Bookshelf Nikolai Kononov

We present our updated project "Bookshelf». Earlier we told you that read in successful companies. Now the center of attention - the people, in love with books. Our first guest - a journalist and editor in chief of the online magazine "Business Secret", a writer and editor Nikolai Kononov. You are probably familiar with his books "code Durov"And"God without a car». Let's find out what it looks like a bookshelf Nicholas.

How long have you been interested in reading?

I began to read in kindergarten. Somewhere in the bowels of the bookshelves is stored reader, which I studied in the older group - remember, there was a lot of Lenin and animals that he accidentally met in the forest. Enrolling in school, I began to read "Library of adventures" and fiction: Bradbury, Ilya Warsaw, Lem.

At the same time I was writing. I took a typical Soviet anthem notebook with Mikhalkov and El-Registan, crossed out the fuck this hymn and He scratched: "Publisher Korchagin, 14" (I grew up on Russia's only fictional literary street character). Then he puts the number of copies and was the table of contents, from which it was possible to understand how the plot develops. And then I began the first chapter. However, for a long time I did not have. Then the seventh page, none Space Odyssey, or the story of an alien invasion is not continued. Space does not want his secrets revealed here so soon.

What are you reading?

Now I do not read the gaming literature, only non-fikshen. Even if I wanted to write some long "art" thing, I will look at kinoserialov device, rather than the structure of novels. And maybe I will not watch, because it is harmful.

Digress. Answer:

• Yuzefovich - "Winter road»;
• Zaitsev - "The story and the life of Daniel Terentyevich Zaitsev»;
• from the classics - "Production. World history of the struggle for oil, money and power"Yergin.

Mastrid for journalists:

• Chuck Palahniuk - "Lullaby»;
• Robert Penn Warren - "All the King's Men»;
• Truman Capote - "In Cold Blood».

In addition, the choice can spy on different structural and technical methods in screenwriter Alexander Mitta ( "Cinema between heaven and hell") Or Robert McKee ("History of a million dollars»).

Me as the author of more than the others affected by Yury Koval, Andrei Platonov and Paul Graham Mikhail Gasparov. Affected in the sense that I learned many - well, peeping micro- and makropriomy - but these authors have learned the most serious, fundamental things.

Do you have a home library?

Our family library arranged primitive: fikshen (classical and twentieth century, Russian and translations), non-fikshen, poets, children's books, which do not got into the children's wardrobe, humanities, natural sciences and educational books, magazines.

What bookshelves services do you use?

The only service I use to read - Kindle. We also have a device that we take a vacation, and the application, through which, incidentally, is easy to read magazines such as Bloomberg Businessweek.

How do you feel about e-books?

I do not think that e-books will replace paper completely. And in general, the author is harmful to think too much on devices subject. He should think about how to create an exciting and deep history, more of anything.

If you were writing a book about his life, as if it was called?

I can not seriously answer this question, if only because that on the Internet there is a picture.