今天看了这本《房思琪的初恋乐园》，哭了哈哈哈
Read the book Fang Si-Qi's First Love Paradise today, and cried for a bit haha.
其实很少看中文书，不是因为看不起国产作家，只是单纯的看英语更轻松。甚至很多书都会专门买英语翻译的版本。但是这本书因为好朋友的推荐，说真的很好看，于是我买了原著。幸亏买了原著，里面好多美好的句子和描写都让我看到了它们最原始的样子。
I rarely read Chinese books, not because I have anything against Chinese authors, but because I read English more easily. I would often even buy the English translated version of Chinese books to compensate. But this book was recommended by a friend, and she said it was really good, so I bough the original. I’m glad I did, because so many of the beautiful descriptions and sentences in the book would have been lost in translation.
这本书很让人震撼，也很让人无助，读者只能眼睁睁看着一个美妙的灵魂慢慢堕落。幸亏书中在伊纹的故事里面有一了丝的阳光，不然看完真的很压抑。可惜就连这一丝丝的阳光也是不是完全快乐的。我看到了一个评论，我觉得很好的概括这本书：“《洛丽塔》以犯者的角度写这个故事，所以我们看到的是爱情和美好；《房思琪的初恋乐园》以受害者的角度写这个故事，所以我们看到的是堕落和悲惨。”
This book is really both shocking and disarming, and it makes the reader feel powerless as we watch a beautiful young soul become a lost one. At least there was still a ray of sunshine from Yi Wen’s story, or the story would be really very depressing. Unfortunately, even this ray of sunshine isn’t completely happy. I read this comment about this book, and I think summaries the story very well: “{Lolita told this story from the perpetrator’s point of view; Fang Si-Qi's First Love Paradise’s tells it from the victim’s point of view, so we see degradation and misery."
写作手法稍微有些稚嫩，场景变化有些时候让人不解，但是剧情很沉重，角色很矛盾真实，描写很美丽。最后摘抄上几句我最喜欢的描写吧。
The writing style was slightly less developed, the changes between scenarios was slightly confusing at times, but the plot was heavy, the characters conflicted and realistic, the descriptions beautiful. I think I’ll end this review with a few of my personal favourite quotes.
“吃着棉花糖口感的糖，咬到一粒干硬的核桃碎，就像是做梦被打断了，像是我是不是冒出的问句得自己吞下去—我们到底是什么关系呢？”
“When you’re eating marshmallow-like candy and you bite down on a hard walnut chip, it is like a dream being interrupted, like the question that I must force myself to swallow— what is our relationship?”
“我才知道，在奥斯维辛也可以感到无聊。”
“I just realised that even Aushwitz can be boring.”
“有一种人，像一幅好画、先是赞叹整体，接下来连油画颜料提笔的波浪尖都可看，一辈子看不完。”
“Some people are like a work of art, you admire the whole first, and then realise that even the waves made by the tips of the oil paintbrushes are beautiful, and you finish looking at it for a lifetime.”
“她后来才了解，说婚礼是一个女人一生中最美的时刻，意思不但是女人里外的美要开始下坡，而且是女人要自动自发地把所有的性吸引力收到潘多拉的盒子里。”
“She only realised later that when people say the wedding ceremony is where a woman is most beautiful, it meant more than just a woman’s beauty inside and out beginning to deteriorate, but also that a woman must automatically conceal all of her sexual attractiveness into her Pandora’s box.”
“因为草莓有季节，我会患得患失，柠檬蛋糕永远都在，我喜欢永永远远的事情。”
“Because strawberries have season, and I’ll miss it, but lemon cake is forever there, and I like things that are forever.”
“梦想就是把白日梦想清楚踏实了走出去。”
“Dreams are just acting on your daydreams.”
看完这本书，只希望世界上所有人都可以快快乐乐健健康康平平安安的生活，也希望房思琪的故事可以越来越少。
After finishing this book, I just hope that everyone in the world can be happy and safe and healthy, and I hope that stories like Fang Si-Qi’s happen less and less.
周一快乐。
Happy Monday.
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