“看书，特别是历史书籍，花费了陈道明拍戏之余的绝大部分时间。”令剧组成员感到惊叹的是，他宾馆的床上1/3被各种图书占领。陈道明喜欢看书，尤其热衷的是看杂文，从鲁迅、胡适，看到柏杨、李敖。在这些杂文大家中，他对李敖最为佩服。陈道明说：“李敖是性情中人，我挺喜欢这人的。他很年轻化，属于战斗者，是个战士，战士就得流血，就得冒着各种枪林弹雨，我挺佩服他的。李敖是近代文坛一个挺重要的人物，他冲破了所谓书呆子的概念，他很社会化，有思想，开放。而且没把学问当成一种装饰物。”

"Reading a book,Especially in the history books,Spent Chen daoming filming of most of the time."To cast members was amazing,He hotel bed 1/3 was occupied by various kinds of books.Chen daoming like reading a book,Especially for is to see the essay,From lu xun/Hu shi,See 柏杨/Li ao.In these essays in everyone,He most admired for li ao.Chen daoming said:"Li ao is a temperament middleman,I like this one.He was very young,Belongs to the fighting,Is a man of war,Soldiers have to bleed,Have to take all kinds of love,I very admire him.Li ao is a very important figure in the modern literary world,He breaks through the concept of the so-called bookworm,He is socialization,Have thought,Opening to the outside world.And didn't take learning as a kind of decoration."