"A Murder Case Annoyed in Advance" is different from Zhang Zhong's previous mystery novels. Whether it is the writing style or the story theme, it is different from the Poirot series and several other mystery novels.
In this book, reasoning has been significantly weakened, and more emphasis is placed on thinking about human nature.
At this time, people remembered that Zhang Zhong was not a simple popular novelist, but a serious novelist.
However, this novel did not immediately arouse an enthusiastic response from ordinary readers. Even though the pace of the novel is perfect, as far as mystery novels are concerned, this novel is a bit boring.
Sometimes, literariness and interest are in conflict with each other... This is not quite accurate. To be precise, literariness and interest in the eyes of ordinary people are in conflict with each other.
Often novels with strong literary qualities can please fewer ordinary readers, because the appreciation level of most readers is still at a relatively low level. This is a fact that has to be admitted.
"A Pre-publicized Murder" has done a very good job in terms of literature and pleasing ordinary readers, but compared to the previous Poirot series, most readers still seem to prefer the Poirot series.
Not many people say they don’t like this book. After all, it is a mystery novel written by Zhang Zhong. When the words Zhang Zhong and mystery novel are put together, they seem to represent authority, and ordinary people almost blindly follow authority.
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However, there are also people who dare to express different opinions, such as February Birdsong, who criticized the movie "Ten Little Indian Boys" before. After more than a month, he jumped out again.
"It's really an uninteresting mystery novel. Normally, once an author becomes famous, his skill level will plummet. Zhang Zhong has not escaped this curse. This "A Murder Case That Was Publicized in Advance" is really lackluster.
, and the arrogant author arranged too many coincidences, making the already weak reasoning even more fragile. I really can’t find another boring mystery novel like this..."
This time, February Niaoyu came prepared. He even read "A Murder Case That Was Publicized" three times, three times.
Although this book has less than 100,000 words, reading it three times in a row is quite time-consuming.
After watching it three times, he became more and more bored as he watched it.
Originally, he read it with the intention of finding faults, because in his opinion, even the most rigorous mystery novels would still have loopholes.
But after reading it, he found that there was no loophole in this book, because it didn't have much reasoning element at all. The whole novel was about a coincidence that couldn't be more coincidental.
What kind of mystery novel is this?
In fact, the reason why "February Birds" feels boring, or that there are many people who feel bored after reading "February Birds", is because they read this novel with wrong ideas from the beginning.
From the beginning, they thought that there would be all kinds of amazing reasoning scenes in this novel, but after reading it, they found that there was no such thing. Naturally, there was a gap in expectations, and this gap in expectations made it impossible for them to be objective or even in-depth.
to understand this novel.
However, not many people responded to February Niaoyu's comments this time. After all, Zhang Zhong's authority is there, and February Niaoyu was slapped firmly by Zhang Zhong some time ago. Others don't want to go to this mess.
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Zhang Zhong also saw the comment about Birds in February, but he didn't pay attention to it at all. He was just a second-rate film critic and not worthy of his anger.
Just a few days later, the online sales of "A Murder Case That Was Publicized" were not very good.
In addition to the skyrocketing traffic at the beginning, the subsequent traffic is getting lower and lower, and the charging situation of paid chapters is not very good.
In any case, for ordinary readers, this novel is indeed less attractive.
Zhang Zhong didn't care about this, after all, he had already expected that this situation might happen.
But when the bad news about the sales situation was known to some people, some troubles came out.
Many people say that Zhang Zhong suffered a setback this time, as he stumbled on the mystery novels that he is best at and for which he became famous.
In fact, there were times when Zhang Zhong's sales were relatively average, such as the previous "Xu Sanguan's Blood Seller" and later "The Ordinary World". Although the sales of these two books were higher than those of other traditional novels, they were not as good as Zhang Zhong's.
It is much lower than other novels.
But those were all serious novels. This time it was different. Although it was a mystery novel, it was not very popular with the public.
Some people even coined a new idiom called "The talent of a man is exhausted".
The first newspaper to suggest that Zhang Lang had exhausted his talents was "Pipe Miscellanies". This newspaper initially recommended detective novels, but later developed into a newspaper that collected and reported news related to mystery novels.
In the new issue of the newspaper, an article wrote: "Obviously, judging from Zhang Zhong's recent mystery novels, he no longer has much creative passion other than resting on his laurels, and even resting on his laurels
It’s not very good-looking. For example, the previously released “Tragedy on the Nile” added the main line of love in one fell swoop, and the rationality of the case reasoning has become much lower. It even makes people think that he is going to develop into a love fantasy novel...
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At the end of this report, the author proposed the term Zhang Langcai.
Regarding this report, Chen Qing also sent it to Zhang Zhong for reading, but Zhang Zhong knew what was going on when he saw the pipe talk.
Although Zhang Zhong has no grudge against Yandou Zatan, everyone in the industry knows that Yandou Zatan has a close cooperation with the China Detective Master Award.
Zhang Zhong had offended the China Detective Master Award before, so it is reasonable to say that this time Pipe Zatan took the opportunity to "revenge" the Detective Master Award.
Since this was the case, Zhang Zhong ignored it.
However, it seems that things are not that simple. Just after the report was published by Pipe Zatan, the famous detective novelist Han Xun actually liked the Weibo post officially forwarded by Pipe Zatan.
Although he quickly canceled the likes, he was still discovered by interested netizens and took screenshots.
Now the matter has become serious. Although some people say that he has canceled it, maybe it is just a slippery hand, but netizens don't care if you have a slippery hand or not. They are more happy to see two famous detective novelists facing each other.
Besides, who would believe that the hand is slippery?
It seems that in the eyes of netizens, Han Xun has sounded the clarion call for battle, and it depends on how Zhang Zhong responds.
Should he confront Gang directly, or should he swallow his anger?
Netizens who like to watch the fun, of course hope it is the former. Zhang Zhong had better jump out and fight Han Xun.
(ps: My Pengpeng didn’t poop for a week before, but she pooped a big one today. I actually feel the joy of a good harvest.)