Chapter 639: The Fall of the Giants
It is obviously not an easy thing to open up new horizons in a new place, anyway, Li Kuo is deeply touched by this. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Li Kuo's popularity in China, of course, needless to say, two years ago, and even now, he can be said to be the most popular among all writers.
This kind of popularity king is not the kind of popularity king that was hyped up in his previous life, nor is he a popularity king who eats books through some very bad novels, but a real one, and he can't find fault with it from many angles, and he is extremely strong......
In terms of popularity, it is needless to say that Li Kuo's meager and many other places in Li Kuo are so amazing that they are speechless.
In terms of specific strength, several of Li Kuo's novels, especially those like "Ordinary World", not only stunned many people in terms of sales, but also places like Ziah Doujiao Reading Network can still get particularly high ratings, and there are still many ratings, more than 100,000......
Some indicators like this are really tough, and they can clearly explain Li Kuo's current status in the Chinese literary circle.
Of course, Li Kuo's lack of the three major literary awards can be regarded as a big black spot for him, and it also makes many people have the truth that he had an average status in the literary world before, but in fact, Li Kuo's later battles with the three major literary awards and Shen Fan's group of people are enough to explain everything, and can also make many things disappear, so that Li Kuo can become an uncrowned king in a sense.
After that incident, so many readers still like Li Kuo so much, and there are still so many people who are still loyal fans of Li Kuo, so far, Li Kuo still carries so many things.
…… However, this is such a person, now in North America, but no one admits it, and many publishing houses still only regard him as an ordinary Chinese writer after checking his information, and they do not give him much respect, nor do they give him relative treatment.
These things are very helpless for Li Kuo......
But he can't help it now.
Right now, the first book he wrote here is still being rejected.
Moreover, Li Kuo's current novel, although it is not said that it should be able to become a sales king at a glance, but in fact, this novel, in the previous life, has achieved quite brilliant results.
This novel is called "Fallen Giant".
For many people, they may not know much about this novel, but in fact, this novel is very famous, quite famous......
Written in 2016 by Ken Follett, this book is actually an all-encompassing and complex novel.
The background of the novel is the First World War, and the fate of many people is described here, in fact, some such novels, even including China's "White Deer Plain" and the like, are through the growth of some people and so many families, to reflect an era, reflect the changes and changes of the entire era, and also reflect the living standards of people at that time.
There are too many characters in this book, including a young miner in Wales, an American law student who has just fallen out of love, a destitute brother with a bad fruit, and an infatuated German agent...... What are the places described in this book, from dusty and dangerous coal mines, to glittering royal palaces, from corridors that represent power to bedrooms that are entangled in love and hate...... It shows five distinct families, entangled yet intertwined, reflecting a magnificent and layered twentieth century......
In fact, Li Kuo also went through a lot of consideration when choosing this book.
First of all, there is one point, that is, the problem of background, after all, Li Kuo has experienced a lot of such things before, basically every novel is written, there will be deviations between background and history, for example, novels such as "White Deer Plain" and "Ordinary World" will have a certain deviation in the social background, which needs to be modified, and even includes some different customs and habits in the two time and space.
This is okay, Li Kuo soon found that he did not have to worry.
Because of the world shown in this book "Fallen Titan", in the background, in fact, the difference between the two time and space is not particularly big:
The scripts of World War I and World War II are basically the same in this plane.
After all, the main changes in the two time and space are still China, and these Western powers have still gone the same way, so there is also the same German rise to challenge the world order, and there is also the same World War I American economic rise, World War II to become a superpower......
Therefore, the background of the First World War in this time and space is still the same as the previous time and space, there is no problem with the big background, and the small background can also be modified by yourself.
Anyway, after studying for so long, Li Kuo still has some confidence in revising such a book.
So although Li Kuo spent a lot of time and energy, he still wrote a complete version of "Fallen Giant", and it has performed well so far, and many places are relatively perfect.
There is a particularly important reason why such a book "Fallen Giant" was selected as Li Kuo's first book in the Western world, that is, this book was quite a bestseller in his previous life......
In fact, many people understand that if a book wants to be a bestseller, it must not have too many words, too many pages, and not too many obscure words.
As the argument goes, "How many readers will be lost by one formula", in fact, too many words and pages in a book will also reduce many readers......
Therefore, someone has studied it before, and the average thickness of novels that can exceed one million pages is about 330 pages, which is the same at home and abroad...... Beyond that, it will be difficult to reach this sales level.
Of course, this is also an average level, and in terms of specific novels, it is necessary to analyze specific problems on a case-by-case basis, so in general, if you want to become a bestseller, it should not exceed 500 pages, which has also become the consensus of many people in the world.
But "Fallen Titan" completely shattered such a concept, and also completely showed a new concept in front of everyone's eyes.
The novel, with 1,168 pages, topped the New York Times bestseller list when it was first published, and then, throughout 2016, sold more than 10 million copies worldwide, even in China, and still sold more than 100,000 a month...... In this way, the sales of this book will definitely not be low......