The Java That Never Was

廣受喜愛的《六人行》主演之一帶我們來到幕後 一窺知名情境喜劇的花絮 與他面對成癮症的種種掙扎 這部真誠、風趣又極具啟發性的回憶錄 傳遞了關於希望與堅持不懈的動人寓意 推薦序 麗莎．庫卓Lisa Kudrow ||| 有一件事我做對了：我從未放棄。 ||| | The one thing I got right was that I never gave up. | ──馬修．派瑞Matthew Perry 未經粉飾且毫不避忌，是一部需要勇氣才寫得出來的回憶錄。馬修．派瑞果然擁有十足的勇氣，帶我們一同經歷他的成癮症、疾病，以及難以承受的孤獨……說到底，這本書充滿了對未來的希望。想認識真正的馬修．派瑞，就別去看那些八卦報導，改讀這本書吧。 ──瑪塔．考夫曼Marta Kauffman，NBC情境喜劇《六人行》共同創作者 「嗨，我是馬修，不過你看到我可能會聯想到另一個名字。朋友都叫我馬蒂（Matty）。還有，我早就該死了。」 備受好評的演員馬修．派瑞，以這句話揭開他引人入勝的人生故事，帶領我們一同走過他的童年抱負、成名與成癮，以及在一場危及生命的健康危機後，一步步復原的旅程。在頻繁出入醫院與康復中心之前，5歲的小馬修因為父母分居，在蒙特婁和洛杉磯之間來回穿梭；14歲的馬修，是加拿大名列前茅的網球新星；24歲的馬修，抓住機會加入備受矚目的試播劇《我們這樣的朋友》（Friends Like Us），成了令其他人又羨又妒的主演之一……在本書中，我們會看到許多不同時期、不同面貌的馬修。 在這個唯有他能講述的、超乎尋常的故事中，馬修更以他獨有的真誠、幽默與溫暖親切口吻來述說一切。他毫無保留地揭露育養他（卻也放任他自生自滅）的破碎家庭、驅使他追求名聲且被人認可的渴望，以及即使遠大的夢想成真亦無法填補的內心空洞。此外，他也詳述遠離酒精與藥物而獲致的寧靜、對《六人行》無處不在的影響力有何感想，並分享劇中其他演員的小故事，還有他一路走來認識的明星與他們的奇聞軼事。派瑞以坦率、帶有自我意識又富有標誌性幽默感的文字，鮮活地敘述自己這一生和成癮症的搏鬥，以及看似擁有一切，卻仍為成癮症所苦的原因。 《朋友、戀人與最糟糕的事》是令人難以忘懷的回憶錄，揭露了私密的故事，使人眼界大開，同時也對努力擺脫成癮症的所有人伸出了友誼之手。直言不諱、感動人心

When Liu Bang, the eponymous protagonist of this novel, set out to conquer all under Heaven, he was already 47 years old. A medium-built, foul-mouthed peasant with a reputation as a ne’er-do-well, a womanizer, and a drunkard, who, though literate, never cared much about literature, he seemed to have a slim chance at success at a time when all the heroes in the realm contended for power and dominance. Against all odds, he defeated his rivals to found the Han dynasty, and quelled the numerous rebellions that challenged his rule. 本書以史實與故事兼容之手法，描述歷史人物劉邦以平民出身，卻能扭轉情勢爭奪天下的經過。 好評推薦 Praises for Heavenly Khan: An engrossing fictionalized history that examines an ingenious and powerful Chinese ruler.--Kirkus Reviews A new historical legend to stand alongside Alexander the Great and Napoleon.--San Francisco Book Review A deftly written and truly riveting work from beginning to end, Heavenly Khan: A Biography of Emperor Tang Taizong is an extraordinary and solidly entertaining story

Most people suppose that the whole world knows what it is to love; that romantic love is universal, quintessentially human. Such a supposition has to be able to meet three challenges. It has to justify its underlying assumption that all cultures mean the same thing by the word ‘love’ regardless of language. It has to engage with the scholarly debate on whether or not romantic love was invented in Europe and is uniquely Western. And it must be able to explain why early twentieth-century Chinese writers claimed that they had never known true love, or love by modern Western standards. By addressing these three challenges through a literary, historical, philosophical, biographical and above all comparative approach, this highly original work shows how love’s profile in China shifted with the rejection of arranged marriages and concubinage in favour of free individual choice, monogamy and a Western model of romantic love. 名人推薦 ‘This book, Lynn Pan’s best to date, adds a wonderful new an

The world is filled with ten thousand things in confusion: Never overtax your literary thought. The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons is the first comprehensive work of literary criticism in Chinese, and one that has been considered essential reading for writers and critics since it was written some 1,500 years ago. A vast compendium of all that was known about Chinese literature at the time, it is simultaneously a taxonomy and history of genres and styles, and a manual for good writing. Its chapters, organized according to the I Ching, cover such topics as “Emotion and Literary Expression,” “Humor and Enigma,” “Spiritual Thought or Imagination,” “The Nourishing of Vitality,”“Organization,” and “Literary Flaws.” “Mind” is the ideas, impressions, and emotions that take form—the “carving of the dragon”—in a literary work. Full of examples and delightful anecdotes drawn from Liu Hsieh’s encyclopedic knowledge of Chinese literature, readers will discover distinctive concepts and

近幾年《吸血新世紀》(Twilight) 掀起一陣「吸血鬼」的熱潮，年青人對這種跨越種族的糾纏關係尤其感興趣。 《Baffled》的主人翁因為自己有著克制吸血鬼的奇怪體質，開始了被吸血鬼監視、管制的生活。恨與愛從此交織…… I was baffled. Two choices lay in front of me at the moment. One, I should pull back as my caution told me to, push Kenneth away and, if possible, shove him out of my house. He would glare at me, get crazier than ever, crush the door perhaps and would never ever speak to me again, though for a second, I thought that was all I was after, that Kenneth leaving me alone. Choice two: I should kiss him back, ignore the thousands voices bellowing in my head that Kenneth, the Kenneth whose lips were brushing gently against mine, was a blood-drinking vampire who had killed people, that he had a serious problem of mood swinging. It was then I realized I was undoubtedly, madly in love with him. 本書特色 A start of the Baffled Series; A story about baffled; A survival of a girl who is struggling in a dilemma; A ornament of youth love…… A relationship between human and……