Chapter 212 Bad Reputation
Chapter 212 Bad Reputation
The following discussion is more targeted at a certain work rather than Gu Lu himself.
"Fuck, this guy is just like the genius boy I imagined. He can master anything if he can do it. He can write any genre he wants! I've read Mr. Holmes, it's pretty good. Is his new book Hyouka good? I heard it also has a mystery plot."
"It's not very good, quite boring, but the ending is a bit interesting. Also, the book says that hyouka means ice cream. What dialect is this from?"
"Is 'Hyouka' not good? Oops, I already bought a set."
"The above story, I personally think it's okay, it's a youth campus novel, although the plot is a bit bland, but it's good to kill time when you're bored. The only thing I can't accept is, are there really so many club activities in high school? And there are also school celebrations that the whole school can participate in? I've graduated from college, and I've never seen such a school celebration."
"I heard that the prototype school of the novel is Wudu No. 8 Middle School. The author Gu Lu studied in this school, and he himself is a member of the literature club."
The discussion is a bit off track.
It's normal to go off topic. Although the reputation of the book "Hyouka" is not very good, it is the best tool to promote Wuba Middle School, especially after it was adapted into an anime, many junior high school students were "tricked" into reading it...
Back to the point, the first week sales of the three books reached an astonishing 37 copies, and the new novel "Hyouka" also sold over copies, but...
[I feel very sorry for the three books "Yesterday's Park", "Mr. Holmes" and "Hyouka". I did not see any spirit of "The Little Prince" in these three books.]
Yu Xinyao, the most famous literary critic in the country, is indeed a man of quick words.
Last time, President Jian asked Yu Xinyao to read "The Little Prince" because he recognized Gu Lu's talent. This time, Yu Xinyao took the initiative to buy the book and gave the above evaluation after reading it.
Perhaps his emotions have not been fully vented yet, for Yu Xinyao brought this up again when he was recently invited to give a lecture at Hua University, talking about ancient literary geniuses.
"There were many literary geniuses in ancient times. Let's not talk about Luo Binwang. Wang Bo, who was also known as one of the Four Great Talents of the Early Tang Dynasty, could read at the age of six. At the age of nine, he read the Annotations to the Book of Han by Yan Shigu, a great scholar. He wrote a ten-volume Annotations to the Book of Han, because he found more than a dozen errors. He passed the imperial examination at the age of sixteen. Is that genius enough?"
"But no matter how talented one is, he still needs to learn and improve, as well as the guidance of famous teachers around him. I was very disappointed a few days ago. Gu Lu, the genius who wrote The Little Prince at the age of 16, had no famous teachers around him, and even only profit-seeking people. What a pity. The gap between Hyouka and The Little Prince is too big. Even though the subject matter is different, The Little Prince's story line is scattered, but the brilliance of the theme continues to the end, while the former's story is boring and the main line is vague. I don't want Gu Lu to become a Zhongyong. Okay, let's continue talking about Wang Bo..."
Yu Xinyao not only criticized Gu Lu's new book Bingguo, but also criticized the people around Gu Lu.
The people around him even include President Jian.
He was comparing "Hyouka" and "The Little Prince".
Many readers are not satisfied.
They bought this book because of Mr. Holmes, or in other words, it was a detective mystery, so after reading it, the readers formed two completely different evaluations!
"Hyouka fails as a mystery novel. The word puzzle part is very boring, and only at the end can you see a glimmer of hope." "? Anyone who has read Mr. Holmes knows that Gu Lu is good at writing characters, not writing tricks. Just tell me whether Hyouka's characters are distinct." The debate was heated.
"If you want to discuss reasoning, go somewhere else. This Gu Lu Bar is a place to discuss science fiction." Okay, a third party force entered the scene.
There wasn't much promotion before, so the Gu Lu bar was full of accumulated readers of science fiction novels, and now all kinds of readers have come.
"What do you mean? The mystery isn't written by Gu Lu? This is Gu Lu Bar, what right do you have to delete the post?" "This is the Sci-fi Gu Lu Bar, not Gu Lu Bar." "Then go apply for a Sci-fi Gu Lu Bar yourself, and leave this to us mystery and supernatural." "Get lost, this bar belongs to us science fiction people!" The scene was a bit complicated.
Let's not talk about such a complicated scene for now. I will report the results after the battle on the forum is over. Let's talk about the simple things first. Gu Lu was browsing the computer with an expressionless face. Gu Lu also read a lot of reviews from readers and book reviewers. It is true that Hyouka's delicate description is not comparable to the Little Prince, but there is a certain gap between her and Mr. Holmes.
"MM magazine is going to translate The Little Prince, so can Hyouka be translated as well? This way it might even be adapted into an animation by Kyoto Animation like Earth." Gu Lu muttered to himself.
Kyoto Animation can be said to be the savior of the original work. Whether it is "Violet Evergarden" or "Chunibyou! Love, Too" or even this Hyouka, they are all better than the original!
“Be careful about plagiarism. If the gap between the reviews of the previous and subsequent works is too big, you will really be bombarded by book reviewers.” Gu Lu said silently in his heart, even though the current sales of the book continued to rise.
The three new works were selling like hot cakes, and Gu Lu had just started school for less than four weeks when his homeroom teacher informed him that he would have an exam the following Monday.
Monthly exam, monthly exam, startled a group of ancient apes.
"Gaia", "Why do we have to take exams soon after the start of school?", "It's over, the end of the world is coming again"...
No matter how much you call, the exam time cannot be changed!
The monthly examination papers are either a ready-made set or prepared by the teachers of one’s own school. No. 8 Middle School uses the former, and the monthly examination papers have always been the “Panjiu Middle School” papers.
In the modern Chinese reading section of the Chinese language test, the excerpted article is "Four People and Three Photos" by Mo Huaiqi.
Mo Huaiqi is the vice chairman of the Fog City Writers Association. His novels have been selected into textbooks and his articles were submitted to the Sichuan Literature magazine. Therefore, it is normal for Panjiu Middle School to quote this fresh article in the exam paper.
But this made Gu Lu very confused.
Question: What do you feel when you see your name on the test paper?
A: It’s quite exciting!
Now, with the help of Mr. Wang Zengqi, he has turned to the field of literature. I don’t know whether Gu Lu can see his name on the test paper before graduating from university.
The article is similar to Chairman Mo's previous articles, about 400 to 500 words, concise and effective. The reasons for the filming and the prefix are omitted, and the main focus is on the reactions of the crowd after the filming.
After reading the article, as a witness, I feel a little different.
The one who suggested taking a photo was the shop owner Lao Lei, but in the article it became the poet Tu Liang, perhaps because Mo Huaiqi knew Tu better, or because the shop owner is just an ordinary person.
The shop owner Lao Lei has very few roles in the entire article, followed by Gu Lu and Lao Tu, and the description of Wu Du's reaction occupies the largest space.
"This is going to nail Teacher Wu Du to the pillar of shame, hahaha." Gu Lu felt a little funny.
As an article based on personal experience, isn’t this a very easy topic to write? !
Gu Lu is very confident.
(End of this chapter)