The 70 (Minus 1) Books that People Born in the 70s Should Read

Don't understand why the post specifically mentioned people born in the 1970s.


70年代必须看过的70本书

1.《长袜子皮皮》 [瑞典]阿斯特丽德。林格伦 著
2.《丁丁历险记》 [比利时]埃尔热 著
3.《尼尔斯骑鹅旅行记》 [瑞典]塞尔玛。拉格洛芙 著
4.《小王子》 [法国]圣。埃克苏佩里 著
5.《皮皮鲁与鲁西西》 郑渊洁 著
6.《灿烂涅磐》 郝舫 编著
7.《听者有心》 李皖 著
8.《伤花怒放》 郝舫 著
9.《草叶集》 [美国]惠特曼 著
10.《恶之花》 [法国]夏尔。波德莱尔 著
11.《嚎叫》 [美国]金斯堡 著
12.《北岛诗选》 北岛 著
13.《顾城诗选》 顾城 著
14.《海子诗选》 海子 著
15.《存在与虚无》 [法国]萨特 著
16.《诗意的栖居》 [德国]海德格尔 著
17.《伊甸园之门》 [美国]MORRIS DICKSTEIN 著
18.《恋人絮语》 [法国]罗兰。巴特 著
19.《第二性》 [法国]西蒙。波夫娃 著
20.《丑陋的中国人》 柏杨 著
21.《李敖文集》 李敖 著
22.《顾准文集》 顾准 著
23.《万历15年》黄仁宇 著
24.《傅雷家书》 傅雷 著
25.《文化苦旅》余秋雨 著
26.《国富论》 [英国]亚当。斯密 著
27.《亚当斯论摄影》 [美国]亚当斯 著
28.《棋王》 阿城 著
29.《活着》 余华 著
30.《倾城之恋》 张爱玲 著
31.《你别无选择》 刘索拉 著
32.《围城》 钱钟书 著
33.《边城》 沈从文 著
34.《寂寞17岁》 白先勇 著
35.《黄金时代》 王小波 著
36.《红粉》 苏童 著　　
37.《务虚笔记》 史铁生 著
38.《长恨歌》 王安忆 著
39.《顽主》 王朔 著
40.《琼瑶文集》 琼瑶 著
41.《三毛文集》 三毛 著
42.《金庸全集》 金庸 著
43.《古龙全集》 古龙 著
44.《卫斯里科幻小说系列》 倪匡 著
45.《亦舒文集》 亦舒 著
46.《百年孤独》 [哥伦比亚]加西亚。马尔克斯 著
47.《博尔赫斯文集》[ [阿根廷]豪。路。博尔赫斯 著
48.《约翰。克里斯朵夫》 [法国]罗曼。罗兰 著
49.《追忆逝水年华》 [法国]M.普鲁斯特 著
50.《局外人》 [法国]阿尔贝。加缪 著
51.《情人》 [法国]杜拉斯 著
52.《查太莱夫人的情人》 [英国]劳伦斯 著
53.《1984》 [英国]乔治。奥威尔 著
54.《野性的呼唤》 [美国]杰克。伦敦 著
55.《老人与海》 [美国]海明威 著
56.《喧哗与躁动》 [美国]威廉。福克纳 著
57.《麦田里的守望者》 [美国]塞林格 著
58.《在路上》 [美国]杰克。凯鲁亚克著
59.《了不起的盖茨比》 [美国]F.S.菲茨杰拉德 著
60.《第22条军规》 [美国]约瑟夫。海勒 著
61.《日瓦戈医生》[ [苏联]帕斯捷尔纳克 著
62.《看不见的城市》 [意大利]卡尔维诺 著
63.《城堡》 [捷克]弗朗克。卡夫卡 著
64.《生命中不能承受之轻》 [捷克]米兰。昆德拉 著
65.《福尔摩斯探案集》 [英国]柯南。道尔 著
66.《雪国》 [日本]川端康成 著
67.《金阁寺》 [日本]大江健三郎 著
68.《广岛札记》 [日本]大江健三郎 著
69.《挪威的森林》 [日本]村上春树 著

Read: How to Build Wealth with Your 401k

Title: How to Build Wealth with Your 401k: Everything You Need to Know to Become More Than a Millionaire Over the Course of Your Working Lifetime

Author: Steve Merritt

Comment:

This book is too basic to be useful to anyone but the very beginners. Even for someone who is just starting out, it doesn't offer much.

Merritt tries to do two things in How to Build Wealth with Your 401k: 1. convince readers that 401k is a good way to build a retirement nest egg; 2. give out some definitions on the fundamentals of investing. Now, if someone bothered to read this book at all, then I am assuming he or she is already convinced about the long term benefits of 401k. In other words, this person doesn't need additional arguments to sway him/her over. As for the glossary, one can get that in millions of places.

The book is easy to read, but don't expect too much from it.

Rating: 3 out of 5

The Twilight Saga--No real substance

Author: Stephenie Meyer
Series: Twilight Saga
Genre: Paranormal Romance

After being thoroughly disgusted by the second movie New Moon, I feel an even stronger urge to trash this book series, something that I itched to do for a long time.

Whatever faults it has in a literary sense, the Twilight series is undeniably one successful commercial venture. Stephenie Meyer understands human nature well--adolescents are slaves to their hormones, and all girls dream of being the next Cinderella.

To substantiate my point, I have to refer back to a post that I translated a month ago, "Popular Article on How to Write a Successful Chinese Romance Novel, Part 1," which touches upon a number of common tropes in romance fiction. Coincidentally, Twilight contains most of them.

Bella
1. To make the readers like the heroine, Meyer describes Bella as a ordinary-looking and slightly lonely girl.

2. In the series, Bella undergoes enough emotional and physical trauma to earn her the title "Survivor of the Year."

3. I am not sure how coordinated and fit Bella is, but Edward certainly does not lack any opportunities to rescue her from danger.

4. Bella stays a virgin until very late in the series.

Edward
1. In stark contrast to Bella the ordinary, Edward is an extraordinarily handsome boy.

2. Edward's vampiric nature means that he is strong enough to satisfy most female desires for a shining knight.

As befitting a young adult novel, there are at least 2 men in love with Bella, both exceedingly attractive, and a dozen others who want her for a number of reasons. Faced with so many stellar catches, Bella agonized over the choice she must make for a least one novel and a half--I suppose this is thoroughly satisfying to the female ego, especially for those who identify with the stories more strongly than other readers.


Now, having explained rather objectively (in my point of view) why the series is so hugely popular, I would also like to point out why it is so ridiculously awful.

At the beginning I mentioned that the Twilight Saga is essentially a series of common tropes strung together. Well, this is also the reason for the abysmal reading it offers. For every Chinese romance novel readers (I can't speak for English readers), these plot devices are overused, uninteresting, and boring, unbelievably so. The entire series smacks of banality.

Furthermore, I fail to understand why Edward and Bella fell in the love in the first place. The dubious "meant to be" claim aside, how does a rational being fall in love with his food? And by food I mean ambrosia. After all is this not how Edward repeatedly described Bella? OK, I concede that overcoming one's animalistic instinct in the higher power of love is another point designed to impress female readers.

The last two books of the series are even more horrible, tainted by the heavy stench of "Mary Sue," from Bella's sudden elevation of status to her miraculous contribution to vampiric procreation. By the way, for those who haven't heard of the term,

"A Mary Sue, in literary criticism and particularly in fanfiction, is a fictional character with overly idealized and hackneyed mannerisms, lacking noteworthy flaws, and primarily functioning as wish-fulfillment fantasies for their authors or readers. Perhaps the single underlying feature of all characters described as "Mary Sues" is that they are too ostentatious for the audience's taste, or that the author seems to favor the character too highly."

I have to say that despite of its gigantic success, the Twilight Saga is an insult to the romance writing, even though this genre is already known for not requiring extensive cerebral activity to read.

Rating:
2 out of 5 stars

Book: Frostbitten

Author: Kelley Armstrong
Genre: Paranormal Romance

Review:
Considering Frostbitten is the tenth installment in the "Women of the Otherworld" series, it is amazing that the book held up, instead of pathetically flopping like so many long series have done before.

The story takes place more than three years after Broken. Elena investigates yet another set of mutts-related deaths and wherever Elena is, Clay follows, this time into the wild and mystical Alaska (by the way, though the man is convincingly portrayed as usual, I still think he is too good to be true). To avoid spoilers, suffice to say that in the book a few new werewolves make their appearances, Jeremy shows up in perhaps two places, and Elena's twins "drop" into just enough scenes to let readers know they are adorable. This book is truly about Elena and Clay--more specifically, how their relationship has matured and deepened. After the bland and boring Broken, Armstrong appears to be on solid grounds again. Interactions between the two main characters and their offspring are filled with warmth, sweetness, and contentment; the two have gotten over their trust issues, Elena no longer shy of proclaiming her love for Clay.

Although the romance portion offers good reading, the fantasy part is more of the plain vanilla type. That "capture-escape-capture-furious Elena/Clay explode and triumph" routine is especially tiring, because every single previous installment contained something similar.

Rating:
4 out of 5 stars