The End of The Fucking World
第一次见到这种自带消音效果的书名。
讲述的是一个分裂的故事，两个神经质的青少年，Alyssa从八岁以后就再也没有见到过父亲，继父是她为眼中钉，妈妈却不闻不问，于是她变得厌世且叛逆; James目睹母亲的自杀后，用他自己的话来说： 我很确定自己是个精神变态患者。九岁的时候，他将自己的手放入油锅，只为感觉到些什么，哪怕是痛苦。两人阴差阳错地相遇，谈起了牛头不对马嘴地恋爱。她努力让自己看起来酷，而他则筹划着怎么把她杀死。 Alyssa说，“我有时候害怕自己把事情搞得很糟”，但事实又何尝不如此。这两个没有学会如何与这个世界相处的少年，一起离家出走，闯入坏蛋的房子，经历了种种对抗与拉锯。比如，Alyssa看见大叔对James性骚扰，毫不犹豫为他出头，并敲诈了对方一笔; 为了救出差点被侵犯的Alyssa，James一刀结果了色狼……这本表面上又“丧”又燃，画风清奇，充满英国黑色幽默的半自传体绘本，实际上是对英国整个社会青少年教育培养的残破体制发起了挑战，同时也让作者查尔斯把圈内大大小小的奖拿了个遍。
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Charles Forsman is arguably（可论证地，正如可提出证据加以证明的那样） the most acclaimed talent to come out of the Center for Cartoon Studies. Forsman graduated in 2008 and is a two-time Ignatz Award-winner for his self-published minicomic, Snake Oil. The End of the Fucking World has been adapted into a television series for the UK's Channel 4, and will be distributed on Netflix.（注: Charles Forsman至截稿前还没有百度词条，作者简介整理自亚马逊。）
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As all we know, morbid psychology comes from the shadow of family, which causes the hearts of stern people（like Alyssa and James）tend to have a lot of pain.
Apparently, the protagonists in the book are totally “heterogeneous” in society, but they also have a soft heart essentially. You can see Alyssa, a girl with a foul-mouthed voice, would cry and say, "James, can you hold me?”
Then James who wants to kill her put his knife away.
“I learned the truth at 17
that love was meant for beauty queens
and those of us with ravaged faces
lacking in the social graces
desperately remained at home
inventing lovers on the phone”
Quoted from the song At Seventeen
As the song sings, teenagers are always sensitive, which needs social concern and understanding. In addition, teenagers’ own groping and learning are also very important for overcoming difficult times.
It is undeniable that nowadays parents and their children seem to be more difficult to communicate with each other. The rapid development of science and technology contributes to their hiding behind the network.
In the course of time, everyone more or less suffers from social phobia, which lets the bad emotions take over and brings out a lot of physiological problems.
I admire Alyssa’s courage, as she smashed her phone and took James away from that repressive town.
Human nature is a complex thing, and the book has been trying hard to portray it.
It turns out that James wasn't so cool and cruel, and he didn't know what to do after killing someone, like ordinary kids.
It turns out that Alyssa wasn’t so fearless, would want to escape from responsibility and run away.
Naked, The End of The Fucking World shows the fears and confusion of teenagers in the present society, and uncovers the scars they have not yet crusted.
The youth described in the book brings a throb to adult people. Opposing Chicken Soup for the Soul coincides with our heart is a double negative.
As so often happens, this little story has a twist in the tail. James was killed by police on the beach at his 18th birthday. I feel so sorry for him. Fortunately, he understands what people mean to each other, though he is not mature enough. From my perspective, this is the true youth where we make mistakes again and again, but can always find the best of ourselves.