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中国有话叫人在做，天在看；小说里所说，亦如是。 每当我们碰上极其nice的人，会默默的在心里请上帝继续保佑Ta和家人；每当碰上显得不怎么nice的人，默默的说，生活就是这样。我们应不惮以最大善意揣测Ta.
这本书开首诗中的Stars, 也许就是God和佛祖？
The stars shine down And watch us live Our little lives and weep for us.
—MONET NODLEHS
在我们国家房价快速增长的时候，读这部几十年前老谢的作品，显得那么有感觉。因为主人公是位地产大亨。
她每天凌晨五点起床锻炼，5:00 A.M. Workout with trainer。就象曾经的我和想象中未来的我。
“It’s pretty true, isn’t it? You’ve put up buildings all over this fair country of ours. You own apartment buildings, office buildings, a hotel chain…How do you do it?”这句对主人公的描述，让我想起了他们目前的总统。有一次看到一张图片，一很高的楼上，写着Trump,大概就是这种富可敌国的地产大亨吧。
再往下看，看她对童年的描述。My grandfather owned a great deal of land in Scotland, and my father acquired more. He was a very wealthy man. We still have our castle there near Loch Morlich. When I was eight years old, I had my own horse, my dresses were bought in London, we lived in an enormous house with a lot of servants. It was a fairy tale life for a little girl. 突然觉得，她就是Trump的女儿吧，哈哈。
可是这样的prologue过了后，回到他出生地，出生日期，才知道，其实她是在”撒谎“。 她的父亲有多可怜，她有多么缺父爱。Lara Cameron……
但她在逆境中成长，遇到贵人，再成长，一步步地走过来了。当写到她赚到了第一桶金，3 million dollars时。她到了芝加哥。
她听过的故事就如现在我们读过的书。历史的惨痛，圈地运动，羊吃人。
Weel, it began in the year 1792, and it went on for more than sixty years. At first they called it Bliadhna nan Co-arach—The Year of the Sheep. The landowners in the Highlands had decided that their land would be more profitable with sheep than with tenant farmers, so they brought flocks of sheep into the Highlands and found that they could survive the cold winters. That was when the clearances began.
In 1976 there was a successful Israeli raid on Entebbe, and Mao Zedong died, and James Earl Carter, Jr., was elected President of the United States.
我喜欢老谢是他一开始就很重视中国，这些在他眼里的大事。
In 1975 the movie Jaws swept the country, and people stopped going into the ocean. The world population passed four billion, reduced by one when Teamster President James Hoffa disappeared. When Lara heard the four billion population figure, she said to Keller, “Do you have any idea how much housing that would require?”
人口过了4亿。这得多少房啊？
她也开始了自己的”圈地运动“ ，但当她容忍，唯一一个咖啡店继续存在时，让人想起了《胡雪岩》，容忍自己的大宅子旁，那家”钉子户“。 感动。
Lara turned to the architect. “I have a question for you.” She looked down at the plans spread out on the table and pointed to the southwest corner of the drawing. “What if we built a setback here, eliminated this little area and let the coffee shop stay? Could the building still be put up?”
当她从芝加哥要向New York进发时，提到了当地的地产大亨，其中就有Donald Trump .不知道此trump 是否彼trump.霍。
New York was in the middle of a building boom, and it was peopled by real estate giants—the Zeckendorfs, Harry Helmsley, Donald Trump, the Urises, and the Rudins.
多少年前，老谢的书里都写了，房子Location location location, 还有人口数量，嘿嘿。书评不用写完了，已经太长……
欲知后事如何，且听下篇分解！
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