The Noble Woman’s Guide On How to Tease One’s Husband

Great idea for a book, Especially the reason for the behavior of the orcs. I hope there will be more detailed dialogues with other races (In one of the chapters after thanks from .... they disappeared from the book) I also hope you will change his Chinese name to orcish

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(Long review incoming) Up front caveat: The translation quality should actually get 2 stars, not 5, but overall this is a 5/5 novel for me because it makes up for the mistranslations in other ways. For a novel with so many flaws, this is a gem. I’ve been binge reading Hollywood novels lately and can say with a fair amount of certainty that this one is the best. The first one I read was “I am Hollywood”, which was also excellent, but it had two flaws that put it below this one: First, it was a dropped novel. I can’t stand it when a novel I enjoy reading is suddenly dropped by an author or translator. And second, it lost focus on being a “Hollywood Novel” (capital H capital N) and meandered about in the world of investing and corporate bullshit. The Best Director, on the other hand, remains true to its purpose, chronicling the life of the MC from the moment he gets his chest up until the very end. An end, might I add, that came too soon; I’d have liked this novel to be at least twice the length it is. Three times as long to account for the skippable chapters that add nothing to the plot or story. Which leads me to my first major complaint - filler content. I edit translated Chinese webnovels for a living, and as part of my job I’m exposed to all manner of methods WebNovel authors use to pad their word count. See, Qidian (and other webnovel publishers like 17k and Zongheng) pays authors a per-word rate. So authors have found many ways to increase word count, like in-chapter repetition, peanut galleries, long, drawn-out navelgazing bullshit, and so on. This novel has a particularly terrible method of padding its word count creep in about a third of the way through it: box office reports and critic reviews. Seriously, it gets to the point later in the novel where entire chapters are just dry lists of what movies made how much money that week. Out of the 500-odd chapters total, I’d say around 200 of them are skippable because the numbers aren’t even for the MC’s movies. And another hundred chapters or so have box office reports and critic reviews take up half the chapter without any warning whatsoever. It’ll skip directly from dialogue to box office and/or reviews without warning or any kind of transition whatsoever. It’s kinda bad like that. And the second major flaw is that the translator gets the names wrong. There’s a lot of inconsistency in names (Kevin Spacey and Kiefer Sutherland show up a lot, and Keira Knightley is referred to as Natalie every time she shows up), but what’s worse is that the translator didn’t bother looking up the correct American names of quite a few of the films mentioned. He or she also misses the times when the name of the movies change, like The Departed becoming The Deceased out of nowhere. As a translator, you can screw up anything *but* names. Names are the only thing that you must keep 100% accuracy and consistency on. So why did I rate this 5/5 despite those two massive flaws? Simple: character development. One of the things that almost no webnovel ever does is develop a character, much less the main characters. A common mistake they make is thinking that increasing strength (bigger numbers/Xianxia maths) is the same thing as character development. Spoiler: it is not. But in The Best Director, the entire main cast of characters grows and evolves, becoming better actors, better people, or just… better. It comes at the cost of removing conflict from the novel entirely, but the tradeoff is beyond worth it. It makes up for the cardinal sin of inconsistent names, it makes up for the virtually 300ish chapters you can either skim or skip entirely, it makes up for all of the other minor flaws that were so tiny I didn’t even bother remembering them. But wait! There’s more!The novel also actually has a proper ending. I may have wanted some of the storylines to continue (like how the MC had a whole big scene about buying the rights to adapt a certain major bestselling series, but the novel ended before he got around to doing just that), but the ending was really good. The author took their time to bring things to a proper close and it was very poignant at that. Those two virtues covereth a multitude of sins. So my advice is to read this novel. You won’t regret it.

The translation quality of the story is : unreadable. tho story seems interesting.Filler.........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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Beginning of the story is typical. You can say cliche :D It's ok, these kinds of novels are fun to read but I am concerned about many things. I don't see any errors in grammar. (It might be a problem that my grammar isn't that good either.) I will continue to follow the story and update your review.Good luck! (The rating is temporary. I cannot really rate if I have only 3 chapters. It's like judging the book from its cover.)