《First Love, Last Rites》是一本由Ian McEwan著作，Vintage Books出版的Paperback图书，本书定价：USD 14.00，页数：165，特精心从网络上整理的一些读者的读后感，希望对大家能有帮助。
《First Love, Last Rites》精选点评：
●在要坐24个小时的火车上终于把这本读完了……够黑暗够孤独，很喜欢。
●最后一篇没读。有几篇印象深刻，但并没有特别的喜欢，应该不是我爱的风格吧。
●梦中有我的学习小视频
●The absurdity of life and loneliness of mankind..
●晦涩难懂
●很独特的感觉 第一个故事是杀妻。第二个故事是操妹。 第三个故事是死姐。第四个故事是群P。 第五个故事是溺童。第六个故事是返童。 第七个故事是兽交。第八个故事是异装。
●"last day of summer" is my favorite story,while "solid geometry" is quite original~
●Ian McEwan is a sick ,sick man. But damn he can write!——Goodreads上某评论
●Solid Geometry...
●我被中文译本的封面和译名深深的欺骗了，不过还是挺好看的～
《First Love, Last Rites》读后感(一)：青春期前的爱与伤害
（本篇纯属个人感想，其实我也想认真地写好，无奈水平有限，只能最认真地玩个票……所以不算书评算读后感吧……）
弗洛依德的理论告诉我们少年时期，甚至童年时期的回忆，会给人的一生造成最为深刻的影响。放眼世界文林，顶级优秀的作品无外乎作者自传，贵乎真实恳切。真实的感情流露就像是真实事件在一人身上遗留的痕迹，像是一种标本，看到的人会惊异于这种真实。虚假的感情则是拙劣的赝品，无法给人任何心灵上的震撼。
所以说，好的作家是一扇窗子，打开这窗子，你会看见真实的世界。
而低劣的作品，只是一面虚伪的镜子，你看见的只是他想让你看见的世界。
就像服装店里令人心动的镜子，那时候瞬间给你的心动感觉，只是因为它虚伪地奉承了你扭曲的世界观。
Ian McEwan通过不同年龄阶段，相同的灵魂波动给我们剖析了他所想让读者看见的一切。
也许在所有同类别的作家中他不是前无古人，也难以后无来者，但他的确是令人喜欢的，准确地说，是adorable的。
八岁的夏天看到一本《白夹竹桃》，深深为之震撼。黑白封面，一位金发少女正在竭力拉起黑色丝绒晚礼服背后的拉链，甚至连标签都未除下。
这本书包含诸多卫道士可能会群起攻之的内容，但十多年过去，我并未依照这本书中主人公的道路曲折前行，且时常想起书中内容，觉得温暖无比。
同样地，Ian McEwan这本
那些令人恶心，甚至觉得传播都是罪恶的书籍，到底是什么样的书籍？
窃以为，在书中，电视中，电影中，幻化出一个完美的犯罪，还原出一种唯美的场景，将犯罪行为精确到细节地写下来，美化犯罪，赋予其艺术性和宗教性，将罪犯的形象塑造得近乎完美，激起了copycat的模仿兴趣，这样的作品才是真正的犯罪。
如将恶意的行为，塑造得值得崇敬和让人无法自拔地喜爱，这样的作品才称之为cult，才称之为连传播都是罪恶。
一个世界无法避免的就是犯罪，一个城市可以没有诸多繁冗的机构，却不能没有监禁人的处所。而窃钩者诛，窃国者诸侯的时代，离我们远么？
诸如满世界乱飞的爆乳肥臀照，满世界乱飞的软文广告，这样若无其事地炫耀卑贱无比的价值观，传播各种形式的libido，不但满世界的人都在迎合，甚至是当你不自觉批判这样的世界，都是在边骂边迎合。
有人会说抵抗力一词，抵抗力从何而来？
答曰伤害。
如果只是一般的伤害，人本身的免疫可以抵抗。太强大的疾病，未曾感染过，何来抗体？何来抵抗力？
不知刀之锋利，不会避其锋芒。
刀怎会有意伤人。
不知火之灼热，不会敬而远之。
火岂能存心夺命。
在这个本末倒置的世界，切实在努力唤醒世界的人，往往以无赖的嘴脸出现，被厌恶，被斥为异类的肮脏。他们无谓于被伤害，无畏于被侮辱，只因为内心是纯净而安然的。他们因为自己受到过深切入骨的伤害，于是斟酌衡量伤害的程度，将其制成苦药，给世人服用。
不明者斥之为毒。
只是因为不明罢了。
越是希望世人了解肮脏与伤害，越是希望通过这样的肮脏与伤害以避免未发生的肮脏与伤害。
世上最美好的事，总会伴随最令人拒绝的事发生。
新生的愉悦，底座上永远是最惨烈的疼痛。
并非一尘不染是纯洁的，你怎知那质地无法沾染黑的墨？
最难得，是淤泥墨汁尘埃之中那一点洁白，这洁白，才能在暗夜有辉光，给人指引。
末法时代的悲哀，是鬼道横行，暗无天日。
犹如自身会发光的航道灯，能在无月光星光的暗夜给人希望。
卫道士们一边道貌岸然地背诵道德的教条，将所有人驯服成羔羊，一边穷奢极欲破坏世界的准则。
总有人以为不让这个世界上的人看见丑恶面就会天下太平。粉饰太平的人永不愿承认自己的虚伪，因为他们看不见自己的虚伪。赤裸裸表现肮脏的赤子，未必会被那些被愚弄太久的人们所接受。
一个人的幼年，青春期，是最单纯无害的。从这样的角度看待世界，也许最为直接和尖锐。
Ian McEwan并非天才，论天才，许多人都强于他。
但是他依然是那个时代直至这个时代诸多耀眼灯塔之中的一座。
想多少写多少……就这样吧~
《First Love, Last Rites》读后感(二)：读书笔记
（注意：本篇仅为剧透版读书笔记，阅读请慎重）
《First Love, Last Rites》，英国作家伊恩·麦克尤恩的处女作，短篇集，1975年出版，作者时年27岁，本书获得1976年毛姆奖（奈保尔的《米格尔大街》也曾获此奖）。
以前得知潘帕兄在翻译这本小说，颇希望能看到中文版，但是看了这本的原版后，方知期盼好象有点不现实，原因就是，书中各短篇内容太大胆了，比去年国内首次引进的《水泥花园》有过之而无不及，恐怕难为当今的出版尺度所容。这一组小说尽管语言优美，想象力丰富，但所写内容往往令人乍舌，不知麦克尤恩是否有种“罪恶美学”，这本书预示了麦克尤恩以后的写作，“恐怖伊恩”从此知名。
以下为每篇笔记，阅读请慎重：
1． Homemade.是个处于青春期的哥哥利用妹妹的无知的乱伦故事。
2． Solid Geometry.很具想像力，通过将一个人折叠而消失（练瑜珈的同学请注意）。但是为何又插入一个浸泡于福尔马林液中的传奇船长阳具一事（后来瓶子打破，古物成了垃圾）？作者如此写作令人费解。
3． Last Day of Summer.前面90%叙事都波澜不惊，似乎讲的是两颗孤独心灵的接近，最后河上出现的翻船事件一事令人震惊，由于叙述者的不作为（也许是事出突然），致两人溺亡。
4． Cocker at the Theatre.此篇较短，在某处舞台剧排练现场，几对男女裸体作做爱状，一对演员打真军，被逐出。男演员名为Cocker.
5． Butterflies.某9岁女童淹死，叙述者是最后见到她的人，遂为证人，但未负责任。随着叙述者的讲述，揭示出是他因其不良企图，将女童引到河边，女童之死虽非其有意所致，但责任确定，虽未受法律制裁。
6． Converstation with a cupboard man.主人公从小被单身母亲一直当成小孩养，心理不健全，母亲结新欢弃家出走后其悲惨生活自不待言，惹人同情。
7． First love, last rites.叙述的是两个社会边缘之人的性爱生活，穿插在生活中挣扎的人生故事。故事结束时叙述者打死了一只怀孕老鼠，象征？不知道。
8． Disguises.这一篇的惊悚程度不如其他篇，讲的是一个控制欲强烈的姨妈和孤儿外甥的事，最后是个开放式的结尾，也是不敢过多联想。
以下摘录自《First Love, Last Rites》一篇，叙述者本来想去罐头厂门口接女友：
Other small doors opened and they streamed out, converging on the gates, scores of women in pink-and-white nylon coates and pink caps. I stood on a low wall and tried to see Sissel, it was suddenly very important. I thought that if I could not pick her out from this rustling stream of pink mylon then she was lost, we were both lost and our time was worthless. As it approached the factory gates the main body was moving fast. Some were haft running in the splayed, hopeless way that women have been taught to run, the others walked as fast as they could. I found out later they were hurrying home to cook suppers for their families, to make an early start on the housework. Latercomers on the next shift tried to push their way through in the opposite direction. I could not see Sissel and I felt on the edge of panic, I shouted her name and my words were trampled underfoot.
《First Love, Last Rites》读后感(三)：Forbidden Topic, Pure theme
I was not quite familiar with the well-known writer Ian McEwan but fortunately I was recommended the book First Love Last Rites of his. I simply cannot believe it was written only when McEwan was in his twenties and was published as his first collection of short novels. Anyway no sooner had the work come out when it created a sensation at that time. It won the “Somerset Maugham Award”, which praised McEwan’s skill of writing as well as penetrating thoughts about themes of human nature .
I searched for some background information during his maturity so as to get closer to the writer and his purpose of the shocking works, only to find out that his family was somewhat complicated. His parents met due to extramarital love. McEwan lived with his parents outside motherland and was drifted from place to place homelessly and miserably. I believe these particular pathetic experiences have provided McEwan with different tastes about life. Maybe bitter, maybe dark. What’s more, small McEwan dreamed of having a brother when he was a child, and he played with his imaginary little brother in his daydreams. He talked secretly to the little brother and took adventures with the invented pal, which to some degree demonstrated that McEwan was not used to communicating with others and always kept his ideas inside.
Actually, to be honest, the first time I read some chapters of short stories in this book, I was absolutely astonished to see such lousy and filthy plots about sex, violence and adolescence. I am a traditional Chinese teenager and have never got access to such open-minded and direct deｓｃｒｉｐｔions about these themes which are considered to be the dark and dull parts of human nature. I believe most Chinese young guys do so. For instance, The first one “Solid Geometry” was about a man indulged himself in the research of sex. but killed his wife at last only because she wanted to get enthusiastic feelings of sex from him. The second one “Homemade” was a story of a boy in his teens who got his first experience of sex by seducing his own sister. I uttered a sigh of amazement and felt like to abuse these gloomy stories. However, when I read them again, I abandoned the skin-deep bias and came to my own thoughts. Here I take “Cocker at the Theatre” as an example.
Generally, the story was about a humorous scene on the stage. It was arranged to play a show of copulation. Naked men and women stood in pairs and performed to have sex under the rhythm of fucking music. But one couple on the end of the stage made the fake to be true, which led to endless embarrassment and resentment of the director. Finally the man called Cocker was expelled out of the stage. I was amused. If the copulation show was regarded as a kind of art performances, why did people laughed and felt ashamed when it turned to be real actions of making love？ Can we really divide art from sex？ I am not surprised the appearance of Cocker and his mate. Those naked actors and actresses were in fact suppressed in sex. And Cocker was just a representative of them. The director was rather hypercritical. He announced that “This is a respectable show” but how can we define something that restrains human nature as “respectable”？ I believe that art stems from life. The best form of art is always the accurate reflection of life. The eruption of sexual desire which showed in the story reminded me of some reality in Chinese society. As a matter of fact, the sex education in China is not that successful and well developed. Chinese conventional minds may account for the lack of sex education phenomenon. Chinese parents mainly choose to avoid the topic relevant to sex and school education also ignores courses in this forgotten but crucial aspect. The consequences may turn out to be harmful, for sex is something curious for the young and unexpressible for the grownups. Therefore some adolescents may have a dangerous try of sex. They just need correct sex education and normal right ways of releasing the accumulating sexual desire.
On the other hand, the book First Love Last Rite is identified with everyone’s own adolescent years. Cruel as the deｓｃｒｉｐｔion is, we can still feel a sense of tenderness between the words. It is something about the crazy and insane part of everyone’s feeling towards adolescence. McEwan took a very objective tone to display the plots, which made the evilest themes pure and nonemotional. I firmly believe that even the dark and pornographic theme is capable of purifying people’s mind. We will have to know about the evilest side of ourselves before we are able to pursuing the kindest side. After reading the series of stories, I likewise have gained improvements in mental fields.
In short, First Love Last Rites is a book which is worth contemplating and discussing. I shall get more from reviewing it again and again.
y 辛雨楣 WHU
