记者问他:
The book you should have read but haven’t?
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With reading, I’m more inclined to feel relief than guilt. I feel fortunate that I never read one word written by Ayn Rand. I’m grateful that I haven’t cracked a book by Nietzsche. While more thoughtful teenagers were reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, I was wearing a red vest and working the concessions stand at a movie theatre in mid-Missouri that showed Top Gun four times a day for an entire summer. What an experience! I’m also relieved that I haven’t read any experimental poetry of the modern period. I avoided anything by Susan Sontag. One Paul Auster novel was more than enough. I did On the Road with Kerouac, and that was it. When that annoying over-serious child character in Jude the Obscure finally hung himself, I said “Great!” and never read another Hardy novel. It makes me happy to think of all the books I’ve missed.
哈哈哈!喜欢Hessler这个家伙.对啊!书就是应该这样读(或者不读)的!
(转自豆友Jean (moved like a patch of night)博客文章:Peter Hessler的新书)
个人还是喜欢刘瑜和Hessler的阅读口味,以真是世界的前提出发,探求能够被证伪的理论。