2015年6月26日。
这个是之前读的，放在这儿。
耗时3个月，我才陆陆续续读完这本书。我一直很喜欢战争类的书，因为我从里面可以看到英雄，看到勇气和希望。但是这本书，我却只能慢慢的读。这本书里面更多的是残忍，对人性的侮辱和对尊严的磨灭。读到这本书，我觉得我才真正的了解了POW（战俘）的生活和经历。战争对于他们来说，可能永远没有结束。里面很中心的最能打倒一个人的不是对这个人身体的屈辱，而是对这个人的人格的摧毁。我觉得是一本好书。

2015年8月。
按学校要求，我读了这本书。团队合作和创造力和科研严谨在里面是重点。像一本励志的小说一样，我看的非常快，一晚上就读完了。主人公拿大奖的那个过程我个人觉得是运气太好。但是我们后来凑在一起谈读后感的时候说到，在Engineering Design中有时候简单是难得的，我们不应该因为一个方法很简单粗暴就舍它不用，因为我们工程师要做的不是一定要用复杂的方法去创造和解决。我们的目的是解决问题，创造答案，不论是用的方法是难是易。这好像还拍成了电影。大家可以去围观一下。

The Kite Runner。
这本书我捡起又放下很多次，就像我读Unbroken的时候。这种写救赎的书永远给我一种沉重的感觉。不管前面的童年多么美好，就衬托着后面凡世的残酷。但是最终救赎到了的时候又是美好的。可惜的是我读这本书的时候不太能抓住这本书的中心思想（只能大概体会里面的感觉），可能是作者的writing style的问题吧。

Ender's Game
果然是美国海军的必读书之一。里面所描写的团队合作，听指挥，扬长避短非常精彩。描写的也比较细，尤其是人物的心理，Ender的描写很入味。我确实能感受到小主人公最后的心情和纠结。里面对战争的意义也有写一点。拍成了电影，电影把Ender拍的比较弱智。

Repeat
这本书也是机缘巧合才找到。我打开Kindle，看到上面的广告然后这本书也挺便宜的，我就买了。刚开始读的时候，我就一直在吐槽，这本书不就是被我国人写烂了的重生的故事吗？我秉承着，花钱买的书要读完的心态继续读了下去。后来的转折让我庆幸我没放弃。是本不错的小说，文笔也还可以，有些段落里面带了些颜色看得我面红耳赤的。可能是因为花了大段落描写他重生第一次的辉煌，和后面的痛苦，纠结，绝望形成强烈对比。他对世界慢慢失去感觉，免得空虚的这个过度也比较均匀。我觉得不错。推荐

Never Let Me Go.
我第一次知道这本书的时候是通过电影，虽然电影没能大卖，但是拍的很好。
看完电影我就一直想去拜读一下这本写人性的书。可能因为我们一直在追求到底什么才是人的定义吧，我对这本书颇为感慨。里面描写的那些“童年”，“生活”，我觉得窒息。如果书里的人从头到尾都只认为这些克隆人只是器官的提供者，不算真的人的话，何必给他们那些生活，让他们最后领会到生命对他们的残酷，却又无法反抗。不是每个人都能像勇敢新世界一样去奋斗争取，大多数人在命运和社会的强压下臣服，放弃，就像书里的主角们。我读完之后一直在深思，到底克隆这项技术是为了什么？是因为我们人类想变成上帝创造生命？还是仅仅是想书里写的，想要源源不断的新鲜的奇观来延迟我们的生活？科技纵然带来美好的生活，但这美好的后面也有很多道德和认知方面的冲突。希望生命不会像Never Let Me Go里面的三角一样残酷。最喜欢这句话:
“What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
非常值得一读。强烈推荐

Percy Jackson
这本书大写的不合胃口！！本来以为这种神话主题的书至少不会无聊，但是这个作者的写作风格就很难让人享受，感觉全文都很口水话，一点儿文字工资都看不出来的感觉。但是介于这本书是少儿读物之类的，十几岁的青少年应该很享受这种口水书吧。我非常不喜欢这本书，所以整个系列我都放弃了。

Between the World and Me
这本书比我参加学校的一个假期阅读活动，学校教授给我选的书。但是我只能忍受到1/3的页数，就再也不能往下翻。
这本书是将黑人在美国社会成长的故事，是以爸爸给儿子的书信的形式。里面讲了很多这个爸爸从小受到的危险，还有心灵的枷锁。
这本书在美国很受欢迎，可能白人黑人都能和此书共鸣？但是我对种族歧视这种东西只从书上，报纸上了解过，我无法切身的感觉自己和书里的人物的关联。可能正是因为这种脱离，我的阅读感受和其他读同本书的同学很不一样。我只能在字句中读到绝望和无力感，我看不出、找不到属于fighter的那种精神。我只看到了自哀和自我贬低。可能确实是you only see what you want to see（大概翻译：你只看得见你想看见的），这个黑人爸爸只能看到社会对黑人的压迫和陷害，对其他方面一概不提。所以我觉得读这本书来了解美国种族文化是错误的，因为这本书无法提供一个中立的描写。
但是也有人说这本书是爸爸给儿子的信，里面充满了个人情感才是正常的。一本书可以有千万种读法，我不否认其他人的意见和看法的可用性。
但是我个人非常不喜欢这本书。

Hollow City
太久没看书了。主要也是心思没放在读书上。这本书中间停了很久。读到88%的时候差点放弃了，因为我觉得越来越有点无聊，就是一直逃命。整本书就写了三天的逃命，节奏太慢了又太快了。这个旅程写的过于详细，我觉得稍微无聊。途中遇到了那么多人，明明可以好好发展一下，但是基本都是几笔掠过，稍稍失望。后面有一个比较好的plot twist，让我提起了兴趣。会读这个系列的最后一本。

American Sniper
没办法评论这本书的内容，因为没读完。The writing is plain and even condescending. 读下来是一种折磨。写作太糟糕了。强烈不推荐

Take Me with You by Catherine Ryan Hyde
我就额外在这儿写review了，放一个我在Goodreads上面写的review的截图。
强烈推荐。

Desert Flower by Waris Dirie
这本书算是自传，讲了这个叫Waris Dirie从索马里到纽约，从沙漠里的小女孩到世界名模再到UN大使的故事。写得很不错，内容非常有震撼力。里面讲课很多Female Genital Mutilation(FGM)的东西。这个我不知道中文，大概的过程就是有个没有任何医疗知识的女的，拿着能找到的工具过来的小孩儿的下面割掉然后封起来。作者因为这个经历的巨大痛苦，整个人生都因为这个而改变。非常详细和痛苦的描述，让我读的胆战心惊。
下面贴我写的review，我这篇review并没有写太多这本书好在哪儿，因为这本书实在太好了我必须要在告诉你这本书好在哪儿。我的review大部分写的我认为比较生气的地方，大家读读就算了。
ReviewMaybe Waris Dirie didn't want to write any close friends of hers. I didn't see any mention of a true friendship that she had. Those who helped her, according to this book, were either mad and insincere (like her fake husband) or just betrayed by herself. When she stole the fake passport after her friend clearly stated that she didn't want Waris Dirie to use it just bothered me.
Almost everyone took her in became a torture for her after a while. I am so sorry if I missed any mention of her gratitude for those people for taking her in. Even if she had to do house chores and help with the children, she shouldn't forget that she only had rooftops and food because of these "devil" people.
I understand and am in absolute awe that she prides in her Somalian culture except the FGM part. She didn't have to sound condescending towards the other cultures. She despised people calling sick to work. She wrote in the final chapter that people don't value family values. She also thought that watching TV and everything we do everyday is not true life. How is her childhood back in Somali different from the life we have here? Watching TV and checking Facebook is as much a part of our life as running in sand and heat is a apart of her life. She can be proud of her culture but never talks down on other people's culture and lifestyles.
I am very touched by her effort to end FGM around the world. Besides what I wrote just now, she is a strong woman who tries to bring goodness to this world.
The book is a good one. two typos that I caught. But nothing major.
Recommend this book！

Night by Elie Wiesel
作者亲身经历希特勒对jews的残暴，被带去了集中营。这本书写了他在集中营和他爸爸的故事。书不厚，其实描述也不多，但是就可以从字句里面读到绝望和痛苦。是本好书。
这里是我的review:
When I started the book by reading the preface, I discovered that the Elie Wiesel had let his father die alone. I wasn't sure if I could continue reading his work. I hold family as the most important thing in my life and I think those who betray their family are not worthy of being a human being. How can someone who abandoned his father be the voice of the millions who suffered? However, as I continued with his description of the long, pale and chilly nights filled with deaths, I began to understand his action. The concentration camps were the darkest nightmares. They stripped those confined of their dignity, faith and hope to fight on. The prisoners were degraded from being a descent human to a pile of flesh and bones that could be easily dismembered.
I merely cringed upon reading the other pages of Elie Wiesel's journey, but teared when Juliek, the violinist who loved Beethoven music, died. He carried his violin with him through evacuation, when everybody else fought for their physical survival. He played Beethoven before he died, with his violin all trampled. This is an image that struck me hard.
May there be no more suffering.

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