My Reading (1–7)

Leung Man-taoHunan Literature and Art Publishing House2018

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Word count: 1.1K words
Series: I Read

Summary

My Reading (1–7) is the collected text of Reading Eight Minutes, a Phoenix Television book program hosted by Leung Man-tao, gathering the contents of volumes one through seven of the My Reading series. The program ran from January 1, 2007, to December 31, 2014, introducing a new or unusual book in eight minutes each day; hosts such as He Liangliang, Lü Ningsi, and Ma Dingsheng also appeared in rotation. The books covered span a wide range: literature, history, philosophy, science, finance, business, religion, biography, and psychology. The collection reviews books about books and readers such as How to Read a Book, Duku, and 84 Charing Cross Road; discusses works by Wang Xiaobo, Eileen Chang, Mu Xin, Chen Danqing, Jin Yong, Haruki Murakami, and others; extends to works of thought such as Meditations, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, and On Modern Chinese Intellectual History; and includes readings in world history, economic transition, and the history of science. While outlining authors and writing backgrounds, Leung Man-tao also draws observations about society, life, and the times from the books, in a plain tone carrying doubt and self-reflection; reading it feels like a wide-ranging, browsable reading guide. For readers who want to build a reading map in limited time, the value of this collection lies in first clarifying which books are worth reading and why.

Editor's review

《开卷八分钟》是华语电视里少见的纯读书节目：没有广告、没有黄金时段，八年如一日，每天八分钟讲一本书。这套七册合集，把那段节目里最密集的推荐与讨论存了下来。它的好处是“杂”：文学、史学、哲学、科学、经济、传记被打散在同一本书里，读者不会只沿着一个兴趣方向往下走，而会在随手翻到某一页时，被一本此前从没听说的书勾起兴趣。梁文道讲书，难得的是他不堆砌生平，也不替作者辩护，而是先讲清楚这本书在回应什么问题，再把自己的疑问摆进去。很多时候，一篇评论读起来更像一篇短评，里面掺着对时代和生活的判断。对于已经习惯被各种书单追着跑的读者，这套书提供的不是更多排名，而是一种“怎么挑着读”的眼光。第七册里那种把书当作安放自身的所在的态度，也恰好说明了这套合集为什么值得留在手边：它让人知道，读书并不是为了证明自己读过什么。

Who it's for

A good fit for

希望借助评论快速找到值得读的书、需要一份跨门类书单的读者
喜欢随笔式书评、愿意听人把书和时代放在一起谈的读者
看过《开卷八分钟》节目、想回看其中推荐内容的老观众
阅读兴趣分散、不想只读一类书，希望拓宽视野的普通读者

Not a good fit for

希望得到系统学术导读或深度文本细读的读者，会觉得篇幅偏短、论述偏浅
想读梁文道原创长文、个人散文的读者，本书属于节目文字整理而非专门著述
只读单一类型作品（如纯小说、纯科普）的读者，会觉得跨度太大、难以聚焦

Reading tips

不必按顺序通读，可以先按目录挑自己感兴趣的书，再回头看梁文道怎么评它。
每读完一篇，顺手记下想找原著来读的那本书，积累成一份属于自己的书单。
七册内容跨度大，建议每次读一小部分，配着被点评的原著对照看，效果更好。
对评论中的判断保持自己的怀疑，把它当作引子，不必当作定论。

About the publisher

Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House China · Founded in 1985

Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House is a publisher known for its literary titles, with a catalogue spanning foreign literature, world classics, classical Chinese literature, essays and miscellaneous writings, and mystery and detective fiction. Judging from the more than 1,100 books in the database, the press publishes foreign classics such as Crime and Punishment, Snow Country, The Complete Sherlock Holmes and Letter from an Unknown Woman, as well as Chinese classical and modern literary works including Lu Xun's Wandering and A Madman's Diary and Wu Jingzi's The Scholars. In terms of translators and authors, translations by Cao Guowei and Tan Jinghua appear in its foreign literature titles, and the authors involved include Dostoevsky, Kawabata Yasunari, Conan Doyle and Zweig. Its publishing character lies in introducing Chinese and foreign literary classics side by side, balancing popular and serious works and attending to both readability and literary value. Public information is limited; the above is a brief overview based solely on the books in the database.

FAQ

这套合集的 1-7 册是同一个作者写的吗？

主体是梁文道，他是《开卷八分钟》的当家主持人；节目中何亮亮、吕宁思、马鼎盛等主持人也曾出场，相关篇目也一并收入。合集由凤凰书品编，梁文道主讲。

它和《我读：没有人是一座孤岛》是什么关系？

后者是湖南文艺出版社 2015 年出版的单册书评集（ISBN 9787540473327），内容对应节目早期评书的篇目；七册合集则是节目文字的整体汇编，两者内容有重叠，但并非同一本书。

为什么目录一栏是空的？

该合集由多家电子书平台分发，各版本收录篇目和排序并不完全一致，目前无法确认一个可靠的完整目录，因此留空，以免误导。

书里点评过的原著都能找到吗？

所评多为当年出版、现在仍可找到的图书，但个别译本、旧版可能已经绝版，建议按书名和作者检索，不必执着于书中提到的具体版本。

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About the author

Leung Man-tao Author · Chinese (Hong Kong) · 1970

Leung Man-tao, born in Hong Kong in 1970 with ancestral roots in Shunde, Guangdong, is a Hong Kong cultural figure and media personality. He graduated from the Department of Philosophy at Chung Chi College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has long worked as a writer, book reviewer and commentator on current affairs, and has hosted programmes such as *Open Book in Eight Minutes* and *One Thousand and One Nights*. His writing spans essays, cultural criticism, film and foreign literature. Eight of his works are held here, including *Common Sense*, *Wo Zhi*, the three-volume *Taste* and *Noise*, as well as talk-based writing on cinema and reading. His prose often approaches public issues and reflections on reading through everyday experience, combining an intellectual temper with plainness, and has reached a wide Chinese-language readership.