: <>, <>, <>, <>.
我很喜欢science fictions: <> by Greg Bear,<> by Isaac Asimov; <> by David Brin, and <<3001>> by Arthur Clatke. 当年我读到这书里的第一段话就很感动,被深深吸引了:
Call them the firstborn. Though they were not remotely human, they were flesh and blood, and when they looked out across the deeps of space, they felt awe, and wonder--and loneliness. As soon as they possessed the power, they began to seek for the fellowship among the stars. In their explorations, they encountered life in many forms, and watched the workings of evolution on a thousand worlds. They saw how often the first faint sparks of intelligence flickered and died in the cosmic night.....
每当我在夜里望向无边星空的时候,心会悸动,脑开始漫游。
最近看的<> by Stephen Baxer也很好,刺激我想了不少问题。今天去把他的其他de5本书(Manifold:Time; Manifold: Space; Manifold: Orgin; Coalescent; Exultant)买回来了。