Post by account_disabled on Jan 5, 2024 21:52:45 GMT -8
I decided to write this post after reading the 10 little reader dramas by Salvatore Anfuso, who in turn wrote it starting from the 20 little daily dramas that only a true book lover can understand . I did it my way here, I didn't follow the lead of the first post, because everyone has their own dramas . Some coincide, obviously, but I didn't recognize myself, for example, in all the dramas listed on Libreriamo. 1 – Read the back cover and not understand anything It's not easy to write a back cover . It is also true that many types are read. There are those who insert so-called book blurbs , while those who try to make sense of that space and write a text that communicates nothing to the reader. I have to tell the truth: although it has only rarely happened that I have appreciated a back cover, it is the first thing in the book that I read . Then I open it and read the incipit and some internal passages.
When purchasing a book, therefore, I proceed more by instinct, by intuition, because almost always reading the back cover doesn't make me understand anything Special Data about that book. 2 – Read the preface and discover the plot I 'm not interested in knowing the plot of a novel , but only in "knowing what it's about". I know, put it this way it seems to be the same thing, but in my head they are two different concepts. If I were to write the back cover of the novel Tom Sawyer , I would focus on the historical period, the main characters and their problems, I would underline the adventurous character of the book, but I would not reveal details that the reader has to discover on his own. When I read a classic, I also like to read the preface, because it lets me know more about the book.
The problem, though, is that the preface often tells you the story. To solve this problem I read it later, because it makes more sense. 3 – Becoming hydrophobic when asked “can you lend me that book?” By now I have refined a very careless character and I no longer have problems answering with a firm "no" to an absurd and inconceivable question like this. But I would also add that I don't lend books, that I don't like lending them, that I'm jealous of them as if they were my children. If I were rude, I would reply "No, you can buy the book", while instead I give a more than plausible explanation for my unquestionable and unappealable refusal . In short: what's the point of borrowing a book? If one has financial problems, there are libraries. But in 99.99% of cases it is a habit to ask to borrow books .
When purchasing a book, therefore, I proceed more by instinct, by intuition, because almost always reading the back cover doesn't make me understand anything Special Data about that book. 2 – Read the preface and discover the plot I 'm not interested in knowing the plot of a novel , but only in "knowing what it's about". I know, put it this way it seems to be the same thing, but in my head they are two different concepts. If I were to write the back cover of the novel Tom Sawyer , I would focus on the historical period, the main characters and their problems, I would underline the adventurous character of the book, but I would not reveal details that the reader has to discover on his own. When I read a classic, I also like to read the preface, because it lets me know more about the book.
The problem, though, is that the preface often tells you the story. To solve this problem I read it later, because it makes more sense. 3 – Becoming hydrophobic when asked “can you lend me that book?” By now I have refined a very careless character and I no longer have problems answering with a firm "no" to an absurd and inconceivable question like this. But I would also add that I don't lend books, that I don't like lending them, that I'm jealous of them as if they were my children. If I were rude, I would reply "No, you can buy the book", while instead I give a more than plausible explanation for my unquestionable and unappealable refusal . In short: what's the point of borrowing a book? If one has financial problems, there are libraries. But in 99.99% of cases it is a habit to ask to borrow books .