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Recently, a friend approached me about his reading.
He used to only like to play games, and somehow he liked to read books in recent years.
Friend: According to the data, in 2020, the per capita paper book reading volume of adult citizens in China is 4.70, the per capita e-book reading volume is 3.29, and 11.6% of the nationals read 10 (and above) paper books per year.
Me: I think in this data, minors will read a little more (paper books), and their first priority is to learn and read. Adults, on the other hand, have less access to books than exams and interests. In addition, even if we read, the way is not only paper books, we also spend a lot of time every day reading information on the screen, such as public accounts, Weibo, Zhihu and so on. If the purpose of reading is to learn, it is not limited to text, but also includes various audio, video, etc., so that the information received has been a lot. So, the amount of reading (on paper) doesn't represent everything.
Friend (speechless): ...
Me: If you only talk about paper books, you can still read this amount.
Friend (satisfied): Brother fought to see 30 copies years ago.
Me: You read as a KPI is a bit funny, what do you do with the assessment?
Friend: Counting the numbers, purely as motivation, like how many movies you've "watched" on Douban markers.
Me: Cough cough... As if there is some truth in that, so let's share your book list?
Friend: You share it first!
After he said this, I recalled the books I read this year, and I read less of them, and even fewer of them felt good after reading them. Among them, most of them are magazines, paper books may not have 10 copies, no, there should be a discount, and 5 books after reading are not available. When I think about it, I want to become a transparent color.
The first book I read this year was Yu Hua's new work "Wencheng", which I bought when I came out and read it a week later. Yu Hua is one of my favorite writers, and the work into the pit is "Alive", and after reading it that year, I felt quite uncomfortable inside, because the protagonist's family in the book was written to death by Yu Hua in various ways. Finally he said, "Man lives only to live, not because of anything." I guess this sentence, people of different ages will feel different when they read it, and it is estimated that in another ten years, I will turn it out and read it again. But I'm not going to read it now because it's too heavy to read.
"Alive" is obviously an excellent book, and its excellent degree ranks second in the Douban Books Top250.
And "Wencheng", as Yu Hua's latest work, will give people a kind of "just like this?" after reading it. "The feeling, the feeling that Yu Hua did not play to full strength, the feeling that "Wencheng" is written by Yu Hua with half of his strength. It may also be that our expectations of Yu Hua are too high, obviously we are looking forward to "Alive 2.0", and as a result, you wrote a copy of "Alive 0.5", is it suspected of being lazy?
"Wencheng" is generally easy to read and easy to read, and there are two angles to expound (this part is quite interesting), but this story is too stable, the theme is not so sharp, just look at the rating.
After watching "Alive", I will still recommend you to watch "Wencheng". Master's work, see one less book (True Incense Warning). Just like Mo Yan's "Late Ripening Man" published last year, buy it.
Recently, Jia Zhangke's documentary "Swim Until the Sea Turns Blue", in which the part of interviewing Yu Hua is quite interesting and can be seen.
Then the second book is "Methods of Communication".
The author is the CEO of Luo Zhenyu's team that "got" off the flowers, and the communication skills described in this book are very practical and solid dry goods. If you need to improve and strengthen your communication skills, it is highly recommended to start, there are ready-made communication gadgets that can be used, if you speak easily to offend people or let the air sink into silence, it is very suitable for reading.
The third book is "The Outsider", douban books top 250 ranked nineteenth.
The Outsider is Camus's masterpiece. A novel that can be read in one day, the story is very simple, a little absurd, better than the height of thought. Are you an "outsider" in your life? Reading it again may not be easy to understand, and can make the reader reminisce for a long time.
The good books I have read this year are mainly the above three, most of the others are magazines, such as "China National Geographic" and "Readers (Overseas Edition)" ordered last year, and some of the topics of "Chinese Heritage" are also quite interesting (surname, first name, zodiac sign, pattern, color and other topics). In addition, recently planted grass Mook "Reading Library", bought 2 issues, each issue of the integration of several articles, personally feel really good, you can pay attention to it.
A long time ago I heard a radio station, the host asked the little girl, if you are reading, reading with relish, then friends come to you to play, do you choose to continue reading or go out to play? At that time, I thought this little girl would definitely say, read! - This answer will meet my expectations.
As a result, the little girl said: Of course, it is going to go out and play.
The host asked curiously: Isn't it reading?
Little girl: Of course not, reading is so boring, how fun it is to hang out with friends!
Moderator (wanted to boot): But...
The little girl asked: Wait, if I say reading, will you ask me why I don't go out to play?
Moderator (pause): There is a possibility...
Little girl: That's right...
I guessed she was going to say a few words of chicken soup next, so she quickly turned off the radio. I can't imagine that at this moment, the button of memory was suddenly pressed, and a line of text gradually appeared in front of me, as the end of the brain to make up the dialogue of that year:
Reading books should be a common thing.
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Plant grass in China National Geographic Magazine
My reading history
Late bloomers should not hide in hidden corners. | Mo Yan "Late Maturing Man"
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