In a small northeastern town in the late 1990s, that summer when everything outside was undergoing drastic changes was a long and hazy poem for a boy of thirteen or fourteen. The protagonists of the story are a group of junior high school students on the campus of No. 108 Middle School. The novel tells the story of the growth of seven fierce teenagers through the perspective of "I", a young Li Mo. Just like Naipaul's "Miguel Street", these characters are independent of each other but have intertwined destinies. They are intertextual and connect the growth trajectory of "I". Frankenstein Liu Yida, genius boy Huo Jialin, eccentric and precocious charming girl Anna, Ai Xiaonan who always wears a white shirt... At the moment of awakening self-awareness in their lives, the hands of power from the adult world are also playing around with these teenagers: monitored classrooms, boring books, aggressive and snobbish teachers. Facing the first collision with the outside world, some people resisted fiercely, some died and lost their traces, and more children became taciturn.
Reader comments
We live in a world from which there is no turning back. Hesitation and triviality are just efforts to fight against the unknown.
If you look at Liu Yida and Anna in the story, their tragedies are seen as the continuation of family pain, and countless families of this kind or that form an era.
In this context, in Weird 108, harsh parents and the shame of youth are explained in the language of the times. The novel unfolds in the melody of the times when workers are laid off.
The sorrow of his parents retiring from work was like a gentle whisper throughout Li Mo's childhood. Faced with the sorrow passed down from his family and the ignorance of being in school, unanswered questions lingered around him. Following Chen Shumeng and getting into a good junior high school became the only way out. In the fog, any direction points to the unknown. No matter where you run, you can only glimpse a corner of the mottled woods.
When describing several old friends later, it can be found that Li Mo's performance was also different. To a certain extent, they are manifestations of different qualities in Li Mo's character. Curiosity, justice, impulse, and sexuality were all taught to him by others around him. However, we understand Li Mo better. Buried in the ocean currents of life are tiny voices that cannot be ignored.
"Death is actually lurking in their souls. Those who seem to be living a normal and upright life, in my opinion, some people have gone crazy, and some are dying little by little."
Admit madness, admit unspeakable secrets.
True lucidity comes from throbbing dreams.
"My hometown, which I have always kept deep in my heart, and the memories about it, have been torn down and buried by huge bulldozers and forklifts."
However, the new era will bury the past, along with painful people and sad things. The luckiest thing is that we are still alive here and can see our own reflections more and more clearly.
Finally, I would like to send a message to Li Mo
"He is a man who can only see the coming spring by stepping on the snow."
We always have a bright ending
I like this style very much. The background of the whole story is the layoffs of workers in Northeast China in the 1990s, which makes the whole story a sad background. The author uses Li Mo as the first person, which fully reflects the playful and humorous language style of a young man. The ordinary tone tells the heavy past and is full of grudge. The language style was controlled by Andre when he helped Li Mo write big-character posters as his gunner to bombard Teacher Sun's behavior. Although Li Mo failed to go to Singapore in the end, he should have been very sad, but he wrote that the girl didn't know what life is like now and what kind of country Singapore is.
This book reminds me of my own youth. At that time, like the teenagers in the book, we were full of curiosity and confusion about the world. Shuang Xuetao's writing is true and delicate, which made me feel the atmosphere of that era and the inner world of teenagers. I especially like the portrayal of various characters in the book. They all have their own unique personalities and destinies. This reminds me of my former neighbors and makes me appreciate my current life even more. All in all, this is a very resonant book and I recommend it to everyone!
One of the Three Musketeers of Tiexi, he still has the same taste, the picture of the old industrial city in Northeast China, he was born in the same age, and his childhood memories also have many overlaps. It seems that every character can be found around him, and the heaviness of the entire novel is broken in the last sentence.
The friendship, family, and love described by the author have a sense of depression mixed with absurdity. The last sentence at the end is a bright ending that belongs to Li Mo. His brightness is not the joy of his family or growing old together with his lover, but "dying at the happiest time."
I always think this is the book students should read when they go to school.
It's very real and full of mournful temperament.
Saw my own shadow
Have you met in 2021?
I miss the style of a friend of mine
This book may be a portrayal of youth for many people, opening up the memories of youth hidden deep in our hearts.
We live in a world from which there is no turning back. Hesitation and triviality are just efforts to fight against the unknown. If you look at Liu Yida and Anna in the story, their tragedies are seen as the continuation of family pain, and countless families of this kind or that form an era. In this context, in Weird 108, harsh parents and the shame of youth are explained in the language of the times. The novel unfolds in the melody of the times when workers are laid off. The sorrow of his parents retiring from work was like a gentle whisper throughout Li Mo's childhood. Faced with the sorrow passed down from his family and the ignorance of being in school, unanswered questions lingered around him. Following Chen Shumeng and getting into a good junior high school became the only way out. In the fog, any direction points to the unknown. No matter where you run, you can only glimpse a corner of the mottled woods. When describing several old friends later, it can be found that Li Mo's performance was also different. To a certain extent, they are manifestations of different qualities in Li Mo's character. Curiosity, justice, impulse, and sexuality were all taught to him by others around him. However, we understand Li Mo better. Buried in the ocean currents of life are tiny voices that cannot be ignored. "Death is actually lurking in their souls. Those who seem to be living a normal and upright life, in my opinion, some people have gone crazy, and some are dying little by little." Admit madness, admit unspeakable secrets. True lucidity comes from throbbing dreams. "My hometown, which I have always kept deep in my heart, and the memories about it, have been torn down and buried by huge bulldozers and forklifts." However, the new era will bury the past, along with painful people and sad things. The luckiest thing is that we are still alive here and can see our own reflections more and more clearly. Finally, I would like to send a message to Li Mo "He is a man who can only see the coming spring by stepping on the snow." We always have a bright ending
I like this style very much. The background of the whole story is the layoffs of workers in Northeast China in the 1990s, which makes the whole story a sad background. The author uses Li Mo as the first person, which fully reflects the playful and humorous language style of a young man. The ordinary tone tells the heavy past and is full of grudge. The language style was controlled by Andre when he helped Li Mo write big-character posters as his gunner to bombard Teacher Sun's behavior. Although Li Mo failed to go to Singapore in the end, he should have been very sad, but he wrote that the girl didn't know what life is like now and what kind of country Singapore is.
This book reminds me of my own youth. At that time, like the teenagers in the book, we were full of curiosity and confusion about the world. Shuang Xuetao's writing is true and delicate, which made me feel the atmosphere of that era and the inner world of teenagers. I especially like the portrayal of various characters in the book. They all have their own unique personalities and destinies. This reminds me of my former neighbors and makes me appreciate my current life even more. All in all, this is a very resonant book and I recommend it to everyone!
One of the Three Musketeers of Tiexi, he still has the same taste, the picture of the old industrial city in Northeast China, he was born in the same age, and his childhood memories also have many overlaps. It seems that every character can be found around him, and the heaviness of the entire novel is broken in the last sentence.
The friendship, family, and love described by the author have a sense of depression mixed with absurdity. The last sentence at the end is a bright ending that belongs to Li Mo. His brightness is not the joy of his family or growing old together with his lover, but "dying at the happiest time."
I always think this is the book students should read when they go to school.
It's very real and full of mournful temperament.
Saw my own shadow
Have you met in 2021?
I miss the style of a friend of mine
This book may be a portrayal of youth for many people, opening up the memories of youth hidden deep in our hearts.