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文筆是不錯瞭,但是描述太主觀瞭,想看的是客觀的介紹而不是作者的自傳(描寫作者自己找瞭一本書來做實驗燒燒看居然寫瞭整整一章,really?),尤其描寫Harry Peak那部分,語言中充值著作者的主觀臆斷,優越感,甚至還有一絲淡淡的種族歧視
評分終於拜讀瞭這本長期掛在公共圖書館overdrive首頁上關於公共圖書館的書,北美圖書館除瞭藉書以外還有社區中心的功能:上網,寫論文,學習小組,meetup,培訓各種技能(我曾在一個branch被迫旁聽瞭一個半小時的excel課程,全因地方小而教師嗓音穿透力強可能是業餘歌劇演員),收留無傢可歸的人(周末早上圖書館一開門一群人帶著全身傢當衝進去瞭)。書裏用的敘述方式就十分cheesy瞭,開頭先來個縱火案鎮場子,然後開始倒敘插敘著講圖書館的發展史,mission&vision啊。我並非覺得這沒意思,隻是這樣挑撥讀者情緒太過於cheap瞭。最後,Vivre la bibliothèque!
評分一個偉大的公共機構:圖書館的曆史。Orlean這本關於洛杉磯公共圖書館的書充滿瞭各種奇妙的人物,對於世界、知識和人的想法和熱愛。寫的真流暢,看瞭停不下來。
評分將洛杉磯圖書館大火和一些有的沒的,以一種日式漫畫絕招五分鍾迴憶三個月的節奏寫齣來。
評分一個偉大的公共機構:圖書館的曆史。Orlean這本關於洛杉磯公共圖書館的書充滿瞭各種奇妙的人物,對於世界、知識和人的想法和熱愛。寫的真流暢,看瞭停不下來。
Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is the author of seven books, including Rin Tin Tin, Saturday Night, and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award–winning film Adaptation. She lives with her family and her animals in upstate New York and may be reached at SusanOrlean.com and Twitter.com/SusanOrlean.
On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, “Once that first stack got going, it was ‘Goodbye, Charlie.’” The fire was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned for more than seven hours. By the time it was extinguished, it had consumed four hundred thousand books and damaged seven hundred thousand more. Investigators descended on the scene, but more than thirty years later, the mystery remains: Did someone purposefully set fire to the library—and if so, who?
Weaving her lifelong love of books and reading into an investigation of the fire, award-winning New Yorker reporter and New York Times bestselling author Susan Orlean delivers a mesmerizing and uniquely compelling book that manages to tell the broader story of libraries and librarians in a way that has never been done before.
In The Library Book, Orlean chronicles the LAPL fire and its aftermath to showcase the larger, crucial role that libraries play in our lives; delves into the evolution of libraries across the country and around the world, from their humble beginnings as a metropolitan charitable initiative to their current status as a cornerstone of national identity; brings each department of the library to vivid life through on-the-ground reporting; studies arson and attempts to burn a copy of a book herself; reflects on her own experiences in libraries; and reexamines the case of Harry Peak, the blond-haired actor long suspected of setting fire to the LAPL more than thirty years ago.
Along the way, Orlean introduces us to an unforgettable cast of characters from libraries past and present—from Mary Foy, who in 1880 at eighteen years old was named the head of the Los Angeles Public Library at a time when men still dominated the role, to Dr. C.J.K. Jones, a pastor, citrus farmer, and polymath known as “The Human Encyclopedia” who roamed the library dispensing information; from Charles Lummis, a wildly eccentric journalist and adventurer who was determined to make the L.A. library one of the best in the world, to the current staff, who do heroic work every day to ensure that their institution remains a vital part of the city it serves.
Brimming with her signature wit, insight, compassion, and talent for deep research, The Library Book is Susan Orlean’s thrilling journey through the stacks that reveals how these beloved institutions provide much more than just books—and why they remain an essential part of the heart, mind, and soul of our country. It is also a master journalist’s reminder that, perhaps especially in the digital era, they are more necessary than ever.
"What can you do to actually merge into and feel belonged to a city?"is a popular hashtag for a Chinese community. This new nation of migrants from rural to urban, farm to cities, are craving for shortcuts to find home and belonging in new landscape. Out of...
評分1986年4月29号,一场燃烧了七个半小时的熊熊烈火,烧毁/损坏了洛杉矶中央图书馆一半的藏书,超过一百万册。堪称美国历史上最严重、损失最惨重的一次图书馆大火。这次失火后中央图书馆关张整整六年。几十万册被火烧烟熏水浸过的图书(其中包括多个全国最大的collection)被紧急...
評分"What can you do to actually merge into and feel belonged to a city?"is a popular hashtag for a Chinese community. This new nation of migrants from rural to urban, farm to cities, are craving for shortcuts to find home and belonging in new landscape. Out of...
評分"What can you do to actually merge into and feel belonged to a city?"is a popular hashtag for a Chinese community. This new nation of migrants from rural to urban, farm to cities, are craving for shortcuts to find home and belonging in new landscape. Out of...
評分1986年4月29号,一场燃烧了七个半小时的熊熊烈火,烧毁/损坏了洛杉矶中央图书馆一半的藏书,超过一百万册。堪称美国历史上最严重、损失最惨重的一次图书馆大火。这次失火后中央图书馆关张整整六年。几十万册被火烧烟熏水浸过的图书(其中包括多个全国最大的collection)被紧急...
The Library Book 在線電子書 pdf 下載 txt下載 epub 下載 mobi 下載 2024