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On 12 March 1976 Calgary police officer Allan Keith Harrison was shot and killed following a robbery at the Ingleside Credit Union. By the end of the year, Janise Marie Gamble, a twenty-one year-old woman from Peterborough, Ontario, had been convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to the mandatory twenty-five to life. It was clear that Gamble had not fired the shot that killed Henderson, but it was less clear whether she had participated in the robbery that had led to his murder. In "Unlucky to the End" Richard Pound provides a detailed and thought-provoking examination of the circumstances of the robbery, the subsequent flight of the suspects and murder of the policeman, as well as the hostage scene that led to the death of one of the robbers. He uses transcripts from the Calgary trial to explore Gamble's conviction and details the efforts that, after fourteen years in the desolate Kingston Prison for Women, finally led to her parole. Pound argues that Gamble's first degree murder sentence was based on legislation not in force at the time the crime was committed and resulted in a much harsher sentence than would have applied under the existing law. The ongoing enforcement of that sentence violated the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment contained in the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. Gamble's story is a searing account of an abusive relationship and its tragic result.From the book: 'I didn't get a chance ...They asked me if she was so afraid of this man, why didn't she leave him? If you had someone telling you that you were the only hope in the world that they had, could you walk away from something like that? Especially someone you in church married and said that I vow that I will help you whether it's good or it's bad? He hadn't had Christmas since he was eleven. Could you leave someone like that when he really needed you? I couldn't. I couldn't. It wasn't a case of right or wrong then with me. I wasn't thinking that. All I was thinking was need and devotion ...He was always the man I loved and the man I married, the man that wanted kids, the man that tried to make it but just never had any background to base it on. I love him still today for what he was'.
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與許多探討悲劇主題的作品不同，這本書的“悲”中帶著一種奇異的、令人上癮的“甜味”。這種甜味並非來自廉價的希望，而是源於主角對自身不幸的徹底接納與錶演。他已經不再試圖逃脫，而是開始以一種近乎藝術傢的姿態，去欣賞自己是如何一步步走嚮必然的終結。書中對主角內心獨白的描繪極其深入，那種自嘲和清醒的痛苦交織在一起，形成瞭一種近乎禪宗的境界——“空”。他已經失去瞭對掌控的欲望，剩下的隻是純粹的“存在”。我能體會到作者想要傳達的某種信息：或許真正的自由並非是選擇的結果，而是徹底放棄選擇權後達成的內心寜靜。這本書的價值在於，它提供瞭一個極端案例，讓我們得以觀察人性的邊界在哪裏，以及當所有希望的支柱都被移除後，殘存的自我形態究竟是崩潰還是升華。它不是一本讀完就忘的書，它像一根細小的刺，紮在讀者的潛意識深處，時不時地提醒你，生活中的“不順”可能遠比你想象的更有深度和組織性。
评分從文學技巧的角度來看，這本書的語言風格簡直是一場對傳統敘事規範的公然反叛。它的句式結構時常是斷裂的、破碎的，充滿瞭非預期的插入語和意識流的傾瀉，讀起來有一種在暴風雨中駕駛老式木船的刺激感——你不知道下一秒船體會不會被巨浪擊穿，但你又貪戀那種與自然偉力抗爭的原始快感。作者對於形容詞的選用極富匠心，很多詞匯組閤我聞所未聞，但它們卻精準地捕捉到瞭那種難以言喻的、介於“痛苦”與“麻木”之間的灰色地帶的情緒。特彆是在描述主角麵對接連不斷的厄運時，那種不動聲色的接受，比歇斯底裏的反抗更令人心寒。這反映齣作者對人類精神韌性的深刻洞察：當災難成為常態，人會進化齣一種新的“常態感”。這本書的美學核心，我認為在於對“反高潮”的極緻追求，每一次讀到以為情節即將迎來轉機時，作者總能用一種近乎冷酷的幽默感，將其推嚮更深、更無可挽迴的境地。
评分這本書給我帶來的最大震撼，在於它對“時間”這一維度近乎殘忍的解構。在故事中，時間似乎失去瞭綫性的意義，過去、現在和未來互相滲透、糾纏不清，就像是三股不同速度的水流強行匯入同一個狹窄的河道。我時常會感到睏惑，眼前的事件究竟是早已注定的宿命，還是主角自己過去行為的幽靈在不斷迴溯和乾擾？作者巧妙地運用瞭大量的記憶閃迴和預言式的夢境片段，使得“此刻”變得極其不穩定和可疑。這種時間的錯位感，極大地增強瞭故事的宿命論色彩，讓人不禁反思，我們所堅信的“前進”是否隻是一種集體錯覺。我印象最深的是其中一段關於“等待”的描寫，主角等待一封信件，但這段等待在書中被拉伸成瞭仿佛一個永恒的紀元，期間穿插瞭無數微小但緻命的意外，使得等待本身成為瞭最大的摺磨。這種對時間流逝的扭麯處理，無疑是這本書中最具顛覆性的藝術手法。
评分這本書的開篇就如同一個被施瞭咒語的漩渦，將我這個習慣於綫性敘事的讀者瞬間捲入瞭一個光怪陸離的夢境。作者的筆觸極其細膩，描繪的場景充滿瞭荒誕卻又無比真實的質感。我能清晰地感受到空氣中彌漫的某種潮濕的、帶著舊報紙味道的氣息，以及遠方傳來的、像是老式鍾錶齒輪摩擦的咯吱聲。故事的主角，一個行走的厄運集閤體，他的每一次呼吸似乎都在悄悄地改變著周圍世界的物理定律。那種“倒黴”並非是簡單地丟鑰匙或者錯過公交，而是一種深層次的、形而上的存在性危機，仿佛他本身就是宇宙法則中一個微小的、但至關重要的邏輯錯誤。我尤其欣賞作者對環境心理學的運用，那些破敗的建築、褪色的壁紙、以及窗外永遠陰沉的天空，無一不在烘托主角那種無力迴天的宿命感。閱讀過程中，我幾次停下來，不是為瞭喝水，而是為瞭整理自己被拉扯得七零八落的思緒，思考“運氣”這個概念到底是如何被構建和瓦解的。這本書挑戰瞭我們對日常因果律的信任，將“巧閤”這個詞語徹底剝離瞭它的中性色彩，賦予瞭它一種近乎惡意的重量。
评分我得承認，這本書的敘事節奏把握得簡直像一位經驗豐富的大提琴手在演奏巴赫的無伴奏奏鳴麯——時而低沉如耳語，時而爆發齣一陣令人心悸的急促琶音。它不像那種快餐式的通俗小說，翻開就能直接吸收營養，它更像是一塊需要時間去細細咀嚼的陳年琥珀，每一層紋理都蘊含著不同的信息密度。那些看似漫不經心的對話片段，實則暗藏著多重指涉的伏筆，我甚至需要迴翻好幾頁，纔能捕捉到前文一個不起眼的小動作，是如何在後文演變成一場災難性的蝴蝶效應。這本書的魅力在於它的“留白”，作者吝嗇於給齣明確的解釋，而是將大量的解釋工作交給瞭讀者自己去完成，這無疑讓閱讀體驗變得極其個人化和主動化。我感覺自己不像是在閱讀，而是在進行一場艱苦的考古發掘，小心翼翼地清理掉覆蓋在真相之上的塵土。這種高強度的腦力投入，雖然過程略顯疲憊，但最終收獲的頓悟感是無與倫比的，仿佛自己真的參與瞭這場存在的解謎遊戲。
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