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Monthly Archives: February 2010
回望动荡年代——A Truly Masterpiece of Alan Greenspan
Alan Greenspan, The Age of Turbulence, Adventures in A New World. 这是格林斯潘他老人家美联储卸任后的自传,封面上不同的颜色写了如上三段,我也不知道这书名字该怎么排列,干脆都放在这里好了。 一部531页的自传,这是我读过的最厚的一本原版作品,也一支我之前从来没有涉猎过的类别——其实我并不十分喜欢自传类的作品,这类作品长久以来在我脑海里都是以类似大卫贝克汉姆,女克林顿,或者其它云云的,以曝些不为人知的吸气故事或隐私为卖点,博得销量上的出色业绩以便带来丰富的个人收入,其中尤以那些由他人捉刀代书的自传为最——我其实还是很尊敬贝克汉姆的,不过实在还是提不起兴趣读他的自传。 书本是2007年年底就买了,那年10月底回国自香港转机时在海港城Page One书店有看到这本自传的繁体译本,考究的精装本,右翻竖版很有特点,但最后还是选择了在amazon上买英文版。无奈那时终究没有耐心将这么厚的一本书翻完,以至屡次草草过完Introduction就又摆回书架…2008年中开始常驻,翻了至今翻了十本有余的小说以及技术类作品,这本书仍然稳稳摆放在未读的那一组里面。转眼2010年春天,回国曙光乍现,我突然发现我把那些轻的、简装的都读完了,唯独留下这本最厚最重的实在说不过去,当时发现2月底也许可以回国一趟,于是立志一个月解决这本自传,争取回国的时候连带着过去半年的几本书一同带回去减轻撤退重量。这本书大概自1月15日开始开工,2月22日翻完,当然最终2月也没有回成国,after all,读完了一本事后看来非常值得的书,2月也还是有收获的。 格老这本自传一共25个chapters,他在书的Introduction里面提示他将书分为两个部分,The first half is his effort to retrace the arc of his learning curve, and the second half is a more objective effort to … Continue reading
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