心得 老實說,我會讀這本的一半原因是我真的很喜歡封面🤣,上面的兩個版本都是,尤其是重新出版的(我手上的),它讓我想起一款我很愛的遊戲Return of The Obra Dinn,有趣的是讀完後,我覺得故事也與這款遊戲有幾分相似。這本中篇小說,(短短一百四十多頁),是作者Moshfegh的第一本出版作品,她後來出了幾本十分熱門/廣受好評的小說,還曾入圍布克獎,My Year of Rest and Relaxation也是我很想讀的一本,在讀過這本有趣的小說後,讓我對它也有更多期待。
摘句 "'Right,' I said, but it didn't feel very right. I didn't want to make it. I wanted to lie down with it and strangle it and kill it and save it and nurse it and kill it again and I wanted to go and forget where I was going
(接上) and I wanted to change my name and forget my face and I wanted to drink and get my head ruined but I certainly hadn't thought about making it. That wasn't anything I'd ever sought out to do."
McGlue by Ottessa Moshfegh
有評論形容讀這本書像
「撞破自己的腦袋後,用手指扒開頭骨,往裡頭猛灌威士忌。」
開頭是一名水手McGlue,被丟進船上牢房,被指控殺害了另一名同伴Johnson,但因為McGlue腦袋裡仍充滿著酒精,關於那晚他一點都不記得了。於是在返航的途中,獨自關在房裡,他開始回想過去的片段,以及自己與Johnson的故事。
這是一本古怪、黑暗、有點讓人噁心的中篇小說,我個人滿喜歡它那種讓我沉浸於書中角色的感受,故事也十分有意思。
讀嘛讀嘛
老實說,我會讀這本的一半原因是我真的很喜歡封面🤣,上面的兩個版本都是,尤其是重新出版的(我手上的),它讓我想起一款我很愛的遊戲Return of The Obra Dinn,有趣的是讀完後,我覺得故事也與這款遊戲有幾分相似。這本中篇小說,(短短一百四十多頁),是作者Moshfegh的第一本出版作品,她後來出了幾本十分熱門/廣受好評的小說,還曾入圍布克獎,My Year of Rest and Relaxation也是我很想讀的一本,在讀過這本有趣的小說後,讓我對它也有更多期待。
McGlue本身就像一杯酒,我滿喜歡它呈現的黑暗故事與複雜的角色,儘管有時候太烈了一點會讓人頭暈,但最後留給我一個很棒的尾韻。
讓我知道這本的影片
"'Right,' I said, but it didn't feel very right. I didn't want to make it. I wanted to lie down with it and strangle it and kill it and save it and nurse it and kill it again and I wanted to go and forget where I was going