This book review was entrusted by an unfamiliar book friend. When he asked me for help, it was all emotional, so I casually replied. You can't break your promise, you can only talk about your own feelings, so it's really helpless to write a book review for the Skin.
In the book introduction of Skin, there is a saying: The style of the anthology is calm, which expresses the deep thinking of this generation of young people who have inflated their ideals but are deeply concerned about reality and have nowhere to live. I think that many people hold up this book because of the guidance of this "young man with swollen thoughts but nowhere to live".
"The ideal is full and the reality is skinny" has been popular for several years, and it is still active in many people's WeChat, Weibo and circle of friends today. This seemingly joking sentence can survive for so long because it speaks the hearts of many people.
Whether it's about fullness and skinny, or about ideals and reality, these seemingly contrasting words are connected in a sense. It is skinny to be plump and thin; Bony feeling is plump, so is ideal and reality. Ideal belongs to people who live in reality. Reality is faced by ideal people. As San Mao wrote in Dear San Mao, the ideal is the bumpy road that we step on step by step.
Reading "Skin" is about the author's life, and the stories engraved in the author's bones all come from the warmth and coldness of his human feelings.
Cai Chongda, as the most ordinary person, in this ordinary world, while experiencing suffering, enjoys the love, affection and friendship in the world. Those who regret, don't understand, sympathize with, or retreat from love, in ordinary days, eventually become memories and wealth, tempering the author's unyielding will and unruly soul.
In the process of reading this book, you will follow the words in the book or mourn or regret. After reading it, there will inevitably be some congestion in your heart, and the feeling that you can't lift your breath in your chest has become my final memory of this book.
Life may be a journey packed with a heart. Cai Chongda's "Skin" has the charm of turning a low loneliness into a lonely one. Those words that cut open the pain again and again make me feel lonely while enjoying it.
There is loneliness everywhere in the book. Old Mrs. Tai, disabled father, tenacious mother ... The old lady is lonely when she says, "The body is for use, not for serving". After the disabled father became a drag bottle from the pillar of the family, he was lonely.
If Atai is not lonely, we can't see Atai's detachment from life; If my father is not lonely, we can't see my father's desire to walk; If mother is not lonely, we can't see her persistence in building houses; If Zhang Meili wasn't lonely, she wouldn't commit suicide.
because of loneliness, we have to live with all kinds of masks. Especially when we combine "loneliness" with "middle-aged crisis", "youth confusion" and "juvenile confusion", it is easy to produce a sense of loneliness that "the soul has nowhere to put it", which is really a skin and multiple masks.
However, I don't think loneliness is a negative thing. Compared with loneliness, people without thoughts and souls scare me more. Only loneliness reflects the contradiction and confusion between people, and those souls of generate who are in pain are the most precious things for human beings.
It is loneliness that makes us realize that the most beautiful scenery in the world is people who live their own styles and systems.
everyone has his own story, and everyone's story is different. So even if I have more experience, I can't impose my thoughts on others. Instead, I might as well listen to what they think after reading it.