Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 295 Storytelling (23)

But the two books "A Bouquet for Algernon" and "The Wandering Sea Ball" are very different. The miraculous experience of the protagonist in the former book makes people feel both wonderful and regrettable.

The vast universe described by the latter can make him feel that his daily affairs are not worth mentioning.

In fact, he prefers "The Wandering Sea Ball", and he even seriously considered whether he is a spaceship school or a sea ball school before.

Like many readers, he also felt that "The Wandering Sea Ball" would be expanded into a medium-length novel or a sequel, because the three centaur suns that appeared at the end of the story are really easy to arouse people's imagination.

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Parker's reading salon has just finished reading "The Shining", and now he is going to take everyone to read "Dune".

In fact, he wanted to read "I, Robot" more, but unfortunately, until the serialization of "I, Robot" in China was completed, they didn't see what the book was like.

However, although the English version of "I, Robot" has not been released, there have been discussions about "I, Robot" in North America.

When the Huaxia edition first came out, someone moved the "Three Laws of Robotics" in the book to the Internet.

Parker also saw the "Three Laws of Robotics". To be honest, after reading these three laws, he was somewhat skeptical. He wondered if there was a problem with the handling. He always felt that these three laws were not logically perfect. There are even big loopholes.

It's just that because of his blind belief in pz, he feels that although these three laws seem to have loopholes, pz can definitely handle them well.

Unfortunately, he has never been able to see the English version of the book.

Affleck had appeared twice before because of the English version of the new book, so after "I, Robot" came out this time, book lovers ran to Affleck's social account to ask him to appear again.

But this time Affleck didn't move and didn't speak.

"Parker, what did you mean by the Mentats and Nine-string Bagas?"

"Yeah, and what does Kawaz Hednaki mean? I felt confused when I heard it, because I couldn't understand it at all."

"It's not just that I haven't heard these words, but the story at the beginning also makes people feel confused. I don't know what to say until now."

After Parker just finished reading Chapter 1 of "Dune", several listeners raised their hands and expressed doubts.

"Everyone, this book is like this. The story may progress slowly, and there will be many new settings and terms in it, but please rest assured that these things will definitely be understood as you continue to listen. To be honest , I felt the same as you when I watched it for the first time." Parker explained.

In fact, the audience's reaction was already in his expectation. Originally, reading was much slower than reading a book. It took him a long time to finish this chapter.

And in this chapter, except for some incomprehensible nouns, it seems that no story is told.

It must have been a bit distressing to have spent so long not hearing what you wanted to hear.

Parker rubbed his forehead, he felt that such a simple reading was not appropriate.

After the club disbanded, he was still worrying about it.

His Chinese friend, that is, Li, who translated for him last time, saw Parker's frowning face, and asked with a smile, "What's wrong with you today, is the salon not going well?"

Li has always known about Parker's salon, but he has never been there.

"No." Parker shook his head, then nodded again, "You can also say yes."

"You're confusing me, yes or no?" Lee asked.

"The salon is running well, and there are quite a lot of book friends here, but I feel that there are some problems that need to be resolved." Parker said.

"what is the problem?"

Parker thought for a while, then organized his words and said, "Today I'm talking about "Dune". I just finished Chapter 1, but I don't think the effect is very good. It's really good to read, but when I read it, I always feel that the effect is not very good. The response from the audience was also poor, and if you've read the book, you know why."

Li nodded, "The progress is very slow, you can't understand at all, right?"

"Well, that's the problem." Even Li can know this problem, and it really is a big problem.

Li rested his chin in thought for a while.

"Parker, maybe I have a solution." Li said suddenly.

"What?" Parker was a little surprised, but also a little puzzled.

"I have a method that may be able to solve your distress, but I'm not sure, and this method may be more complicated...I don't mean technically complicated."

"So what do you mean by complicated?"

"Parker, you are reading books to other people in the original language. You have never received money, and most readers will buy a book, right?"

"Yes." Parker nodded, "but is there any problem?"

"Of course there is no problem, and you are not involved in infringement. But the method I mentioned may be."

"What method do you have, Li, stop playing around with me."

"It's like this. I wonder if you have heard Huaxia's storytelling?"

"Of course I've heard of it. I know that in China in the past, there would be a kind of person in the teahouse who would tell stories to the guests." Parker said, he still had some understanding of Chinese culture.

Li nodded and said, "Yes, many of the stories they tell are actually based on novels, and some of the stories are even the same as the original text in the novel. In fact, what they do is the same as what you are doing now. But different Yes, many storytellers, in order to make the story sound more exciting, will re-edit the novel and write it into a story that is more suitable for storytelling. Don't you think "Dune" is not effective for them to read? This is definitely not the reason for the story itself Well, I think it must be because of the way of expression, you can follow the example of the storyteller in Huaxia and adapt "Dune" to become a story more suitable for reading to others."

"How is it?" After finishing speaking, seeing that Parker hadn't moved, Li asked again.

"Your method is very good." Parker recovered from his contemplation, and then his face became struggling again, "However, this is not a simple matter, except for the complicated problem you mentioned just now. I I don't think I have the ability to do it. This is "Dune", Li, this is the sci-fi masterpiece "Dune" that many people are familiar with, how can I—how dare I do such a thing?"

(End of this chapter)