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猎命师传奇・九把刀的iOS App

忘了是在哪儿看到说九把刀出了一个叫『真・九把刀全集』的iOS应用,把自己的所有小说免费放上去让人看。看到这新闻就觉得这一招还真是挺屌的。装上之后第一次启动会蹦出来一段九把刀自己录的很扯的视频,充满了这人一贯很臭屁的风格。然后这里面的书还真不少,制作水平也还不错。所谓全部其实也不是真的就全部了,最近一两年新出的估计由于合约的限制是没有的,但之前的也已经很多了,而且都是免费的,没有in app purchase。

感觉人有时候就是会想读一些纯消遣性质的书的,就好像中学时候读的金庸古龙。读起来很爽,翻起来很快,哗哗哗读完了晕乎乎的也不记得什么。九把刀的小说就是很不错的这类读物了。我直接挑了一个看起来最长的系列『猎命师传奇』来读,App里面有十七本,断断续续读到一半的时候大概算是被吸引住了吧,然后就很快的把后面的读完了。作为大致上的同龄人,看着九把刀把各种地方的设定拼凑起来搞成自成体系的一套大乱斗式的题材,还真是蛮好笑的。大概想起来,这个书里面猎命师的设定应该是原创的,也是比较核心的设定。除此之外可以看到吸血鬼,金庸武侠里的门派,古龙武侠里的小李飞刀和很装逼的写法,HunterXHunter里的气的设定,日本忍者,甚至还有圣斗士什么的。。。

从商业角度来说我觉得这个app应该还是满不错的举措吧,可以发展很多没接触过他小说的潜在读者,看完了之后很可能会去买新出的书。相比之下应该比卖出了比较久的书要划算,尤其是考虑到盗版已经很泛滥的状况。我觉得这人的脑袋还是很灵活的。

The Hunger Game

Finished reading the first book of The Hunger Games today. I enjoyed it and want to watch the movie very much now, lol.

The vocabulary of this book is at a moderate level, much much easier than read The Game of Thrones. So it’s a more enjoyable reading experience. It’s a little hard for me to understand why this book has been so popular. It was said to be the successor of Harry Porter. But I don’t think the fictional world in Hunger Games is not as spectacular as HP, neither is its story. Maybe it’s popular because it’s more close to real life? Or because it’s more bloody?

As a Chinese, I do realize some similarities between the model in Hunger Games and in the famous novel “1984″. And some descriptions did remind me of my life in China, especially in the middle school. Fortunately those uncomfortable memories are only memories for me now.

冰火第五部

经过长达数月(可能得有半年。。)的阅读,终于在上周读完。大部分是在地铁上用手机Kindle App读完的。这书在iPhone Kindle上长达两万多页,囧。有一次在地铁上看见一个女生捧着第五部的原书在读才知道这书这么厚。而且词汇对我来说还是很难的。。基本上每页都会有不认识的词,虽然也可以跳过不认识的词来读,但大部分时候还是不停的查。好在有触摸屏查词还比较方便。

读英文版的感觉跟读中文版还是有些不一样。感觉好像写得更细致了,其实应该是因为读得慢所以读得更细致了。不过有些章节人名跟以前读的前四部中文版对不上的时候真是一头雾水。

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Read recommendation of this book from a technical blog. Sounds like an easy book for management, and kindle version only 5$ (oops, 10$ now…). So I bought it immediately.

It’s a fairly short book, tells a fable of how a woman CEO comes from a traditional industry (automobile) to rescue a silicon valley company. The “five dysfunctions” are 5 traps a team could fall into on the way to real teamwork. The author visits them one by one in the story, then summarized them very clearly. The book introduces each dysfunction with indicators, reasons, methods to overcome, how leader should behave, and connections among these dysfunctions. It answers a few questions in my mind for a long time, like “what is politics (in  company)”, “what is trust”, etc. Some parts are really enlightening, and they are usually “popular highlights” in Kindle version (social reading? lol).

Nice book for management newcomer!

三体

记得几年前住在东王庄成天和小哈吃饭的时候,他经常拿着个手机看小说,有一次说在看三体,当时可能是三体2刚出的时候。前一阵子三体3出来了,这次放假就把三本都弄来看了。PDF转换到Kindle上看的效果还不错。

三体这部小说能从文革和地球上这些事儿开始,讲到恒星宇宙级的宏大图景。就凭这一点,这就是一部难得的佳作了。这种级别的进化还挺像一些日式少年动漫比如天元突破之类的……

三体里面谈到了很多很多的物理规律,阅读起来需要一些高中水平的物理常识。其中各种天马行空的设想都可以说是物理方面的思想试验。出人意料的情节层出不穷,读起来非常过瘾。可以说这部小说里面的干货非常的多,作者的积累令人钦佩。