Chapter 12: The Boom
On the morning of June 11, 1983 in San Francisco, USA, the sky was blue like the ocean, and the cool breeze brought a gust of fresh wind to blow through the City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco.
On Sunday morning, when the bookstore staff opened the door, dozens of people poured into the bookstore looking for books to read.
~ "Twilight of the Twilight Zone", what kind of book is this. ”
As a bookworm, Will Smith would go to the bookstore every day to look for the books he loved to read, looking for them in the dense books, and when he walked to a remote location, he suddenly found dozens of unique black covers that caught his attention, and there were several black posters pasted around him.
It reads: Magical masterpiece: "Twilight of the Twilight Zone", if you want to experience a campus love story, if you want to see the love story of Cinderella and the vampire prince, or if you want to see the magic scenes of the fight, then watch "Twilight of the Twilight Zone".
"$10 a book!
Will Smith's heart was beating, and he looked at the black cover of "Twilight: Twilight" with a slight "hesitation", the poster made him very excited, but he didn't know if it looked good or not, hesitated, gritted his teeth, picked up a book of "Twilight: Twilight", checked out at the cash register, and sat down in the seat arranged by the bookstore to watch it.
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The heroine, Bella Swan, is a seventeen-year-old middle school girl, her father is a police officer who focuses on her work all day, and her mother is an impulsive and even a little neurotic woman, and they divorced when Bella was very young. Her mother remarried, and Bella came to the remote town of Fox, where it rained all year round, to live with her father Charlie. Bright and precocious, Bella, who is precocious and independent, is unlikely to receive much help from her parents, and is full of beautiful hopes for her future life, and she is deeply eager for opportunities outside her family. At school, she became acquainted with a boy in her class, Edward Cullen.
Edward is athletic, handsome and charming, and he is actually a member of the "vegetarian" vampire family, the Cullen family. Legend has it that in ancient Europe, a plague broke out on the continent, and people died one after another, but only a young man named Corvinus survived in the village. There are three descendants of Corvinus, unfortunately one of the three was bitten by a bat infected with the virus, the other was bitten by a wolf with the virus, only one survived in full human form, and his two brothers mutated due to the virus, the one bitten by the bat became the ancestor of the vampire, and the one bitten by the wolf became the ancestor of the werewolf. Vampires don't need to eat, they don't need to sleep, but they do need to constantly suck blood. When the Bloodlines are hungry, they will have an extremely strong craving for blood. The members of the Karen family are able to resist this desire, and they generally only suck the blood of animals and do not attack humans, so they are called "vegetarians". Unlike other vampires, Edward could see what others were thinking, but he couldn't see through Bella's mind alone, which was what fascinated him deeply.
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The introduction at the beginning made Will Smith's eyes light up, and he read it little by little, but he didn't expect this to make Will Smith look fascinated for an hour.
"Will, what are you looking at so fascinating. ”
A female voice interrupted Will Smith's fascination with reading, and John Liz, a girl with yellow hair, came to Will.
Will Smith shook the book in his hand and said recommendingly, "Twilight: Twilight **** Fantasy Love Masterpiece of the Twilight Zone", and then pointed to the remote book on the right: "I think you must like it very much." ”
John Ritz's eyes lit up, the books recommended by Will are always good, and said with a smile;
Hurriedly walked towards the place where Will said, and when he walked to the remote place on the right, there were already several young men and women standing reading books, looking at the unique black cover of "Twilight: Twilight" and the poster, some people were attracted by the poster next to it, picked up the book and went to the checkout to read it, this look was not cleaned up.
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Barthes Books, UK.
Although "Twilight: Twilight" is only on the shelves today, but unlike the slow heat of "Twilight: Twilight" in the United States, "Twilight: Twilight" in the United Kingdom is more audience, as soon as the bookstore opens, people who walk into the bookstore one after another are quickly attracted by the unique cover and poster content of "Twilight", and suddenly a group of people buy "Twilight: Twilight" to read, and are soon attracted by the content of the book, so that they accidentally look fascinated.
The same thing happened slowly in major bookstores in the UK, although it has not yet reached the level of popularity, but it has begun to spread rapidly.
On June 15, in the editorial office of the New York Times, Rosenthal, as the editor-in-chief, had to instruct his subordinates to look for topical and hot news every day.
At the moment, Rosenthal is choosing the best book of the year from The New York Times' Publishing Weekly.
Suddenly, a book on the New York Times bestseller list caught his attention, and on the New York Times bestseller list, Twilight: Twilight was climbing up the New York Times bestseller list at a breakneck pace, and it was about to enter the top ten.
"It's...
Rosenthal's eyes showed interest, and he looked at a unique black cover book next to him, which reads "Twilight of the Twilight Zone", a magic book sent by his subordinates, Rosenthal, who was not interested in reading, picked up "Twilight" and began to read.
At the same time, "Twilight: Twilight" also appeared in the office of J. Wenzer, director of the American Library Association, and at this moment, J. Wenzer, director of the American Library Association, was flipping through the pages of "Twilight".
It turned out that after Leicester received the publication notice from the staff of Random House, he asked Sandner to take a copy of "Twilight" to the editor-in-chief of the New York Times and the office of the director of the American Library Association.
Lester's goal was to make Twilight included in the New York Times' Publishing Weekly and the American Library Association's Top 10 Best Books for Young Adults and the 10 Best Book Series.
If Lester remembers correctly, in his previous life, Twilight won these accolades not long after its release, and once selected, Twilight Twilight will be known to more readers, so that sales can rise early.
"Twilight" has only been published for five days, and Sandner is very excited, and he has firmly established himself as a mid-level screenwriter.
But what he doesn't know is that a vampire craze is quietly sweeping the world, and once it breaks out, "Twilight" will become a topic of conversation.