Grandpa's great writer

Chapter 959

If it weren't for Zhang Zhong's advice, Lin Fei might really not be able to resist taking the role.The director who came to him told him that an important Asian character would be added to the original script, which was completely tailor-made for him.

Lin Fei was almost fooled by the director.

After calming down, Lin Fei realized that the so-called role addition was just a gimmick.And this kind of wanton addition of characters itself represents the director's disrespect for the script.

Either the script itself doesn't deserve respect, or the director doesn't know how to respect it.

No matter what it is, he must never accept such a movie.

……

The sales of "Cat City Tale" are very good, probably because it has a sci-fi label, so it is very popular.

Although everyone later found out that this is not a typical science fiction novel, it does not prevent them from still liking this novel.

In addition to Zhang Zhong's fame, there are two reasons for the high sales of this novel. One is that the language of this novel is very humorous, and it is very easy to read, and the total is less than [-] words, so you can read it without knowing it. Again, compared to Zhang Zhong's other traditional novels, this novel is definitely an easy one to read.

Take "Lord of the Flies" as an example. People who are used to reading popular novels may find the text boring and the plot progressing slowly. Except for a few specific scenes, other passages are not interesting to read.

Take "Metamorphosis" again, the length should be only one-third of "Cat City Tale", but the time it takes to finish reading it may not be much less than "Cat City Tale", because its text is too sloppy , obscure.

Some passages can be read every word and every word can be understood, but when put together, it makes people feel overwhelmed, which is very awkward.

In addition to the more humorous language, some of the allusions in "Cat City" are also more gimmicky.

When many readers read the second half, they are preoccupied with thinking about what is alluded to in the book.

There are still many readers discussing these, and some people even list the things alluded to in it and make a table.

Of course, some people protested against Zhang Zhong because of the insinuation in the middle, thinking that Zhang Zhong should not insinuate his country so badly, and many of them are exaggerated, fearing that it will affect the three views and cognition of young people.

Zhang Zhong never paid any attention to such comments.

From the perspective of a reader, he feels that the allusions in "Cat City Tale" are not exaggerated, but may not be as intense as reality.

And when he read the novel at that time, he didn't feel that Lao She was slandering the country. On the contrary, he could see that he sincerely hoped that the country would be good.

Even as he said, he hopes that Cat City is just a dream, but the reality is extremely beautiful.

But the truth is, Cat City really is a dream, and the reality is no better than Cat City.

There are also a small group of people who say that Zhang rewrites such novels in fact to please foreign literature awards, because foreign literature awards like to award such novels that speak ill of China.

The reason why some people believe this kind of nonsense is because the elements involved in it are all true.

Foreign literary awards do like to award this kind of novels, but they may not be aimed at China alone.

Looking at the major literary awards, in addition to the mainstream ideas, there are also some relatively unified characteristics, basically with a strong critical nature, especially novels that criticize the government and criticize history are always more likely to win awards.

But it cannot be said that a writer has written critical novels and then won an award. It is logically wrong to say that the writer wrote novels to please the awards.

But such things are not uncommon. For example, Yu Hua, because the basic novels he wrote all involve special historical periods, and many of the descriptions are quite negative, so some readers criticized him for writing to please foreign literary awards. These novels are the cancer of the literary world.

In literary discussions, everyone has the right to express their own opinions on what they like or dislike, but it is only limited to expressing opinions.

You can say that you don't like the way of expression in "To Live" and "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood", or you don't like such stories at all, but you must not slander other authors for writing novels to win awards. This is a matter of principle.

So Zhang Zhong has never commented on such comments, even a bit disdainful, because he thinks that these people are not really people who read books.

……

In the second week after the release of "Cat City Tale", Zero Zero One's official website suddenly posted a big cover.

The color of this cover is a bit dark, in a deep space, there is a looming skull floating in it.

On the header of the cover, there are five words—the spokesperson for the dead.

On the lower part of the cover there is a date - 3.23
Sensitive netizens quickly understood the meaning of this cover.

Because Zhang Zhong revealed in front of the reporters at the annual meeting of the company that another new book will be released within one month after the release of "Cat City Tale".

The current cover should be the cover of the new book.

The spokesperson for the dead should be the name of the new book.

Every time a new book by Zhang comes out, the top priority of netizens is to guess the type of the new book.

This time because of the paradoxical cover, most people guessed that the new book was a science fiction novel.

This lifted the spirits of many sci-fi fans. Before, they were secretly disappointed because of the lack of sci-fi in "Cat City". They didn't expect that there would be good news after just over a week.

Such a large piece of deep space, if it is not a science fiction, netizens themselves do not believe it.

And the official website of Zero Zero One did not hide it this time, and directly announced the news of the new book on the official Weibo: the new book "The Speaker of the Dead" will be released globally on March 23, and the new book is "Ender's Game" sequel.

It turned out to be the sequel to "Ender's Game". Some people guessed it right at the time.

[I said at the time that "Ender's Game" would have a sequel. 】

[So, we can see another hard sci-fi? 】

[Why is it hard sci-fi, but not soft sci-fi? 】

["Ender's Game" belongs to hard science fiction, since it is a sequel, it is of course hard science fiction. 】

[Your thinking is too fixed, I think this name is a bit sci-fi. 】

[You can guess whether it is hard sci-fi or soft sci-fi with just a title? 】

[The title of the book really doesn't tell anything. 】

[I still like hard science fiction. 】

[What hard sci-fi, soft sci-fi, as long as it looks good. 】

[No, I said, what are you worried about about Zhang Zhong's book? 】

(End of this chapter)