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发帖数: 2296 | 1 西方畅销书这个东西有好些年头了。
大家也都明白畅销书是狗屁不通骗傻子的。
正因为狗屁不通，才能畅销，文盲才看得懂会去买。
韩寒的问题还算个问题？还吵得起来？
看看辞典里畅销书的定义（大英百科全书）
The best-seller
A distinction should be made between novels whose high sales are an accolade
bestowed on literary merit and novels that aim less at aesthetic worth than
at profits. The works of Charles Dickens were best-sellers in their day,
but good sales continue, testifying to a vitality that was not purely
ephemeral. On the other hand, many best-selling novels have a vogue that is
destined not to outlast the time when they were produced. It is a
characteristic of this kind of best-seller that the writing is less
interesting than the content, and that the content itself has a kind of
journalistic oversimplification that appeals to unsophisticated minds. The
United States is the primary home of the commercial novel whose high sales
accrue from careful, and sometimes cold-blooded, planning. A novel in which
a topical subject—such as the Mafia, or corruption in government, or the
election of a new pope, or a spate of aircraft accidents, or the censorship
of an erotic book—is treated with factual thoroughness, garnished with sex,
enlivened by quarrels, fights, and marital infidelities, presented in
nonliterary prose, and given lavish promotion by its publisher may well
become a best-seller. It is also likely to be almost entirely forgotten a
year or so after its publication. The factual element in the novel seems to
be necessary to make the reader feel that he is being educated as well as
diverted. Indeed, the conditions for the highest sales seem to include the
reconciliation of the pornographic and the didactic.
A novel with genuine aesthetic vitality often sells more than the most
vaunted best-seller, but the sales are more likely to be spread over decades
and even centuries rather than mere weeks and months. The author of such a
book may, in time, enrich others, but he is unlikely himself to attain the
opulence of writers of best-sellers such as Harold Robbins or Irving Wallace | I******a
发帖数: 3812 | 2 畅销书不一定是骗文盲，但是文盲跟文盲该是最有共鸣。
韩某的东西十几岁看看当娱乐还好，过了那个阶段再看就有问题了。
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【在 Y*******n 的大作中提到】
: 西方畅销书这个东西有好些年头了。
: 大家也都明白畅销书是狗屁不通骗傻子的。
: 正因为狗屁不通，才能畅销，文盲才看得懂会去买。
: 韩寒的问题还算个问题？还吵得起来？
: 看看辞典里畅销书的定义（大英百科全书）
: The best-seller
: A distinction should be made between novels whose high sales are an accolade
: bestowed on literary merit and novels that aim less at aesthetic worth than
: at profits. The works of Charles Dickens were best-sellers in their day,
: but good sales continue, testifying to a vitality that was not purely
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