Xiao Wang: Yes. I also want to write book reviews recently. I'm a little envious of the book reviews on Douban!
Xiao Zhang: It shouldn't be difficult to write a book review. Isn't this how we feel after watching it?
Xiao Wang: Really? ! I don't think it's that simple. If book review is a reflection on reading, why are there two other names and they are really different?
Xiao Zhang: Then tell me, how to tell the difference?
Xiao Wang: Actually, I don't know.
Are you learning to write book reviews? Have you ever encountered the same confusion?
In the era of lifelong learning and the increasing popularity of mobile Internet, are we in a state of "always online, constantly disturbed and shallow thinking"? The state of. In the face of book reviews and post-reading, shallow thinking will make us feel that "it's almost enough."
There are some things that we are used to or commonplace, and we rush to the next "turn a blind eye" without even giving ourselves a chance to think.
What are the similarities and differences between reading and book review?
Here's the problem. I'm happy.
After reading it, feel after reading it. What about the book review? Comment after reading it.
A. reading is the premise of writing.
So what is reading? Theme reading, fast reading, open-book reading and so on are popular now. Personally, I think that these reading methods, which are born in the background of the new era, should belong to the method of using books, that is, how to use information on the basis of reading the original text.
Reading returns to the standard, that is, what is reading itself?
As a representative of western reception aesthetics, giselle and others regard reading as a living interactive relationship between text (works) and readers. It has levels, the first level is language reading, the second level is aesthetics, and the third level is literary criticism.
Give a simple example, such as this word:
Know the words, know the general idea, stay in the spring, and miss your heart. This is language reading.
If you can imagine in your mind the lush willows, dancing apricot flowers and people eager to try in spring, and then realize the beauty of poetry, it is an appreciation of beauty.
Finally, if we can comment on the image, realm and creation gains and losses of Ci, it will rise to the level of literary criticism.
Just like peeling chestnuts, the outermost layer is a prickly shell, which is easy to break if it is properly used; The second layer is hard shell, which looks smooth but not easy to peel off; The third layer is a thin film, which seems to be the weakest and difficult to peel off.
Whether reading a single article or a work, readers need to have a dialogue with the text (work). Reading great works is talking to great people. Understand the thoughts, emotions, knowledge, ideas and values of the work in the dialogue, discover its truth, goodness and beauty, and arouse readers' feelings, experiences, ideas, opinions and comments.
As writing, it becomes a feeling of reading and book review.
B. all take the text (work) as the perceptual object.
When a work does not enter the reader's reading process, it is not a real work. From this perspective, readers' reading weight should be considered in the post-reading writing and book review writing of the new media platform. Many readers have great influence, which proves the success of writing to some extent.
After reading a book and a book review, you can't make it up out of thin air.
This is far from writing a novel.
Imagination and imaginary fiction do not seem to work in the writing of post-reading and book review. Without reading the language of the work, the feeling of reading is very good, and it is a tree without roots; Lack of appreciation of the emotional beauty and artistic beauty of the works and the evaluation of the knowledge, ideas, value points and structure of the works make a successful book review a passive water.
Give an example of each.
Read the fable "The Farmer and the Snake" and write "Does a snake really bite its hand?" -reading "Feeling" is the text "The snake is frightened, but it is the Soviet Union. Because of its instinct, it bit the farmer with its teeth and killed it. " After reading the sentence carefully, I felt it.
Li, known as one of the three pillars of literary criticism of Ta Kung Pao, has an article "Evaluation of Mr. Lao She's Divorce". From now on, perhaps Li Lao's evaluation is dull, but the research on his works is serious and solid.
C. everything is about feeling.
Without feelings, there is no brain after reading.
Suppose I just repeat the original text and can't see the author's feelings, especially if I express my views in connection with social reality, I will have a false feeling after reading an article. So, the key is "feeling"!
What about the book review? Broadly speaking, book reviews are the crowning touch.
Even an "introductory" book review mainly introduces the original text of the book, and the author needs to choose the content and attract people with his own introduction.
How can we attract people? Show your unique point of view in the introduction.
A. write a post-reading feeling, and read a wider range of objects; Writing is more free; Concentrate on feeling.
As long as it is a written work, from voluminous novels to fables or poems, you can write down your own thoughts after reading it.
The feeling after reading can be deep, shallow, emotional or rational, depending on the author's emotional and rational intervention in the reading process.
In writing skills, the feeling after reading focuses on finding a feeling point.
An article can give birth to many feelings. But the author usually can only discuss one center, and can't cover everything.
Therefore, it is necessary to screen and compare, find a feeling point with the deepest feeling, the latest angle and the most realistic pertinence, write it out easily, serve as the writing center, and then spread it into words.
If you read The Old Man and the Sea (by Hemingway), you may have all kinds of feelings, either the fighting spirit of the old man moved you, or the old man's repeated blows at sea moved you, or the old man dragged a fish skeleton back to the shore to make you think deeply. Can organize different feelings.
B. Book reviews are usually limited to reviews of books; The writing is more fixed and the requirements are more clear; Focus on commenting.
Although it can be divided into introductory book review, review book review and comprehensive book review. Among them, the comprehensive book review, which is commonly known as the "book list" at present, is to string many books together for comments.
No matter what kind of book review, as its name implies, it is an article that introduces, comments and studies books, which can convey the information of cultural publishing and academic research to readers. Of course, ordinary readers don't necessarily need to write book reviews at the research level.
The key to book review is to give more professional attention, or to express opinions on the knowledge and ideas involved in the book, or to comment on the artistic characteristics of the writing style, and to grasp some of them.
Book review has a long history. During the Western Han Dynasty, in the process of collating books, Liu wrote a narrative, one for each book, and summarized the narrative into Bielu, which is the content of the book summary and contains the bud of book review.
Book review is like a mirror, reflecting the author's insight, thinking level and appreciation ability.
1. Choose the right books according to your hobbies and professional expertise.
Don't blindly follow the trend. You may be uncomfortable with the book reviewed by the big coffee, and the evaluation is very good.
After all, book reviews are based on our ability to comment. Therefore, fundamentally speaking, writing book reviews should start with improving one's self-cultivation in all aspects, especially the level of theoretical thinking.
2. Find out the value and characteristics of books through reading and intensive reading.
If you choose the right book, you can read the selected book. You can browse the whole book the first time and read it carefully the second time.
In particular, it is very important to grasp the key chapters and read them carefully.
How to identify important chapters is related to the depth of professional knowledge and recognition ability of book reviewers; The key is to find out the characteristics and value of this book.
It's like choosing the biggest and most beautiful one from a pile of pearls and jewels.
For example, before writing the article "Story Thinking, How Your Writing Moves People's Feelings", I read the book "Story Thinking" and found that "Story Thinking can create strength" and "Story Thinking is on an equal footing with dialectical thinking and rational thinking". In my opinion, this is the biggest highlight of the book.
Grasping this point can be interpreted as writing.