2018
Messerschmitt Me 264 Amerika Bomber Douban Google Books Goodreads
author: Robert Forsyth / Jim Laurier publishing house: Osprey Publishing 2016 - 9
As Europe plunged into World War II, Hitler ordered the development of a hi-tech secret weapon capable of taking the war across the Atlantic--the Messerschmitt Me 264. Chosen from designs for an "Amerika Bomber" tendered by Messerschmitt, Junkers, and Focke-Wulf, this ultra-long-range aircraft would be capable of attacking cities in the United States. Just one month before the attack on Pearl Harbor and the American entry into World War II, Hitler was promising, privately, to wage a "new war" against the USA after his victories in Europe. Dazzling digital artwork and 50 rare archival photographs perfectly complement the detailed analysis offered by Robert Forsyth as he examines the development, intended role, and influence of the aircraft that Hitler planned to use to bomb New York City.
Dec. 27, 2018 read
飞机的概念到位了,资源和技术储备不足,关键部件迟迟不能完成,项目还是没法按期完成。1940年代的战争的作战方式,1934年就需要预见到,这就是战略规划的重要性。当然,美国人的资源底蕴和不受干扰的独特地理优势,使得他们可以用更短时间做出东西来对付战争需要,这就是开了挂的设定了。
2018 英文 历史 航空 上图
Russia Douban
author: Timothy J. Colton publishing house: Oxford University Press 2016 - 9
Dec. 23, 2018 read
比起其他美国作者的作品,Colton确实做到了中正持平,没有证据的阴谋论猜测基本没有出现。看完这本之后不禁想看写中国的那一本了。
2018 上图 英文 WENTK 俄罗斯
Wreck-It Ralph (2012) Douban TMDB IMDb Min reol WikiData Skybridge
Wreck-It Ralph
8.5 (1272 ratings) director: 瑞奇·摩尔 actor: 约翰·C·赖利 / 萨拉·西尔弗曼
other title: 无敌破坏王 / 破坏王拉尔夫
Wreck-It Ralph is the 9-foot-tall, 643-pound villain of an arcade video game named Fix-It Felix Jr., in which the game's titular hero fixes buildings that Ralph destroys. Wanting to prove he can be a good guy and not just a villain, Ralph escapes his game and lands in Hero's Duty, a first-person shooter where he helps the game's hero battle against alien invaders. He later enters Sugar Rush, a kart racing game set on tracks made of candies, cookies and other sweets. There, Ralph meets Vanellope von Schweetz who has learned that her game is faced with a dire threat that could affect the entire arcade, and one that Ralph may have inadvertently started.
Dec. 22, 2018 watched
边缘人的逆袭,80后的集体回忆唤醒
2018 动画 美国
Aliens (1986) Douban Eggplant.place TMDB Min reol IMDb WikiData Skybridge
Aliens
7.7 (684 ratings) director: 詹姆斯·卡梅隆 actor: 西格妮·韦弗 / 凯莉·赫恩
other title: 异形2 / 异形Ⅱ
The only survivor of the Nostromo, Ripley is discovered in deep sleep half a century later by a salvage ship. When she is taken back to Earth, she learns that a human colony was founded on the same planet where the aliens were first found. After contact with the colony is lost, she finds herself sent back to the planet along with a team of warriors bent on destroying the alien menace forever, and saving any survivors -- if any remain.
Dec. 16, 2018 watched
导演推荐的特别版,从头到尾都在吓人,只是小女孩为什么可以被掳还幸免有点牵强。
2018 悬疑 惊悚 蓝光 上图
悲情宰相 Douban
author: 梁启超 2016 - 11
他是开启现代化的改革者;他是传统帝国的裱糊匠;他是一代先进知识分子的凝聚中心;他权倾一时、谤满天下,他就是悲情宰相——李鸿章。
本书文字涉及李鸿章的早年落拓、镇压太平天国、创办洋务运动,签订《马关条约》《辛丑条约》,周旋于世界外交舞台直至死去的一生。指出李鸿章有鞠躬尽瘁死而后已的心,能够忍辱负重,但受制于那个时代,又不由让人感叹“以一人而敌一国”的无望与悲恸。唐德刚在《顾维钧回忆录》中也提到梁启超这句“以一人而敌一国”,可见梁先生对于那段世纪历史的描绘已经在史学界形成了共鸣。
本书新增雷颐五万字导读,补充更丰富资料,立体解析李鸿章一生。
Dec. 7, 2018 read
李鸿章刚刚去世之时,梁启超就以无比敏锐的眼光和宏大的视角给李的一生来了一个恰如其分的盖棺论定。其中的见识和观点,放在百多年后的今日,仍然让人觉得贴切无比。
历史 2018 传记 上图
Alien (1979) Eggplant.place Min reol Douban Skybridge TMDB Fantastika WikiData IMDb
Alien
8.2 (1026 ratings) director: 雷德利·斯科特 actor: 托马斯·斯凯里特 / 西格妮·韦弗
other title: 에이리언 / エイリアン
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018) Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
6.4 (277 ratings) director: 格恩迪·塔塔科夫斯基 actor: 亚当·桑德勒 / 凯瑟琳·哈恩
other title: 몬스터 호텔 3 / モンスター・ホテル クルーズ船の恋は危険がいっぱい?!
Dracula, Mavis, Johnny and the rest of the Drac Pack take a vacation on a luxury Monster Cruise Ship, where Dracula falls in love with the ship’s captain, Ericka, who’s secretly a descendant of Abraham Van Helsing, the notorious monster slayer.
危险的财富 Douban
A Dangerous Fortune
author: [英国] 肯·福莱特 translator: 于大卫 publishing house: 江苏凤凰文艺出版社 2017 - 10
巨大的财富背后,往往有巨大的代价。这是一部维多利亚时代浮华糜烂的家族史诗,交织着贪婪和仇恨、自私与残忍、冷血的谋杀和虚幻的爱情。
1866年一个炎热的夏日午后,封闭的温菲尔德校园里发生了一起意外溺亡的悲剧,银行家族继承人、南美领主的儿子纷纷卷入了这一神秘事件。多年之后,这一事件中暗藏的阴谋与背叛依然裹挟着他们的命运……
Nov. 20, 2018 read
各种熟悉的桥段的集合,人物的个性还是显得过于单薄和脸谱化了点
2018 英国 小说 上图
Levi Strauss Douban
author: Lynn Downey publishing house: University of Massachusetts Press 2016 - 10
Blue jeans are globally beloved and quintessentially American. They symbolize everything from the Old West to the hippie counter-culture; everyone from car mechanics to high-fashion models wears jeans. And no name is more associated with blue jeans than Levi Strauss & Co., the creator of this classic American garment.
As a young man Levi Strauss left his home in Germany and immigrated to America. He made his way to San Francisco and by 1853 had started his company. Soon he was a leading businessman in a growing commercial city that was beginning to influence the rest of the nation. Family-centered and deeply rooted in his Jewish faith, Strauss was the hub of a wheel whose spokes reached into nearly every aspect of American culture: business, philanthropy, politics, immigration, transportation, education, and fashion.
But despite creating an American icon, Levi Strauss is a mystery. Little is known about the man, and the widely circulated "facts" about his life are steeped in mythology. In this first full-length biography, Lynn Downey sets the record straight about this brilliant businessman. Strauss's life was the classic American success story, filled with lessons about craft and integrity, leadership and innovation.
Nov. 7, 2018 read
Levi's现在是牛仔裤的代名词,但在创始人在世的时候,人们并不是因为牛仔裤而知道他。虽然绝大部分第一手资料都在1906年的旧金山大火中被毁,作者还是花了很大精力通过同时期的其他间接资料设法还原了Levi Strauss这位传奇犹太移民的一生。即使没有牛仔裤,他也是一个极其成功的商人,在19世纪后半叶的旧金山商界和政界都发挥了重要作用。这本书对于了解牛仔裤或者李维斯公司历史可能没有那么大作用,作为了解犹太人、移民和美国西部发展历史的参考倒是很好的史料。书里也提到了Chinamen在西部的遭遇,虽然和其他人几乎同时到达并参与西部开发,由于语言、宗教和文化的各种原因,华人在西部开发的过程中的付出和收获很不对等。美国社会发展过程中的包容性和公民自我组织自我管理的传统,和我们文明的习惯很不兼容。
2018 英文 美国 历史 上图
True Detective Season 1 (2014) TMDB Douban Bangumi
True Detective Season 1 part of TV Series: True Detective
9.3 (1087 ratings) director: Cary Joji Fukunaga / 凯瑞·福永 actor: 马修·麦康纳 / 伍迪·哈里森
马蒂(伍迪·哈里森 饰)和拉斯特(马修·麦康纳 饰)是一对合作多年的搭档,马蒂为人开朗圆滑,在警局的同事里很吃得开,而拉斯特则恰恰相反,他性格孤僻沉默寡言,沉浸在自己的世界中无法自拔。然而,令马蒂感到十分钦佩的是,拉斯特拥有极为敏锐强大的观察力、判断力和逻辑推理能力,许多疑难杂案一经他手,便能够被轻松化解。
尽管马蒂是唯一一个能够受得了拉斯特的人,但两人的合作和友谊却依然产生了无法弥补的裂缝,其原因要归结到1995年所发生的一起神秘古怪的宗教杀人案件之中。如今已经是2012年了,当早已不再联系的两人因为这起案件又重新走到一起之时,会有怎样的真相在等待着他们呢?
Good Will Hunting (1997) TMDB IMDb Douban Min reol Skybridge WikiData
Good Will Hunting
8.5 (1582 ratings) director: 格斯·范桑特 actor: 马特·达蒙 / 罗宾·威廉姆斯
other title: 心灵捕手 / 骄阳似我(港)
Headstrong yet aimless, Will Hunting has a genius-level IQ but chooses to work as a janitor at MIT. When he secretly solves highly difficult graduate-level math problems, his talents are discovered by Professor Gerald Lambeau, who decides to help the misguided youth reach his potential. When Will is arrested for attacking a police officer, Professor Lambeau makes a deal to get leniency for him if he gets court-ordered therapy. Eventually, therapist Dr. Sean Maguire helps Will confront the demons that are holding him back.
一个大国的崛起与崩溃(共三册) Douban Google Books
8.9 (9 ratings) author: 沈志华 publishing house: 社会科学文献出版社 2009 - 8
《一个大国的崛起与崩溃》是一部有关苏联74年兴衰历史的实证性专题研究著作,由22名中国学者合力完成,书中涉及政治、军事、外交、经济、文化、民族、宗教等各个方面,共28个专题,总计约110万字。这部著作利用大量俄国解密档案,立足专题或个案分析,开拓新的研究领域和研究视角,以重构苏联74年历史兴衰的主要过程。
The Gunning of America Douban
author: Pamela Haag publishing house: Basic Books 2016 - 4
Americans have always loved guns. This special bond was forged during the American Revolution and sanctified by the Second Amendment. It is because of this exceptional relationship that American civilians are more heavily armed than the citizens of any other nation.
Or so we’re told.
In The Gunning of America, historian Pamela Haag overturns this conventional wisdom. American gun culture, she argues, developed not because the gun was exceptional, but precisely because it was not: guns proliferated in America because throughout most of the nation’s history, they were perceived as an unexceptional commodity, no different than buttons or typewriters.
Focusing on the history of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, one of the most iconic arms manufacturers in America, Haag challenges many basic assumptions of how and when America became a gun culture. Under the leadership of Oliver Winchester and his heirs, the company used aggressive, sometimes ingenious sales and marketing techniques to create new markets for their product. Guns have never “sold themselves”; rather, through advertising and innovative distribution campaigns, the gun industry did. Through the meticulous examination of gun industry archives, Haag challenges the myth of a primal bond between Americans and their firearms.
Over the course of its 150 year history, the Winchester Repeating Arms Company sold over 8 million guns. But Oliver Winchester-a shirtmaker in his previous career-had no apparent qualms about a life spent arming America. His daughter-in-law Sarah Winchester was a different story. Legend holds that Sarah was haunted by what she considered a vast blood fortune, and became convinced that the ghosts of rifle victims were haunting her. She channeled much of her inheritance, and her conflicted conscience, into a monstrous estate now known as the Winchester Mystery House, where she sought refuge from this ever-expanding army of phantoms.
In this provocative and deeply-researched work of narrative history, Haag fundamentally revises the history of arms in America, and in so doing explodes the clichés that have created and sustained our lethal gun culture.
Contraband Douban
author: Andrew Wender Cohen publishing house: W. W. Norton & Company 2015 - 10
How skirting the law once defined America’s relation to the world.
In the frigid winter of 1875, Charles L. Lawrence made international headlines when he was arrested for smuggling silk worth $60 million into the United States. An intimate of Boss Tweed, gloriously dubbed “The Prince of Smugglers,” and the head of a network spanning four continents and lasting half a decade, Lawrence scandalized a nation whose founders themselves had once dabbled in contraband.
Since the Revolution itself, smuggling had tested the patriotism of the American people. Distrusting foreign goods, Congress instituted high tariffs on most imports. Protecting the nation was the custom house, which waged a “war on smuggling,” inspecting every traveler for illicitly imported silk, opium, tobacco, sugar, diamonds, and art. The Civil War’s blockade of the Confederacy heightened the obsession with contraband, but smuggling entered its prime during the Gilded Age, when characters like assassin Louis Bieral, economist “The Parsee Merchant,” Congressman Ben Butler, and actress Rose Eytinge tempted consumers with illicit foreign luxuries. Only as the United States became a global power with World War I did smuggling lose its scurvy romance.
Meticulously researched, Contraband explores the history of smuggling to illuminate the broader history of the United States, its power, its politics, and its culture.
Oct. 29, 2018 read
和Goodreads上面的评价一致,作者的野心很大,然而并没有很好地驾驭这个话题,故事结构很散乱,语言也不够流畅,看不下去,弃坑。
2018 英文 未完成 美国 上图
Area 51 - Black Jets Douban
author: Bill Yenne publishing house: Zenith Press 2014 - 3
Area 51's most important military aviation developments are profiled in an illustrated format. When most of us think of Area 51, we think of aliens, UFOs, and controversial government cover-ups. It's easy to forget that, since the mid-1950s, the United States' famed extension of Edwards Air Force Base has served as a top-secret CIA testing ground for many of the most groundbreaking advancements in American military aviation technology. In Area 51 - Black Jets, author and military historian Bill Yenne offers the first fully illustrated chronology of Area 51's most famous aircraft projects, including Lockheed's U-2 "Dragon Lady" and SR-71 "Blackbird" reconnaissance planes, drones ranging from the early Lockheed D-21 to the modern-day General Atomics MQ-1 Predator, and the famous F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter produced by the Have Blue program during the 1970s. Each project is given its own fascinating chapter illuminating the aircraft's development at this famed location. But beyond the aircraft themselves, Area 51 - Black Jets also covers a handful of the many classified experimental programs carried out at Area 51 over the years, such as Have Doughnut, Have Ferry, and Have Drill - secret undertakings that successfully reverse-engineered such enemy aircraft as the Russian MiG during the Cold War. Presented in beautiful hardcover format and illustrated with historic color and black-and-white photographs, diagrams, and maps, this book reveals Area 51 for what it truly is: a clandestine area for the United States' most cutting-edge technological innovators in military aviation.
乡间的日常 Douban
author: 黄鹭 / 白关 publishing house: 新星出版社 2018 - 2
几年前,骑行路上的白关(狼)遇到了黄鹭(鹿),两个城里的上班族,因为对自由的共同向往,成了小两口。“到乡下找个院子一起住吧!”这是黄鹭对白关的勇敢告白,离开熟悉城市中熟悉的一切,租下乡间的两间土房和半亩田,这是白关给黄鹭的回答。
这本书就记录了他们在乡下的生活。在随笔中,我们可以读到乡下生活的“慢”,壁炉前发发呆聊聊天读读书,每一天似乎都有无所事事的满足;在照片中,我们看得见乡下生活的“快”,忙碌的春天,丰盛的夏天,猫冬之前静谧的秋天,如飞梭一般轮转;在漫画中,我们知道了乡下生活的艰辛,虫子会啃菜,鸟儿会偷枣,踉踉跄跄地种菜施肥,稍一偷懒,就“草盛豆苗稀”;在“食谱”中,我们仿佛也尝到了土地回馈的自然好味,羡慕着他们可以在这么年轻的时候回归田园。
住到乡下之前,他们是不够完美的两个人,住到乡下以后,他们仍然继续着不够完美的日常,然而,小小的半亩田里长出了一年的好吃的,租来的土房子也有了家的样子,也许,根本不必等待有钱、退休、万事俱足的完美时刻,想要做的事,可以像他们一样,做了再说。
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两个不够完美的人,一片暂租来的田地,在老去之前,先把生活过成向往的模样。
和喜欢的人,过喜欢的生活,偶尔勤奋,偶尔懒散,在纯粹与自然中,用心感受四季的更迭。
Oct. 22, 2018 read
租来的田园也可以诗意生活
2018 上图
北洋夜行记 Douban
7.1 (14 ratings) author: 金醉 publishing house: 长江文艺出版社 2017 - 11
2016年夏天,北京潘家园一个旧书商离奇死亡,案发现场发现了一本从未公开过的民国笔记。笔记记载了北洋年间一系列罪案实录和神秘事件调查。旧书商生前好友金醉是一名都市传说研究者,他发现,笔记中暗藏了一些被历史忽略的真相,以及众多显赫人物不为人知的一面,这本笔记的主人属于一个隐秘群体——夜行者。
被皇帝赶出宫的太监、因饥荒逃到北京挑粪的河南人、被军人欺凌的巡警、在五四运动当天经过赵家楼的车夫……这些煌煌史书里的毛边、历史车轮上的泥垢、时代主线边缘的墨点,在《北洋夜行记》中一一登场,成为一个个鲜活的故事中的主角。而大名鼎鼎的鲁迅、胡适、老舍、周作人、袁世凯之子袁克文……则在故事的某个转弯不经意掠过,像是对这些大时代下的小人物曾经存在的见证。
《北洋夜行记》展现了不一样的历史——史书往往属于王侯将相和因果关系,但真相往往只有经历者知道。
Oct. 15, 2018 read
借古讽今,不知道怎么能够通过审查出版的。考据还是比较到位的,连杨浦区的八埭头这么冷僻的事情都知道。
历史 2018 小说 上图
科恰里特山下 Douban
8.9 (7 ratings) author: 董夏青青 publishing house: 中信出版集团 2018 - 5
这部小说集由十一个内容相对独立,又不乏勾连的短篇组成。故事均以世界最大的独立纬向山系所在之地,广袤荒凉的西域边疆为背景,讲述戍边军人与边民卓尔不群的生命传奇。全书仿佛一本当代的边塞诗,闪着冰川的光泽,泛着边地的寒气。

《科恰里特山下》写当代军人在极限环境中的艰辛与坚忍,在死亡的恐惧中坚持内心正确;《垄堆与长夜》写高原退伍军人虽无法穿越迷雾,却愿意始终凝视生活之渊;《近况》写在戈壁构成的简单生活中,一个内心矛盾、脆弱、敏感又坚强的人群……书中每一个被写到的人都有一段独特的光影,每一个置身粗粝世界里让人心痛的人,都收束在作者精悍、诗意的表述之中。
Oct. 14, 2018 read
新疆戍边的军人,无论是否成家,时间久了都会变成一种不太正常的状态,真苦。什么时候,我们的国境线要是也可以变成欧盟或者美加之间那种状态,那可以节省多少无谓的开支和人生的蹉跎。
边疆 2018 中国 小说 上图