学英语，还是需要多读一些“不必读”的书

mxh3698

复旦大学教授严峰有 不必读书单（https://new.qq.com/omn/20200323/20200323A03WKM00），其中特别点了一位美国作家的名——James Patterson：

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5 绝大多数的西方通俗小说：其实也很烂，真正好看的也就那么少数。请注意，我这里说的还仅仅是好看，还不是好。

我业余喜欢看外国通俗小说，但这是一个很痛苦的爱好，因为好看的实在太少了。绝大部分都是垃圾，真正的垃圾。

包括许多知名作家和知名作品，比如有位James Patterson，号称头号畅销作家，这位先生是垃圾中的战斗圾。

我的观点，恰恰和严教授相反——学英语的话，要多读英语的通俗小说，少读一些经典。

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下面是一部小说的开始——

PYOTR LUZHKOV was about to be killed, and for that he was grateful.

It was late October, but autumn was already a memory. It had been brief and unsightly, an old babushka hurriedly removing a threadbare frock. Now this: leaden skies, arctic cold, windblown snow. The opening shot of Russia’s winter without end.

理由如下——

1、这类的书，是所谓的cliff-hanger, page-turner,读起来有兴趣；

2、其语言，可能不如经典作家的，但是与经典作家的相比有一个好处：是当代的活人说的话，不是几百年前的死人说的话。

学语言，要与时俱进。

左岸麦田

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swt_518

我喜欢看talkshow 最新表达都有

mxh3698

swt_518 发表于 2020-7-21 00:13
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talkshows和contemporary novels还不是一回事儿
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葡萄柚

还是通俗的好。

mxh3698

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y1r2w32

严峰是从文学的角度谈的，不是从学英语的角度，他的英语很好，陆谷孙邀请他参加了一部大型汉英词典的编委会

mxh3698

y1r2w32 发表于 2020-7-30 01:45
严峰是从文学的角度谈的，不是从学英语的角度，他的英语很好，陆谷孙邀请他参加了一部大型汉英词典的编委会 ...

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另，对此君的话，鄙人很不以为然，呵呵

pan

Very interesting topic.
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In my humble opinion, we should opt for books that are of interest to us, books that we enjoy reading. One sad fact about "well-known literature" is that most books of this category are too intimidating too overwhelming for English learners, which most likely will serve only to scare readers away. This shouldn't come as a surprise - when writing these books that later received critical accolades, the author(s) didn't really have English learners in mind.
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Another suggestion is that we shoud choose books that are slightly more difficult than our reading comprehension abilities, that will require some effort, some dictionary-checking and note-taking. That's how we improve by reading. But not too difficult, nor too easy.
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