Chapter 290 Best Selling Bad Book
After sending Zhang Wei away, Evans opened the manuscript of "Fifty Shades of Grey" and began to read it carefully.
Gradually, Evans began to get deeper into the plot and frowned.
"What is this thing about? Is such a disgusting thing suitable to be written directly into a novel? F**k! I'm not a pervert! This pile of garbage stains my eyes!" Evans subconsciously He threw the manuscript aside.
Evans went to pour half a glass of whiskey, calmed down his mood, and returned to his seat, but his mind was filled with what was described in the novel.
"Not to mention, this disgusting thing is quite exciting to think about!"
The next second, Evans picked up the manuscript again and continued to read.
“Although this is a pile of garbage that stains my eyes, as a literary practitioner, I should look at it with a critical eye!”
Evans thought to himself, I am When criticizing literary works, I don’t want to see how fancy the protagonists in the book are, nor do I want to learn from them.
Soon, Evans was immersed in the world of words woven by the novel. His eyes gradually became deeper, sometimes shining with curiosity, and sometimes revealing colors of expectation. Before he knew it, Evans had read the last page.
"That's it." Evans felt like he still had something to say.
"Wait a minute, why do I feel like I have something to say? Why do I look forward to the following story? What is the situation? Why would I be interested in this kind of thing?"
The next second , Evans suddenly realized another question, is he a pervert at heart?
"No, I am definitely not a pervert. I am a devout Christian, how can I be a pervert!"
Evans looked at the manuscript in his hand again. Since he is not a pervert, , why can I still read this type of novel?
"Even a decent gentleman like me can tolerate it, so wouldn't it be a treasure to replace someone with a dirty mind? Could it be that this type of guy still has market value?"
Evans He scratched his head inexplicably. After being an editor for so many years, this was the first time he had seen this type of novel.
If it was an unknown contributor, Evans would have thrown the manuscript into the trash can long ago, but Zhang Wei is a first-rate best-selling author after all, so it is really impossible for him to reject the manuscript directly.
After hesitating for a while, Evans decided to find a colleague and look at the manuscript together.
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"Fifty Shades of Grey" tells the story of Anna, a female college student who is inexperienced in the world. She meets the 27-year-old "rich, handsome" Gray and falls in love with him at first sight. After the two started dating, Anna discovered that Gray had an unknown hobby, which is called sadomasochism in English, or SM for short.
It’s not the artist company in South Korea, it’s not the shaman in World of Warcraft, it’s not the teacher sect in Fantasy Westward Journey, it’s the SM you think of.
Then the two people began to try this kind of game, and they were addicted to it and couldn't extricate themselves. In the end, the two people finished pouring out their souls in this kind of game, walked together, and started a happy life.
On the surface this is a love novel about how two people fall in love, but in fact the most attractive thing is the various SM plots. It can be said that the content of this book is very unhealthy even in the eyes of relatively open-minded Europeans and Americans.
Moreover, the novel lacks imagination, the writing is poor, and it is full of repetitive descriptions. Even the description of the characteristics is only "handsome" except "handsome". There are no other words that can be thought of, which shows that the author has nothing. Writing skills.
In terms of logic, it pokes a hole. For example, the male protagonist is worth hundreds of millions, lives in a mansion, flies on a private jet, and even wears Converse canvas shoes!
This is like writing an essay. What you wrote is that my family has billions of assets. In order to reward me for scoring 100 points in the exam, my father took me to eat at the most expensive buffet in the city. 128 people. I ate a lot of 500 grams of prawns per pound. After the meal, we went to a luxury store. My mother asked the waiter to take the most expensive bag off the wall and paid for it without haggling. .
Such a novel with little imagination, poor writing, and logical flaws turned out to be the top bestseller in the United States. The reason is that in a mere 650,000 words of content, there are more than 200 SM scenes!
The fastest-paced online novel authors these days don’t even dare to design 200 battles in 650,000 words.
So for this book, the plot, writing, and logic are not important. What is important is the more than two hundred battles and the various whips, pillars, and ropes used in it. , boards, handcuffs and other artifacts.
Those who really bought this book did not do it for the literary content. To put it bluntly, I bought this book just for Liu Bei to read, and it is a relatively strong book.
However, the work "Fifty Shades of Grey" has sold 150 million copies worldwide, and this is despite the book being banned in dozens of countries around the world.
Even in the United States, many conservative places have introduced laws prohibiting the sale of this book. However, this does not prevent this book from appearing on the American Book Association's annual book list. Ironically, it is also on this list with the Bible.
After this book became a hit, it triggered many social phenomena in the United States.
First of all, various adult toys are hot-selling or even out of stock, such as swords, guns, swords, halberds, axes, hooks and forks, whips, maces, hammers, boring sticks, kidnappers, meteors, pointed ones, bladed ones, and hooked ones. The ones with thorns, ruffles, Emei needles, and maces. The more fancy they are, the better the sales will be.
Those in Yiwu who are engaged in foreign trade in this area have made a lot of money.
The second is the increase in the number of emergency rooms at night. There are women who come alone, men who come alone, men and women who come together, and there are several men and women who play together, but there are ten of them. In eighty-nine years, there will be small toys hanging on them.
When it comes to knowing how to play, you still have to look at the beauty!
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Although the book "Fifty Shades of Grey" has no literary value and no profound connotation, except for stimulating the sales of adult toys, Doesn't have any advantages.
But Amazon was happy to publish the book anyway. Just because this book has great market potential.
Evans showed the manuscript to several other editors, and they all came to the same conclusion. The writing was really a mess. Maybe middle school students are better at writing essays than this.
But every editor has read the entire book with a "critical" eye, especially the battle plots in it, and they can even roughly describe the content of the battle.
There are more than 200 battles in the three volumes of the book. The first volume must have more than 60 battles. You can remember a lot after reading it once, which is enough to show that everyone is really reading the book attentively.
Not to mention anything else, many people have read "Journey to the West" several times with great concentration, but they can't remember the eighty-one difficulties; many people have read "Water Margin" with great concentration several times, but they can't read it out. Those 108 names.
Although "Fifty Shades of Grey" is poorly written, it allows readers to read the entire book and still remember part of the plot. This is already of great commercial value and is worthy of publication.
Publishers are most concerned about sales. As for literary value, profound connotation, and even morality, they are not important in front of sales.
Since this is a work worthy of criticism, it must be published so that every American people can participate in the criticism.
It is best to use practical actions to criticize...
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When Zhang Wei returned to China, the 48-hour breakout competition of "Fast Boys" had already ended, and 13 contestants were finally selected to advance to the national finals.
In order to cooperate with this talent show, the organizer has specially set up a "boys academy".
This boys' academy brings together thirteen contestants. They all study and live together, arrange and design programs, and give each other opinions and suggestions. These processes will be recorded, similar to a contestant. reality show.
At the same time, the program team will also invite specialized musicians to provide guidance to the contestants, and ask the judges to propose questions and test the contestants. The contestants who are eliminated every week will also leave the boys' academy.
The promotion rules for the national finals are also related to the weekly quiz in the boys' college. The contestant who ranks first in the weekly quiz will receive the opening benefit and be the first to sing a song at the beginning of the program.
This is tantamount to giving an opportunity for additional performance. In a talent show like this where audience voting determines the outcome, one more chance to perform is equivalent to one more chance to canvass votes.
The player who came last in the quiz went directly to the midfield PK, leaving only a chance to sing a self-rescue song. Of course, the final decision is still in the hands of the audience. Even if it enters the midfield PK, as long as the number of text messages is high enough, you can advance to the next round.
When Zhang Wei arrived at the boys' college, the camp had been open for three days.
Zhang Wei had no choice. After returning to China, he first experienced a two-day jet lag, then went to Tsinghua University to guide the experiment on the graphene Hall effect, and then went to Weiguang Technology to try out the latest version of DOTA2, and was called by Principal Gu to listen to some nagging, and only then did he have the time to come to the show recording site.
At the same time, its twelve contestants have been familiar with each other for three days.
Although they are all competitors, it can still be seen that the twelve boys have a tendency to form cliques. Who is closer to whom, or who is less friendly to others? You can tell whoever you meet if you are careful.
As for Zhang Wei, because he arrived the latest and is not familiar with anyone, he is more like an outsider.
However, the day after Zhang Wei entered the camp, the program team arranged a quiz for this week.
Several judges came to the contestants, and one of the female judges said: "The topic of our quiz this week is, "The Moon Represents My Heart." I think everyone is familiar with this song. The next thing you have to do is to sing this song well.
What I mean by singing this song well is not to ask you to imitate the singing method of a well-known singer, but to have a deep understanding of this song, and then use your own strengths and make full use of your own characteristics to sing this song. ! ”
The words of the judge teacher made the contestants look eager to try. Everyone wanted to use this classic old song to express themselves.
Only Zhang Wei looked displeased. Happy, he has no advantage in singing this kind of classic old song.
Those who can enter the national finals can reach the level of professional singers, including "The Little Prince of Treble", "The Tone Rogue", " Singers with such unique characteristics as "Born with a Clamping Sound" are a group of guys who are favored by God.
In industries such as literature, art, and sports, talent is still very important. If the talent is strong enough, You can be invincible even if you don't work hard, but if you don't have enough talent, you will be stuck at the upper limit no matter how hard you work.
In terms of music, Zhang Wei has no talent. Now, compared with a group of talented players, he is inherently at a disadvantage compared to classic old songs.
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Several judges returned to the lounge, only to see Hu Li, the music director of Xiaoxiang Entertainment, standing at the entrance of the passage, as if waiting for them.
"Judges, I have prepared some tea and snacks, and I would like to invite you to enjoy them." Hu Li said with a smile.
The judges looked at each other. They all knew that Hu Li invited them to tea, which must be a new task arranged by the program team.
The judges all receive their announcement fees from the program team. The program team is equivalent to the sponsor's father. When the sponsor's father invites them, how dare everyone refuse to obey. So several judges followed Hu Li to the large conference room.
After a brief greeting, Hu Li said straight to the point: "I'll keep it short. I invite you all here this time for the quiz in the first week. I heard that the title of the quiz is "The Moon Represents Me" No matter what the results of the contestants are, our program team already has more suitable candidates for the first and last place in the quiz.”
The judges all showed expressions of realization. They all understood that the program team was planning to determine the contestants' quiz scores.
The unofficial number one spot probably has connections behind the scenes. Even if the show team does not support her in the future, her journey to stardom will definitely be smooth.
As for the unofficial last place, most likely because he has no backstage, he may not be on good terms with the program team, so the program team is eager to send him away from the very beginning.
Although the judges did not directly agree to the program team's request, they still expressed their acquiescence with silence.
After all, he is the father of the funder. How dare he not agree to the request of the father of the funder.
These judges are not top musicians. If they dare to go against the show team, they will just replace them, and the judges will have nothing to do.
Seeing that the judges all acquiesced, Hu Li continued: "The number one we hope to be ranked first in the quiz is Contestant No. 11."
The judges nodded slightly, indicating that they would take note of it. .
"And the one we hope to finish last in the quiz is contestant No. 13." Hu Li continued.
"Contestant No. 13, must be that Zhang Wei!" one of the judges said immediately.
"Zhang Wei? That original singer from the Beijing competition area? I have listened to his songs, and his songs are really good!" Another judge said.
Zhang Wei was the last one to arrive at the boys' college, so he was also the last number.
When Zhang Wei was mentioned, several judges showed a look of regret on their faces. It is rare for an original singer to write such a good song. It would be a shame if they were eliminated in the first game.
But it's a pity that since the sponsor's father made the request, the judges had no choice but to comply.
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In the quiz two days later, everyone sang "The Moon Represents My Heart" once, and Zhang Wei also experienced firsthand how terrifying those talented players were.
For example, the one who is known as the "sound gangster". As soon as he spoke his voice, Zhang Wei couldn't help but exclaimed in his heart that it sounded really nice.
Another example is the "Little Prince of Sopranos" who forcibly sang "The Moon Represents My Heart" in the key of D5. You must know that Teresa Teng only sang in the key of C back then.
After listening to these people's singing, Zhang Wei couldn't help but shake his head. Such awesome talents are incomparable, really incomparable!
However, Zhang Wei is still at the level of an ordinary singer. He performed normally and completed the song relatively satisfactorily.
According to Zhang Wei's own assessment, he will definitely not be in the top five, but he shouldn't be in the bottom three, probably at the mid-range level!
The judges looked at the form in their hands and said, "Next, what I want to announce is the contestant with the worst performance in this quiz."
The judges glanced over Everyone then said slowly: "No. 13, Zhang Wei!"
Several other players breathed a sigh of relief, but Zhang Wei frowned.
"That's not true. Although I don't have the talent of those others, I shouldn't be the last one! What did the judges say?"
Zhang Wei subconsciously looked at them. He was a judge, but he found that several judges' eyes flickered, and no one dared to look at him. Even if someone came into contact with Zhang Wei's eyes, they would immediately dodge away.
Obviously, this is a sign of guilty conscience.
“There’s another shady story!” Zhang Wei realized this instantly.
"The one who dares to let the judges collectively engage in shady activities is probably the program team. If you finish last in the quiz, there will be only one self-rescue song left in the competition. If you fail to save yourself, you will be eliminated directly."< br>
Zhang Wei took a deep breath, but his eyes were filled with high morale.
“There is only one chance to sing, so this forces me to come up with a divine song to challenge!”
(End of this chapter)