But the two books "Flowers for Algernon" and "The Wandering Sea Ball" are very different. The magical experience of the protagonist in the former book makes people feel both wonderful and regretful.
However, the vast universe described by the latter can make him feel that the affairs he is so busy with every day are not worth mentioning.
He actually prefers "The Wandering Sea Ball", and he even seriously considered whether he was a spaceship or a sea ball fan.
Like many readers, he also thinks that "The Wandering Sea Ball" will be expanded into a medium-length novel, or a sequel will be published, because the three suns in Centauri that appear at the end of the story are really easy to arouse people's imagination.
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Parker's reading salon has just finished reading "The Shining", and he is now preparing to take everyone to read "Dune".
In fact, what he wanted to read more was "I, Robot", but unfortunately, they didn't see what the book was like until "I, Robot" was serialized in China.
However, although the English version of "I, Robot" has not been released, there has always been discussion about "I, Robot" in North America.
When the Chinese version first came out, someone uploaded the "Three Laws of Robotics" in the book to the Internet.
Parker also saw the "Three Laws of Robotics". To be honest, after reading these three laws, he was a little skeptical. He wondered if there was something wrong with the handling. He always felt that these three laws were not logically perfect.
There are even big loopholes.
But because of his blind belief in pz, he felt that although these three laws seemed to have loopholes, pz would definitely be able to handle them well.
Unfortunately, he has never been able to see the English version of this book.
Affleck has appeared twice before because of the English version of his new book, so after "I, Robot" came out this time, book friends went to Affleck's social account to ask him to appear again.
But this time Affleck didn't move or speak.
"Parker, what did you mean by the Mentaites and the Nine-string Bagas just now?"
"Yeah, and what does Kawaz Hudnach mean? I felt very confused when I listened because I couldn't understand it at all."
"Not only have I never heard of these words, but the story at the beginning also makes people feel confused. Even now I don't know what I'm going to say."
After Parker had just finished reading the first chapter of "Dune", several members of the audience raised their hands and expressed questions.
"Everyone, this is how this book is. The story may progress slowly, and there will be many new settings and nouns in it. But please don't worry, you will definitely understand these things as you continue to listen. To be honest.
, when I watched it for the first time, I felt the same as you." Parker explained.
In fact, the reaction of the audience was as he expected. Reading was originally much slower than reading. It took him a long time to finish this chapter.
In this chapter, except for some incomprehensible terms, there seems to be no story told.
It must be a little distressing to spend such a long time without hearing what you want to hear.
Parker rubbed his forehead. He felt that it was inappropriate to simply study like this.
After the salon was disbanded, he was still worried about this matter.
His Chinese friend, Li, who was his translator last time, saw Parker's frowning face and asked with a smile, "What's wrong with you today? Did the salon not go well?"
Li had always known about Parker's salon, but he had never been there even once.
"No." Parker shook his head, then nodded, "You can say yes."
"You confused me, did you or didn't you?" Li asked.
"The salon is going well, and there are quite a few book friends here, but I think there are some problems that need to be solved," Parker said.
"What's the problem?"
Parker thought for a while, then organized his words and said, "What I'm talking about today is "Dune". I just finished the first chapter, but I don't think the effect is very good. It's really good to read, but when I read it, I always feel that the effect is not very good."
, the response from the audience was also very poor. If you have read this book, you should know why."
Li nodded, "The progress is very slow and I can't understand it at all, right?"
"Well, that's the problem." Even Li knew about this problem, and it was really a big problem.
Li held his chin and thought for a while.
"Parker, maybe I have a solution." Li suddenly said.
"What?" Parker was a little surprised and confused.
"I have a method that may be able to solve your troubles, but I'm not sure, and this method may be more complicated...I'm not talking about technical complexity."
"Then what do you mean by complicated?"
"Parker, you read to other people now, and you read according to the original text. You never charge money, and most readers will buy a book, right?"
"Yes." Parker nodded, "But is there any problem with this?"
"Of course there is no problem, and you are not involved in infringement. But the method I mentioned may be."
"What method do you have, Li? Stop beating around the bush with me."
"That's right. I wonder if you have ever heard of Chinese storytelling?"
"Of course I have heard of it. I know that in the old days of China, there was a kind of person in the teahouse who specialized in telling stories to the guests." Parker said, he still had some understanding of Chinese culture.
Li nodded and said, "Yes, many of the stories they told were actually derived from novels, and some of them were even exactly the same as the original texts in the novels. In fact, what they did was the same as what you are doing now. But it was different.
Yes, many storytellers, in order to make the story sound more exciting, will re-edit the novel and write it into a story more suitable for storytelling. Don't you think "Dune" is not effective for them to read? This is definitely not the reason of the story itself
Well, I think it must be because of the way of expression. You can follow the example of the Chinese storytellers and adapt "Dune" into a story more suitable for reading to others."
"How's it going?" After finishing speaking, Li asked again when he saw that Parker didn't move.
"Your method is very good." Parker came back from his meditation, and then his expression became struggling again, "But this is not a simple matter, except for the complex problem you just mentioned. I
I don’t think I have the ability to do it. This is "Dune", Li. This is the science fiction masterpiece "Dune" that is well known to many people. How could I - how dare I do such a thing?"