Calvino clearly laid out 14 criteria for defining a “classic” and the many benefits of reading one:
1. Classics invite us to read them again and again.
2. Whenever we read one, it becomes a precious experience.
3. They always lie unconsciously in the depths of our memory, quietly shaping us.
4. Every rereading brings new discoveries, as if it were the first time.
5. Even reading one for the first time feels like revisiting it.
6. They never run out of things to say to their readers.
7. They let us discover the distinctive atmosphere and precious traces of past eras and cultures.
8. They astonish us, no longer obscured by introductions and commentary.
9. The more we hear about them secondhand, the fresher and more unique they feel when we finally read them.
10. They embody the whole universe and inspire awe.
11. They establish themselves in the act of being read.
12. They are works that came before other classics, recognized at a glance by the great masters.
13. They tune the noise of the present into a soft background hum.
14. Even when they clash with the dominant modern world, they persist as a kind of background noise.
At the last moment of her previous life, Su Zhiyi finally saw the true face of the person she regarded as her biological sister, and she regretted it!
When she woke up, she was back to when she was thirteen years old...
But the trick is, why did she go back to when she was injured? Is she still the Su Zhiyi that people dislike and dislike?
In her new life, she must hold what belongs to her firmly in the palm of her hand: Hey, hey, hey, that little brother in front of me, did I say I would use you to help me beat the scum? See what you can do!
This is the story of a counterattack by a girl who had no brain in her previous life and only wants a brain in this life. Welcome to jump in~
There is still no money in the alien world where soul-piercing monsters are raging, but Huo Chi, a veteran foodie, is not worried at all. As a visitor from the Celestial Empire, he just wanted to ask, do you want me to eat the monsters until they are endangered or extinct?
Cold slime, refreshing and delicious, a summer favorite.
Charcoal grilled flame lizard, chicken is crunchy and crunchy, would you like a piece?
Is there a piranha ahead? Sorry, when I meet a visitor from heaven, I will eat you...
In the alien world on the tip of your tongue, many delicious monsters are waving to you! Let's go on a food trip to put it bluntly, to retaliate against society late at night as a single, and by the way, save the world ^_^
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Cui Xiaofeng is very excited to meet the great master!
Cui Xiaofeng was shocked when he saw the great god!
Cui Xiaofeng is going to have a black match with the master. It's... Hard to explain in one word!
Momo thought this was a cute girl, but found out that she was a rough guy!
Silently knew that this was a treasure, but later I realized that it was a treasure that many people were staring at!
Shen Mo originally thought that she would remain silent, but in the end she couldn't help but pack up a certain Gust Wind and take her away!
A reporter: Moshen, I heard that you have never lost in a duel?
Silent: In fact, I have been defeated, defeated by a person who can't even blow a piece of grass.
The wind blows and the grass does not move:...
This is a story about a little game god meeting a game master. This is a story about a little god and a big god having an adulterous relationship and completely torturing others~
A suicide note unfortunately knocked on the door to a different world.
And everything in front of him made Lu Yi begin to understand, like those erasers, marbles, coins that were lost and disappeared... He just went to the same place as these things.
This is a story about the protagonist acting recklessly in different movie worlds
PS: I despise those books with the word "movie" in their titles, but in the end they stuff TV series, anime (serialized versions), games, and novels into them. What a hodgepodge?
In one word: Unprofessional!
Following the Panic Trilogy, Yixiao's fifth supernatural novel "Panic World" is coming!
Destiny Academy is known as an academy that cultivates human psychics in order to resist sneaky spirits. Only those with spiritual energy will be selected by the academy and receive an admission notice from the academy.
Once you pass the entrance exam and become a freshman in the college, you will not only be able to receive high scholarships and enjoy villas and dormitories, but you will also be able to practice spiritual power and have the opportunity to master powerful spiritual powers.
Qin Ming, who did not do well in the college entrance examination, was unexpectedly admitted to the college and became one of them. He thought it was a blessing from fate, but he soon discovered that the truth of the matter was not like that.
Full of sneaky monthly exams, lies from the school, students who disappeared mysteriously, and senior students who disappeared...
Countless weird and horrifying events followed. However, when Qin Ming pushed aside the clouds and finally unveiled the mysterious veil of the college, what he saw was...
PS: Please be patient and read on.
Wang Shen once had a lofty ideal: to become a first-line professional player, until he was hit by an arrow in the knee.
ps: It tells the story of an African boy who saves the world in the process of becoming a professional player.
The story of a young man who can steal other people's powers and become a god step by step in the apocalypse.
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If I leave, the wind will sway, the clouds will rise into the sky, and I will be lonely forever.
Since I came, my sword has no edge, my sword has no edge, and the heaven and earth are bent.
The new book "Super Shinto Technique" has been uploaded. I hope everyone will support it as always! !
A hundred years after the spiritual energy has been revived, the world has undergone tremendous changes. Demon kings are rampant in the wild, and giant beasts are like rain in the sea. Human beings have to huddle in the base city and struggle to survive.
At this moment,
The secrets of the exercises in the pile of old papers are revived...
The famous antique paintings reveal miracles...
Relics are appearing one after another...
In troubled times, a young man accidentally obtains a magical spiritual pearl, which helps him to deduce the exercises, improve his realm, transcend the limits, and soar into the sky...
I'm so unlucky, really
When people travel through time, I can only be transported through time
When people pick up girls, I can only be attracted by girls...
In my "several" pawnshops, I received a series of customers named Jing Ke, Li Bai, Guan Yu, Qin Shi, etc., And a series of hilarious stories happened
This book has a strong spoof atmosphere, and cultivation, time travel, city, and love are all indispensable. That's why it's called "the greatest chaos in history."
Strongman, in ancient times, refers to a strong and violent person. The proximate meaning is a person of high ability. What a coincidence, we just want to tell a story about such a strong man.
At the gate of the courtyard of the East Family Area of Chuhua University, the guard uncle answered the phone, opened the window and shouted angrily toward the grove not far away: "Hei Tan, your mother told you to go home for dinner!" Whoosh - a black cat burst out of the dense grass on the other side of the grove, ran towards a certain building, and disappeared at the entrance of the corridor in the blink of an eye. After it, cat heads emerged from the grass one after another. When dinner is served, everyone goes back to their respective homes to find their respective mothers. ... Some people say that cats are the only animals in the world whose entire race is insane. Yuanfang, what do you think? －－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－－If you don't have any practice, you can click "X" if you want to see it. —The new book "Future King" has been released.
If you copy books, you will be a eunuch. Always making trouble. He is known as the eunuch king and the most hated troublemaker in the entertainment industry!
——Tang Jian: "Hey, I'm desperate too! Ever since I got [the invincible system of making people angry to death without paying for their lives], if I don't make people angry for a minute, I feel uncomfortable all over!" If you click on it, you will find that this book is funny, funny, touching, and beautiful!
PS: The completed old book of the same genre, "Master of Chinese Entertainment", is just a good read. The new book "The Prodigal Director" is currently being serialized...
Tomato's ninth novel after "Swallowing the Stars", "The Wilderness" and "Snow Eagle Lord".
In this world, there are fox fairies, river gods, water monsters, great demons, as well as practitioners seeking immortality.
Practitioners, if you open your Dharma eyes, you can see demons and ghosts.
Refining a flying sword can kill enemies from thousands of miles away.
Clairvoyance, ears for the wind, and the ability to explore all directions.
…
The second son of the Qin family, 'Qin Yun', is a practitioner…
Chong, Ming, Qi, Shu, Li, Jing, Ying.
The Seven Powers of Soul!
Perception of the seven souls creates countless strong men.
However, in a humble college, a young man is facing the crisis of being expelled...
The yellow sand buried the bones,
The wind under the setting sun smelled of blood.
The pain of the mainland is spreading in all directions,
When the history of the Big Bang reaches an inflection point,
When the huge steel fortress stretches across and blocks people's vision,
When the apostle's conspiracy quietly penetrated into everyone's life.
The peace is about to be broken,
Terror is coming!
At this time, a young man who was independent from the river of destiny began to shuttle between Arad and the earth as a "summoned object"...
All realms merged, spiritual power dissipated, the world of cultivation that had lasted for millions of years collapsed, barbarians invaded, and the Five Elements Heaven became the last line of defense for cultivators.
Thousands of years later, a humble young man from the old land worked as a coolie and went deep into the wilderness for three years, and got an exceptional opportunity to enter the Five Elements Heaven for further study.
A young man who longs to control his destiny and pursues becoming stronger, with a beast-like fighting instinct, sets off a gorgeous storm.
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Thousands of planets, endless cultivation.
The battle for Daoyan will last forever.
Mi Xiaojing, the young master of Yanxiu, suffered a family extermination and plunged into the mighty river of destiny.
The new book "Time and Space Fighting Armor Journey" is launched!
The new book "Time and Space Fighting Armor Journey" is launched!
The new book "Time and Space Fighting Armor Journey" is launched!
Here, martial arts is no longer an illusory legend, but a real inheritance. After confrontation with technology, it has been completely integrated into society. There are various martial arts competitions. Wenwu is the first, and martial arts is second!
After Lou Cheng received the severed inheritance from a major school of martial arts, he moved forward step by step towards his original dream and towards the glory in his heart. There are still heroes in the city, and today's era relies on heroes!
[Reading stream] It is not easy to become an immortal, let alone an ordinary mortal who wants to practice in this world where life is like a piece of grass and life and death are determined by fate.
In this crazy world of cannibalism, the only thing Zhuo Bufan can do is to keep archiving his immortality career, because he doesn't know when he will die inexplicably.
Save in time, then load the file after death.
Should he experience the cruel fate again, or rewrite the tragic ending?
The new book "The Super Divine Conferred Magician" has been released. Please support new and old book friends! Thanks! !
No matter how ugly other people's girlfriends are, they are still human beings, but his girlfriend is a zombie.
But his goal is to make his girlfriend fat and white. As for whether she is a zombie, well, that doesn't matter.
A certain zombie expressed that he was very satisfied and helpless with someone's pampering.
She can eat by herself! She can drink water by herself! She can also get rid of the eyesores herself!
But if someone wants to take action, she won't stop him.
"No one can stand in front of us, if anyone..." Holding his girlfriend's hand and standing on the mountain, someone showed a very elegant smile, "Then let's kill them all?"
In short, this is the story of a paranoid + perverted man who is unwilling to let go even if his beloved woman turns into a zombie.
(Sweet pet + mutual favor, strong women and strong men, growth-oriented male and female protagonists)
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The tomb beast, a mythical beast in ancient China, is the natural enemy of tomb robbers. It guards the underground palace for emperors and generals, and protects the ultimate secrets for mankind.
In 1900, the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded Beijing, and Empress Dowager Cixi fled to Xi'an. The last descendant of a royal mausoleum craftsman was accidentally born on a coffin in a Tang Dynasty necropolis. In the era of earth-shattering, from the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China and then to the World War... Crazy foreign powers, mysterious craftsmen's craftsmanship, people dug up underground treasures and awakened the ever-changing tomb beasts.
Qin Beiyang, the son of a mausoleum craftsman, bears a blood feud, grows up in an underground palace, and masters the skills of tomb beasts. He rises up against adversity and solves the mystery of fate. Will he become the patron saint of the Chinese people in troubled times? Or the arbiter of the world's heroes? Heroes are emerging in large numbers, the storm is rising, and the thousand-year-old secret of the tomb-suppressing beast is about to be revealed.
Chen Kaizhi, a literary young man who has experienced intrigues and intrigues in business wars, returned to ancient times.
Looking around, this place is full of singing houses and wine shops, with feasting and entertainment, talented people and beauties.
Okay, this has nothing to do with Chen Kaizhi for the time being.
A young man from a poor family, with an embarrassing status.
Let's see how this young man from a humble family counterattacks all the way and becomes a great writer.
The six-eared macaque had a rough life. The saying "The Dharma is not taught to the six ears" made it impossible for him to aspire to the immortal path in his life. In the end, he could only intervene in the journey to the west with falsehoods, and in the end he died.
However, things are impermanent. A soul from a later generation appeared in the chaos, and everything was different from then on...
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