What is the criterion for judging a book? This may vary from person to person. But personally, Ji Xianlin thinks that there are still some objective standards that can be accepted by the general public. To sum up, there are the following items:

Can a book inspire people to move forward or pull them back? Can a book make people optimistic or pessimistic? Can a book increase people's wisdom or enhance people's stupidity? Can a book improve people's spiritual realm or decrease it? Can a book improve people's morality or suppress people's morality? Can a book give people strength or make them weak? Can a book inspire people to fight against difficulties, or can it make people bow to difficulties? Can a book give people a noble aesthetic enjoyment, or a low-level obscene pleasure?

Generally speaking, good books can reach the first half of the question, and bad books can only be consistent with the second half.

I'm impressed. In the network era when the threshold for publishing books is getting lower and lower, more and more "successful studies", "chicken soup for the soul" and online novels are flooding people's eyes. On the best-seller shelves in bookstores, you can often see books that teach you a skill, master a language in a few days and other "simple learning methods". After giving you emotional chicken soup without basic vocabulary, young sad literature that dares to call itself a "writer" is rampant, making people choose one.

I hope Mr. Ji Xianlin's advice on choosing good books can help you and us, which is the happiest thing for Bian Xiao. After all, reading good books enriches your mind, and reading bad books is as uncomfortable as mosquitoes flying into your mouth.