Outrageous, raw, and painfully funny true stories straight from the life of the actor, comedian, and much-loved cast member of The Howard Stern Show —with a foreword by Howard Stern.
When Artie Lange joined the permanent cast of The Howard Stern Show in 2001, it was possibly the greatest thing ever to happen in the Stern universe, second only to the show’s move to the wild, uncensored frontier of satellite radio. Lange provided what Stern had yet to find all in the same place: a wit quick enough to keep pace with his own, a pathetic self-image to dwarf his own, a personal history both heartbreaking and hilarious, and an ingrained sense of self-sabotage that continually keeps things interesting.
A natural storyteller with a bottomless pit of material, Lange grew up in a close-knit, working-class Italian family in Union, New Jersey, a maniacal Yankees fan who pursued the two things his father said he was cut out for—sports and comedy. Tragically, Artie Lange Sr. never saw the truth in that prediction: He became a quadriplegic in an accident when Artie was eighteen and died soon after. But as with every trial in his life, from his drug addiction to his obesity to his fights with his mother, Artie mines the humor, pathos, and humanity in these events and turns them into comedy classics.
True fans of the Stern Show will find Artie gold in these pages: hilarious tales that couldn’t have happened to anyone else. There are stories from his days driving a Jersey cab, working as a longshoreman in Port Newark, and navigating the dark circuit of stand-up comedy. There are outrageous episodes from the frenzied heights of his coked-up days at MADtv , surprisingly moving stories from his childhood, and an account of his recent U.S.O. tour that is equally stirring and irreverent. But also in this volume are stories Artie’s never told before, including some that he deemed too revealing for radio.
Wild, shocking, and drop-dead hilarious, Too Fat to Fish is Artie Lange giving everything he’s got to give. And like a true pro, the man never disappoints.
角色塑造方麵,這本書的處理方式非常具有顛覆性,但副作用也很明顯——缺乏共鳴。主要人物的行為模式完全不可預測,他們的動機建立在一些極其隱晦、幾乎無法察覺的心理創傷之上。作者似乎刻意避免給齣任何清晰的背景交代,而是用碎片化的閃迴和模糊不清的夢境來暗示一切。我理解這種“留白”手法試圖給予讀者解讀的空間,但在一個近六百頁的篇幅裏,如果核心人物的行動邏輯始終像是霧裏看花,那麼讀者就很難真正關心他們的命運。我讀完後,對主人公的感受隻有一個:睏惑。我無法判斷他是英雄還是小醜,他的痛苦是真實的還是自我的誇大。這種疏離感讓整個故事的張力大打摺扣,仿佛作者隻是在觀察一盆盆被精心培育的、但永遠無法觸碰的標本。
评分這本書的基調極其壓抑,彌漫著一種揮之不去的虛無主義色彩。故事情節中充斥著對社會體製的深刻批判,對人性陰暗麵的無情揭露,以及對徒勞掙紮的反復描摹。我承認,題材的深刻性毋庸置疑,它確實促使我去思考很多嚴肅的問題。但問題在於,全程沒有一絲亮光,沒有哪怕一丁點溫情或希望的救贖。所有的努力最終都被證明是徒勞的,所有建立起來的關係最終都會崩塌,所有的反抗最終都會被更強大的力量碾壓。這種極緻的悲觀主義,在書籍的後半段,開始轉化為一種令人麻木的重復。我開始期待一個轉摺,哪怕是一個微不足道的積極信號,但作者堅決地將讀者推嚮瞭深淵。讀完後,我感到的是一種深刻的空虛,而不是被深刻的故事所震撼後的滿足感。
评分這部小說的語言風格簡直就是一場華麗的辭藻盛宴,但同時也是一場邏輯上的災難。作者似乎沉迷於使用各種生僻、拗口的復閤詞和不常見的修辭手法,仿佛每一句話都必須承載三重以上的隱喻纔算閤格。初看之下,那些長句子的結構帶著一種古典的莊嚴美感,引人入勝,但讀到中後段,我開始感到一種智力上的疲憊。我經常需要停下來,查閱詞典,或者迴溯前文,纔能勉強理解作者究竟想錶達什麼。這種閱讀體驗讓我覺得我不是在享受故事,而是在進行一場艱澀的語言學解碼工作。情節的推進常常被這種故作高深的文字遊戲所阻礙,真正有價值的信息和情感錶達,往往被淹沒在厚厚的、華而不實的語言裝飾之下。我更希望看到一種直擊人心的、清晰有力的錶達,而不是這種需要讀者耗費巨大精力去“翻譯”的文字迷宮。
评分這本書的敘事節奏簡直是教科書級彆的慢。從頭到尾,作者似乎都在刻意拖遝,每一個場景的描寫都像是在用顯微鏡觀察一滴水珠的蒸發過程。我能感受到作者對環境刻畫的偏執,每一棵樹的紋理,每一塊石頭的濕度,都被描繪得淋灕盡緻,仿佛讀者本人正站在那個濕漉漉的森林裏。然而,這種過度詳盡反而犧牲瞭情節推進的速度。我經常翻著翻著就忘瞭故事的主綫是什麼,感覺自己更像是在進行一次漫長而無目的的徒步旅行,沿途風景固然優美,但什麼時候纔能到達目的地呢?人物的內心掙紮部分也處理得過於冗長,他們對一個簡單決定的反思過程,竟然能占據好幾頁紙,這種壓抑感讓人喘不過氣來,盡管我理解這是作者試圖展現角色復雜性的手法,但對於追求爽快閱讀體驗的讀者來說,這無疑是一種摺磨。這本書的閱讀體驗是需要極大的耐心和專注力的,它要求你慢下來,甚至停下來,去體會那種沉重的、近乎停滯的時間感,否則很容易在半途迷失方嚮。
评分結構上的創新固然值得稱贊,但執行上卻顯得有些散亂無章。全書采用瞭非綫性敘事,時間綫不斷跳躍,不同的視角相互交叉,試圖構建一個宏大的、多維度的世界觀。剛開始看的時候,我被這種復雜的拼圖遊戲所吸引,期待著所有碎片最終能完美契閤的那一刻。然而,接近尾聲,我發現有些拼圖似乎永遠找不到確切的位置,或者乾脆就是多餘的。不同時間綫之間的關聯性非常薄弱,很多突如其來的支綫情節在展開到一半時就戛然而止,沒有任何交代。這種結構上的“碎片化”帶來的不是智力上的挑戰,而是閱讀上的挫敗感,讓人覺得作者在試圖塞入太多點子,卻缺乏一個強有力的編輯來篩選和整閤。
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