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这套小说最锋利的地方，不在它描写的创伤有多深，而在它让读者一边愧疚一边发笑。作者把梅尔罗斯这个被虐待长大、沉溺毒品的英国贵族，写成一个连自我厌恶都
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核心看点
- 收录梅尔罗斯系列前四部，完整呈现主角从童年创伤到戒毒的心路历程。
- 以辛辣笔触解剖英国上流社会的虚伪与冷漠，刻画特权阶层的自我厌恶。
- 文笔在极度痛苦与黑色幽默间切换，如手术刀般精准剖析原生家庭之痛。
读者共识
- 文笔锋利如针，直击脓包，震撼之余令人畏惧，具有极强的文学穿透力。
- 相比剧集的仁慈，原著更加残酷真实，深刻揭示了无法停止的内心困苦。
- 虽被部分人认为高估，但普遍认可其对 dysfunctional family 的精彩解剖。
精彩摘录
- "How could he think his way out of the problem when the problem was the way he thought, Patrick wondered."
- "'Madison Avenue and Eighty-second Street,' he said, realizing that the Quaalude, which was after all a large pill, was stuck halfway down his throat. As the cab sped up Madison Avenue, Patrick twisted his neck into various positions in an attempt to get the pill all the way down."
- "'I can't fucking believe it,' he snarled, kicking a Louis XV-styled chair."
- "'Hi, Fred,' said Anne. Hello, Mrs. Eisen. Can I help you with your package?' said Fred, waddling over. 'Thanks,' said Anne, stopping theatrically, 'but I can still manage two fillefeuilles and a pain aux raisins. Say, Fred,' she added, ' I have a friend coming over round four o'clock. He's young and"
- "‘Where’s the loo?’ Anne told him how to get there, and Patrick waded across the carpet in the direction she had indicated. Once he had locked the bathroom door Patrick felt a familiar sense of security. Inside a bathroom he could give in to the obsession with his own physical and mental state which "
- "‘Sure,’ said Anne resignedly,’By the way, I forgot to ask, how is Debbie?’ The question filled Patrick with horror which assailed him when he was asked to consider another person’s feelings. How was Debbie? How the fuck should he know? It was hard enough to rescue himself from the avalanche of his o"
- "Eleanor had watched her mother's persecution with the same vivid silence as she experienced in the face of her own gradual disintegration tonight. Although she was not a cruel person, she remembered being helpless with laughter watching her stepfather, by then suffering from Parkinson's disease, lif"
用户评论
断断续续读了两个半月，啃得太辛苦了……行文流畅笔锋又冷，字里行间挥之不去的自嘲和尖锐，小说里的Melrose爱人被爱都是无法停止的困苦，相比之下剧版是多么仁慈。
Seems a bit over-rated by the New Yorker.
You can blame whoever you want for your miserable life. But I know it must be your parents from the beginning and usually till the end(core).
前两本写的非常精彩。
Great disections of disfunctional families and relationships between so called friends.
十分痛苦的阅读过程
开头就很惊艳，可惜我看得太潦草
多lucky 今年1月份学校图书馆才新到的
剧也一级棒！书也一级棒！！
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