刚开始听朋友介绍李效的小说《北京法源寺》时，心存疑问：一是看惯了李敖尖刻泼辣的时政论文，觉得作者似乎不适合写小说；二是作者十四岁上离开大陆，对北京的风物民情不像老舍那样感同身受。但在读了该书前两章后确实受到了某种震撼。那悲壮苍凉的悯忠寺，是中国从中古鼎盛 When I started to listen to my friend’s introduction of Li’s novel “Beijing Fayuan Temple,” I was in doubt as to whether I was accustomed to the poignant political thesis of Li Ao and found the author unsuited to writing novels. I left the author at the age of fourteen , The style of the people in Beijing do not like Laoshe empathy. But it did shock somehow after reading the first two chapters of the book. That tragic desolation Zhizhong Temple, China is the heyday of the Middle Ages