Book #1 - 铁窗首长
林冠英第一次入狱时,在牢里关了18个月,罪名是很抽象的“危害国家安全”。当他被释放后,一位朋友就取笑他说:“如果从生意人的角度来说,你做的是完全亏本的生意,你才当政治任务14个月,却要坐牢18个月!”
说得的确没错。
大学毕业后,林冠英在银行出任高级行政人员,领着让人羡慕的优渥薪金,这是许多人认为“从此过着幸福快乐的日子”的美好开始。然而,他却主动放弃了安逸得像童话故事般的生活。
由于看不惯太多不公平又邪恶的事,最终他弃商从政,毅然走上了“高风险、低回酬”的在野党政治之路。当上了国会议员没多久,他和老爸林吉祥就被独裁者视为眼中钉,双双遭到大型伺候,成为《内安法令》下的两名受害者。
出狱后的林冠英,义愤填膺,他说:“我更加愤怒,不信老天没眼!我就是要和他们拼下去!”当一堆黄牛政客自吹自擂自己敢怒敢言时,他示范了什么才是正牌的敢怒敢言,代价却是遭到《煽动法令》的提控,又换来一年的牢狱之灾。
错过了两届的大选,林冠英在2008年308大选卷土重来,石破天惊地在槟城强势崛起,让之前感叹“为什么好人没好报”的老百姓暮然精神抖擞!好戏,其实正要上演。
林冠英个人的故事,像是马来西亚政治史的浓缩版。他生于1960年代,在1980年代步入政坛,大半生都为了打造一个更平等的马来西亚而奋斗,却屡屡遭遇政治迫害,人生低潮过后,终于迎来了308大捷,成了开启我国民主篇章的重要旗手之一。发生在他身上的事,很多都是交织了你我的喜怒哀乐,而他未来的路,也牵动了许多人的期待。
Book #2 - 穿越时空的心灵治疗 (美)布莱恩.魏斯著
在“后科学时代”,人们已经确定科技与生活的舒适度有关,却与心灵的快乐无关。在8世纪前,宗教锁住了人们的心灵,人们冀求科学解放宗教的束缚,但最后却被科学掏空了心灵,只剩下理智的心智。于是,很多可能存在的事实被忽略......
一位耶鲁大学的医学博士在催眠病人时,发现了病人潜意识中的另一个“我”,他放下严谨的科学逻辑,开始用另一种眼光看世界......
Book #3 - 爸爸,我们去哪里? 尚路易.傅尼叶著
他是尚路易.傅尼叶,在法国文坛及电视圈拥有极高的地位,然而在一身的光环背后,隐藏的却是他多年来避而不谈的两个残障儿。迟至四十年后的今日,他决定送给她的孩子这本书,用来表达他的歉意,及永远未说出口的爱。
然而,傅尼叶却以異于其他残障儿父母的幽默口吻,诉说自己的经历,甚至轻松地开起儿子的玩笑。他说不想让读者哭泣,只想带来欢笑,但如此轻盈的叙述,却字字精准地刻画出了他身为一个父亲的痛苦挣扎。
相较于众多描写生命悲惨的题材,《爸爸,我们去哪里?》打破了我们对悲伤的看法。傅尼叶选择直率地嘲弄自己的遭遇,正如他所说的:“幽默,是对付痛苦最好的武器!”我们可以不流泪,以另一种方式越过生命的伤痛与困境!
Book #4 - 爸爸没杀人 尚路易.傅尼叶著
在前作《爸爸,我们去哪里?》书中,作者傅尼叶提及,妻子曾经责怪他,会生出两个智障儿,就是因为他有个爱喝酒的父亲。而今,我终于在《爸爸没杀人》见到这位父亲。
他是一名曾经获得医学桂冠的医生,在病人眼中是个“广爱世人”的慈善家,但在他的孩子眼中,却是个不爱家、疯疯癫癫、让家人畏惧不已的酒鬼。他像流浪汉般不修边幅,对金钱态度毫不在乎,出诊时他都穿着拖鞋,皮鞋总是开口笑,喜欢上酒馆买醉,在床上抽芋抽到将床单少出个洞,也曾烂醉到把车子开进甜菜园里......这样的父亲,是傅尼叶从小到大极力掩饰、始终不肯谈及的父亲。
过去,傅尼叶只想维持医生父亲耀眼光环的表相,而今,当他活过了父亲的年纪后,终于愿意正式面对这个曾经令他不恥、伤害他极深的父亲。《爸爸没杀人》是傅尼叶从童年记忆中搜寻父亲的身影,重新位父亲拼贴的感人画像。从他的幽默,我们看到了身为人子的他与父亲的和解-原来,生存如此不易,最令人不舍的,是父亲永远未显露出来的脆弱......
Book #5 - Pearl of China by Anchee Min
In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, two young girls from very different wrolds collide and become inseparable companions. Willow is hardened by poverty and fearful for her future; Pearl is the daughter of a Christian missionary who desperately wishes she was Chinese too. Neither could have foreseen the transformation of the little American girl embarrassed by her blonde hair into the Nobel Prize winning writer and one of China's modern heroines, Pearl S. Buck.
When the country erupts in civil war between the Nationalists and the Communists, Pearl and Willow are brutally reminded of their differences. Pearl's family is forced to flee the country and Willow is punished for her loyalty to her 'cultural imperialist' friend. And yet, in the face of everything that threatens to tear them apart, the paths of these two women remain intimately entwined.
Book #6 - The Fourth Estate by Jeffrey Archer
At first glance, Richard Armstrong and Keith Townsend seemed to have little in common. One was the son of an illiterate peasant, who emerged from the most backward corner of a Europe ravaged by a bitter war. The other was raised in a mansion on the far side of the world where the war was just another piece of news.
One was a hustler, a thief, ready to change his story, even his identity, if it would gain him a momentary advantage. The other was the scion of a well-known family, groomed for a public role from his earliest years, a rebel who didn't care who approved of what he got up to.
One craved wealth, recognition, status. The other quickly discovered that real power comes from anonymity. But they did have one thing in common. Both of them were gamblers. Both were prepared to risk everything in their battle to control the bigggest newspaper in the world.