Fragile Things (豆瓣)

副标题: Short Fictions and Wonders (P.S.)
ISBN: 9780061252020
页数: 416 页
定价: USD 14.99
出版社: Harper Perennial
装帧: Paperback
出版年: 2007-10-01

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　　Hot off the critical success of Anansi Boys, Gaiman offers this largely disappointing medley that feels like a collection of idea seeds that have yet to mature. Among the ground covered: an old woman eats her cat alive, slowly; two teenage boys fumble through a house party attended by preternaturally attractive aliens; a raven convinces a writer attempting realism to give way t... (展开全部) 　　Hot off the critical success of Anansi Boys, Gaiman offers this largely disappointing medley that feels like a collection of idea seeds that have yet to mature. Among the ground covered: an old woman eats her cat alive, slowly; two teenage boys fumble through a house party attended by preternaturally attractive aliens; a raven convinces a writer attempting realism to give way to fantastical inclinations. A few poems, heartfelt or playfully musical, pockmark the collection. At his best, Gaiman has a deft touch for surprise and inventiveness, and there are inspired moments, including one story that brings the months of the year to life and imagines them having a board meeting. (September is an "elegant creature of mock solicitude," while April is sensitive but cruel; they don't get along), but most of these stories rely too heavily on the stock-in-trade of horror, sci-fi and fantasy. Gaiman only once or twice gives himself the space necessary to lock the reader's attention.150,000 announced first printing.(Oct.)
　　Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
　　
　　
　　 Adult/High School—In this collection of stories (and a few poems), storytellers and the act of storytelling have prominent roles. The anthropomorphized months of the year swap tales at their annual board meeting: a half-eaten man recounts how he made the acquaintance of his beloved cannibal; and even Scheherazade, surely the greatest storyteller of all, receives a tribute with a poem. The stories are by turns horrifying and fanciful, often blending the two with a little sex, violence, and humor. An introduction offers the genesis of each selection, itself a stealthy way of initiating teens into the art of writing short stories, and to some of the important authors of the genre. Gaiman cites his influences, and readers may readily see the inflection of H. P. Lovecraft and Ray Bradbury in many of the tales. Horror and fantasy are forms of literature wrought with clichés, but Gaiman usually comes up with an interesting new angle. This collection is more poetic and more restrained than Stephen King's short stories and more expertly written than China Mieville's Looking for Jake (Ballantine, 2005). Gaiman skips along the edge of many adolescent fascinations-life, death, the living dead, and the occult-and teens with a taste for the weird will enjoy this book—Emma Coleman, Berkeley Public Library, CA
　　Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
　　
　　
　　 Along with his skill as a writer, Neil Gaiman must have some training in critical witchcraft. He has cast quite a spell on reviewers, who throw up their hands trying to categorize the stories in Fragile Things and then bring them together in an almost universal peal of applause. The collection is storytelling at its old-fashioned best, freshened up for the 21st century but drawing heavily on Gaiman's progenitors. Only the San Diego Union-Tribune takes real issue with Gaiman, dubbing him "a bantamweight Poe" while acknowledging a talent that isn't fully on display in this collection. Otherwise, it's smooth sailing for the award-winning British writer.
　　Copyright © 2004 Phillips & Nelson Media, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.　　

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seren(Fly me to the moon, Richard!)

写的人如此，读的人也如此。对待这本故事集，可以随时随地翻开一页来读，心知结局就在不远的几页后等待，不用像读长篇小说那样牵肠挂肚，需要温故知新，如果隔了一段时间再翻开书签那页,"warm up"再次进入到故事里的状态都要花费一些时间。 Fragile Things里收录了Neil Gaiman在各种场合写下...... (1回应)

2009-06-28 2/2有用

其实不算看过，零散看过几篇点评
水龙吟(《新幻界》第七期~)

Fragile things目录: 1) An introduction where Gaiman details some background on each of the stories, and includes a short-short story on its own as well (titled...... (3回应)

2007-01-21 1/1有用来自 William Morrow2006版