If they've got my book there, I think "Well, this is an insult! Somebody didn't want to keep my book." But if it's not there, I feel it's an insult too.

如果他们把我的书放在那里，我会想：“好吧，这是一种侮辱！有人不想留着我的书。”但如果书不在那，我觉得这也是一种侮辱。

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If they've got my book there, I think, "Well, this is an insult! Somebody didn't want to keep my book!" But if it's not there, I feel it's an insult too.

如果他们把我的书放在那里，我想，“好吧，这是一种侮辱！有人不想要我的书！”但如果它不在那，我觉得这也是一种侮辱。

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This made the man feel bad. So he was relieved to read in my book “You Just Don’t Understand” (Ballantine, 1990) that doing things together can be a comfort in itself, another way to show caring.

这件事让他觉得很不好受，所以当他读我的书《你就是不懂：男人与女人的交谈》（百龄坛出版 1990），里面有一句话，“一起做一件事本身就是一种安慰，一种表示关切的方式”，他释怀了。

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Professor X is an adjunct, but he is also a dedicated teacher, and anyone reading his book will feel that his students respect this.

NEWYORKER: Live and Learn

Ms Miller's ear for the language, both black and white, her eye for gesture and pose, above all her feel for the bitter clarity of adolescence, make this a remarkable book.

ECONOMIST: First novels

Of course, this is related to the raw, almost Warholian feel of the book.

NEWYORKER: True Lives