My Book Review of “Leadership Gold” in 1 minute 45 seconds. Thumbs up for the book.
Unfinished Book on Higgs Boson Particle
If you are looking for a book that trains your brain muscle and rekindle your lost ally of curiosity, this is a book to consider.
What is this book? “The particle at the end of the universe : how the hunt for the Higgs
boson leads us to the edge of a new world” by Sean Carroll.
It is a book on the journey of the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle. If this particle name sounds Greek to you, how about the other particles like electrons, protons or neutrons? Isn’t it amazing that the world is just made of a few basic particles yet yield such a pleasing variety for our eyes?
The author has done a cool job in journeying this discovery of the particle and its relationship to what makes up the mass of matters. He makes a seemingly PHD topic to quite an enjoyable read and is a test to the readers’ curiosity about what the world is made of.
Why would anyone care about the discovery of this new particle explaining the mass of matters and could also be proved later to be not completely right? This is not the kind of discovery straight to cancer cure, a new cool gadget or the like. Yet consider the discovery of Electricity centuries ago, how much do we rely on it on our daily life today? In its early journey of discovery, Electricity was little more than an intellectual curiosity.
Our innate curiosity has beaten us by pressures of real life. We stop long time ago asking how the world work, and rather figuring out how to make it work for us.
It is a refreshing but a sophisticated read.
It is on my list of the few books that I plan to continue its read when the library check-out has been due.
讀 鄭丰 (女版金庸) 後 感
讀 鄭丰 (女版金庸) 後 感
認識鄭丰作品是在幾個月前，在灣區的一個圖書館。在不多的中文書看她寫的「天觀雙俠」， 吸引我的並不是書名， 而是書後這行字「女版金庸－鄭丰」。這可有點好奇了， 金庸的武俠小說也看了不小次，電視電電影也重複拍了無數遍吧。為何未聽香港的朋友提過？是否文人誇大？
看過「天觀雙俠」，再看「靈劍」，真的同意她是名符其實的新一代作家，開創與眾不同武俠人物，同時也確有點金庸小說的淡淡影子。天觀雙俠的主角凌昊天叫人想起「神鵰俠侶」的楊過；靈劍」的火教叫人想起「鹿鼎記」的神龍教；「神偷天下」的明代歷史背景就叫人想到「鹿鼎記」的清代康熙歷史背景。
最近看完「神偷天下」，感覺是鄭丰把武俠小說範疇擴闊了。「天觀雙俠」，「靈劍」和「神偷天下」，主角並非都是武功蓋世， 天下第一，人物的遭遇也不一定全是化險為夷， 也不全是打不死的；鄭丰卻加多了不同的創意；她會把小偷， 醫生，青樓女子之子塑造成主角； 在地域上，鄭豐把讀者帶到其他國家或民族。我覺得她把武俠，功夫，旅遊，探險，人生和歷史交織起來， 化成可讀性高的故事， 是很值得欣賞的。
儘管「靈劍」是「天觀雙俠」的前傳，「天觀雙俠」的完成是比「靈劍」早的。 「靈劍」風格和文筆有明顯的進步，可說是寫得成熟些。神偷天下是「靈劍」的前傳， 卻是寫在最後， 可以說是把故事倒轉時間秩序而寫的。
三個故事各有特色，我先從「神偷天下」 寫起吧。
待續
oliviatamccue 