Even though Zhou Zhi Peng's writing was a flop, he was quite confident in his reading skills. He even set up a review booth in the "Original Reviews" section of the popular online literature forum to review the works of writers who were willing to submit their works to him.
Actually, he was not going to tell the writer how to write, but he was going to nitpick at the writer to gain that indescribable sense of superiority. He was probably the legendary 'viper' on the forum. Sometimes, he would nitpick for the sake of nitpicking, and it would cause some writers to explode, and in serious cases, they might even start to doubt their own writing path.
When others questioned that he was nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking, his answer was hard to refute — the article was written for people to read, and he only picked out the parts that he felt were poisonous. It was only his personal opinion, was there anything wrong with that? If they wanted to hear good things, they could just post it on the website. As long as they had a group of loyal fans, no matter what they wrote, there would be people who would support them.
A "contrarian" like Zhou Zhi Peng could be said to be really annoying on the internet. He was not standing on the right side at all. He was opposing purely for the sake of opposing. This made him seem like a maverick. Using his own strength to go against the masses, the thrill of being a contrarian and a favorite of the forum was really indescribable!
However, it was such a picky "viper", a veteran reader who would look for pirated copies whenever he could find them, and a writer who failed one after another. Now, he was convinced by "The Great Prime Minister" by the "Historical Observer". After he had no choice but to enter the original version, he felt as if he had become a fan of the author for the first time. So, he began to volunteer to Amway such a work.
He came to this online literature forum's "Recommending Books for Reading" section. This section had more readers. Of course, there were also many writers like Zhou Zhipeng who failed to sell well. Even though they failed to sell well, when it came to promoting those kinds of books that sold well, they could say one thing after another. Perhaps this was the reason why they failed?
Because when writers read books, they would subconsciously magnify the toxicity of the book, but they would ignore the underlying reason for the book's popularity. The final conclusion was, of course, "This generation's readers are not good enough," "Today's noob readers are in charge," "There are too many retarded readers." That was why such toxic works could become popular. On the other hand, their own works that were not conventional and full of meaning were flops. Of course, it was also because the public did not know how to appreciate them.
No matter how much of a mess this section was worth ridiculing, readers who knew how to find books could always find food in it. Works like those that were hotly debated and filled with contrarians were definitely worth reading. Even if it had a low rating on Youshu, it might be because it was too popular. With more people rating it, it would naturally pull down the rating.
On the other hand, those who praised the book were more suspicious. Maybe it was purely a paid water army, or it was the work of someone who was already in this forum. Therefore, there were a lot of friends and family. If you objectively said that the work was not good, you might be attacked by the group of friends and family.
As for the kind of work that was criticized by all, and yet it was very popular on the website, it was very likely to be the so-called "little white novel". Little white novel was not a term used to belittle the work, but another kind of praise. It meant that the work was suitable for a wider audience, and it was also worth a try. Perhaps if one did not read it with intelligence, they would feel that it was very satisfying, and they would not be able to stop reading it. However, once they gave up reading it, they would be too lazy to continue reading it, because other than killing time, there was no meaning to it.
Good books that could really be praised by this section were often the kind of works that were rigorous in logic and politically correct. The best was, of course, refreshing. If you could have some aftertaste and gain something after reading it, then it might be the legendary "immortal grass."
Of course, there were also readers who said that "immortal grass" only belonged to the individual. As the saying goes, "someone else's immortal grass, I'm poisonous grass." So if you were a fan of a book, you should never praise it as an immortal grass. Otherwise, you should just wait for it to be criticized in all kinds of ways. Senior readers like Zhou Zhipeng, who liked to nitpick, liked to criticize those so-called "immortal grass" works the most.
But Zhou Zhipeng did not expect that one day, he could not help but post a post. The title of the post was "Strongly recommending the immortal grass level historical masterpiece" The Great Prime Minister. "This work was really too perfect!
Zhou Zhipeng's ID "Da Peng Niao" was still a little famous in this forum. He was famous for being a "poisonous snake", a "contrarian", and a "forum favorite". At the same time, he was also a flop writer. But when someone ridiculed him as a flop, he would not hesitate to fight back. He said that his job was worth hundreds of thousands a year, and he was also a relocated family. He wrote novels because there was a shortage of books, and he did not write novels to be popular, but because of his hobbies!
That being said, of course, he still hoped that his works could be popular. He even secretly opened a smurf account to criticize his own works. He played all kinds of double acts. But it turned out that flop works were flop works. No matter how much hype they got, they could not become popular. But this did not prevent Zhou Zhipeng from being condescending and criticizing any works that he did not like.
It could be said that the forum members in the forum were used to seeing this forum favorite criticize works that were very popular on the big websites. But they rarely saw him praise a work, and even praise it with such an exaggerated title!
To be honest, most of the forum users who knew this person did not think that this work was really some kind of magical herb. Instead, they suspected that the author of this work was also in this forum and was a member of the "Roc"'s group of friends and relatives. Or perhaps the "Roc" had also been bribed, which was why he was boasting about such a work for the first time.
Although they were very suspicious of the character of "Da Peng Niao", some curious forum members still clicked on it. They found that the content of the post was still very detailed. It was not the kind of "one sentence pushing a book". Such a post in this section would basically be deleted. Maybe only those forum members who were already familiar with the forum moderators would turn a blind eye to it.
Zhou Zhipeng praised "The Grand Prime Minister" from several aspects. First of all, the style of writing was particularly antique, simple and solid, and did not lose its smoothness. It could be said that it had returned to its original simplicity. So much so that he even came to the conclusion that this might be a traditional writer entering the online literature world to test the waters, and then the "Source World Novel Network" got lucky and coaxed the writer to open a new small website …
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