Certifiable nutcase Serge Storms and Lenny, his spacey marijuana-addicted sidekick, are back again in Dorsey's sixth screwball crime-spree novel (after The Stingray Shuffle), this time on the trail of a stash of missing gems. As the novel begins, Serge escapes from Chattahoochee, Florida's state psychiatric hospital, and heads for Miami, obsessed with the idea of clearing up the mystery surrounding his grandfather's alleged suicide, which is tied to the legendary dozen diamonds still missing after Murph the Surf's infamous 1964 jewel heist from the Museum of Natural History. Serge's ambitious crusade gets off to an ill-omened start when he awakens the interest of both the mob and the Feds after getting into a graveside altercation with Tony Marsicano, the mob boss who was alone at the deathbed of Rico Spagliosi, a deceased fence reputed to have a part in the jewel heist. In a typical display of off-the-wall buffoonery, Serge starts a specialty Miami tour service, and his first booking is a group of drunken salesmen who, out to play a practical joke on a colleague, mistakenly kidnap Tony, with dire results. Sporadically moving back and forth between time present and nostalgic flashbacks to Miami Beach in the 1960s, the novel chronicles the methodical murders of Serge's grandfather's old cronies as Serge tracks his grandfather's movements at the time of the infamous gem heist and the return of the most famous of the stolen stones. Studded with psychosocial observations and dopey gags, this latest episode of Florida's hottest helter-skelter, hallucinogenic freak show will delight legions of Dorsey fans.
Tim Dorsey was born in Indiana, moved to Florida at the age of 1, and grew up in a small town about an hour north of Miami called Riviera Beach. He graduated from Auburn University in 1983 with a B.S. in Transportation. From 1983 to 1987, he was a police and courts reporter for The Alabama Journal, the now-defunct evening newspaper in Montgomery. He joined The Tampa Tribune in 1987 as a general assignment reporter. He also worked as a political reporter in the Tribune's Tallahassee bureau and a copy desk editor. From 1994 to 1999, he was the Tribune's night metro editor and night news coordinator. He left the paper in August 1999 to write full time.
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这本书的叙事节奏着实让人着迷,仿佛被一种无形的力量牵引着,一步步深入到那个充满烟尘与旧日回响的世界。作者对于人物内心细微的捕捉,那种近乎病态的敏感,让我在阅读过程中时常屏住呼吸,生怕惊扰了主人公那脆弱的平衡。故事的骨架搭建得极其精巧,看似漫不经心的一段对话,实则可能埋下了后文一个惊天动地的伏笔。我尤其欣赏作者在描绘场景时所使用的那种近乎电影运镜般的视角切换,时而拉近到主角额头上细微的汗珠,时而又瞬间拉远,展现出整个小镇在暮色中静默的、近乎荒凉的美感。那种对“逝去”的执着书写,不是简单的怀旧,而是一种对时间本身的质问与抗争。每一次翻页,都像是在参与一场精心编排的心理博弈,你永远不知道下一个转角会遇到的是救赎还是更深的迷失。那种压抑感不是来自于情节的血腥,而是源于角色对自身命运的无力感,这种深度,远超一般的小说范畴,更像是一篇关于现代人精神困境的深刻剖析。
评分我得承认,一开始我被这本书略显晦涩的开篇劝退过,但坚持读下去的奖励是巨大的。作者构建的世界观是如此自洽而又充满异质感,让你不得不重新审视你对“现实”的定义。这里的角色都不是扁平的“好人”或“坏人”,他们都带着深刻的道德模糊性,每一个选择的背后都有着一套他们自己坚守的、虽然扭曲但逻辑自洽的生存法则。这种对人性复杂性的坦诚书写,让我感到一种久违的震撼。更妙的是,小说中穿插的那些关于民间传说或地方历史的碎片信息,它们如同散落在叙事河流中的鹅卵石,起初看来与主线关联不大,但当故事达到高潮时,你会恍然大悟——原来那些看似无关的背景,才是推动一切发生的内在动力。这本书需要被“解码”,而不是简单地“阅读”,它要求读者投入大量的智力与情感资源,但最终的回馈是丰厚得令人难以言喻的。
评分这本书真正触动我的,是它对“身份认同”主题的探讨。角色们仿佛都在努力拼凑着一块破碎的镜子,试图从那些被时间磨损的碎片中找到自己曾经的形状。作者非常巧妙地运用了“重复”这一文学手法,但这种重复不是单调的,而是螺旋上升的——同样的场景,在不同的心境下被重新审视,从而揭示出全新的含义。这种结构让读者也参与到这种“身份重构”的过程中,你开始怀疑自己对事件的最初判断,并被迫进行自我反思。小说的结尾处理得尤其高明,它没有给出明确的答案,而是留下了足够的空间,让余音在读者的脑海中久久回荡。这种开放式的收尾,反而比任何确定的结局都更具力量,因为它暗示着故事并未真正结束,角色的挣扎与探索仍在继续,而我们,作为见证者,也被这种永恒的探索精神所感染。
评分读完这本小说,我感觉自己的感官系统被重新校准了一遍。作者的文字功底实在令人惊叹,他似乎能将任何平淡无奇的日常事物赋予一种近乎神圣的质感。例如,他对某种特定光线下灰尘颗粒的描写,那种细致入微,让你几乎能闻到空气中陈旧的气味。故事线的处理手法极为高明,它不遵循传统意义上的线性叙事,而是像一张复杂的挂毯,不同的时间点、不同的视角相互交织、重叠,直到最后,所有的线索汇聚成一个令人心悸的整体。这种结构要求读者必须全神贯注,任何一次走神都可能让你错过一个关键的暗示。而且,这本书中的“沉默”比任何喧嚣的对话都来得有力。人物之间的交流常常中断,留下了巨大的、充满张力的空白,这些空白由读者自己去填充,也正是在这种“不言自明”中,角色的真实情感才得以淋漓尽致地展现。这不仅仅是一个故事,它更像是一场关于记忆、失落与重建的艺术装置。
评分这本书的独特之处在于它对“氛围”的营造近乎偏执。我从未读过哪本书能如此成功地将地理环境与人物的心理状态融为一体。故事发生地的气候、地貌,都仿佛拥有了自己的生命和意志,它们直接参与到角色的命运之中,成为了一个隐形的、不可抗拒的外部压力。书中关于自然元素的描写,那种磅礴而又冷酷的力量感,让人联想到某种古老的悲剧史诗。文字的堆叠带着一种厚重的、近乎粘稠的质感,读起来慢,但回味起来却极其悠长。它不迎合大众的阅读习惯,它的美感是内敛的、需要耐心的挖掘,它拒绝一切廉价的煽情,所有情感的爆发都是在极度的克制后,如火山喷发般猛烈。对于那些追求阅读深度和文本挑战的读者来说,这本书无疑是一座值得攀登的高峰。
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