RODUCTION<br >Lies all going on at the same time in what was<br >very large war in a rather small country. Each<br >vas there generally knew a good bit about his<br >: piece of the puzzle, had some general notion<br >was going on in adjacent parts, and knew very<br >everything else. It was a stock saying and a<br >he more time you had in-country, the less you<br >p come up with sweeping generalities about the<br >Less. As Chief, SOG, I had little official con-<br >De whole complex structure of Regional and<br >ce troops, police, civil administration, public<br >t the South Vietnamese called "political war-<br >o on, that was fighting the small-scale, anti-<br >r in the hamlets and rice paddies. It has since<br >attention that, with the exception of the not very<br >~ .r of American Officers and NCOs who were<br >ess, extremely few other Americans who served<br >to say nothing of the general public, have any<br >f what was involved in the subsector business.<br >gs like the fact that the Republic of Vietnam<br >1 into 44 Provinces, which were also military<br >1 further into about 250 districts, which were<br >~ subsectors, much less what really went on.<br > , no doubt, there will be a thorough, detailed and<br >analytical history of the whole "civil-military<br > based on official records and MACV s com-<br >atistics. Meanwhile, if you re interested in what<br >a remote, insecure, backcountry district, where<br >troops on our side didn t have steel helmets or<br >:le launchers---not only the battles, but the internal<br >clashes of personality, the love affairs, the odd<br >Jid happen, and.., well, read McColl s book.<br >of the better adventure stories since Ian Fleming.<br >AUTHOR S PREFACE<br >Valley of Peril is the story of what happened to and around<br >me as a District/Subsector Senior Adviser in Vietnam in<br >1967 and 1968. I will not certify that each of these epi-<br >sodes actually happened to me personally, or exactly in the<br >form stated, but they all happened, if not to me, to people<br >whom I know. In some cases parts of several similar<br >episodes have been consolidated to make a better story.<br >There seems to be no way to portray the boredom and<br >repetitiousness of our lives without being boring and repe-<br >titious. Names of people,<br >~~,en changed to protect the<br >places, and military units have<br >innocent--and also the rest of us.<br > The war as seen by politicians, reporters, historians and<br >bureaucrats in Washington and Saigon was not quite the<br >same war as seen at the working level. Even within the<br >Army, with the exception of those directly involved, what<br >went on with the Districts and Subsectors, and the Re-<br >gional Force and the Popular Force, was very little under-<br >stood. Likewise, the working-level advisers with Vietnamese<br >units and entities went their way unnoticed and unre-<br >corded. No doubt one of these years some careful and hard-<br >working researcher will write a detailed and factual history<br >of the whole civil-military advisory effort, based on the<br >mass of facts and statistics which were reported, collated, ad-<br >justed and filed at the various levels of command. Meanwhile,<br >this is a collection of snapshots<br >on, at least in one comer of the<br >of what was really going<br >war. I have tried to avoid<br ><br >
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从文学技法的角度来看,这部作品的对话设计堪称一绝。角色的口吻和用词习惯,完美地契合了他们的社会阶层、教育背景和性格特征,几乎不需要旁白去解释,听“声”辨“人”。特别是几场关键的对峙场景,充满了张力,每一句话都像是在进行一场剑拔弩张的辩论,充满了潜台词和试探。我发现自己会不自觉地模仿书中人物的说话方式,试图理解那种语境下的微妙之处。作者在塑造配角时也毫不敷衍,即便是昙花一现的角色,也都有着鲜明的个性和清晰的动机,这使得整个故事世界无比丰满和真实,而不是仅仅作为主角的陪衬而存在。这种群像的成功塑造,让整个叙事拥有了强大的生命力,仿佛这个小镇上的每个人都有一个尚未被讲述的宏大故事。我甚至觉得,这本书如果单独拎出某几个角色的视角来重写,也绝对会是另一部精彩的小说。
评分总而言之,这是一部需要用心去“品尝”的作品,而不是用来快速消遣的读物。它拒绝给予读者廉价的安慰或简单的答案,相反,它提出了许多令人不安但又引人深思的问题,并把选择权完全交给了读者。当读到最后一页,合上书本的那一刻,我没有感到如释重负的轻松,反而有一种意犹未尽的失落感,仿佛刚刚告别了一群熟悉了许久的朋友。它的后劲非常足,接下来的几天里,我都会时不时地回想起书中的某个场景、某句台词,或者某个角色的眼神。这种持久的影响力,才是衡量一部优秀文学作品的重要标准。它成功地在我的脑海中构建了一个完整、自洽且充满魅力的世界,一个让人既渴望探索又感到敬畏的地方。我强烈推荐给那些喜欢深度阅读、不惧怕复杂叙事和道德模糊性的读者。它绝对值得你投入时间去细细品味每一个精心设计的细节。
评分这本书最让我感到震撼的,是它对“记忆”和“创伤”主题的探讨。它不是用大段的理论说教来阐述这些概念,而是通过角色们破碎的、闪回的记忆片段,以及他们如何试图掩盖或逃避过去的经历,来展现这些主题的重量。读到某些关于失去和背叛的描写时,我不得不停下来,合上书本,让自己的思绪沉淀一会儿,因为那种情感的冲击力太强了,仿佛能感受到角色胸腔中那颗千疮百孔的心脏在痛苦地跳动。作者的语言风格在这里变得异常简洁和尖锐,像手术刀一样精准地切开了人物的内心防线。而且,故事中对于某些环境元素的象征意义的运用,也达到了炉火纯青的地步,比如反复出现的某种特定的鸟叫声,或是某种天气现象,都暗含了深层的心理暗示。这需要读者具备一定的文学敏感度才能捕捉到,一旦领悟,那种豁然开朗的感觉,简直妙不可言。它迫使我重新审视自己对“真实”的定义,究竟我们所经历的就是真实,还是我们选择相信的就是真实?
评分我必须得说,这本书的叙事结构非常大胆,它采用了多线叙事,而且时间线并不完全是线性的,这无疑给阅读带来了一定的挑战,但也正因如此,阅读过程充满了探索的乐趣。作者似乎对人性的复杂性有着深刻的洞察,笔下的人物没有绝对的好坏之分,每个人都有自己的灰色地带和不可告人的秘密。我尤其对其中那位看似和蔼实则深不可测的镇上的长老印象深刻,他的每一次开口都掷地有声,却又意味深长,让人反复琢磨。我花了好大力气才将几条看似平行的故事线串联起来,那种“啊哈!”的顿悟时刻,比任何直接的悬念揭晓都要来得畅快淋漓。它不像那些爆米花小说,故事发展一目了然,这本书更像是一个精密的瑞士钟表,每一个齿轮的咬合都至关重要,少了一个零件,整个机制都会失灵。这种需要读者主动参与解读和构建故事的做法,极大地提升了阅读的参与感和智力上的满足感。我甚至忍不住在脑中为这些角色画了关系图,试图理清他们之间错综复杂的恩怨情仇。
评分这本书的封面设计简直是一场视觉的盛宴,那种深邃的暗蓝配上几笔跳跃的猩红,立刻就能抓住你的眼球。我是在一个阳光明媚的午后,在一家旧书店的角落里偶然发现它的。书页泛着一种温暖的米黄色,散发着淡淡的、混合了灰尘和年代感的香气,让人忍不住想要立刻沉浸其中。故事开篇并没有急于抛出重磅炸弹,而是用一种极其细腻的笔触,勾勒出了主角生活的那个小镇。镇上的居民个个活灵活现,仿佛能听到他们在鹅卵石街道上交谈的声音,感受到空气中弥漫的松针和潮湿泥土的气息。作者对环境的描写简直是教科书级别的,每一个场景都像是一幅精心打磨的油画,色彩饱满,层次分明。我特别喜欢其中对清晨薄雾笼罩山谷的描绘,那种朦胧感,既美丽又带着一丝令人不安的预兆,让人屏息凝神,期待着接下来会发生什么。整本书的节奏把握得非常到位,它没有追求那种快节奏的刺激,而是像一位高明的指挥家,缓缓拉动弓弦,让情绪逐渐积蓄,为后续的波澜壮阔做了最好的铺垫。读着读着,我甚至觉得我就是那个在小镇上行走的路人,对每一个转身都充满了好奇和探究的欲望。
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