從高中時代就迷上Block的小說至今 對這位當代最有魅力的推理小說作家始終癡迷不已 其實這位作家的推理小說 與大眾所熟知的推理小說型態大相逕庭 在其中最為人所熟知的Matthew Scudder系列中 原文書封面上對小說的定義為--Crime Novel 但相較於犯罪層面 其實書中對人性與社會的描寫更令人有深刻的感觸 除此之外 Block 的小說中最不虞匱乏的就是--笑點!!! 尤其在黑暗又現實的社會中 如何苦中作樂是一門很大的學問 話說最近我在向一位朋友推廣Block的書 擷取了一些Hit List(殺手系列之一)裡 我覺得充滿笑點的段落給她看 在此也分享給各位 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. 另外還有 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 我覺得Block最拿手的就是這些 廢話連篇的纏夾不清 說實在的 還滿有桃谷六仙的風格 XDDD 每次看到這種句子 都會笑到不行 XDDD 不過我又認為 Block 的這種幽默好難定義 時常帶點諷刺, 但是又不太刺骨, 有點酸 有點像鄉民 但是又不會太極端 (比如說鄉民常常酸記者, Block也不例外 在240頁 Keller說了: "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--") 我將之稱為 卜氏幽默 在板上搜尋了一下 沒發現有這個作家的相關討論 在此推薦給各位 希望有人會喜歡 :) -- 《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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