萨布莉尔:阿布霍森三部曲，第一册

我们都读过由坚强女孩主演的故事，她是那种想要颠覆世界的角色。可悲的是，这些角色往往没有更好的事情去做，而只是四处游荡扮演英雄。不要误解我——我喜欢有女性英雄的书。但有时你会觉得他们缺乏同情心。通常，坚强女孩的姿态被做得有点过头了。这就是我喜欢这本书的原因。萨布莉尔是一个完全的人——一个年轻的女人，她有自己的目标，她自己的生活，她坚持自己的价值观，从不屈服。然而，坚定并不能塑造这个角色;萨布莉尔的基本人性让她从她的纸世界中接触到你。她生气了，就会报复。 She loves Touchstone, hates the evil that has invaded the Kingdom, treasures her father, respects Mogget. . . . It is almost a relief to 'meet' a character with such basic reasons. Don't get me wrong; there's nothing elemental about Sabriel. She has her reasons for doing what she does, and Gareth Nix does an exceptional job of writing within the female Psyche. I have, on occassion, run into those few and far between writers whose opposite sex characters behave nothing like real people, and have always regretted the experience. Okay- anyway, I found Nix's characters to be richly portrayed, human, rational, and logical. Better still was his world- on one side, a person might have a life much like ours. On the other you have a place where magic still thrives, and the great charters rule the land. The tension is nicely played out, the book climaxes nicely, and the end is resolved fairly satisfactorially. I certainly would not quibble with the concept of a sequel- In fact, for a book this good, I can only hope that at some point Nix returns and writes a sequel- either about Sabriel or about one of the Abhorsens before her; maybe the story of her father or the woman who built the paperwings. One can only hope. For more comments and reviews.. http://www.storebit.com/Books/Sabriel-(Old-Kingdom)-[Mass-Market-Paperb…

在我上中学的时候读过这本书(学到了很多在其他地方很少使用的新词汇)。一个优秀的阅读;我经常重访。一个完整的、想象的王国。这是一种黑暗的幻想，涉及死亡、不死的东西、成长、责任、失去和性欲(非常轻)。萨布莉尔是一个优秀的榜样，她做了正确的事，而不是容易的事。审稿人似乎对书中的性取向有异议(这是最小限度的:它(顺便)讨论了月经初潮和错误信息，避孕的存在，男性生殖器存在于一个赤裸的、无意识的男人身上，对浪漫关系的矛盾心理，一两个吻，以及萨布莉尔听到别人发生性关系而产生错误想法的场景，这是我在这本书中最喜欢的时刻之一——它让我们了解到她对某人的感情，并在书中大量篇幅中开怀大笑)。毕竟，我们的女主角在书的开头才十七八岁。大多数年轻的读者会接受一些性教育，但显然缺乏对成长过程中的粘性、开始恋爱等的欣赏。 Our heroine makes smart choices for herself, and author Garth Nix presents sexuality in a practical, uncharged way. Well done! Also, Lirael and Abhorsen are worthy sequels, although you definitely need both of those back to back. Also, side note: my little brother tried reading this as a fourth or fifth grader and was overwhelmed by the dark imagery, so even purged of all things vaguely sexual, the book is best left for a slightly more mature reader no matter their reading ability.