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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

書 戲票

偶然也會看完一齣電影跑去買原著來看. 都不一定是因為極度喜歡那部片子才會這樣做. 就是忽然興之所至. 都會把書看完嗎? 不一定啊...

前陣子看完電影"Evening"(此情.此生), 在這裡寫了兩篇:
"Evening"
"再談Evening(非電影文章)"

電影可以拍得更好. 而故事本身其實很不錯.

到過Dymocks及Page One都說沒有入貨, 上網找過三聯又找不到. 於是在amazon訂了. 不久, 路過某間三聯卻給我找到, 還是在新書欄上, 當然比訂回來更便宜了!

那天開始讀, 看了首兩頁中對此書的評語, 一概都極度讚賞. 我想, 原著一定比電影好看.

幸而Evening的戲票沒有丟掉, 可以用來作書簽.

喜歡故事開始前的一頁, 作者Susan Minot鳴謝了許多借地方給她寫此書的人, 這些地方有:

the shack at Shipyard Point, the balcony above the North Haven Casino, the green porch in the Wilderness, the screen windows on Sanctuary Lane, the upstairs room in Vineyard Haven, the sea-filled windows in Gay Head, the couch at Fair Oaks Farm, the kitchen table at Windy Gates, the moon view at Hidden Star Hill, the white box on Bay Street, the backyard at California Ave., the Balinese bed in Nairobi, the green chair above the Mara River, the blue veranda in Waa, the tower at Lake Naivasha, the terrace at the end of via dei Riari, the booth in Livingston Montana, the nearly all-red room on Koitobos Road, the back garden on Eleventh Street, the low table in Dar-es-Salaam, the rooftop at West Eighty-sixth Street, the corner room above Manchester Harbor, the rose bower on Frewin Road, the scallop shell on Moshup Trail, the stone house on Great Island and the summer barn in Chilmark...

看到這些地方, 令人去想像作者寫作時的心路歷程, 很有味道.

現在其實有數本剛開始又或讀了一半的英文書, 然後是這本... 相信我會帶它一起出外走走的.

7 comments:

lu said...

通常都會看完書才看電影.因為怕電影跟書已經完全沒關係,只是用著同一個title和角色名字來聯繫著.

看完電影再跑去看原著好想沒試過.念頭是有的,但最後都被懶惰打敗.

有時候電影改得比書還精采,那就當是自己賺到了. ;)

Anonymous said...

lu: 睇完書睇電影一定失望架, 好多時都係. 調番轉會有驚喜. :)

lu said...

但無耐性,或者已經走去睇第二本書啦 :P (貪新忘舊嘛...keke)

Anonymous said...

Evening的書的確比戲來得好看,很精闢很到~(Nanny Diaries的原著也是~)

現在看緊~The Memory Keeper's Daughter也不錯呢~有空可以一看

mad dog said...

coffee: 希望我有心機睇哂成本. 我睇書好衰, 成日有頭威. The Memory Keeper's Daughter有電視版喎.

mad dog said...

coffee: 仲有, 三聯大減價, 好多書都好平. alain de botton啲書$160減到$96咋!

Anonymous said...

HAHA~我就係見佢大減~所以掃左堆番黎~

有電視版?~好耐冇睇電視TIM.....