具体描述
Arthur Slade's newest title combines his comic genius and his ability to make your heart freeze with terror. Walter Biggar Bronson (a.k.a. Wart), and his friend Cindy meet a ghost one night after school. The small, mournful boy leads them across the Broadway Bridge to the gracious Bessborough Hotel. After a strange incident in the elevator, they find themselves still in the hotel - but back in 1936.Some spooky things are going on. The room numbers are all mixed up. The library on the mezzanine is filled with hundreds of copies of the same book. And out on the street, the cars are all the same - vintage Studebakers.Back in the present, Wart and Cindy follow their motto - "Gather, Identify, Solve" - until they crack the case, with help from Wart's distinctively odd parents, and the loan of his mother's time-travel-proof cellphone.For all the humour in Slade's gentle spoof of the detective genre ("A good detictive always knows what time it is"), there is a serious ghost story here. Young Archie Tortle, drowned along with his parents in 1936, has not been able to accept his death. He has created his own world in the hotel, where everything serves his needs. Only Wart and Cindy can help him come to terms with his loss and stop him haunting the hotel.
作者简介
Arthur Slade (Can)
Is quickly establishing a reputation as one of Canada's best writers of children's literature. Draugr, an instalment in his Northern Frights series, was nominated for both a Saskatchewan Book Award and a Small Press Book Award in the US. He garnered the 2001 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature for Dust, which was praised as "tough, compassionate, clear-sighted and daring" by the award journey and as "riveting" by fellow luminary Kenneth Oppel. Arthur also writes the hilarious "Great Scott" comic strip, and his series Hallowed Knight has earned glowing reviews and worldwide popularity. His studies the strange and wondrous Tribes of high-school in his new book of the same name.
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我发现这本书在叙事结构上玩了不少花样，时间线似乎是故意打乱的，读者需要自己去拼凑完整的画面，这挑战性着实不小。它不是那种让你一口气读完的爆米花小说，更像是一个复杂的谜题，需要你时不时停下来，回忆前面埋下的伏笔。我被书中几段长达数页的内心独白深深吸引住了，那些文字充满了哲思，虽然有时候读起来有点绕，但一旦理解了，会感到豁然开朗。作者的遣词造句非常讲究，很多地方的描写细腻到近乎苛刻，比如对某种气味的捕捉，或者对某种微小动作的捕捉，都显示出扎实的文字功底。不过，对于追求快速情节转折的读者来说，这本书可能会显得有些沉闷，它需要极大的耐心去浸泡其中，才能体会到它精妙之处。我猜想，作者一定是下了很大功夫去构建这个独特的叙事世界观的。
评分这本小说，说实话，读起来有点像在迷雾里摸索，作者似乎非常热衷于营造一种挥之不去的压抑感。从开篇的几个章节来看，人物的内心挣扎被刻画得淋漓尽致，那种被困住、无路可逃的绝望感几乎要穿透纸面。情节推进得比较缓慢，更侧重于环境的细致描摹和角色心理的层层剥开。我尤其喜欢作者对光影的运用，那种忽明忽暗、界限模糊的描述，让人对现实和幻觉之间的界限产生了深深的怀疑。整个故事的基调是灰暗的，每一个角色的选择似乎都带着一种宿命论的悲剧色彩。我能感觉到作者在试图探讨一些关于记忆、身份认同的深刻主题，但表达方式过于隐晦，有时会让人感到有些吃力，需要反复咀徊才能捕捉到那些潜藏的深意。整体而言，它更像是一部氛围大于叙事的艺术品，适合喜欢慢节奏、注重内在体验的读者。
评分这本书给我最大的感受是“沉浸式”的体验。作者构建了一个令人窒息的环境，那种物理空间和心理空间的互相作用被描述得令人信服。我仿佛能闻到那些陈旧的气味，感受到墙壁的冰冷。它不仅仅是在讲一个故事，更像是在邀请你进入一个精心设计的精神迷宫。书中的对话非常精炼，很多重要的信息都藏在未说出口的潜台词里，这要求读者必须非常专注地去阅读每一个停顿和省略号。我特别喜欢作者用来形容角色情绪状态的比喻，那些比喻往往非常新颖，带着一种超现实的质感，让人脑洞大开。虽然整体上偏向于晦涩难懂，但对于那些喜欢在文字中挖掘深层象征意义的读者来说，这本书绝对是饕餮盛宴，值得反复品读和推敲。
评分这是一部非常具有个人风格的作品，很难用传统的类型小说去界定它。它的节奏感掌握得非常独特，时而极慢，像老式胶片机的逐帧播放，每一个细节都被拉长放大；时而又突然加快，在读者还未反应过来时，故事已经跳跃到了一个完全不同的情境。我个人认为，这本书的优点在于其对氛围的绝对控制，它成功地营造了一种让人无法抽离的氛围场。但缺点也很明显，就是对不耐烦的读者不太友好，它不会主动迎合你的阅读习惯。里面的某些象征物在不同章节中反复出现，暗示着某种循环或僵局，这种重复性既是它的艺术手法，也可能是部分读者感到疲劳的原因。总而言之，这是一本需要你放下一切预设、完全顺应作者节奏才能享受的作品，它不迎合大众，但绝对能给追求独特文学体验的人带来深刻的触动。
评分说实话，我读这本书的体验非常两极分化。一方面，它对某种特定情感状态的捕捉是无与伦比的精准，那种深入骨髓的孤独感，那种对外界不信任的敏感，简直是教科书级别的展现。每一次翻页都带着一种期待，想看看这个角色还能被逼到什么地步。但另一方面，我觉得故事的逻辑链条在某些关键转折点上处理得不够严密，有些地方的因果关系显得过于牵强，像是为了服务于某种既定的情绪表达而强行推进的。尤其是在中段部分，感觉情节有些原地踏步，重复着相似的内心挣扎，这让我一度差点放弃。不过，结局的处理又出乎意料地干净利落，像是一场突如其来的暴风雨后的宁静，虽然没有给出所有答案，但提供了一种情绪上的宣泄口，这一点我挺欣赏的。
评分great book. The very first time i read a english story book myself
评分great book. The very first time i read a english story book myself
评分great book. The very first time i read a english story book myself
评分great book. The very first time i read a english story book myself
评分great book. The very first time i read a english story book myself
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