标题: 11/22/63 - 书评 [打印本页] 作者: 小小看客 时间: 2013-5-19 11:45 标题: 11/22/63 - 书评 11/22/63 is a novel by Stephen King about a time traveler who attempts to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy which occurred on November 22, 1963 (the date of the novel's title). The nove ...
这里说说小说中印象深刻的几个小地方:
1. 时间旅行的机制设定独特:每次回到过去都是一次重置,每次都回到同一时间地点,返回后离出发只过2分钟。这个设定也在推动情节发展过程中起了很大作用。
2. 有了详细的设定就会保持情节自洽的需要,这是对作者的一大考验。偷懒的作者要么不做设定,一带而过,要么对情节自洽视而不见。但斯蒂芬金没有令我失望,在小说结尾对时间旅行的机制做出了一定的解释,这个解释并不完美,但至少能给读者一个交代,堵上了一些可能的漏洞。(比如最简单的一个就是如果每次回到过去都是重置,那为什么从过去拿到现在的东西不会消失。那位店主只是拿牛肉,不过稍微想一下就知道如果你想发财可以拿其他东西,这个机制就成了聚宝盆)
3. 既然是时间旅行,那就要有来有回,返回过去再回到现代才会引发时间旅行故事最有意思的问题:在过去的行为是否能改变现在。主人公第二次时间旅行后通过电话联系当年的当事人那段很有感情冲击力,这也是时间旅行小说最有魅力的地方,不过有点遗憾的是本书中这样的地方不多。另外返回现在也让主人公直面一个严肃的问题:回到过去的时间旅行者是否有权改变历史,改变历史的人要承担什么样的责任。
4. 小说结尾很完美,该解决的问题都解决了,该回答的问题都回答了。在小说描述了遇刺事件后我有好几次都以为作者会在某个地方结束,剩下的让读者去想象,不过金没有选择这么做,而是一直写到了最后的最后。 作者: Sery 时间: 2013-9-22 22:43
I got so exciting, so stimulated to discover that Stephen King had composed such an amazing novel---11/22/63,best ever (though I haven’t even completed reading yet, but I can tell you). It roared up to the bestseller no.1 shortly after it came out which can best demonstrate how expected the novel was.
Ever since I got back from abroad, reading progress was close to zero for me, who however couldn’t spend a day easily without reading before. What had happened for my absent habit of reading back in China? Well, first it was, as you may know, that China had more fun. Second,I was occupied by stuff like visiting friends, travelling, hunting jobs and exploring in taobao.com (cannot help). Third, which was also the main reason. I was roadblocked by some books like What the Dog Saw, The King of Torts. These were actually good books but they were just beyond my appetite of reading. Thus without new great (which can meet my appetite) books came out, I suspended my reading progress accordingly.
So once again, King changed nearly everything . The appetite for reading was returned one more time just because of 11/22/63----a godsend.
On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination—a thousand page tour de force. Isn’t it attractive?
Okay, so much for this review and thank you for reading it. Also many thanks to King for his great works.