人生据说是一部大书。
假使人生真是这样,那么我们一大半作者只能算是书评家,具有书评家的本领,无须看得几页书,言论早已发了一大堆,书评一篇写完缴卷。但是,世界上还有一种人,他们觉得看书的目的,并不是为了写批评或介绍。他们有一种业余消遣者的随便和从容,他们不慌不忙地浏览。 他们也懒得去理会,反正是消遣,不像书评家负有指导读者、教训作者的重大使命。
It is said that life is a thick book.
If this is really the case, more than half of us authors can only be regarded as reviewers who acquire the skills, glance through no more than a few pages of a book before we make a lot of comments about the book, and a review is done. However, there is another kind of people in the world who think that the purpose of reading a book is not to write a review or introduction. With the casualness and calm of spare-time diversion seekers, they browse a book in no great hurry. Unlike book reviewers who shoulder the great responsibility of instructing readers and criticizing authors, they are not in the mood to take care of this responsibility since reading is a pastime for them anyway.