读完「Life or Death」by Michael Robotham

不记得是啥时候开始看这本小说，应该是从Goodreads中获得推荐找来读的小说。之前差不多看了35%吧，然后在徒步时候，心血来潮地说了一句，给自己来个挑战，希望能在一日内把这本小说看完。结果并没有。一日没有，只看到60%多；第二日也没有，被国土安全第八季占据了时间；第三日总算看完了，在港岛径第二段路中的一个小亭子里。于是很多人来人往的徒步爱好者就看到一个胖子端着一个kindle在那看着书，我都能猜到有人会想，谁他妈那么傻，大热天跑这来看书。而实际上，不在这看，我在其他地方就没法看。新买的iPad完美验证了这句话，买前生产力，买后爱奇艺。到了住的地方，看书是不可能看的。。。

小说情节套路太深，我依旧维持以前的观点，有些小说作者就是过于心机，写书的时候，就是带着改编成电影的目的来创作的。而我电影看得又太多了，所以最后的结果在小说看到一半的时候，基本就把主要情节猜出来了。

情节就是很简单，一个囚犯在刑满释放的前一日越狱逃跑了。读者的心思马上就被抓住，一连串的问号就产生了，为什么？然后一层层剥洋葱一样，情节就慢慢展开，有回忆以前美好的落跑新娘的日子，有在路上碰到新朋友，有被以前的狱友追踪。渐渐就知道了，囚犯入狱所犯的罪行都是捏造的。主人公也是命大，就这样也能活到最后。看来，大部分的读者都愿意逃离现实，来接受虚假情节的薰陶。

有兴趣可以自己看，我打3.8/5的分数。附上我看kindle时候摘抄的一些句子。

Valdez had always subscribed to the belief that the course of a person’s life is dictated by a handful of choices. These aren’t necessarily right or wrong decisions, but each of them plots a different path.

There are so many ‘ifs’ and ‘buts’ and ‘maybes’, but only a handful of them had ever really counted, because they had the power to change a life.

People talk about there being sliding doors or forks in the road when lives take a different course. Sometimes it’s only later, in retrospect, that we recognise we even had a choice.

Marcie yells over her shoulder. ‘Ma! It’s the Feds.’ This girl watches too much TV.

It’s like taking a kid to church and Sunday school, giving him a faith he can accept or reject.

Audie holds up his left arm, which is still in a sling. ‘My NBA career is through.’ ‘You white guys can’t jump anyways.’

All my life people have been putting themselves out for me and I don’t know what I ever did to deserve saving.’

We get given our faces, thinks Audie, but we inherit our lives, our happiness and our unhappiness. Some get a lot, some get a little. Some savour every morsel and suck the marrow out of every bone. We take pleasure in the sound of rain, the smell of cut grass, the smiles of strangers, the feeling of dawn on a hot day. We learn things and realise we can never know more than we don’t know. We catch love like a cold and cling to it like wreckage in a storm.

‘Life is short. Love is vast. Live like there’s no tomorrow.’