《Anxious People》是一本由Fredrik Backman著作，Atria Books出版的Hardcover图书，本书定价：USD 28.00，页数：336，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。

　　《Anxious People》读后感(一)：一群不完美的陌生人，互相治愈

　　

Fredrik Backman今年下半年的新书，是今年新出的小说里最值得读的之一。

从《一个叫欧维的男人决定去死》到《熊镇》， Fredrik Backman的作品从来没有令我失望过。看一个英文book review里面说，第一次读Backman的作品之前有点怀疑，说不明白为什么Backman的作品受到这么大的吹捧，读完一本之后才明白totally worth the hype，所以没读过他作品的童鞋真的很推荐去读一本试试。

说回这本书，故事的设定有点出乎意外——一个毫无经验的银行劫匪试图抢劫银行，失败后闯入一个在卖房的open house，劫持了一群来看房子的人当成人质。之后几个警察努力解救人质抓住银行劫匪。

读这个故事的过程中，很快就能意识到，这本书完全不是在讲一次犯罪，也不是在讲破案，而是在讲一群不完美的普通人——书中每一个人的背景和经历徐徐展开在读者面前，而作者用有点毒舌的口吻让人意识到，这里面的每一个人物，内心深处都有深深的焦虑，过着疲倦甚至有些狼狈的生活。

可是Backman用他的文字抚慰了人心。书中金句频出，毒舌中是无比的温柔。也许意识到其他人也会有相似的焦虑，本身就是一种莫大的治愈，于是书中的一个个不完美的人，毫不吝啬地把内心中最柔软的一面拿出来，互相治愈了并不相识的陌生人。

读这本书要有点耐心，看故事一点点铺展开来。我读前半部本觉得故事的设定过于精巧匠气，读到最后却忍不住被深深打动。

“Some of us never manage to get the chaos under control, so our lives simply carry on, the world spinning through space at two million miles an hour while we bounce about on its surface like so many lost socks.”

“We're trying to be grown-up and love each other and understand how the hell you're supposed to insert USB leads. We're looking for something to cling on to, something to fight for, something to look forward to. We're doing all we can to teach our children how to swim. We have all of this in common, yet most of us remain strangers, we never know what we do to each other, how your life is affected by mine.

Perhaps we hurried past each other in a crowd today, and neither of us noticed, and the fibers of your coat brushed against mine for single moment and then we were gone. I don't know who you are.

But when you get home this evening, when this day is over and the night takes us, allow yourself a deep breath. Because we made it through this day as well.

There'll be another one along tomorrow.”

　　《Anxious People》读后感(二)：You hopeless romantic idiots

　　

Idiots, why？

never assume malice when stupidity will suffice; never assume stupidity when ignorance will suffice; never assume ignorance when forgivable error will suffice; never assume error when information you hadn't adequately accounted for will suffice. 能解释为愚蠢的，就不要解释为恶意。 能解释为无知的，就不要解释为愚蠢。 能解释为可原谅的错误的，就不要解释为无知。 能用你未知的其他原因解释的，就不要解释为错误。 ----- 汉隆剃刀（Hanlon's razor）

像评论说的，书的前半部分可能会让你觉得 “More like annoying people” （让你抓狂，都什么人啊，TMD有病吧。）。读的时候有点难受，为什么一定要这么写？有必要吗？但是，随着剧情的展开，角色的丰满和行为背后动机的呈现，一切又会慢慢的变得有些“意料之外又情理之中“（make sense）。

Idiots, how？

不得不提，小说的叙事手法。作者 Fredrik Backman 在这本书里用的是叠序。首先时间锚点是”案发当天“，接着跳回到更早的时间，然后又回到锚点，与此同时，剧情又从锚点展开，时不时又回到锚点。来来回回不断的穿插重叠。有悬念，有转折，也有豁然开朗的”啊哈“。一方面，要写好这种叙事方式是很有技术难度的，对自己要有足够的自信，另一方面，不容易读，又要对他的读者有信心。

Fredrik 很喜欢用隐喻，同时在人物和情节上又特别精雕细琢。比如，每一个看似都是互相独立的角色，最后却又非常巧妙的互相连接互补成一个完整的故事。不同角色代表了不同阶层不同年龄段的婚姻。有失去老公的，有失去老婆的，有离婚后的母亲，有离婚后的父亲，也有小孩。有中年危机，有寡妇，当然也有单身狗，等等等。说实在，他的书都不是那么好读。但也因为如此，才比市面上大多数“妖艳贱货”更值得读甚至再读多读。

（另外，书中对婚姻或者爱情的描写和概况非常“警句式”的精彩。）

Idiots, who？

Idiot 是 naive，是善良，同情心（empathy） 和 浪漫（romatntic）。而它（idiot）的对立面 是Stockholm，是高高在上的优越，是傲慢，冷冰冰毫无人性的制度和体系。

书中 idiot 到处都是，口气从鄙视慢慢变成自嘲。而几乎每次出现 Stockholm 都是在讽刺。

同样也有几处吐槽了morden romance 的 dating （约会）文化。

我们大多数人也许不会有《千与千寻》里千寻的主人公高光时刻，也不会有太多白龙般第二主角的机会，但我们可以扮演很多别人人生路上那个善良的小玲。

Idiots, then？

They say that a person’s personality is the sum of their experiences. But that isn’t true, at least not entirely, because if our past was all that defined us, we’d never be able to put up with ourselves. We need to be allowed to convince ourselves that we’re more than the mistakes we made yesterday. That we are all of our next choices, too, all of our tomorrows.

好像写得有点乱，大概中心思想就酱。有空再回来更新评论。

　　《Anxious People》读后感(三)：陪伴治愈一切

　　

《Anxious People》用多线讲了一个银行劫匪无意中劫持了一群看房客的故事。主线以“绑架”时间的推进而展开，主人公有互相不理解的警察父子，坚持自己原则的银行家，寻找人生意义的中年夫妻，不停拌嘴的同性恋人，受人所托的临时演员，独居的善良老人以及只会不断重复自己公司口号的房产中介。

整本书最棒的地方是以简单的对话和日常的描述来穿插介绍每一个人的背景，让角色非常的饱满和真实，让读者能够通过他们曾经的经历快速地了解为什么这些人会有不同的反应，同时又能在其中看到自己身上的影子。前半本是洋溢着黑色幽默的“警匪”故事，后半本主打一个温情的基调，搭配故事发生的时间：新年前夜，治愈又抚慰人心。

书中多次提到“Stockholmer”,根据语境的不同有三层暗示，也是作者很精巧的小设计，喜欢～

The older man thinks the most important thing is for a police officer to do the right thing, the younger thinks it’s more important to do things correctly.

Sometimes it’s easier to live with your own anxieties if you know that no one else is happy, either.

We open our eyes in the morning and life is just waiting to tip a fresh avalanche of “Don’t Forget!”s and “Remember!”s over us. We don’t have time to think or breathe, we just wake up and start digging through the heap, because there will be another one dumped on us tomorrow. We look around occasionally, at our place of work or at parents’ meeting or out in the street, and realize with horror that everyone else seems to know exactly what they’re doing. We’ re the only ones who have to pretend. Everyone else cab afford stuff and has a handle on other stuff and enough energy to deal wrung even more stuff.

Naturally, Jim did his best to act like he definitely had experience, seeing as dads like teaching their sons things, because the moment we can no longer do that is when they stop being our responsibility and we become theirs.

The worst thing a divorce does to a person isn’t that it makes all the time you devoted to the relationship feel wasted, but that it steals all the plans you had for the future.

The truth is that far more people would rather be rich than happy.

Everyone has Stockholmers in their life, even people from Stockholmer have their own Stockholmers, only to them it’s “people who live in New York” or “politicians in Brussels,” or other people from some other place where people seem to think that they’re better than Stockholmers think they are.

When you’ re a child you long to be an adult and decide everything for yourself, but when you’re an adult you realize that’s the worst part of it. That you have to have opinions all the time.

The people we argue with hardest of all are not the ones who are completely different from us, but the ones who are almost no different at all.

Nothing is easier for people who never do anything themselves than to criticize someone who actually makes an effort.

“Knut and I have been married forever. It’s like that when you get old. In the end there simply wasn’t ever a time before him.”

Humor is the soul’s last defense, and as long as we’re laughing we’re alive.

　　《Anxious People》读后感(四)：读了一本写给成年人的焦虑之书

这位写了红遍全球的《一个叫欧维的男人决定去死》的80后作家又出新书了。

三年前读《欧维》（四川文艺出版社宁蒙译版）的时候就被Fredrik Backman有趣的文风和特别的叙事风格深深吸引，他擅长用一种幽默和生动的文笔来写你平时提也不敢提的内心深处细微的情感，每一页都有笑又有泪，用一种有些戏谑的方式来写焦虑与生死。

我一般对于所谓的“电影原著”是不屑一顾的。如果一部我已读过且喜欢的小说被改编成了影视作品，我通常都会兴致勃勃去看。而一旦顺序反了过来，却往往让我排斥：一部影视作品先走红，我无论看过还是没看过，都不会再对阅读原著产生任何兴趣。

但是《欧维》不一样。电影的大获成功并没有让我失去读书的兴趣，虽然我也只是随手翻出这本书来读，却被大大地惊艳到。

于是我作为一个平时很少关注书讯的人，在某天偶然看到Backman又出了新作，自然在兴奋之余果断下单买了下来。熟悉我的人知道我除了为了讨签名之外极少在美国买纸书，一般都是读电子版，但是这本值得。（我也要等到Backman来美国开见面会的时候去讨签名呢）

一周的时间内读完了这本《Anxious People》，被每一页里的每一句的温柔包围，笑到岔气，也痛痛快快哭过几次。

关于这本书的几个关键词：金融危机、焦虑、抢劫、Stockholm、自杀、死亡、被迫长大成人承担责任。

某一个新年夜的前一天，一位带着面具的劫匪持枪冲进一家银行打劫。失败之后（这碰巧是一家“无现金银行”）劫匪落荒而逃，跑上了一幢公寓楼的顶楼，撞见了一群来看房的租客们。就这样，这出打劫未遂的闹剧演变成了挟持人质的闹剧。

被挟持的人质有：

* 一位从未在书中被提到名字的女房产经纪人。 * Zara: 五十多岁的女银行家，因为失眠而去看心理医生，腰缠万贯却以“看中产阶级买房”为乐，只因这样能让她体验另一种人生。 * Anna-Lena & Roger: 一对退休了的夫妻，为了让生活有些奔头，不断购置新房、装修完善以后再卖掉，平时去最多的地方是宜家。 * Julia “Jules” & Ro: 一对从Stockholm来的年轻女同性恋伴侣，Jules怀了孕，两人在寻找以后和小孩共同生活的家。 * Estelle: 78岁的老太太，一个不太有存在感的人。（却在书中说了很多很多的话） * Lennart: 自称是位“演员”，受雇佣去做荒唐事来搅乱别人的生活，以此为生。

每个出场的人物都说了很多话、有很多的情绪和很多的故事，这当然也是Backman最擅长展开来写的。这样看似闹剧的背后所有人都有深深的焦虑，也其实都有颗温柔的内心需要被唤醒。看着书里人物的命运被一点点串在一起，看着他们无论年长年少，在成长的过程中都有各自的困惑，谁又能说“成长的烦恼”只能用在青少年身上呢？这个世界对谁还不是一样的陌生，没有人天生就会应对生活的。所以你所有的焦虑都情有可原，拥抱焦虑，走得出、走不出最后都靠你自己，但无论怎样的结果都是可以的，因为这都不是你的错。

最后再说一句，听说网飞过一阵子要上线以这本小说改编的电视剧，定位是”喜剧“。我也很好奇，这样一个笑中带泪的故事，又会变诠释成个什么样子呢。

摘录：

Because there’s such an unbelievable amount that we’re all supposed to be able to cope with these days. You’re supposed to have a job, and somewhere to live, and a family, and you’re supposed to pay taxes and have clean underwear and remember the password to your damn Wi-Fi. Some of us never manage to get the chaos under control, so our lives simply carry on, the world spinning through space at two million miles an hour while we bounce about on its surface like so many lost socks. (p1)That was a parent’s job: to provide shoulders. Shoulder for you children to sit on when they’re little so they can see the world, then stand on when they get older so they can reach the clouds, and sometimes lean against whenever they stumble and feel unsure. They trust us, which is a crushing responsibility, because they haven’t yet realized that we don’t actually know what we’re doing. So the man did what we all do: he pretended he knew. (p22)The bank robber was standing in the center of the apartment, surrounded by Stockholmers, both figurative and literal. “Stockholm” is, after all, an expression more than it is a place, both for men like Roger and for most of the rest of us, just a symbolic word to denote all the irritating people who get in the way of our happiness. People who think they’re better than us. Bankers who say no when we apply for a loan, psychologists who ask questions when we only want sleeping pills, old men who steal the apartments we want to renovate, rabbits who steal our wives. Everyone has Stockholmers in their life, even people from Stockholm have their own Stockholmers, only to them it’s “people who live in New York” or “politicians in Brussels,” or other people from some other place where people seem to think that they’re better than the Stockholmers think they are. (p156)The hardest thing about death is the grammar, the tense, the fact that she won’t be angry when she sees that he’s bought a new sofa without consulting her first. She won’t *be* anything. She isn’t on her way home. She *was*. (p284)