These Violent Delights給我有點複雜的感覺,如果有看到我之前一噗有提到,這本書在聽的時候讓我有些挫折哈哈,因為作者的文筆雖然很美但不是那麼平易近人(對我),很常需要倒回去重聽才會稍微懂,也因為這樣我覺得這本聽得很漫長。而故事方面我對這個題材滿有興趣的,角色之間關係也很有意思令人著迷,但在文字的阻礙下,我有種我沒有完全理解小說、作者意圖的感覺(當然是我自己的問題)。
這段摘句我真的很喜歡,關於"愛"的討論。 "[...] what we call 'love' is actually letting your identity fill in around the shape of the other person, you love someone by defining yourself against them.
(接上) It says loss hurts because there's nothing holding that part of you in place anymore, but your outline still holds, and it keeps holding. The thing you shape yourself into by loving them. you never stop being that."(Part I, 8 )
"Paul was almost relieved to feel the sting. It meant Julian saw every weakness in him, and still thought he was worth the effort of hurting." (Part I, 4 )
"Once he knew the shape of someone else's pain, he could break off a piece of it, claim it as his own, keep it as a memento under glass, and know they'd be grateful to him for taking it away." (Part III, 6)
These Violent Delights by Micah Nemerever
「到頭來,他們只不過是一對向日葵花,各自堅信著對方就是太陽。」
兩個男生之間的關係,從陌生人到好友到更進一步,對彼此的著迷讓他們離現實越來越遠,觸及黑暗殘暴的一面。
宣傳說是The Secret History秘史遇上Call Me By Your Name以你的名字呼喚我。
讀嘛讀嘛
Paul是個害羞內向的大一新生,充滿藝術氣息與研究生物的熱忱,但缺少社交技巧的他沒有什麼朋友。在一堂心理學的課程上,他遇到了Julian,一個看似與他天差地遠的存在,Julian十分有魅力,吸引周遭許多人,同時有著與Paul匹敵的才智。因相同的理念,兩人逐漸對彼此產生興趣,捲入旋繞彼此的軌道,也開始遠離理智現實的重心,一步步向黑暗前進。
These Violent Delights的確符合宣傳所說的,有The Secret History跟CMBYN的風格/感覺(尤其是前者),但也呈現了不太一樣的黑暗,我覺得書中的兩人關係很值得一讀,但劇情、文字方面比較沒有那麼適合我,讓整體的讀書感受沒那麼好,如果對這類型題材有興趣的人,我還是會推薦一讀。
但剛好11月也有一本同名的YA Fantasy,害我在查書評時有些混亂XD
"[...] what we call 'love' is actually letting your identity fill in around the shape of the other person, you love someone by defining yourself against them.
"All they were, all they had ever been was a pair of sunflowers who each believe the other is the sun." (Part IV, 6)