The 10 most read books of all time
(by number of copies sold)
1. The Koran (a.644) – over 3 billion;
2. The Bible (King James Translation) (a.1611) – over 2.5 billion;
3. Little Red Book (a.1964) – Mao Tse-tung – 800 million;
4. Don Quixote (a.1512) – Miguel de Cervantes – 500 million;
5. The Saga of Harry Potter (a.1997-a.2007) – JKRowling – 450 million;
6. The Two Cities (a.1859) – Charles Dickens – 200 million;
7. Lord of the Rings (a.1954-1955) – JRR Tolkien – 150 million;
8. The Little Prince (a.1943) – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry – 140 million;
9. - Alice in Wonderland (q.1865) - Lewis Caroll - 100 million;
- The Dream of the Red Room_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb35b-136_bad(q.1754) – Cao Xueqin – 100 million;
-_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58 (a.1939) – Agatha Christie – 100 million;
- LoHobbits (a.1937) – JRR Tolkien – 100 million;
10. The lion the Witch and the wardrobe (a.1950) - CS Lewis - 85 million.
(Data: https://libreriamo.it/investiamo/10-libri-piu-letti-tutti-tempi/)
In the first3positions, out of a total of 10titles, with truly impressive circulations, we find two texts with a clear character religious and one, equally clearly, politic.
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_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d still better..._ This observation is still 9_Occ5 think... -5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d_leaves us reflect on a really important aspect, that is to say that human beings (because the ranking has been drawn up on a global level), very probably prefer non- very busy. In fact, apart from the case of the "Little Red Book", sold for the most part in China, therefore in a notoriously dictatorial state for decades and therefore not always purchased spontaneously by the Chinese, as many as 9 texts remain, notoriously written , as they say, "for everyone", i.e. for an average audience which does not require any specific cultural preparation.To approach the reading of sacred texts, rather than novels, the reader does not need any type of "preparation" .
Consequently, in the 10 most read books of all time, there is very little "culture", say nothing. Theologians or even political scientists could almost certainly disagree, but it is a fact that both religious texts and those of a political nature are excellent attempts to disseminate, naturally each based on their own point of view, real " principles of life", with the addition of the implied claim of wanting to present them as the only ones possible, discriminating against others, even similar ones.
By the same definition_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-5cf58d "the opposite culture opens the door", to the contrary of comparison, which is the basis of the enrichment of the initial concept and of the logical progressive increase of development afterwards. In short, culture, like the cells responsible for giving life, tends to grow by multiplying its potential, according to the encounter with other forms of culture. What would architecture have been without mathematics? What about history without writing able to pass it on?
_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136badLacf58d_ ranking of the 10 and those distinctly of a cultural nature is, therefore, precisely in the final objective of the same: the first establish the principlesdefinitive, in fact, incontrovertible and which "must" be observed by anyone, under penalty of divine or earthly condemnation; the latter establish principlestemporary , waiting to acquire further knowledge such as to be able to radically strengthen or revise what has been stated up to that moment, always with the sole objective of obtaining an ever better result, penalty... none .
_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136bad5cf58d therefore you need to scroll through the ranking of the most read books_Here's it . Not out of mere curiosity, but to better understand what the human nature is, usually devoted more to less expensive activities (physically or intellectually) and therefore more inclined to accept concepts and principles formulated by others. It is no coincidence that men of true genius, the so-called geniuses of music, painting, science, etc., have always are but a very minimal part of the whole mankind.
Therefore, therefore,_cc781905-5cde-3194-bb3b-136, not only in principle and not need to nurture "culture", imagining it as a physical subject whose fate and very existence we care about, and which we therefore think we want to take care of, protect and nurture to the best of our possibilities, naturally setting an example ourselves; all a bit like we tend to do with our children. Just as, in fact, we take full and involved care of our children, whom we love, feed and take care of to the best of our possibilities, also the "culture" should be considered and treated in the same way, because the two things cannot be distinguished from each other: knowledge, knowing more and more, will give our own children, a world surely surely better and will provide them a more than useful example to follow in order to do the same.