作者在50多歲前的生活是含著金湯匙的日子，但在被JWT解僱之 後，生活開始走下坡，我看著覺得心驚，想像如果自己繼續做上班族 到50多歲，是不是也會是這樣的光景?
書中敘述著作者64歲時進入星巴克工作，間以交錯回憶一路走 來的光鮮亮麗日子，完全被工作佔滿的家庭生活，潛在的傲氣以致於 未能實際的"過生活"，與在星巴克時落入人間的生活互相對比。
其中有些篇章頗令人動容，如他與星巴克夥伴的工作關係，第一次体 會到工作即尊嚴， 第一次非上流社會非白裔的人的下屬，與市井小民平起平坐，還有因 為日子過的真實了而與兒女的互動更加緊密…把本書當做是一本休閒 小說來看還不錯，聽說Tom Hanks已經打算把原著改為電影，他演起來應該是非常生動。
作者所形容的星巴克工作，真的讓我很驚訝原來星巴克是個如此有員 工文化的公司，制度也十分的完善，也許閒暇之餘該來去星巴克打個 工体驗一下。
換個角度想，我對於作者為什麼位居高階長達25年，卻因為不擅理 財導致在被解僱之後生活一落千丈的情景，這一點才是讓我覺得十分 驚恐的…也許現在我也該想想自己未來的20年要如何好好的過生活 ，我希望20年後自己能夠過著健康知足而隨心所欲的日子。
書名：有錢人想的和你不一樣 購買
閱讀日期：2009/1/18
出乎我的意料之外，這本書在看完之後被我歸類為心理建設類的書，它很清楚的寫出了在心境上應做什麼樣的調整，才能成為有錢人，跟坊間教讀者用記帳，投資股票基金等方法有很大的不同。
主要觀點在於17個調整自我心理設定來積極成為有錢人， 用各種自我激勵的方式，相信自己可以成為 xxx的人； 如果說秘密是鼓勵"心想事成"的心理書，那這本書應該是非常專注於如何"心想富貴"的心理書。
我打算再讀一次而且照著它的方法來重新設定自己的財富心理! :)
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Because he is afraid those kids might get close to the cliff and fall.
He, as a teenager himself can understand how they feel lost sometimes,
can be the one to help them, stop them from falling down the cliff.
One day I went out dinner with friends, I saw a waiter-boy in the
restaurant. The boy who has trendy hair style, unique, self-express
dress code, stood there waiting for the next customer to serve.
Somehow I can see the fear and in-confident in his eyes. At that
moment, the feeling of wanting to help him strike me, I felt that he
should have someone to help him find his self-esteem and confidence,
or to help him find the ability of finding himself.
Thinking further, I am an adult now and sometimes I feel that I am
lost in the flood too. The flood of capitalism society, eager to be
successful, eager to please everyone, eager to get self-recognition,
struggle to fit in people's expectation. I, myself is lost too. The
where is my Catcher in the Rye?
還有一個厲害的地方就是作者描寫人物景的功力，活靈活現的可以想像出書中各個人物的模樣，聞到甜酸氣味，看到江南景物（可惜我不會手繪，不然應該可以照著作者的描述畫出一個個的人形）。
近幾次看中國作家寫的書，總覺他們的用字優美典雅，在形容風光景色，人的輪廓神情，心中的情感，都十分的細膩且帶了那麼點詩意；
這種閱讀樂趣跟看翻譯小說無法取得的。翻譯小說大抵比較白話，我曾嚐試把翻譯小說原文跟譯文相較，發現原文的寫法真能看出作者的原意，嗅到字句間及文化上的差異，例如：英國那種有點無耐又笑翻肚子的幽默（Bridget
Jone's Diary I)，美國作家寫生活及人作的方式（The Brooklyn
Follies)，英國維多利亞式的詭異陰沈的莊園生活（The Thirteenth Tale) 。
相對的，如果把詞彙優美的中文小說翻成英文，也多少是要少了那麼些神韻的，我覺自己還真 lucky 可以閱讀中文這種精闢的語文 :D。
I finished it on Feb.. It's a good story and I like it. It did inspire
me by understanding that our lives are not infinite. No matter how
much one cares or fights about, it would all become ashes and dust
after some decades after we vanished from this world. It's fancy to
follow the plot to go into Miss Winter's old time story and come back
to reality with Margret. But somehow I am not quite satisfied with it
as the story comes to and end. I think there must be some more details
about Margret, e.g. her connection with the doctor, her mother.
Notes:
Page 50: what better way to get to know someone than through her
choice and treatment of books?
Page 55: Politeness. Now, there's a poor man's virtue if ever there
was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to
know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent
to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've
failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what
other people think about them.
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