再多说一句。。

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其实我跟老二对书的选择不太一致,她曾经推荐过好几本书,我都没看。。。

这一本因为是历史故事,我就选了,开始听的时候,觉得有点 沉闷。。大酒店里软禁的日子,能有啥意思?

大概是这一段,让我喜欢上了:

“After all, what can a first impression tell us about someone we’ve just met for a minute in the lobby of a hotel? For that matter, what can a first impression tell us about anyone? Why, no more than a chord can tell us about Beethoven, or a brushstroke about Botticelli. By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration—and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged with them in every possible setting at every possible hour.”