……留在我脑海里的那些故事，绝对远不止是平淡生活里琐碎不幸的随机切片。有几篇真让我念念不忘：詹姆斯·瑟伯的《瓦尔特·米蒂的秘密生活》、斯蒂芬·克兰的《开阔之舟》（The Open Boat）、威廉·桑索姆的《长床单》。如果 PG 在这些故事里都找不到任何好笑、抓人或有价值的东西，行吧，那是他的损失。要不是因为……我甚至都懒得发这条评论。
…that stuck with me, they all had a heck of a lot more going on than just being a random slice of mundane unhappiness. A few that really stuck with me: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (James Thurber), The Open Boat (Stephen Crane), The Long Sheet (William Sansom). If PG couldn't find anything funny, gripping, or worthwhile in stories like these, well, his loss. It wouldn't even be worth making this comment, except…
The Open Boat, by Stephen Crane. Ecclesiastes. Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse. All would be considered "classics", all have much to recommend them, and none is so long that you'd lose interest.
…their own opinions onto everything. I still remember being extremely frustrated when our teacher kept telling us it was "ironic" that the most physically fit character drowned in Stephen Crane's The Open Boat (sorry for the spoiler). It wasn't ironic at all because he was foolish, and foolish people get themselves killed all the time!
……留在我脑海里的那些故事，绝对远不止是平淡生活里琐碎不幸的随机切片。有几篇真让我念念不忘：詹姆斯·瑟伯的《瓦尔特·米蒂的秘密生活》、斯蒂芬·克兰的《开阔之舟》（The Open Boat）、威廉·桑索姆的《长床单》。如果 PG 在这些故事里都找不到任何好笑、抓人或有价值的东西，行吧，那是他的损失。要不是因为……我甚至都懒得发这条评论。
…that stuck with me, they all had a heck of a lot more going on than just being a random slice of mundane unhappiness. A few that really stuck with me: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (James Thurber), The Open Boat (Stephen Crane), The Long Sheet (William Sansom). If PG couldn't find anything funny, gripping, or worthwhile in stories like these, well, his loss. It wouldn't even be worth making this comment, except…
斯蒂芬·克兰的《开阔之舟》。《传道书》。赫尔曼·黑塞的《悉达多》。这些都被奉为“经典”，每一部都极其值得推荐，而且篇幅都不算长，不至于让你失去兴趣。
The Open Boat, by Stephen Crane. Ecclesiastes. Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse. All would be considered "classics", all have much to recommend them, and none is so long that you'd lose interest.
斯蒂芬·克兰的《开阔之舟》写得真是绝了
The open boat by Stephen Crane is amazingly well written
……把自己的观点生搬硬套到所有东西上。我还清楚记得当时有多抓狂：老师一直跟我们讲，斯蒂芬·克兰的《开阔之舟》里身体最强壮的角色淹死了是一种“讽刺”（剧透抱歉）。这根本就谈不上什么讽刺，完全是因为他太蠢了，蠢人本来就随时都会送命！
…their own opinions onto everything. I still remember being extremely frustrated when our teacher kept telling us it was "ironic" that the most physically fit character drowned in Stephen Crane's The Open Boat (sorry for the spoiler). It wasn't ironic at all because he was foolish, and foolish people get themselves killed all the time!