When I was about 30 years old, I came to an end reading the ancient classics, and the reason why this was because I met someone who also loved reading.

He's not like me.

In fact, this is normal, every reader's hobbies are different, and it is of course normal to be different. The reason why I specifically say that it is different here is because it has influenced my reading direction.

The first influence was that he bought books with a strong focus on publishers. I learned from him that buying a book is not just about buying a book just by looking at the title, and that the things published by different publishing houses are different, even worlds apart. Especially for the masterpieces of world literature, the translation of books published by each publishing house is different. I hadn't paid attention to that before. Later, I went out of my way to buy different versions of the book "Murder on the Orient Express", compared it, and found that this was indeed the case. The translation of books published by some publishing houses is obviously blunt, and even my level of English can see that the translation is not professional, if not up to the professional level of Mr. Mei Yi's translation of "How Steel is Made", at least there can be no obvious mistakes.

After discovering that the gap between different editions of different publishers could reach such a big one, I began to pay attention to the edition when I bought a book again, and sometimes I would rather not buy it first if the version was not good. At the same time, in pursuit of perfection, I decided to carry out a major purge of the original bad editions and resolutely replace them, such as the world literature masterpieces published by a certain literary publishing house that I had already bought dozens of copies, and eliminated them all.

The second effect was that he expanded my reading.

People who also like to read talk about reading the most, of course, reading.

When he learned that I had been reading only ancient classics, he reminded me that the works of many contemporary writers were also good and worth reading. and recommended to me a set of "National Novel Award Winning and Unsuccessful Masterpieces and Criticisms" that was being sold at Daqing Xinhua Bookstore at that time. This set of books is divided into short story volumes and novella volumes, with a total of four books in each volume.

Reading is a rewarding experience..

I learned that there are some good works and some good writers in contemporary literature.

His name is Xue Zhizhi. I met at the gas company.

I haven't been in touch for a long time, and I don't know what he reads now.

This is the set of "National Novel Award Winning and Unsuccessful Masterpieces and Criticisms", I didn't expect that there was a letter and greeting card from her at the same table in the book, how did I put it here? It's good that Madame doesn't read what I write carefully.

With my character, I began the era of reading the works of contemporary writers.

It's a pretty clueless thing.

The first problem is still huge, and I can only fumble around.

At that time, there was naturally no search engine such as Baidu, which could easily search for books, so I could only find books to read by myself, and I also bought books such as "One Hundred Books for Young People Must Read" as a reference.

The first thing to read is naturally the chapters in the four "National Novel Award Winning and Unsuccessful Masterpieces and Criticisms" that I bought at Daqing Xinhua Bookstore as soon as I accepted the recommendation, such as Liu Xinwu's "Class Teacher", Chen Rong's "People to Middle Age" and so on. At that time, I had not yet developed the habit of writing my thoughts on the book and writing the date after reading it, so I did not reflect when I read it, and I don't know which articles I read. I can't remember it at all. It's back to the mode of buying and reading when I was a child, but compared to when I was a child, I can choose a lot more books now, but the confusion is the same.

Because I became interested in the version of the book, I bought the "Nine Yuan Series" by the People's Literature Publishing House, which included "Life" by Mr. Lu Yao.

I've always thought that this kind of book series is better, similar to the previous "Pentagon Series", the money is not much, the selection of materials is extensive, and the subject matter is rich, involving human history, astronomy and geography, and many contents closely related to people's lives, although due to space, it is impossible to expand too much, but it is enough for people who do not know to have a preliminary understanding, if you find that it is your favorite subject, you can expand your reading.

It wasn't just because of Life that I started reading Ordinary World, because a lot of people talked about it when I got to the gas company, and it was as if I couldn't keep up with the trend without reading it.

It stands to reason that I should have read it a long time ago, but at that time, I was in the period of reading ancient classics, and I was not very interested in contemporary literature, so although I often heard people talking about this book, I still didn't have any idea of reading it. It took at least a decade before I started watching.

I've watched "Ordinary World" three times. Three editions published by three different publishing houses. I've had these four versions.

It's not that I have a lot of money and I don't have a lot of money. The first version I bought and read for the first time was a set of five copies of the "Lu Yao Anthology" hardcover published by Shaanxi People's Publishing House (in fact, I don't like hardcovers, because books are for reading, hardcover picks up and sinks, and there are few hardcover hardcover and pages that are glued particularly firmly, and they will decompose when they look at it, so hardcover is suitable for bookshelf learning, not suitable for reading. Of course, the hardcover is expensive is also an important reason, the price of a hardcover is almost enough to buy two paperbacks, the cost performance is too poor), the first two volumes are his novellas and essays, etc., the last three volumes are "Ordinary World", now there are only one or two volumes left, and the last three volumes are not known to have been borrowed by whom.

The second time I looked at the version published by the People's Literature Publishing House with a blue base map in the middle. Only the third volume remains, and the first two are gone. This person is too, you said that you either take all three volumes, or return the first two volumes, and we will not have a complete set of either of them.

The third time is the open version in the middle, which is also published by the People's Literature Publishing House, this set of old books bought on the second floor of the antique city, and later borrowed by my colleague Hu Shanmei and accidentally got wet, she bought a new set and returned it (she is one of the few good comrades who borrowed old books and got wet to buy a new set of books and returned them, everyone should learn from her), it is the fourth version that I had for a short time, the version published by BJ October Literature and Art Publishing House on the far right in the picture, Before I could see this version, I asked her to change back to the one she got wet, for the specific reason in verse 7.

Although the books I read during this period were very miscellaneous, they also had a general context. It is mainly divided into the following categories.

When I was in the Natural Gas Youth League Committee, Secretary Yang Wenfeng recommended to me three books, "The Water of the Waves", "Once in the World" and "Chinese Painting", which made me interested in this kind of novel, and later read Lu Tianming's "Snow Without a Trace", Ke Yunlu's "Year of the Dragon Archive" who wrote "New Star", Zhou Meisen's "Made in China", "National Cadres", etc., Wang Xiaofang's "Mayor's Secretary" and "Director of the Beijing Office" series, Xiao Renfu's "Confidant", "Intention", "Treatment", etc., Gao He's "Reception Director" and "Director" And a large number of similar series of novels. These are basically officialdom novels. There is a small episode here, after reading nearly 100 officialdom novels, I have a deeper understanding of this circle that I have given up, and sometimes I can also refer to the people's hearts when analyzed in reality, and I can also see the general direction of some events, so that my wife has said several times that if I want to take this road, it should be good.

I always told her very seriously, no.

The reason why I understand it very well now is because I am from the perspective of an outsider, if I am an insider, I may not be able to understand this, and people can only really understand the root of this after giving up something. Then I told her a story, and that story was the third of three modern essays that had a profound impact on me.

This is a story I copied from my diary in 1993, and the source is no longer available.

The content is about the tragedy of a monkey.

In India, monkeys are caught in a special box. Put delicious nuts in the box, and make a small opening in the box, just enough to insert the monkey's front paws, but as long as the monkey grasps the nuts, its paws will not be able to pull out. In this way, it will either lay down the fruit and continue its freedom, or it will hold on to the fruit and wait to be packed. Of course, there are many monkeys who hold on to the fruit, or the hunter would not have to get this box.

In fact, people are the same, there are nuts that we would rather die for.

Although we also know that this nut was put in it by someone else, and we know that there is no free lunch in the world, we are still as unavoidable as monkeys in this situation.

So I told my wife that because I let go, I could see better from an outsider's point of view, and if I didn't let go, maybe I would be like a monkey, or maybe even worse, I would be repeatedly attracted to different nuts and be caught many times, at least not myself.

Because I saw it more clearly, I felt that officialdom was really not worth the effort.

Writing here, I think another metaphor about the monkey is very appropriate, in fact, each of us is in the officialdom, and those who do not have the title of X chief are also there, they all climb up on a tree, look up at a cold ass, and look down at a flattering smile. Although it is a bit disrespectful to others, it still makes sense. When chatting with my wife, I also summarized it in more concise words, in fact, there is nothing mysterious about officialdom, just like our lives, each of us can manage some people in this world, and at the same time be managed by some people. No matter how hard you try, you are also in charge of some people, and at the same time you are managed by some new people. Continue to work hard, or manage some people, and at the same time be managed by some new people......

It is impossible to jump out of the essence of this tube and the tube.

No matter how high the monkey climbs, there are new high-level monkeys in charge of it.

In reality, we may be able to buy better clothes, live in bigger houses, and drive better cars...... But you will find that there is always something better waiting for you.

In fact, the joy is the same. The cleaning aunt bought a new clothes on sale at the morning market, and the joy of wearing them was not necessarily worse than the limited edition clothes that movie stars bought on New York's Fifth Avenue.

Ran away again.

Another series I read is the War series. It's a subject I've loved since I was a kid. What I read down this time is naturally different from the war when I was a child, who simply fought and caught spies.

This time, I read not only Mr. Wang Shuzeng's "Korean War" and "Liberation War" in the traditional sense, Du Liang's "Bright Sword", Xu Guixiang's "The Sky of History", Liu Yaya's "Two Generations of Romance", but also "The Wind" and "Secret Calculation" that describe the Mai family in the field of decipherment that I have never been familiar with, and "Ice is Sleeping Water" in the field of national security (I have recommended Liu Meng's book to many friends who are short of books, and they basically said that they all said it was good, but at the same time said that they felt a little heavy.) It should be heavy, I have said from the bottom of my heart more than once: how can there be so many years of quiet, but someone carries the weight for you, I suggest more friends to read this book), Liu Meng's "Wolf Teeth", "The Last Bullet Left for Me", "Sharp Knife Unsheathed" in the field of special forces, Lan Xiaolong's "My Regiment Commander, My Regiment", Zhu Zhaobin and others wrote "Seventy-Seven Death Notices", "Soldier Assault" that does not abandon and does not give up, "Bullet Marks" and "Thorns" of the Dancing Enchantress of the Bloody Army, etc., plus " The First (234) Field Army" and "Bright Sword Changjin Lake" and a large number of books on war themes that are more documentary and realistic...... Keep your hands on it!

Another series I read is the Mao Dun Literature Award series that I paid attention to because of "Ordinary World".

There is also the biography category.

Actually, I've never been that keen on celebrity biographical articles. I've always believed that no one (not even myself) can write about a person's success. Of course, those who can produce biographies are successful people, and there will never be a publisher who can only quietly check the double-digit reading number for myself to write this biography without having to publish it for me at my own expense.

I have always been convinced that no matter what kind of success is basically unrepeatable, it is impossible for the author to write the truth.

If the successful person writes it himself, he will definitely prefer the glory of his own five levels and six generals, and will not write about the experience of Maicheng, and some will exaggerate their abilities and weaken the original social environment and background, and dilute or even avoid talking about the resources that they have intentionally or unintentionally obtained that are enviable to ordinary people. If it is a biography written by someone else, because it is impossible for him to live with the protagonist, it is also a comprehensive variety of news, and after a few times, you can imagine how credible it is.

In fact, this kind of success can also be compared to my friends playing table tennis, I said that as long as you win, whether the summary is good or not depends on whether the writing is enough, because what you do in the end is right, your key ball defense is steady, your offense is not soft, you roll the net and wipe the edge is lucky, you beat the opponent to fail is crushing, you only win two points to withstand the pressure, and the rest of the words and phrases like good quality, proper application of skills and tactics, superb ball skills, etc., can find out the corresponding place and then use, As for whether you want to be modest, high-profile, or Versailles, it all depends on your mood.

Anyway, like the successful ones in the book, you are right to do whatever you say and do.

But if you are not enthusiastic, you are not enthusiastic, and if you want to know some people, you still have to watch.

I can only reflect on myself after reading it.

For example, Zhang Yimou's "Fate", Shi Yuzhu's "Shi Yuzhu's Entrepreneurial Thinking", Jackie Chan's "Thunderbolt", "The Legend of Jin Yong", "The Legend of Gu Long", "The Legend of Liang Yusheng" written by the Three Musketeers, "Bai Shuo" by Bai Yansong, "I Play Zhou Enlai" by Wang Tiecheng, "Penguin Fierce" by Tencent, etc......

There are also some management categories, such as Cheng Junyi's "Boiled Three Kingdoms", "Manage Like a Gardener", Yu Shiwei's "Winning in Execution" and so on......

There are also some historical themes, such as Mingyue's "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty.......

There are also a number of books in the Hundred Pulpits, such as "The Harmony in History......

There are also romance novels such as "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree......

There are also investment books like "Rich Dad, Poor Dad......

There are also inspirational books such as "I am a treasure......

As for the masterpieces of foreign literature, there are probably Dan Brown's series such as "The Da Vinci Code", Jules Verne's series such as "Journey to the Center of the Earth", as for "War and Peace", "Anna. Karenina" and other famous books that we recognized during school still read very little, and we can only attribute the reason to the fact that the names of the characters in foreign literary works are too difficult to remember, but we don't want to make myself talk to others about the topic of reading because of the lack of reading in this area, so I still bought a large number of such masterpieces, good editions and good publishers, and put them in the bookcase to occupy three large grids, at least to look a little learned.

And also......

If you write it down, it will become a book catalog.

Basically, that period was reading these kinds of books.

A lot!

It's miscellaneous!

Of course, it can also be said that it is very comprehensive, and I have read almost all the representative works of domestic literary genres that I can pay attention to at that time, so it is a bit immodest to say this, and I should add the four words I like.

Even though I've read so many books during this period, I'm still extremely picky!

The reason why I use these words is extremely critical is because I was dismissive of the online novels that had become popular at the time, just as I was not interested in contemporary literature when I first read ancient classics.

Until 2009!

The year 2009 also proved that I read these contemporary literature from the age of 30 to 40.

It took me ten years.

Ten years in the true golden age of life.

It was also a decade of accumulation for my limited literary pool.

It was definitely a rewarding decade.