The Great Gatsby



就像巫宁坤的译序中指出的那样，《The Great Gatsby》在randomhouse的现代小说排名上高居第二位。

第一次知道这个小说是在村上春树的那本《挪威的森林》里。但今天才总算是读完了。读这本英文小说很深刻的感觉就是自己英文还不是很好，薄薄的一本书读了差不多一个星期。但磕磕絆绊读下来也有一点自己小小的看法。一个拜金的时代，一个寻梦的人。Gatsby也许是一个伟大的男人，Daisy却只是一个普通的富家女。美国呢，似乎是一个枪支泛滥的国家。于是有了这样一个爱情的悲剧。

而randomhouse的小说排行榜也很有意思。一个排行榜有两个名单：board's list和reader's list。粗略看了一下分别竟相当之大。比如《The Lord of the Rings》在reader's list上高居第四，但是在board's list却不见踪影。好奇心起，于是写了个小程序统计了一下，发现能同时在两个名单上出现的只有31本小说。如果说board是雅的角度，reader是俗的角度的话，这些小说应该是算雅俗共赏了。把它们罗列与此，按两个排名的总和再排序如下。

  1. ULYSSES by James Joyce (12)
  2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald (15)
  3. 1984 by George Orwell (19)
  4. CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller (19)
  5. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley (23)
  6. THE GRAPES OF WRATH by John Steinbeck (32)
  7. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov (38)
  8. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William Faulkner (39)
  9. UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry (50)
  10. ANIMAL FARM by George Orwell (51)
  11. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce (60)
  12. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE by Virginia Woolf (63)
  13. LORD OF THE FLIES by William Golding (66)
  14. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER by Carson McCullers (69)
  15. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE by J.D. Salinger (83)
  16. INVISIBLE MAN by Ralph Ellison (88)
  17. I, CLAUDIUS by Robert Graves (88)
  18. ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac (97)
  19. AS I LAY DYING by William Faulkner (102)
  20. OF HUMAN BONDAGE by W. Somerset Maugham (103)
  21. THE SUN ALSO RISES by Ernest Hemingway (108)
  22. THE MOVIEGOER by Walker Percy (109)
  23. HEART OF DARKNESS by Joseph Conrad (110)
  24. TROPIC OF CANCER by Henry Miller (118)
  25. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE by Anthony Burgess (120)
  26. LIGHT IN AUGUST by William Faulkner (143)
  27. THE CALL OF THE WILD by Jack London (163)
  28. THE MAGUS by John Fowles (164)
  29. A FAREWELL TO ARMS by Ernest Hemingway (165)
  30. BRIDESHEAD REVISITED by Evelyn Waugh (168)
  31. THE SHELTERING SKY by Paul Bowles (189)

- Written on Tue Jul 31 00:16:50 2007.

很有趣．．．
- Reply from jamision on Thu Nov 29 04:02:29 2007