毒笑小说

Laughing story #2

by Keigo Higashino, 东野圭吾, 李盈春 (Translator)

东野圭吾颠覆力作 “毒舌三部曲”系列之2
　　《毒笑小说》由12篇短篇小说组成，在东野圭吾众多名作中傲然挺立，不落下风。在本书中，作者下笔翻云覆雨只若等闲，将“人性作家”无上妙法淋漓展现：选题犀利，行文冷峻，布局精巧，以雄浑坦荡之势白描出洗练力作，深刻剖析社会问题，执著追问复杂人性，读来令人如饮醇酒，回味悠长……

Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Japanese Literature, Novels, Short Stories, Humor

256 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2010

About the author

Associated Names:
* Keigo Higashino
* 東野 圭吾 (Japanese)
* 東野圭吾 (Traditional Chinese)
* ฮิงาชิโนะ เคโงะ (Thai)


Keigo Higashino (東野 圭吾) is one of the most popular and biggest selling fiction authors in Japan—as well known as James Patterson, Dean Koontz or Tom Clancy are in the USA.

Born in Osaka, he started writing novels while still working as an engineer at Nippon Denso Co.　(presently DENSO). He won the Edogawa Rampo Prize, which is awarded annually to the finest mystery work, in 1985 for the novel Hōkago (After School) at age 27. Subsequently, he quit his job and started a career as a writer in Tokyo.

In 1999, he won the Mystery Writers of Japan Inc award for the novel Himitsu (The Secret), which was translated into English by Kerim Yasar and published by Vertical under the title of Naoko in 2004. In 2006, he won the 134th Naoki Prize for Yōgisha X no Kenshin. His novels had been nominated five times before winning with this novel.

The Devotion of Suspect X was the second highest selling book in all of Japan— fiction or nonfiction—the year it was published, with over 800,000 copies sold. It won the prestigious Naoki Prize for Best Novel— the Japanese equivalent of the National Book Award and the Man Booker Prize. Made into a motion picture in Japan, The Devotion of Suspect X spent 4 weeks at the top of the box office and was the third highest‐grossing film of the year.

Higashino’s novels have more movie and TV series adaptations than Tom Clancy or Robert Ludlum, and as many as Michael Crichton.

Reviews

[Tuan Pham · Rating 3 out of 5]

Quyển này là tập hợp những mẩu chuyện ngắn kỳ lạ, không thích hợp với nhũng bạn thích truyện dài.

[Life · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mostly black-comedy stories, they're all pretty funny. Standouts for me:

Kidnapping Heaven: In which a grandfather really wants to see his young grandson, but his parents are really overbearing with studies, so he and his friends cook up a plan to kidnap him. It only grows in scale from there.
Procedural Police: A man wants to confess to killing his wife, but is thwarted by bureaucracy.
Compensation: The only real non-comedy, a piano teacher is begged by a middle-aged man to teach him piano. My favourite, very heartwarming.
Honkaku Mystery Evidence: Lucky Appraisal: A sequel to the very first Tenkaichi Daigorou story.
Kidnapping Contact Network: A man is contacted by a kidnapper, saying that he's been randomly chosen to pay of an unknown kidnapped kid's ransom. He tries to escape from this duty.

Still, I think all of them are generally very consistent, there's not a single one which I would call bad, or even mid.

[Kim Tú · Rating 3 out of 5]

Đọc cũng ổn, khả năng sáng tạo của bác quá là đa dạng đi, nhưng quyển này đọc hơi trôi vì các mẩu truyện ngắn quá, chưa kịp gây ấn tượng. Chủ yếu là vài câu chuyện hài, đa dạng đa chiều, tàm tạm thôi chứ chưa qua được Nỗi ưu phiền của các nhà văn trinh thám - của bác.

[icedcoffee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very ironic

[吕不理 · Rating 2 out of 5]

日本就是一个恨矛盾的国家 很多社会问题其实挺通用的
但阅读体验并不好 啰嗦 拖沓 这还是短篇小说集呢

[ada · Rating 3 out of 5]

sarcasm is pretty peak

[Miyu · Rating 3 out of 5]

s dịch là kẻ tử tế độc hại nhỉ?

[Vu Le · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tổng hợp truyện ngắn theo hướng quái dị, hài hước, mình thích các truyện:
Thiên Đường Bắt Cóc
Cẩm Nang Cảnh Sát
Hướng Dẫn Sử Dụng Sát Ý
Chuộc Lỗi
Vòng Tay Tống Tiền

[SHUN · Rating 4 out of 5]

🧎🏻‍➡️🔥🎭📃💯🙈👅🫶🏻🤭🤪

[Quỳnh Thi · Rating 2 out of 5]

Thật sự mình không đánh giá cao mấy truyện ngắn kiểu này lắm.
Nah..

[Tracybai · Rating 3 out of 5]

妻子身亡却掩盖事实自己继续写作
杀掉妻子想自首警察却不让
认错杀人凶手却不敢承认怕人们嘲笑他
一连串打电话给别人要绑架赎金

[XUE · Rating 4 out of 5]

Such a great storyteller. Witty dark humor.

[Liwen · Rating 2 out of 5]

和怪笑小說是同一系列的，東野圭吾想以黑色幽默的方式呈現，但可能是文化差異的關係，我比較無法和書中幽默的方式產生共鳴（這本書不是我的菜）！！

[Nan Lu · Rating 3 out of 5]

Didn't see much creativity here

[Heyyawn · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was touched by the story of the man who wanna be a pianist. I always pretend to ignore my dreams. :(

[Kyoungjin Lim · Rating 4 out of 5]

大笑いの後味は。。。ぞっとする。