Chapter 202 "Alive"

"Alive".

Although the content has not been released yet, judging from the cover style and length of the novel, it is definitely not a previous fantasy novel, or a "survival" type novel.

After all, a novel of that type cannot be described in just a hundred thousand words.

After "Harry Potter" became a hit in Kyushu, the old thief and even the Xiazhou literary circle received more attention than before!

Ever since the old thief entered the world of physical books, controversy has never stopped.

There are many arrogant physical book authors, and there are even more authors who despise "Harry Potter". They feel that Harry Potter has logical flaws and the text is too white to read.

There is nothing perfect in this world that everyone likes, except RMB.

But what really offends many people is when they think this work is "morally inappropriate".

A movie with a box office quality of one billion is obviously worth tens of billions.

Obviously, if an ordinary actor is praised as the Best Actor, he will naturally be resented by many people.

Especially "Demon Slayer" and "Harry Potter", these two works by the old thief.

It was indeed excellent, but the fire was completely irrational, and a terrifying storm blew up across Kyushu!

Some people are envious, some are bitter, and some really think it’s not okay.

This includes several well-known physical book writers. For unknown reasons, they said something like "Harry Potter" is of low quality and has no literary value!

Lin Qiu himself didn't know much about this aspect, but the old thief's thousands of book fans and animation fans "battled" with those slightly famous authors, which naturally added fuel to the fire and ushered in a bigger crisis. struggle!

Lin Qiu's thoughts were simple from beginning to end. He just wanted to bring more classics from his previous life into this world. As for slaps in the face or not, he really wasn't too interested.

In August, Lin Qiu was still filming the big scenes of "The Romance of the Yang Family" in the hot studio, and the release date of "Alive" came as promised!

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On the day of its release, the bookstores in Xiazhou once again experienced the long-lost madness!

Because it was still during the summer vacation, large numbers of student parties came early to wait.

Since the "Harry Potter" series, the popularity of the old thief among Xiazhou students has been rising steadily.

This "weird" scene of thousands of young people gathering together to buy "To Live" would definitely make the corner of their lips twitch if anyone who knew the book "To Live" in the previous life knew about it!

In fact, even in the previous life, there must be more people who know the book "Alive" than people who have read the book "Alive". It is a well-known masterpiece.

"boss!"

"Boss, has the old thief's new book arrived?"

"The old thief's book has arrived! Don't worry! Enough!"

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"Get a copy of "Alive"!"

"Quine in line! You can buy everything!"

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Similar crazy looting situations have occurred in various places in Xiazhou!

Many of these Xiazhou bosses are book lovers. In this year, almost everyone knows the name of the old thief. Even the cement heart of the old thief’s original ID has gradually become Forgotten by these bosses and readers.

These bosses know one truth, that is, no matter whether the old thieves’ books are well written or not, they don’t have to worry about selling them!

And after watching "Harry Potter", many bosses are fans of the old thief.

This includes bookstore owner Zhang Dehua!

"Where's your boss?"

A customer came to the bookstore, didn't see Boss Zhang, and asked.

The clerk smiled and pointed towards the second floor:

"The boss is up there."

"I went to read a book."

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The second-floor balcony of the bookstore is sunny.

Zhang Dehua happily held a brand new book and made tea.

As a bookstore owner, Zhang Dehua, who loves literature, should be a reader who is not excluded from any genre, including online articles and physical books.

After reading novels for so many years, the freshness brought to Zhang Dehua by Old Thief is the strongest.

I always feel that Lao Zei's novels are just different from others. It's not a matter of routines or plots, it's just the taste.

The depiction of atmosphere is really too strong. Works such as "Sword" and "Harry Potter" actually have big logical problems, but the old thief is able to completely immerse the readers in it!

Let readers see the world described by the old thief!

"oh?"

"It's actually a new style?"

"No……"

"This is traditional literature!"

Based on Zhang Dehua's experience, just when he opened "Alive" and saw the first line of text, his eyes widened!

He had thought of many types of challenges that the old thief would challenge, but he had never thought of this type!

It’s actually a literary work with realistic themes!

Just a few words in the first line completely put Zhang Dehua into the atmosphere of the story of "Alive", as if he had returned to that time many years ago!

[When I was ten years younger than I am now, I got an idle job and went to the countryside to collect folk songs. 】

[The whole summer of that year, I was like a flying sparrow, wandering in the cottages and fields filled with cicadas and sunshine. 】

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First person?!

This first-person writing style is very common in physical books and early online literature. In fact, early online literature is not much different from physical books, and is published online.

In the past, works such as "Ghost Blowing the Light" can be called online novels, but the content is not much different from that of physical books. It was not until the development of online literature that the two were clearly distinguished.

Why are early online literature such as "Zhu Xian", "Ghost Blowing the Light", "Zichuan", "Profanation" and "Legend of the Little Soldier" not as exciting as the works of the last decade? It is because with the development of the times, online literature has formed a label of "highly entertaining".

This is the characteristic of online literature, which focuses on the content and form that readers like, attaches importance to whether it can bring pleasure to online readers, pays attention to the expression of emotions, and ignores the existence of cultural connotations.

The popular characteristics of online literature in terms of ideological content cater to the needs of most readers of this era for "entertainment".

In terms of ideological content, traditional literature mainly expresses major realistic themes, and the content is relatively serious.

Regardless of whether it is "elegant" or "classic", in the past, such works became more and more boring in people's lifestyles, but it is hard to say whether it is the progress of the times or regression.

At least some of the classic literary works in the early days of China may not be available for many years after 2020.

But the creative environment of this world and the public's acceptance of works are fully capable of accepting these serious literary works, so Lin Qiu was determined to publish them.

However, books like "To Live" and "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" are destined not to have the terrifying number of audiences like "Harry Potter", and it is even more unrealistic to achieve sales of hundreds of millions.

As the story of "To Live" unfolds, Zhang Dehua is seriously involved in it.

"It's really atmospheric."

Zhang Dehua secretly exclaimed.

In fact, the words of the old thief are not gorgeous, but in the narration, the rural atmosphere of many years ago comes to the face.

Especially objects and scenes like [wide-brimmed straw hat], [field path], [dust flying] and [fan], which really have a sense of picture.

In this era, fans are becoming increasingly rare.

In the story of the first chapter, the narrator "I" got a lazy job when he was young - collecting folk songs in the countryside.

When summer just arrived, he met the old man named Fugui and listened to Fugui telling about his rough life experience.

The writing perspective in the novel instantly turned to Fugui's perspective.

It is said that Fugui was originally a young master of a landlord's family. Before his family fell into decline, he was addicted to gambling.

And not only that, when he was young, he ate, drank, gambled, and did all kinds of dissolute things.

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"So it was that era."

"The old thief actually wrote a story of this era!"

"This author is too mysterious."

Zhang Dehua shook his head and just felt surprised.

There have been many speculations about the real identity and real age of the old thief on the Internet, because works such as "Xianjian", "Anohana" and "April" say that the old thief is actually very young.

There are also people who say that the old thief has a deep foundation in writing and guess that he is older.

But once this book "To Live" is published, it should be a real hammer!

The old thief is at least over 40 years old.

If he is not 40 years old, he can't write such a feeling.

How can you know the feeling of that era if you have not experienced it?

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Judging from the characterization in the novel, Fugui is really not a good person.

He eats, drinks, gambles, and his wife Jiazhen is at home, so she naturally doesn't know about Fugui's mess.

What's more frowning is that Jiazhen is still a virtuous woman. According to the description in the text, [she barked as a dog in her previous life], Fugui made trouble outside, and Jiazhen always accepted it, and even if she knew, she never said anything.

Just seeing these lines of text, Zhang Dehua sighed slightly.

Women of that era were sometimes more pathetic than the description in the text.

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