It's a great book!

Closing the book with the blue of the sea as the background color of the cover, Yang Guo thought to himself.

As the cover of it draws, a shark swarms on the sea, a man and a tiger lying quietly on a small sampan that is too small to be small, the picture is a little eerie, harmonious and a little unreasonable, and the same is true of this book!

"Full of absurdities" seems to be a way to describe the story told in this book.

The book is a fantastical and absurd adventure story of a 16-year-old Indian boy who drifts with a Bengal tiger in the Pacific Ocean for 227 days before both being reborn!

Ridiculous, isn't it? How is it possible for a man and a tiger to coexist in a small boat where it is difficult to move freely? How could they have survived for more than two hundred days in the vast Pacific Ocean? What did they eat to survive all this time? And why didn't the Bengal tiger choose to eat the Indian teenager when he was hungry? These questions are constantly challenging readers' receptivity.

When Yang Guo started reading this book, he was quickly attracted to it! There are many chapters and stories in the front, which seem to indicate what will happen to the protagonist in the future. These foreshadowings make people itch in their hearts and can't stop!

Coming back from the aid station, in addition to taking care of Kiki and the golden retriever cub, Yang Guo spent the whole day reading the book, and even Kiki was left aside by him to play with toys by himself.

The author's description of the scene and the creation of the atmosphere have reached the point of perfection.

"There was noise in the boat. The low moans of the machine's construction. I tripped and fell. There were no injuries. I got up. I held on to the railing, took four steps, and ran down the stairwell. As soon as I ran down the floor, I saw water. Lots of water. The water was blocking my path. The water poured up from below like a noisy crowd, surging, tumbling, bubbling. The staircase disappeared into the dark water. I couldn't believe my eyes. What's going on with all this water? Where does the water come from? It was as if I was pinned to the ground, filled with fear and doubt, not knowing what to do next. My family is down there. ”

No one expected the sinking of the ship, but it seems that only the protagonist has found out, and it seems that he is the only one who is helpless to face such a disaster and the pain of losing his loved ones!

The full text is just a delicate description of that scene, but between the lines, the despair and confusion of the protagonist can be clearly felt.

Despite the oppressive atmosphere, there are scenes that make you want to laugh out loud: "I clearly hear the monkeys screaming. Something is shaking the deck. A white-limbed bison – an Indian bison – suddenly burst out of the rain and rushed past me with a rumbling sound. It was frightened, furious, and uncontrollable. I looked at it and was amazed. Oh my God, who the hell let it out? ”

In the stormy ship, there is still a bison running wild, how can people not feel absurd and funny? And the zebra that smashed more than 500 pounds directly into the lifeboat from the air, and many other incredible but joyous scenes, all of which made the beginning of this disaster less depressing.

Before eating at noon, Yang Guo saw the chapter where the protagonist found the Bengal tiger on the boat. This made Yang Guo have no mind to eat. When he eats, he is thinking, what measures will the protagonist take in the face of a lively tiger in such a predicament?

After quickly finishing the meal, Yang Guo did not take a lunch break, and continued to read.

The good news is that there is still a lot of material on this lifeboat, but the bad news is that the Bengal tiger is taking over the lifeboat and is looking at him with fierce eyes.

"I grabbed the mouse and threw it at him. I can still recall the rat flying through the air—its outstretched claws and its cocked tail...... Richard? Parker opened his throat and the squeaky rat disappeared inside, like a baseball disappearing into a glove to take over. Its hairless tail disappears into its mouth like a thin spaghetti. "It's another interesting and delicate description.

Faced with a tiger, the protagonist mentally calculates six plans on how to kill it, but later, he chooses the seventh plan!

In order not to face an enemy even more terrible than a tiger - desperate loneliness, the protagonist decides to keep it alive!

However, living with a hungry tiger is not an easy task!

The protagonist in the back struggled with twists and turns, and experienced the danger of escaping from the tiger's mouth several times before he successfully tamed this ferocious Bengal tiger! He didn't even have to hide on the raft, he and the tiger were able to really live together on the lifeboat!

This long floating journey, the protagonist has a lot of incredible experiences, among them, the most memorable is the carnivorous island!

The island is so beautiful that I don't want to leave again. However, in this island where seaweed and tree roots are entangled, there is a terrifying truth hidden!

If the protagonist hadn't peeled off the fruit that encased the human molars, it would never have discovered that this was an island that devoured and digested all living things at night!

"The trees are also carnivorous, but with much lower acid levels, and are a safe place to spend the night when the rest of the island is bubbling. But once a person dies and stops moving, the tree slowly wraps the body, digests it, and filters the nutrients from the bones until the bones disappear. Eventually, even the teeth will disappear. ”

This drift is even more desperate than "Robinson Crusoe"!

However, fortunately, the protagonist only drifted in the Pacific Ocean for more than two hundred days, and most of the more than two hundred days were spent in the fight against the tiger. In the end, the hero is rescued!

Although he was rescued, Yang Guo still read the following chapters several times. The ending is so tangled! Yang Guo couldn't figure out whether the story described in the first two hundred pages of this book was true, or whether the story that Pi and the representatives sent by the Mud Bombardment Company finally made up was true?

However, this possibility may be the sublimation of this book!

Regardless, this book is not a great work, but the story is certainly captivating! Yang Guo can even foresee how popular Li An's film will be today, when the special effects of the movie have reached their peak!

It is not only some famous media that recommend this book, but also many Chinese and foreign celebrities!

Among other things, the black president of the United States, Ba Auba, gave it a high opinion - the book is "an elegant proof of the existence of God, a perfect demonstration of the power of the story".

Mr. Zhou Guoping, a famous writer who is familiar to all Chinese people, was also full of praise: "We need this story, of course, not to hide our animal nature, but also to have confidence in our humanity." ”

But why? Why did such a wonderful book sell so dismal in mainland China?

When he opened the Chinese translation, Yang Guo suddenly realized!

It turns out that it's not that other people's books are bad, but that this translator has cheated other people's books! (From here, the following is pure apocryphal and has nothing to do with reality!) ）

The translation of this book can almost be used as a typical negative textbook!

This is what Yang Guo said very much when he was in a meeting with Guan Yan and analyzed them before, that translation can't be word-to-word, word-to-word, or sentence-to-sentence!

Such a translation seems to convey the meaning of the original text to the reader. But in reality, what they are translating is only the literal meaning of the original text! Using Nida's theory of functional equivalence, they don't give the same feeling to the reader of the translated text as the reader of the original text!

To put it simply, they did not meet the standard of translation of "faith" in "Sindaya".

What is faith? The meaning should not be memorized from the original text, that is, the translation should be accurate, not distorted, not omitted, and not arbitrarily added or subtracted from the meaning. But as translators, they themselves have not even read the original text, so how can they talk about translating the meaning of the original text completely?

In the first volume, the author has buried a lot of foreshadowing, and has spent a lot of effort describing a lot of metaphors, but in the translation, Yang Guo just saw that the plot was laid out in a bland way, and he couldn't find a little thought-provoking trace!

The first volume of the Chinese translation that Yang Guo saw was very bland, just like a running account, so bland that people could no longer afford to read the second volume after reading the first part.

From the reader's point of view, Yang Guo feels that 40% of readers will abandon the book because they feel bored, and the remaining half will give up the idea of buying it because they don't know what to do.

No wonder this book has so many celebrity recommendations and still sells so much!

If I had changed myself, this book would not have been so boring! Yang Guo stuffed this garbage-like Chinese translation directly into the trash, wondering in his heart how he would translate the book if he translated it himself.

After pondering for a while, he flipped through hundreds of words in his mind, and from these few hundred words alone, he saw that the effect was hundreds of times better than that Chinese translation!

It's not that he's boasting, but that the actual effect is true. Yang Guo still has some confidence in his ability to appreciate, after all, he is also a well-read person!

In the end, Yang Guo called Zheng Yujie: "Just this book!" I'm confident! ”

"Really?" Zheng Yujie said in surprise, "Isn't it possible for us to take advantage of Li An's east wind by the way?" ”

"Don't worry!" Because of his confidence in his own strength, Yang Guo said a little domineeringly: "This book is a good book, even if there is no Li An making a movie, I can help you make it a big hit!" ”

Zheng Yujie patted her sofa and laughed heroically: "Okay, I'll report tomorrow!" Yang Guo, you said okay, when the time comes, I'll ask you for a translator, don't let me go! ”

Yang Guo smiled: "No problem, in fact, after reading this book, I also have a little itchy hands now, and I can't wait to start immediately!" ”

"That's not good," Zheng Yujie said with a smile, "You have to wait for us to ask for the publishing rights of this book, otherwise, aren't you working in vain?" ”

"When will that be?" Yang Guo said with some disappointment.

Zheng Yujie hesitated for a moment and said, "After the Spring Festival, I'll try to make them faster!" After the Spring Festival, let's fight side by side again! Ha ha! ”

(Ask for a monthly pass, ask for a recommendation, let's take a ticket and smash the cold door!) ≧▽≦）