How to write a book review by Master Xing Xinyi

I have been thinking about how to write a book review by Master Hoshi Shinichi, and I have come up with several plans.

Plan 1: First write about your understanding of Hoshi Shinichi, then write about the style of Hoshi Shinichi’s works, then explore the connotation of Hoshi Shinichi’s works, and finally summarize Hoshi Shinichi’s influence on the Japanese science fiction world. influence, forming a review that can expand the reader's knowledge.

But I can’t write like this. This time Yilin Publishing House introduced the collection of Xing Xinyi’s short stories. Tintin Chong was specially invited to write a long recommendation preface, which introduced Xing Xinyi in detail. The life of a master also provides a very detailed introduction to his creative process and the characteristics of his works. There are many contents that have not been mentioned in the works of Hoshi Shinichi published in the mainland before. I can even say that the collections of works introduced before No Yilin Publishing House has ever been so sincere. Moreover, at the end of the preface to Tintinbug, Tsutsui Yasutaka’s speech at Hoshi Shinichi’s funeral was specially translated, making the most pertinent evaluation of Hoshi Shinichi’s status in the Japanese science fiction world and even the literary world.

There is such an article introducing Hoshi Shinichi, and every reader who reads this book (strictly speaking, this set of books) can see this preface (this Each book in the set includes this recommended preface). If you read it carefully, you can naturally get a lot of information. There is no need for me to add it in the book review. Therefore, I passed this plan.

Option two is to select some chapters that I personally think are wonderful from each short story in this set of books, discuss their writing techniques and connotations, and take the opportunity to express my opinions on the real society.

This is really a more convenient and quick way to write book reviews, and it is not too easy to write: there are 31 short stories in "Hey - Come Out", I selected 5 and wrote each Three hundred words is already over fifteen hundred words. But I went to the Douban book review section of this book and took a look. There are currently 7 book reviews, and almost every one of them analyzes certain works in the book. If no one has written a review for this book, I might actually write it in this way, but in this case, there is no point in me continuing to follow this path that others have taken. Book friends who are familiar with me may also understand that I will not comment on the writing quality of the book reviews I write, but I always hope that my book reviews can have different entry points, different forms, and different perspectives from those that have been published.

Someone said that even if someone has analyzed the content of the work, not every article has been analyzed. Among the 31 articles, you can always find chapters that have not been commented on. But I want to say that the biggest feature of all the works of Mr. Hoshi Shinichi is the "one stroke that penetrates the soul" at the end of the article. This is the feature of analyzing one article and the same feature of ten articles. All the one thousand and one short stories he wrote After analysis, it still has the same characteristics. Do you think there can be something new? As for connotation, I feel that when looking at Hoshi Shinichi's works, there is no need for others to refine the expression contained in the text. Every reader can detect it by themselves. This is also an achievement achieved by master Hoshi Shinichi's excellent narrative ability. , it can be said that it is suitable for all ages, and it is self-provoking and thought-provoking.

Take the title "Hey - Come Out" as an example. It was selected into the Chinese textbook for the second grade of junior high school published by the People's Education Press, and then it is a combination of Chinese reading comprehension, what writing techniques, and center Thoughts, ambush and unlocking, and theme exploration, every reader can see that the different contents have all been simplified or even unified, which is particularly regrettable. Based on the above reasons, I also rejected option 2.

Plan 3: Write a novel that pays homage to the master based on the short story model of Hoshi Shinichi.

This also seems to be a good choice, at least it is much simpler than commenting on mystery novels in novel form before. Ten years ago, I had an article I wrote casually. The general content was that a person was speeding in a heavy rain and failed to brake quickly and hit someone. He was involved in a hit-and-run accident and in a panic, he drove over a bridge that was halfway under construction and rushed into the river and died. It turns out the person who got hit was just a mannequin thrown by two teenagers as a prank. The whole article is very simple, and it probably made a lot of people laugh. The article "Overtaking" in this book also has a similar plot.

Master Hoshi Shinichi’s 1001 short stories will have similar ideas in his own works. This is inevitable. If the words you write do not give people a particularly surprising feeling, it is better not to It's embarrassing in front of the master's work. In this way, Plan 3 was not adopted. But it is undeniable that the most important key to Xing Xinyi's works is the need for inspiration. Writing is not difficult. Anyone can try to write and see. It is not a bad practice to practice writing.

It’s difficult, it’s really difficult. Master Hoshi Shinichi's works are beautiful and very inspiring, but when it was my turn to write a book review, I struggled and didn't know where to start. Finally, after much deliberation, I decided to write down the reasons why I eliminated the first three writing plans. Isn’t this just because I don’t know how to write a book review?

Alas, there is still a book review of "Artificial Beauty" to be written later, I will think about it then. Rest, take a break.

With the emergence of the dividing line, I can't rest yet, at least to maintain my tradition of listing the first works in the short story collection.

The following is a list of the original Japanese titles and first publications of the 31 works in the book "Hey - Out":

Hey - Out/"おーいでてこーい"···"Cosmic Dust" August 1958 No.

Thieves Company/"Thieves Club"···"Japan Economic News" August 20, 1967

Long Life/"Long Life"···"Japan 経済Shimbun" March 31, 1968

Love Communication/"Love Communication"···"Besshu Jewelry" No. 106 (May 1961)

Angel's Assessment/"Angel Test"···"Gem" May 1960 issue

Key/"Key"···"Miscellaneous" March 1967 issue

TV show / "テレビ?ショー"···"Jewel" January 1961 issue

Pioneers/"Pioneer たち"···"Jewel" April 1960 issue

Fairy Provisioning Company/"Fairy Provisioning Co., Ltd."···"オール読物" May 1964 issue

The Art of Leisure/"Leisure Art"···"Seikyo Shimbun" June 1970 July 7

Insomnia/"Insomnia"···"Family Practice" April 1964 issue

Friendly Kiss/"Friendship"···"Gem "October 1960 issue

A device/"ひとつの device"···"PL Youth" May 1964 issue

Martyrdom/"Martyrdom"···"Gemstone "February 1958 issue

Execution/"Execution"···"Gem" February 1959 issue

Gift from Button Star/"ボタン星からのGift" "···"Bungai Spring Comic Reader" June 1964 issue

A strange combination of circumstances/"ずれ"···"SF Marijuana" December 1960 issue

Residential Issue/"Housing Problem"···"Bungi Shunqiu Comic Reader" June 1965 issue

City of Desire/"City of Desire"···"Asahi Shimbun" July 1, 1962< /p>

Peter Pan's Island/"ピーターパンの岛"···"悪魔のいる天国" Chuo Koronshasha (1961 issue)

Dinosaurs in the Afternoon/"Afternoon's Scary Dragon"· ··"Novel Modern" June 1968 issue

The Age of Instruments/"The Age of Devices"···"Japan Economic News" October 1, 1967

Homecoming/ "帰郷"···"Belsshu Bungei Chunqiu" Summer Issue 1961

Overtaking/"Chasing Yue"···"悪魔のいる天国" Chuo Koronsha (1961 Annual)

Dissatisfaction/"Unhappiness"···"Weekly Asahi" April 1961 additional issue

The key to love/"Love's Key"···"Universe Dust" June 1958 issue

The land of early spring/"early spring soil"···"Jewel" December 1959 temporary additional issue

Guarantee/"Guarantee"···"Jewel" August 1966 issue< /p>

Insufficient/"Half Man"···"Literary Spring and Autumn Comics Reader" June 1966 issue

Goddess/"Goddess"···"fair Lady HIGH SCHOOL EDITION" 1967 April

Looking for Weaknesses/"ねらった无码"···"Novel Trend" November 1965 issue