从高中时代就迷上Block的小说至今 对这位当代最有魅力的推理小说作家始终痴迷不已 其实这位作家的推理小说 与大众所熟知的推理小说型态大相迳庭 在其中最为人所熟知的Matthew Scudder系列中 原文书封面上对小说的定义为--Crime Novel 但相较於犯罪层面 其实书中对人性与社会的描写更令人有深刻的感触 除此之外 Block 的小说中最不虞匮乏的就是--笑点!!! 尤其在黑暗又现实的社会中 如何苦中作乐是一门很大的学问 话说最近我在向一位朋友推广Block的书 撷取了一些Hit List(杀手系列之一)里 我觉得充满笑点的段落给她看 在此也分享给各位 Keller: That's the part I don't like. Throwing darts at a phone book. Dot: You don't throw darts at a phone book. You throw darts at a map. Keller: How would that work? Dot: It wouldn't, unless you were looking for a place to go. You throw a dart and it lands on some place, and you go there. But if what you're looking for is a person, you don't use darts. You take a phone book and flip it open at random and jab with your finger. Keller: That's what I ment = = Dot: You said darts. 另外还有 Keller: Some guy you know? Dot: Not a guy Keller: A woman? Dot: What are you, a sexist? It's an equal-oppertunity world. A women has as much right to get killed as anybody else. 之後又大酸特酸了一下 policeman/policewoman 的梗 XD 我觉得Block最拿手的就是这些 废话连篇的缠夹不清 说实在的 还满有桃谷六仙的风格 XDDD 每次看到这种句子 都会笑到不行 XDDD 不过我又认为 Block 的这种幽默好难定义 时常带点讽刺, 但是又不太刺骨, 有点酸 有点像乡民 但是又不会太极端 (比如说乡民常常酸记者, Block也不例外 在240页 Keller说了: "I think it makes it real.", Keller said. "You'll see some woman, her baby gets eaten by a coyote, and some reporter sticks a microphone in her face and asks her how she feels." "And instead of telling him to go fuck himself, like you'd think a normal human being would do--") 我将之称为 卜氏幽默 在板上搜寻了一下 没发现有这个作家的相关讨论 在此推荐给各位 希望有人会喜欢 :) -- 《It was, he noted, a two-and-a-half-car garage, which was handy, he thought, if you happen to have two and a half cars.》 □■Hit List■□ by Lawrence Block --

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