Reading summary in the first half of 2021: Reading bad books is really harmful to the body

I read 30 books in the first half of this year. Among the books I have finished, I am not satisfied with many of them. I am still reading the books that I really fell in love with at first sight and I regretted seeing each other again, and I have been procrastinating for several months. Not finished reading.

The main thing is that although a good book is good and it is really enjoyable to read, in addition to happiness, there is also fear and pressure to finish reading it.

It’s easy to type out Zaan’s quotations immediately after reading a bad book, but before I finish reading a good book, I wonder: If I can’t read the entire two thousand words of such a good book, am I worthy of the author? I also worry that my experience will be too superficial, and I will not get what the author really wants to express.

Therefore, the more I like the books, the longer I put them off, resulting in the books I read in the first half of the year being average.

One fact is - if you want to read comfortably, your posture should hurt your body as much as possible.

Sitting with legs crossed to watch, Ge You lying down to watch, stretching his neck forward to watch, lying on the bed with his cheeks propped up to watch, in short, each one is more comfortable than the other, and each one is more harmful to the body than the other.

I read like this for thirty years until my spine collapsed.

Reading bad books is equivalent to sacrificing your time and health to authors who have no talent and sincerity. At the age of 25, you still have to spend your time on such people and remember the grave sin once.

So, the first summary is: have the courage to move towards good books and read with a relaxed mind. Reading one more bad book means less time to read a good book. Carve this sentence on your forehead and engrave it all over the sky.

Of course, I still read a few good books.

If I could only recommend three books in the first half of this year, it would definitely be

"Ghost" by Dostoevsky

Ted Chiang "Breathing"

Cioran's "Summary of Disintegration"

I have never been interested in the two mountains of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Dare to read, one reason is that the names are too long and difficult to remember, and the other reason is that Russian literature is too bitter, with ice and snow, orphans, servants, dilapidated attics, chapped palms... it is painful to think about it.

But I couldn’t resist the urging of my friends, and the power of top fans is infinite. I read "The Brothers Karamazov", "The Idiot" and "Ghost" successively, and finally chose "Ghost" which seemed to be relatively shorter.

(However, "Nedochka" is so short that I haven't even finished it. After writing this article, I decided to finish it before the end of June no matter what)

"Ghost" made me realize what Tuo's power is. Borges said that discovering Dostoyevsky is like discovering the sea and discovering love.

It's like going into the sea as soon as I learn how to swim. Tuo's book contains so much information that I can't help but take a break after reading dozens of pages. (This is the result of reading too many simple, unnutritious books)

But I discovered that it was difficult at first, but as long as you are immersed in it, Tuo is a profound soul universe. The paragraphs in the novels he wrote are long and dense, and each sentence is verbose but wonderful. The following paragraphs are excerpts:

"He is extremely stubborn, irritable, eats a lot, and is extremely afraid of atheism."

"It was also discovered that he had received a very good education Education; even some real talent. Of course, it doesn't take much knowledge to surprise people like us."

"Stepan Trofimovich is like anyone. Like an unconventional person, he needs an audience, and he also needs a feeling that he is fulfilling the lofty duty of ideological propaganda."

"He has always believed in one thing, that is, for her female heart. In other words, he was still charming, that is to say, not only as an exile or a famous scholar, but also as a handsome man. This belief that had made him proud and gratifying for twenty years was deeply rooted, and perhaps among all his beliefs, he was still charming. The most difficult thing to let go of is this belief.”

In addition, I started reading "Summary of Disintegration" in the past few days. I picked it up casually and saw that the translator praised Cioran in the preface. , skyrocketing.

My heart was full of disdain and doubt: No way? Is it really that good? Then why didn't I know? I want to see how good it is!

When I read the first article, I shed a lot of sweat for my ignorance. It’s so unique and I like it so much that I want to recite the whole text.

Then I started to give friends Amway constantly in WeChat groups, friend lists, Moments, and Weibo. Friends who read it were amazed.

"Summary of Disintegration" has concise writing, and every sentence is very precise and sharp. The light of wisdom radiates between the lines. After reading each article, it gradually shakes up my original common sense, judgment, thoughts and ideas. Three views.

All in all, it is an eye-opener and a spiritual journey. The following paragraphs are excerpts:

"Once people refuse to admit that ideas and concepts are interchangeable, bleeding will occur... Such people have so many ideals, their beliefs are so swollen that they are about to explode, and they still talk about it all the time. How they abandoned doubt and laziness - ah! these flaws are nobler than all their virtues - so they embarked on a path of perdition, plunged into history, into this flat vulgarity and apocalyptic obscenity. A mixture..."

"There is no more dangerous person than one who has suffered for a belief...Suffering, far from diminishing the desire for power, intensifies it; so , the spirit feels much more at home in a society of braggarts than in a world of martyrs; nothing disgusts it more than the sight of dying for an idea... It has had enough of excellence and killing, and just wants to To dream of a cosmic country boredom, a history so slow that even doubt is an event, and hope a disaster."

"And love - It's just the meeting of two balls of saliva... All emotions are extracted from the misery of the secretion glands."

Xiao Han's curse is really powerful!

Everyone else is: Love is the scream of the soul!

Xiao Ran: You two are making a lot of noise.

Let me imitate a Cioran curse: It is a biological scandal that you were born.

Halfway through "Summary of Disintegration", I suddenly realized that perhaps Cioran's disdain for religious fanaticism and the philosophical market was due to the fact that he was not as widely accepted and famous as Plato and Hegel. One reason?

How can human beings in this "epileptic geometric space" tolerate the complete meaninglessness of life?

However, such a sharp-tongued Cio Ran also has this passage in the book:

"The whole universe turned into a Sunday afternoon... This is the definition of boring, And the end of the universe... Take away the curse on history, and history will be canceled immediately, and existence will unfold its fictional story in an absolute holiday.

...

The only function of love is to help us get through those cruel and incomparable Sunday afternoons, because this afternoon will damage us for a whole week-or even forever."

If the universe turned into a Sunday afternoon, only idle people would not kill people, but they are not part of the human race because sweat is not their strong point. ——Our involution society urgently needs to read Cioran to save lives.

There is indeed "Breath" by Ted Chiang, but I won't talk about it here. I plan to write a separate article to talk about wonderful science fiction.

So the second summary is: a good book is worth reading with your legs crossed. No matter how comfortable you are, after all, the moments when your body and mind are both greatly satisfied at the same time are becoming increasingly rare in life.

In June, I began to feel that taking electronic notes was not enough. It was far from enough to just underline, type comments, and share with one click. If the book is good enough, I don't want to trust electronic information, I trust handwritten notes, and that's the closest I get to the book.