Chapter 441 Home
With sales soaring, "Resident Evil" finally revealed its mysterious face, fully satisfying the curiosity of readers. It turns out that it is such a novel!
The sales on the first day of the working day exceeded 200,000, which exceeded the expectations of Lin Han, Zhao Han and others. It was a good dark horse. The next day, I got another 170,000 copies, which was a very healthy decline. On Friday, I had already won 790,000 copies. If I included the pre-sale 850,000 copies, the total sales volume was as high as 1.64 million copies!
This result does not count the sales volume of e-books purchased on the Internet. Being able to achieve this result in five days is enough to ensure that Resident Evil is the champion of this week's book sales list.
But this is not enough to satisfy Lin Han, because the weekend of peak sales has finally arrived!
The movie market is similar to the book market. Most consumers appear on weekends. On weekdays, everyone is very tired from work and school. Now they only come out to buy books or tickets when they are resting.
The entire book market will usher in a crazy rise in the past two days. Some books may increase several times, while others can only increase by one third or even less. There is almost no rule at all. It depends on the quality and publicity of the books themselves!
Which book is the hottest book in the past few weeks? The answer is self-evident. "Resident Evil" has been leading the trend since its name was announced and is the book with the most media coverage!
As the previous few days passed, readers who bought books gradually began to score on Douban Reading, which has also become an important basis for later consumers to buy books.
Unlike "Inception" which once dominated the Douban Reading Ratings, "Resident Evil"'s ratings were not top-notch since the beginning. After all, this zombie element is a big deduction. It is already very good that Lin Han can keep it at 8.6 points!
8.6 points may be a warning for Lin Han's science fiction novels. Readers are not blindly trying to score five-star 10 points. They also have their own discernment ability. It will not work if they rely on their names to fool them.
Netizen Ouyang Yu gave "Resident Evil" 9 points, and he commented: "I have to say that there is a difference between killing all zombies in my imagination. Zombies are just one of them. Lin Han wrote about action adventures and it looks decent, and the plot is very interesting. But I am more curious that after the villa was destroyed in the end, did all the zombies really die?"
Netizen Kakuhai Travel doesn’t seem to be very catching a cold about this novel, and only gave 8 points. “If it were written by a newcomer, I would give full marks on the wonderful plot and the nervous and exciting psychological description and the description of the environment. But this is Teacher Lin, and his level is obviously not fully displayed!”
There are 1,000 Hamlets in a thousand viewers. Some people like it, some people don’t like it. Netizens “like a prolapsed wild horse” gave 10 points. He wrote in an extremely exaggerated way: “It’s worthy of being Teacher Lin’s book. I read it almost without much rest. Although my eyes hurt a little, I was very excited. It seems that I also went with them to go to the villa of Umbrella Company for a thrilling adventure! I can’t tell that Teacher Lin has such experience in writing horror novels. It’s so good!”
"Resident Evil sounds very nervous. Lin Han has good writing skills and is a very wonderful novel!"
"The story is very tortuous. I am a brainless fan of Teacher Lin, so I must be ten!"
"Teacher Lin is really good at producing it. The characters and plot are very exciting. I recommend everyone to take a look!"
"I was originally disappointed because Teacher Lin did not write orthodox science fiction, but after reading it, I felt that my previous thoughts were weak. I want to worship Teacher Lin!"
"The details are quite well described. When I saw it, I couldn't help but turn on all the lights at home, for fear that a zombie would suddenly come out of the darkness and bite me!"
"Oh, am I the only one who had nightmares after watching Resident Evil?"
However, there are still a small group of readers who don’t like this story very much, so "Resident Evil" has also received quite a few one-star and two-star ratings.
"I bought this book just because of the name Lin Han. I hope Teacher Lin will not over-consuming himself."
"I feel distressed when I think of "Resident Evil" writing several more. Teacher Lin, if you have that free time, why don't you cash out the space opera that you owed us!"
Since "The Three-Body Problem", his novels have never scored less than 9 points on Douban Reading, which has almost been five novels in a row, and now this record has come to an abrupt end.
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Sitting next to the desk, Lin Han was listening to his assistant Xie Xin report on the record of "Resident Evil". He asked: "The readers' opinions are still very important, and their worries are also reasonable. I will definitely continue to create science fiction. How about professional book reviews? Have you been scolded?"
Xie Xin shook her head. She summarized the compiled book reviews and handed them to Lin Han in the form of pictures. At the same time, she replied: "This time is strange. Even Inception has people criticized and dissatisfied, but Resident Evil seems to be a complete praise."
"No criticism?" Lin Han was also confused. He said to himself: "It's strange when the book critics were so polite to me."
Things were abnormal, and he couldn't help but take a twelve point of attention, and then carefully read the comments of these book critics, hoping to find some clues.
On the side of book critics, they have completely different feelings about Lin Han's fresh novel, and they have almost always praised it!
"The rich associations and accurate and beautiful writing make Lin Han's novels attractive, and many extremely bold plots make the novel full of picture. This is a step for Lin Han's brave exploration, and he walked very steadily!"
"From the origin of zombies, we can feel Lin Han's courage to build the entire worldview from "Resident Evil". Perhaps future zombie novels should be respected by this book! This work is not limited to storytelling, but constantly inserts the characters' psychological activities, detailed scene descriptions, memories, fantasies, etc. in the narrative process, making the whole story more real and credible. Unlike many novels today, this book adopts a rare single-line story structure, with only a few small scenes inserted into the narrative like clips, which will make the readers' energy more focused!"
"Lin Han presented everyone with a novel that is horrible, thrilling, and suspenseful enough. The overall imagination is very reasonable. I can't help but doubt some biopharmaceutical companies. Is there anyone studying this virus in reality?"
"I am indeed a top psychological master. The amazing psychological description in it is really two points. The action scenes are clearly a novel description, but they make the readers' adrenaline surge, and the tension in the atmosphere is no less than the feelings brought to people by some action movies. The conception of the story is quite bold, the plot is quite tortuous, but the details are completely reasonable. The author's foundation and serious attitude behind it are important elements of the success of "Resident Evil"!"
"Like many people, I was not optimistic about this novel at first, but after reading it carefully, I changed my opinion. "Resident Evil" does have its own unique features, especially in the development and changes of the plot, which can be described as a peak circle. Just when everyone thought the story would develop according to the normal novel routine, the plot suddenly turned into a direction beyond everyone's expectations. The layers of suspense elements and exciting action scenes were intertwined, giving people a new feeling. It is particularly worth mentioning that the picture created by the novel text is very clear, as if the author had seen it with his own eyes, which obviously further increased the charm of the book!"
These praises made Lin Han feel very useful, and they made sense. These were the highlights of "Resident Evil", but this book was not so perfect, why are there no criticism?
"Xiao Xie, do you think I have paranoia for persecution? Everyone is praising me, but why do I feel the vest is a little cold? I always feel that this is wrong." His expression was quite helpless. What's the matter!
Xie Xin whispered: "Boss, I also think it doesn't seem that simple to get Sister Xuan to prepare in advance."
Lin Han touched his chin and said to Xie Xin: "Okay, you go out and report and communicate with him, I'll think about it myself."
I haven't come to the office for a long time. Now Lin Han is a little unfamiliar with the whole room. He quickly started to think about it. Could this group of people want to praise him?
Once the idea of praising and killing arises, it can't stop at all. Perhaps it's because I'm used to speculating on those people with the worst thinking. Anyway, Lin Han thinks that book reviewers now have a unified attitude towards praiseting their novels.
"Tsk tsk, I guess I want to praise me so that I can completely run all the way on the horror and suspense path, and then give up the science fiction road, the road to heaven?"
The more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was the case. He had already done his best to face the storm of critics from book critics. He didn't know that the other party didn't play according to common sense. Even if he insisted on holding "Resident Evil", he would still lead Lin Han astray. This idea was really vicious!
Lin Han, who is an invincible science fiction writer, is almost invincible. As long as he doesn't commit suicide, others will not be able to do anything to him. But if he runs wildly in a direction that is becoming more and more niche, then readers will probably abandon him slowly!
Book critics probably thought Lin Han was young and energetic, and he was dizzy if he couldn't listen to a few words of praise, so he tried this, but he didn't know that Lin Han didn't take the bait at all.
He knew exactly what his life was!
Chapter completed!