he first thing I want to insist on is that reading should be enjoyable. Of course, there are many books that we all have to road, either to pass examinations or to acquire information,from which it is impossible to extract enjoyment. We aro reading them for instruction, and the best we can hope is that our need for it will enable us to get through them without todium. Such books wo read with resignation rather than with alacrity. But that is not the sort of roading I have in mind. The books I shall mention in due course will help you neither to get a degree nor to earn your living, they will not teach you to sail a boat or get a stalled motor to run, but they will help you to live more fully. That, however, they cannot do unless you enjoy reading them.
Every man is his own best critic. Whatever the learned say about a book, however unanimous they are in their praise of it,unless it interests you, it is no business of yours. And you who read are the final judge of the value to you of the book you are reading. We are none of us exactly like everyone else, only rather like, and it would be unreasonable to suppose that the books that have meant a great deal to me should be precisely those that will mean a great deal to you. But they are books that I feel the richer for having read, and I think I should not be quite the man I am if I had not read them. No one is under an obligation to read poetry or fiction or the miscellaneous literature which is classed as belleslettres. He must read them for pleasure, and who can claim that what pleases one man must necessarily please another?
內(nèi)容：為休閑閱讀
他第一件事，我要強(qiáng)調(diào)的是，閱讀應(yīng)該愉快。當(dāng)然，有很多書(shū)，我們都必須的道路，要么通過(guò)考試或獲取信息，從中提取是不可能的享受。我們奧勒閱讀的指導(dǎo)他們，最好的，我們能希望的是，我們需要它將使我們能夠通過(guò)他們獲得不todium。禾讀這類書(shū)，而不是爽快辭職。但是，這不是筑路我心目中的排序。這些書(shū)我將在適當(dāng)時(shí)候?qū)�幫助您提到既獲得學(xué)位，也沒(méi)有，讓您的生活，他們不會(huì)教你駕船或獲得停滯電機(jī)運(yùn)行，但它們將幫助你生活得更充分。然而，這是沒(méi)有可能，除非您可以閱讀。
每個(gè)人都是他自己最好的批評(píng)。不管學(xué)到了一本書(shū)說(shuō)，但是他們一致的稱贊它是，除非你的利益，這是不是你的業(yè)務(wù)。而且你看是誰(shuí)的價(jià)值判斷的最終你正在閱讀的書(shū)給你。我們，我們沒(méi)有其他人完全一樣，只是有點(diǎn)像，它是不合理的假設(shè)意味著有大量我應(yīng)該正是這些將意味著很大您的圖書(shū)。但他們的書(shū)，我覺(jué)得富裕也讀過(guò)，我覺(jué)得我不應(yīng)該是相當(dāng)?shù)娜�，我如果我不讀。沒(méi)有人有義務(wù)或小說(shuō)，詩(shī)歌朗誦，或雜文學(xué)的是belleslettres歸類。他必須閱讀享樂(lè)，以及誰(shuí)可以說(shuō)討好一個(gè)人必然要請(qǐng)其他?