基本信息
书名:Paper Towns纸镇
难度:Lexile蓝思阅读指数850
作者:John Green
出版社名称:Speak
出版时间:2009
语种:英文
ISBN:9780142414934
商品尺寸:13.7 x 2.2 x 20.9cm
包装:平装
页数:330
编辑推荐
Paper Towns《纸镇》的作者约翰·格林常年占据《纽约时报》畅销青年小说家榜首位置。该小说获得了2009年的爱伦坡奖,十大青年畅销书榜单中常年名列前茅,深受全世界青少年的青睐。既是一本青春爱情小说,又是一本悬疑推理故事。冒险情节环环相扣,人物塑造丰满细腻。适合喜欢小说又想要提高英语水平的学生和成人阅读。
推荐理由:
1.把青少年爱情和冒险故事相结合,题材新颖,牵动人心;
2.语言简洁,难度不大,读者可在休闲阅读的同时积累英语的地道用法;
3.小说附Discussion Questions“讨论问题”4页,启发读者阅读后反思,有助于充分理解;
4.大开本,版面舒适,印刷精美,字体较大,阅读感舒适;
5.轻型纸印刷,便于随身携带,随时随地阅读。
Paper Towns debuted at #5 on the New York Times bestseller list and won the 2009 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery. It is taught in many high school and college curricular, often in conjunction with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, which is an important text within the novel. The movie adaptation of Paper Towns was released in Summer 2015 starring Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne, and directed by Jake Schreier.
“Paper Towns has convinced me that jaded adult readers need to start raiding the Teen’s section at the bookstore. Green, who grew up in Orlando and uses the city as a backdrop for the story, taps into the cadence of teenage life with sharp and funny writing, but transcends age with deeper insights. ” — Rebecca Swain of Orlando Sentinel
“Green’s prose is astounding — from hilarious, hyperintellectual trash talk and shtick, to complex philosophizing, to devastating observation and truths. He nails it–exactly how a thing feels, looks, affects–page after page.” — Johanna Lewis, School Library Journal, starred review
“A powerfully great read.” — VOYA
内容简介
昆汀从小就单恋勇敢漂亮的邻居玛戈,但两人多年的校园生活却是天差地别,没机会好好交流。一天夜里,玛戈突然潜入昆汀的房间,要求他协助报复她的花心男友,昆汀也乖乖答应。
通宵冒险结束后 ,玛戈离奇失踪,她的家人和警察都认为这是她的一个小玩笑,只有昆汀察觉出其中异样。根据玛戈昨夜的反常举动与她刻意留下的蛛丝马迹,昆汀与他的朋友开始了寻找玛戈的旅程。一张惠特曼的诗歌残片、一段网站上的留言,线索零碎又环环相扣。昆汀发现他越接近目的地,越对自己的发小感到陌生……
Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they’re for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew...
作者简介
John Green约翰?格林,《纽约时报》畅销书作家,曾获美国图书馆协会普利兹奖、年度青少年文学图书、普利兹奖银奖、埃德加爱伦坡奖,入围《洛杉矶时报》图书奖。约翰格林的每部作品都会荣登《纽约时报》畅销榜,且常年雄踞前三名。约翰格林与他的兄弟汉克也是世界上非常受欢迎的博客网站之一“播客兄弟”(youtube.logbrothers)的创办者。读者可以加入约翰?格林的twitter粉丝群(@realjohngreen)和tumblr (fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.)或访问他的个人网,领略格林的无上魅力。
John Green is the award-winning, #1 bestselling author of Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, Will Grayson, Will Grayson (with David Levithan), and The Fault in Our Stars. His many accolades include the Printz Medal, a Printz Honor, and the Edgar Award. He has twice been a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize. John was selected by TIME magazine as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. With his brother, Hank, John is one half of the Vlogbrothers (youtube.com/vlogbrothers), one of the most popular online video projects in the world. You can join the millions who follow John on Twitter (@johngreen) and tumblr (fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com) or visit him online at johngreenbooks.com.
John lives with his wife and son in Indianapolis, Indiana.
精彩书摘
The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle. Like, I will probably never be struck by lightning, or win a Nobel Prize, or become the dictator of a small nation in the Pacific Islands, or contract terminal ear cancer, or spontaneously combust. But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us. I could have seen it rain frogs. I could have stepped foot on Mars. I could have been eaten by a whale. I could have married the queen of England or survived months at sea. But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.
Our subdivision, Jefferson Park, used to be a navy base. But then the navy didn’t need it anymore, so it returned the land to the citizens of Orlando, Florida, who decided to build a massive subdivision, because that’s what Florida does with land. My parents and Margo’s parents ended up moving next door to one another just after the first houses were built. Margo and I were two.
Before Jefferson Park was a Pleasantville, and before it was a navy base, it belonged to an actual Jefferson, this guy Dr. Jefferson Jefferson. Dr. Jefferson Jefferson has a school named after him in Orlando and also a large charitable foundation, but the fascinating and unbelievable-but-true thing about Dr. Jefferson Jefferson is that he was not a doctor of any kind. He was just an orange juice salesman named Jefferson Jefferson. When he became rich and powerful, he went to court, made “Jefferson” his middle name, and then changed his first name to “Dr.” Capital D. Lowercase r. Period.
So Margo and I were nine. Our parents were friends, so we would sometimes play together, biking past the cul-de-sacced streets to Jefferson Park itself, the hub of our subdivision’s wheel.
I always got very nervous whenever I heard that Margo was about to show up, on account of how she was the most fantastically gorgeous creature that God had ever created. On the morning in question, she wore white shorts and a pink T-shirt that featured a green dragon breathing a fire of orange glitter. It is difficult to explain how awesome I found this T-shirt at the time.
坦白讲,我对文学作品的评判标准一向比较苛刻,尤其对青春题材,总怕看到廉价的煽情。但这本书,它几乎全程保持着一种克制而有力的张力。那种青春期特有的敏感、易碎和不成熟,被描绘得入木三分,但绝不让人反感。主角面对困境时的笨拙和坚持,构成了故事最动人的内核。而且,这本书的对话部分尤其精彩,充满了机锋和智慧,年轻人之间的交流往往是快速、跳跃且充满潜台词的,作者捕捉到了那种“只可意会不可言传”的默契与隔阂。它没有给出标准答案,而是提供了一个思考的空间,让读者在合上书本后,依然能继续和自己、和书中的角色进行对话。它像一个老朋友在你耳边轻声诉说一个秘密,那个秘密不一定是惊天动地的,但它足够真诚,真诚到能触动你心底最柔软的地方,让你久久不能忘怀。
评分我很少对一本书有这种强烈的“代入感”,仿佛我就是那个坐在副驾驶上,陪着主角一起开着那辆破旧的旅行车,穿越美国广袤土地的人。这本书的书写方式,成功地营造了一种公路电影的氛围。你似乎能闻到汽油味、看到窗外飞速后退的荒原风景,听到电台里播放的那些带着怀旧气息的音乐。这种沉浸式的体验,是很多刻意追求“大场面”的青春小说所不具备的。它聚焦于旅途中的细微感受:疲惫时对一个加油站咖啡的渴望,深夜对着星空讲述秘密时的坦诚,以及最终发现真相时的那种释然又带着一丝失落的情绪。我尤其欣赏作者对“缺席”的处理,很多重要的人物信息是通过他们的遗留物、通过别人零碎的讲述构建起来的,这本身就是一种高明的叙事技巧,它将“寻找”的主题贯彻到了叙事的每一个角落。
评分这本书的结构非常精巧,像一个复杂的迷宫,而我们,作为读者,就是那个试图走出迷宫的人。它不是那种“看开头就知道结尾”的套路文,每一次你以为抓住了关键线索时,作者都会巧妙地设置一个转折,将你的预期打碎,然后引导你走向一个更深层次的思考。我特别喜欢那种文本中弥漫着的淡淡的忧伤和对“意义”的探寻。它让我思考,我们这一代人,在信息爆炸的时代,是不是更容易迷恋于屏幕上那个被过度美化的“虚拟自我”,而忽略了身边那个真实的人?这种对当代人际关系困境的触及,让这本书超越了单纯的青春文学范畴,有了一种更广阔的社会意义。虽然情节围绕着一个年轻人的寻找展开,但它探讨的是关于身份认同、关于记忆的不可靠性,这些都是非常成熟的主题,被包裹在极其流畅、引人入胜的故事外壳之下。
评分读完这本书,我感觉我的内心被重新刷了一遍漆,那种感觉非常奇妙。它没有给我一个简单粗暴的答案,而是扔给我一堆碎片,让我自己去拼凑一个更接近“真实”的画面。这本书最成功的地方,在于它对“符号”和“现实”的探讨。我们常常会爱上别人在我们心中构建的形象,那个完美的、符合我们期望的“纸镇”,而不是那个活生生的、有着缺憾的个体。主角的追寻过程,其实就是一个剥离幻想、直面残酷真相的过程。我能感受到那种从神坛跌落的痛苦,但作者处理得非常细腻,没有过度渲染悲伤,而是将这种痛苦转化为一种更成熟的理解力。文字的节奏掌握得极佳,在看似平淡的日常叙事中,突然插入几段充满哲思的对话或独白,让你不得不停下来,反复咀嚼。而且,这本书里的配角塑造得非常立体,他们不只是主角追寻路上的工具人,每个人都有自己的挣扎和秘密,这让整个故事的背景显得无比丰满和可信。
评分这本书,说实话,拿到手的时候我有点犹豫。封面设计挺简约的,但那种青涩的少年感扑面而来,让我这个“老阿姨”级别的读者心里打了个问号:现在的青春小说还能有什么新意?我本以为会是那种老套的校园三角恋,或者无病呻吟的矫情文学。结果,我错了,错得彻底。作者的文字有一种魔力,它没有用华丽辞藻堆砌,而是像老式胶片机放映出来的画面,带着微微的颗粒感和温暖的滤镜,真实得让人心疼。它讲述的不仅仅是关于成长和爱,更是关于“寻找”这件事本身。那种在迷雾中摸索,试图拼凑出某个重要人物真实面貌的执着,那种不计成本也要去解开谜团的冲动,简直就是我们每个人年轻时都曾有过的冲动。我特别喜欢那种线索的铺陈方式,一点一点,像剥洋葱一样,每揭开一层,世界观就跟着扭转一下。它让你忍不住想放下手头的一切,跟着主角一起踏上这段说走就走的旅程,去看看那些地图上标记着却又似乎不存在的地方。这本书的魅力就在于,它让你相信,那些看似不切实际的冒险,或许才是通往自我认知的捷径。
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