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Recently, a "campus burial case" made people feel creepy and feel terrible when they thought about it. Even, involuntarily, I think about the campus where I have been, has there been a similar case?
Therefore, the editor specially picked up the following news:
Seeing these reports, on the one hand, there is anger, on the other hand, hatred, and on the other side, timidity. Seeing this news reminds me of a book.
The title of the book is "The Secret History of Campus".
It's the best American school novel since John Norris's Reconciliation Alone.
It is a true american smorgasbord of literary styles, based on the styles of Dostoevsky and Ruth Randall, and the strengths of Evelyn Wolf, Dickens, Shaw, Scott Fitzgerald, Shakespeare, and Meyer Levine's 1956 novel The Giulman Seed, so that you can fully understand the content and flavor of this book.
The story's narrator, Richard, comes from a low-income family in California who studied at an isolated Hampton University in Vermont.
Easily, he joined an elite 5-member campus society—a group of intelligent and socially outliers who were influenced by an eccentric and charismatic professor of classical studies who studied ancient Greek theology and literature and discovered a way of thinking and lifestyle that was completely different from that of his contemporaries.
Unfortunately, the members accidentally committed a murder during an ancient Greek-style party.
When Bonnie, one of them, prepares to reveal the secret, the other members threaten to be the next to be killed.
At this point, Richard must decide whether to side with the circle and murder Bonnie to silence him.
The author of this book is the famous American contemporary female writer Donna. Tate, whose books are: "The Secret History of The Campus", "Little Friends" and "The Goldfinch".
All three works were well received, best-selling and long-selling, and the copyright was sold in more than thirty countries and regions, laying the foundation for her position in the literary world.
In 2014, Tate was named to Time magazine's "100 Most Influential People of the Year."
The psychological depiction of this book is unique, the rhythm is slow and tight, and it is slightly frightening.
The impact of death on a group, the disintegration of the family and the emotional and psychological impact of the parties involved are portrayed in a creepy but sentimental way, and cleverly blend wisdom, entertainment, and pulse-pumping suspense.
Seeing this, do you particularly want to read this book? Wondering in particular what's really going on? Let's read a book together!
"The Secret History of Campus":
Chapter 1
Does what people often call the "fatal flaw" in literature, that is, the conspicuous flaw that runs through life, really exist in real life? I used to think it didn't exist, but now I believe in it.
My fatal flaw is: the pathological pursuit of unique styles at all costs.
I'm starting to tell stories about my own stupidity now.
My name is Richard Papon and I am twenty-eight years old. Before I was nineteen, I had never been to New England or the University of Hampton. I was born in California, and — as I only recently discovered — I'm a Californian by nature. I didn't admit it until now about being Californian, and it was after that happened.
Of course, this is no longer important.
I grew up in Preno, a small town in Silicon Valley in northern California. I have no siblings. My father ran a gas station and my mother was a housewife. As I grew older and my family became increasingly financially strapped, my mom had to come out to work again, answering phone calls from the office of a big chip factory on the outskirts of San Jose.
Preno, the word is reminiscent of open-air cinemas, patches of housing developments and rolling heat waves rising from the tarmac. I spent a meaningless time there, a memory that can be discarded like a disposable plastic cup. In a sense, that time was also a great gift.
Because of this, when I left home, I was able to invent a new and more satisfying personal history, which was the result of the need for stimulation and the simplicity of the environment. A colorful past is easier for strangers to accept.
The splendid childhood I imagined was filled with memories of swimming pools, citrus groves, and the parents of the wandering skeletons and glamorous stars.
These stories overshadow what would otherwise be monotonous and real life. In fact, I can't remember many of the real childhood memories, only a bunch of sad but messy things: the pair of sneakers that I wore all year round; Colored books and cartoons bought from supermarkets. It's not interesting, let alone beautiful.
At that age, I was overly tall, taciturn, and prone to freckles on my face. I don't have many friends, but whether it's because I'm picky or because of the influence of the environment, I still can't say it well. My grades in school seem to be good, but they are not excellent.
I loved reading Tom Swift and Tolkien's books and watching TV. I often lay on the carpet in the empty living room watching TV, and after school, I always spent long, monotonous afternoons.
To be honest, I can't quite remember what happened in those days, except for a certain emotion that pervaded those years, and that faint sadness was associated with watching "The Wonderful World of Disney" on Sunday night.
Sunday is a sad day – I have to go to bed early because I have to go to school the next day, and I'm always worried about whether I'm doing my homework wrong.
When I see fireworks blooming in the night sky on a brightly lit Disneyland castle, I fall into a more common fear of being imprisoned in a dull school and home cycle. The environment around me provided a powerful empirical argument for my frustrations.
My father was narrow-minded, our house was ugly, and my mother didn't care about me. The clothes I wore were all bargains, my hair was cut too short, and no one at school seemed to like me. In my memory, since such a fact has existed for a long time, I can expect that life will continue to be so depressed without a doubt. Simply put, I feel like my life is fundamentally disrupted in some subtle way.
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