Chapter 50: Comments and Seizures
On the second day of the release of "Lovely Bones", the sales of the new book continued to be hot. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
At the same time, several media outlets published reviews of the new book, and most of them were written by influential commentators.
The New York Times published a long review of Leo Tried, which gave a quarter of a page to the new book, which Leo praised as "a great story in ordinary strokes." ”
Rogham Jackson of USA Today said: "This is a novel full of contradictions, warm with heartache, sweet with severe pain, all kinds of emotional entanglements, just like the Susie family's journey of liberation......"
"Publishers Weekly" praised: "It is very gratifying that we have a real family trauma novel, which is rare in the American book market, the author Xu An used the voice of a 14-year-old girl to tell us what family is, what family, what love is!" ”
There are also some media outlets that have not yet commented on it, but again, media comments are not all praise, and when most people like it, there are always some people who jump out and sing the opposite.
For example, Patrick Beal, a book reviewer for the Washington Post, expressed his disgust with the new book between the lines: "I don't know what's wrong with this society, the shadow of the murder in New York has just passed, the victims have not yet rested, and someone has used this tragedy as a selling point to write a book to cheat money? Boulder Random House has gone the wrong way, and perhaps Bertelsmann should reconsider their acquisition proposal! ”
Lance threw aside the newspaper in his hand and pouted disdainfully, there are always some grandstanding guys in the newspaper, cheating money? Crooked path? Hum!
He sorted out the reviews of these newspapers, good and bad, and prepared to leave them to Xu An, after all, it was the first book, and that guy missed the new book period, and he definitely didn't want to miss these reviews.
In addition, Lance also noticed that on some reading websites, there are more and more reviews of this book, of course, there are good reviews, and there are also bad reviews, and the most interesting thing is the speculation of the author himself, because the author himself was not interviewed, and Lance did not reveal any information, so now some people speculate that the author is Lance himself, and some people speculate that it is a girl who has been violated.
Seeing this, Lance couldn't help but laugh, I really don't know what Xu An's expression will be after seeing these guesses.
At this time, Xu An was writing in his cell, he asked the prison guards for paper and pen, and began to continue writing the second part of "Twilight", "New Moon".
Brian wandered around idly, looking at Xu An from time to time, bored to death.
"Ann, put down the pen and talk to me? Well? Brian was like a child with ADHD who couldn't stop for a moment, "I know you're an author, but you're a prisoner now!" ”
"Well, there are quite a few great works that have been done in prison!" Xu An said without raising his head.
"Oh, come on, I'm going crazy, this damn place is so boring!"
"This is a punishment for what you did wrong, and you have to live with it." Xu An teased, "Maybe you can read the book I wrote to pass the time?" ”
"No, you're writing too slowly!" Brian refused, seeing that Xu An still hadn't meant to stop, he sighed, pulled out the iron bar from under the bed again, and began to buckle it on the wall.
Knowing that Suosuo's voice sounded, Xu An glanced up at him, ignored it, and continued to bow his head and write.
Brian continued to wrestle with the wall, which he had already carved out of a small hole, and he thought it would be nice to have a hole in it to talk to the people in the cell next to him, instead of spending the day in front of a muffled writer.
Gradually, his movements slowed down, the scene in front of him blurred for a while, and then he couldn't help but yawn.
"Damn it!" Brian cursed in a low voice and moved a few more times, but he felt a "buzzing" sound in his head, the sound grew from small to loud, and finally turned into a roar, as if something was squeezing in the veins and trying to escape.
He shuddered, threw the iron bar in his hand aside, went back to the bed and lay down, grabbed the blanket and rolled it up on himself, but he couldn't stand the feeling of restraint, and his skin seemed to have a little goosebump, and he couldn't help but scratch it.
The itching spread throughout her body, and Brian twisted on the bed, her hands clenched into claws, constantly scratching at her body.
Xu An raised his head inadvertently, and was suddenly taken aback by Brian's state, he quickly realized what was going on, and scolded secretly: "Bastard!" Then he hurriedly threw down the pen in his hand and rushed over.
He tore the sheets apart with all his might, tying Brian's hands together to prevent him from hurting himself.
"Brian, Brian, can you hear me?"
Brian's eyes were scattered, he didn't react at all, he was still dancing his hands to grab himself, and his mouth was even foaming at the mouth, Xu An knew that this was a mistake in Hi Luin's drug addiction, and the body's natural withdrawal reaction.
When I was in middle school, the school showed a lot of such propaganda videos, using the miserable state of drug addicts to warn young people to stay away from drugs.
I know it, but this is the first time Xu An has seen this situation with his own eyes, and he can't help but be frightened, it's really a little miserable, and he didn't expect Brian to have a seizure at this time.
"This bastard!" Xu An couldn't help but curse again.
Brian was still struggling, shouting loudly: "Let go of me, let go of me, don't kill me, please, don't kill me......" and then again: "Let me die, it's uncomfortable to die......"
"Brian, hold on for a while, I'll call the prison guards right away!"
The word prison guard made Brian sober up a little, he grabbed Xu An's hand hard, and said, "Don't, don't call the prison guard!" ”
“WHY?” Xu An didn't understand, so he didn't call the prison guards.
But Brian was so uncomfortable that he couldn't speak, so he just grabbed Xu An's hand and didn't let him leave.
Xu An couldn't, so he could only sit here with this poor ghost.
After about half an hour, Brian's withdrawal weakened slightly, and the person gradually came to his senses.
"I don't want anyone to see me now!" Brian took a deep breath and sat up insistically: "Tomorrow the headline in the newspaper will be that Brian has had a drug addiction attack and was rushed to the hospital, and then accompanied by a photo, I'm not afraid of being known that I'm taking drugs, but I don't want people to see me like this, understand?" ”
"But this is a prison!"
"Ha, journalists are an all-pervasive profession, is there a place in this world that they can't cover?" Brian said weakly.
"Well, as you wish." Xu An said, "This is the price of being a celebrity, besides, how did you get from it when you had seizures before?" ”
"Grit your teeth and persevere, otherwise what can I do?" Brian spread out on the bed and said, "Fortunately, this torturous feeling has been happening for longer and longer, and this time it hasn't happened for four days!" ”
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Today's one, the stone pain can't stand it, I went to the hospital, and found that I haven't walked to the second stenosis for a month, so I honestly handled the hospitalization to prepare for extracorporeal lithotripsy, everyone can rest assured, small problems, many people have, small points can even be discharged on their own, I am a little bigger, one is because the pain is so bad that I don't have the heart to write, sweat