In the course of reading contemporary novels, I came across a term called web novel.

It's not very lofty when you hear it, yes, how good can a work that anyone can write and post can be?

Subconsciously, it's very repulsive.

People always have such shortcomings, and when they hear that it is free, they feel that it cannot be a good thing.

Therefore, when buying and reading books, I can't help but automatically skip such books and rejoice in my own elegance. At that time, there was no unified definition of web novels. Today, with the help of Baidu Encyclopedia, let's popularize online novels. Online novels are novels published by online writers based on the basic platform of the Internet. It is an emerging genre of fiction that has emerged with the rapid development of the web......

Although this definition is not accurate, it is really impossible to explain in a sentence or two, for the time being.

Just knowing the definition isn't the end for me.

I like to trace the origins, I want to know which was the first web novel.

There is no particularly precise answer to this question, after all, there are so many online novels, who can really know which one is the first online novel! But now we generally think that the first online novel is Cai Zhiheng's "The First Close Contact". In fact, this statement is inaccurate, there were many online novels before him, and the main reason why this work is regarded as the first work in the online literature industry is because this book led the development of online literature and brought online novels into the reader's field of vision! So it would be accurate to say that it should be the first most influential web novel.

The reason why I spent a lot of time on this book is because I knew it very early.

After I bought a computer because of playing "The Legend of Jin Yong's Heroes", I came into contact with the Internet relatively early. It's not surprising to know about web novels, and it's not surprising to know about this book.

But at that time, I was looking at contemporary novels, and I was having a good time.

So I've always paid no attention to this kind of novel.

Until 2009.

I saw the 10th anniversary edition of "The First Close Encounter" at Myeongyi Bookstore, and suddenly I had the idea to see what the book was like, so I bought it.

In my personality, I must have started watching it when I got home that night. It was January 10, 2009, and the last page of the book reads.

The opening is captivating.

"If I have 10 million, I can buy a house.

Do I have 10 million? No.

So I still don't have a house.

If I had wings, I could fly.

Do I have wings? No.

So I can't fly.

If I pour out the water of the entire Pacific Ocean, I will not be able to extinguish the fire of my love for you.

Can the entire Pacific Ocean pour out all the water? No way.

That's why I don't love you. ”

It turns out that the article can also be written like this.

Coherent. After reading it, I wrote at the back of the book that "everything that is famous must have its famous truth"!

If I had copied this passage written at the end of the book, Madame would have said that I had injected water! Putting a picture doesn't count the number of words.

Since this book, I have felt that there is a certain reason for the existence and rapid development of online literature.

It is perfectly reasonable to say that existence is reasonable. If you know your mistakes, you will change them, and you will start the period of reading online novels.

It's also a crazy time. The books I read during this period probably have these categories.

Traversal class.

There are two main types of traversal classes. One is the science students, they are omnipotent, looking for minerals, making steel, building locomotives, building railways, during which they add glass, soap, wine, and perfume to earn a huge business empire, and finally build guns and cannons, build armies, and finally call the king and emperor, and achieve a perfect life.

The other is that liberal arts students travel through, basically memorizing poems through scientific examinations, and using the time difference to make famous works such as Li Bai, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, etc., famous in different time and space, regardless of why people in that time and space also like poetry. In the end, unlike the ending of the science student traverser, the liberal arts student is generally a high-ranking official, and it is not bad to marry the emperor's daughter or sister. After all, you can't build an army by poetry.

In addition, there are many other travel categories, such as "Journey of Piao", etc., which cannot be subdivided.

Tomb robbing.

Represented by "Notes on Tomb Robbery" and "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", the storyline is based on robbing the tombs of various historical and legendary characters, during which you can learn a lot of archaeological knowledge. "The Code of the Book of Mountains and Seas", "The Code of Tibet", "The Golden Kui Liuren Plate" and so on all belong to these.

Fantasy.

In Baidu Encyclopedia, the explanation for fantasy novels is as follows: "Fantasy novels are a type of novels, usually with adventure and war as the theme, and the background of the times and world view are unrestrained, and the author's imagination can be freely played." It is closely related to fantasy genre novels such as science fiction, fantasy, and martial arts. This kind of novel, which many "experts" say is "pretending to be a ghost", has ushered in a boom in China. I have read and can now think of the titles of books, such as "The Tomb of the Gods", "Jiang Ye", "Sanctuary", "Immortal Rebellion", "The Legend of Heaven", "Panlong", "The Age of the Reckless Waste", "Inch Mang", "Covering the Sky", "The Guest", "Devouring the Starry Sky", "The Legend of Jiuding", "The Change of the Stars", "The Spiritual Domain", "The Invincible Summoning of the Spirit", etc., basically belong to these.

Xiuzhen class.

In fact, I personally think that the cultivation category can be classified as a fantasy category, represented by "Zhu Xian".

Urban.

Urban novels mostly refer to novels that take place in the city, and the genre of novels is limited to life, which can be said to be a copy of real life, and the plot content and details of the novel are another way of living in real life that is described. For example, "Golden Pupils"......

President class.

The president class is basically the male gold owner and the female protagonist for a time by chance (either drugged, or drunk...... In short, the male protagonist is not voluntary), and then the two have nothing to do with each other, until five or six years later, they meet a few (as for a few to see the author's courage, twins are standard, triplets are also common, and the most daring to write is five or six tauplets) Five or six-year-old children with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, pink carving, look the same as the male protagonist, and then start chasing the child and her mother, during which it must be the female protagonist no zuo no die. The male owner drives a private plane, and all parts of the country are settled, during which the female owner will be sick and the male owner's doctor friend will take action...... I couldn't stand half of it, so I asked my wife if she had finished watching "The Cold Charm Prince Wants to Divorce His Wife", which she spent money chasing, and she said that she didn't watch half of it, and she really couldn't watch it. Heroes and heroines see things the same way!

There is also the ...... of online games

This kind of online novel is related to games, such as "Online Game One Cheap Heart" and "Online Game: Nothing to Look for Abuse......

Reading class because of the popularity of film and television.

At that time, because of the popularity of the films and television of "Three Lives, Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" and "Flower Thousand Bone", people around him talked endlessly, so they bought the original book and read it.

There are many, many more that can't be attributed to any kind of classification......

For example, Jiangnan's "Dragon Family", Cangyue's "2012", Murong Xuecun's "Heaven to the Left, Shenzhen to the Right", Guo Jingming's "Little Times", the Wild Fox under the Tree's "Sou Shen Ji", "Wild Story" and many more.

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After a few years of hard work, I have read almost all the god-level masterpieces of the year (because I have read almost all the categories of online articles in the past two years, I have not paid much attention to the new authors in recent years).

I read books differently from others, because I have developed the habit of not holding a pen and not reading, so I have never been interested in e-books, and I always feel that they are not books. Only printed on paper, bought at home, held in the hand and read quietly (of course for me this silence is relative, because there must be music in the ear, and the game characters are often asked to do tasks at hand...... ) is considered reading.

So even if it's an online novel, I always have to buy it as a paper book to read. Over time, the books accumulate more and more.

A bookcase can't fit in two layers.

In particular, online novels often start from twenty or thirty in a set, and it is definitely a considerable amount to buy them slowly.

In the face of these authors who casually write a novel of eight or nine million words, I really want to tell them that they have time to carefully read the third chapter of the fourth volume of Jin Yong's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", which is the penultimate section of the book.

In this section, Jin Daxia describes Yang Guo's mentality before going to the appointment of Xiaolongnu, preparation, anticipation, and then stepping up to the top of the mountain to see the sun not going down the mountain, heart death, diving pool, Guo Xiang dissuaded, all heroes fight the Golden Wheel Dharma King, the double eagle dies, the heroes return to Xiangyang to break into the camp, Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu reunite, and then Xiangyang side Huang Yaoshi 28 Star Formation fights Mongolian soldiers, Yang Guo Xiaolongnu goes out of the mountain, fights and kills the Golden Wheel Dharma King, saves Guo Xiang, kills Meng Ge, retreats Mongolian soldiers, enters the city, and Guo Jing speaks proudly about wine...... All of this only took about 30,000 words, writing about love, scenes, war, and human nature...... I read this chapter many times and studied his writing method carefully.

Words are like gold!

So there is only one Jin Daxia in the world.

Because there are so many of these Internet gods, basically I read one or two of their masterpieces, and only those who think they are very well written will buy all of his books to read.

I haven't read most of the books of a particular author, but if you think about it, there are probably fewer than 10.

The first one is Cai Zhiheng.

Influenced by "The First Close Contact", I like his writing style very much, so I buy a book every time he publishes, and sometimes I want to learn his writing style, but I'm afraid of making it a four-like, so let's write it according to my heart!

Don't worry about the tricks! The skill of being able to tell the story is a good skill.

The second is Xinyiwu. The book "To Our Dying Youth" made me know the name Xin Yiwu, and her book is really good and delicately written.

Reading her books easily resonates with our youth.

So I bought almost all of her books and read them carefully.

In the book "To Our Dying Youth", Zheng Wei said to Shi Jie: "I have a sentence that I often use to comfort myself when I am the saddest, and now I give it to you, which is very simple: I am willing to lose the bet!" This quote is also often quoted by me to friends who regret choosing some paths for themselves.

Willing to lose!

Whether it's a career or a relationship......

The third is Gu Man, who is known as the slow turtle.

It's really too slow, and one of her books, "The Sun Is Like Me" (above), has been published for more than ten years, and (below) is said to be published.

But that doesn't stop her fanaticism as fans. Her books are really good, if it weren't for the fact that there are too few of her books, I would definitely rank her second, and her "Why Sheng Xiaomo" is really wonderful. As you can tell from the signature at the end of the book, I read it at least four times, and because I always recommend this book, I bought an extra copy to check it out.

The fourth one I thought about for a while, and decided to count the three young Tang family who had not been interrupted for more than ten years. After all, the continuous progress of the past ten years alone has made it very difficult to update for more than 20 days, and I don't admire it.

As one of the five whites of the Central Plains, the article of the Tang family Sanshao is naturally known as Xiaobaiwen, so that people who are new to online literature can read it.

In fact, it's great to be able to read it.

I have read his "Douluo Continent" series ("Douluo Continent", "Peerless Tang Gate", "Legend of the Dragon King", "Ultimate Douluo", plus the fifth "Tang San Rebirth" that is currently being written), "Child of Light", "Mad God", "The Good Death", "Only I am an Immortal", "Airspeed Star Trace", "Ice and Fire Demon Kitchen", "Zodiac Guardian", "Qin Emperor", "Bacchus", "Heavenly Bead Change", "Divine Seal Throne", "Heavenly Fire Avenue", "Great Tortoiseshell Master" and so on......

This list will be added because he is still writing.

The fifth is the silkworm potato.

I have read the 27 volumes of his first "Breaking the Sky" with more than 100 million reads, if it weren't for the fact that his later "Martial Arts" and "The Great Juggernaut" had similar ideas, and the update was too slow after becoming famous, I would definitely rank him a little higher.

The sixth one is one that doesn't have a physical book, but I like it very much. I have read his "Evil King of Another World" and "Nine Heavens of the World" more than once. The only pity is that his books are basically online versions, except for the physical book of "The Nine Heavens of the World", which came out in the next three days, the others can only read online texts.

The seventh is innocence. Feng Ling Tianxia finally came out with a few physical books, and the innocence is not out (not counting the pirated copies of the books that are particularly thick and have few small chapters left). But his "Road to Heaven" is very wonderful, with a compact plot, distinct characters, and a lot of fun, and it is also a book that I have read several times. "Rogue Master", "Luofu", "Immortal Demon Change", "Sword Dynasty" and "Pingtiance" are also very exciting!

The eighth is eye-catching. His "Golden Pupil" (the physical book was renamed "Pawn", a total of 13 books) is very well written, and other books such as "Baojian", "Shenzang" and "Genius Physiognomy Master" show us a new unknown territory. It made me know a lot about jade, collecting, archaeology, fortune telling, etc.

Other masterpieces such as Platinum Writers I Eat Tomatoes, Skeleton Elves, Chendong, Bandit I Sicun, Cat Greasy, Fishman Second Generation, Yueguan, Ear Root, Goose is the Old Five, Dream into the Divine Machine, Yuyan, Jiangnan, Cangyue, Cangtian White Crane, etc., plus some well-known works, I have basically seen them.

I am writing this to ask readers where I got so much time and energy to read so many books, just the title and author of the book, not to mention that each book is basically millions of words! Sometimes I admire myself, just stacking up online novels can pile up several ceilings of books, how have I read them all these years, especially some books that I have read more than once.

I would like to point out here that not all web novels I bought in paper versions, because most of them don't. So I basically read the electronic version of the majority, as for the number of volumes, I basically convert it according to 300,000 words per volume.

The first web novel I read on the computer in my memory has long since forgotten the name.,I only remember that the author is a four-word pen name.,I also remember that the beginning is a post-apocalyptic era.,A male protagonist kills monsters for machine guns.,And then slowly unfold the plot.,The final villain boss turned out to be the Taoist Lao Tzu.,The last chapter of the book is "Eternal Life.,It's a pity that I didn't find which book this is after looking on the Internet for a long time.。

To be sure, it's not a famous book, but I was impressed because I read it for the first time.

I still read a few new popular novels on the Internet from time to time, and adding this chapter in the future will definitely add many different categories, different names and different titles!

After reading so many web novels, I was deeply moved.

After I started reading online novels, I developed a good habit of never commenting on books I hadn't read, and if I wanted to review them, I would read them, and when I commented, I only stated that it was my own understanding or thoughts. At the same time, it is extended that he does not evaluate things and people he does not understand, even if he is not allowed by the world, as long as he does not enter that circle and does not understand those people or things, he will not stand on the high point of self-righteousness and morality.

So I can't be the keyboard warrior I hate as I don't have a head.

Although there are electronic versions of books to read, there are also many paper books that you want to read.

The consequence of always buying books is that I have more and more books.

It's okay to have too many books, you have to organize your collection!