书籍介绍
For Kivrin, preparing an on-site study of one of the deadliest eras in humanity's history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received.
But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin -- barely of age herself -- finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history's darkest hours.
Five years in the writing by one of science fiction's most honored authors, Doomsday Book is a storytelling triumph. Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering and the indomitable will of the human spirit.
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- "In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan; Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago. - Christina Rossetti"
- "“What a ringer needs most is not strength but the ability to keep time . . . You must bring these two things together in your mind and let them rest there forever – bells and time, bells and time.” - Ronald Blythe, Akenfield"
- "I wanted to come, and if I hadn’t, they would have been all alone, and nobody would have ever known how frightened and brave and irreplaceable they were."
- "It’s strange. When I couldn’t find the drop and the plague came, you seemed so far away I would not ever be able to find you again. But I know now that you were here all along, and that nothing, not the Black Death nor seven hundred years, nor death nor things to come nor any other creature could ev"
- "Kneeling on St. Mary’s stone floor she had envisioned the candles and the cold, but not Lady Imeyne, waiting for Roche to make a mistake in the mass, not Eliwys or Gawyn or Rosemund. Not Father Roche, with his cutthroat’s face and worn-out hose. She could never in a hundred years, in seven hundred a"
- "I got it all on the corder,” she said. “Everything that happened.” Like John Clyn, he thought, looking at her ragged hair, her dirty face. A true historian, writing in the empty church, surrounded by graves. I, seeing so many evils, have put into writing all the things that I have witnessed. Lest th"
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历史小说。适合读两遍，第一遍速度看剧情，第二遍慢下来读细节。我第一遍细读的时候到了一半很焦躁...
断断续续在kindle上读完的。中间有大概一两个月的时间因为kindle借给朋友而中断。
所以还是给看完了
牛津历史学家瘟疫穿越事件... 故事其实还是有点平淡，主要大部分角色都显得太蠢了... 不过身处Oxford看到熟悉的地名还是比较有趣的，比如对Balloil的印象就不再仅仅是食堂...
过于啰嗦，三分之二内容是在反反复复嚼话头。即使不以上帝视角来看，人物的行为也非常鲁莽无知，如同儿戏，简直怀疑作者故意丑化牛津教授和学生。前两章节对照中译本来看，中文不必要地删节了很多语句，也有一些错译，实在很不理解。
越到后段越精彩，一切伏笔细节都说得通了，最后五章翻得我泪流满面。wonderful time，wonderful things，手忙脚乱和束手无策的我们。
肥肠肥肠喜欢。熬夜听着whistle看的。但其实问题相当大。最大的问题是没想到手机等便利通信手段的普及（迫真）。存在时光机却要排队等固定电话的未来太tm抽象了，特别是当等电话成了现代线的主要情节时。
The modern day portion was an interesting reflection of the pandemic today, but ultimate lacks structure and content. Would have been a 1/5 if it wasn’t for the Middle Ages, which was what made the book. An heart-wrenching account of despair and humanity’s capacity for hope and faith in the face of destruction
6.29-7.30 | Willis a true student of history the child characters she created are so adorable precocious yet naive her funnily irritating characters also the best
There’re tons of descriptions during the first hundred pages. I personally can’t take this style and therefore didn’t make it to the end. (She managed to even make time travel boring. How do you do that?
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