![Surviving on a diet of coffee and cigarettes, two Chinese writers have written an “instant book” on Michael Jackson in just 48 hours.
The 130,000-word book, titled Moonwalk in Paradise — the Michael Jackson biography, written by Jiang Xiaoyu and Xing Han, and published by Chinese publishing house Xiandai was available for pre-order sales online on Friday and on bookshelves Saturday.
The writers, who were contacted within hours of Jackson’s death, said they switched off their mobile phones and didn’t sleep for two days while they wrote the book.
A report in China Youth Daily said the writers never met or interviewed Jackson and simply wrote the story from their “accumulated knowledge about the king of pop”.
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“I am not only a music critic but also a fan of the King of Pop, so I understand what fans really need,” [one author] said.
“The ‘painkiller’ could be a book I fought the deadline around the clock, as fans cannot wait for months,” he said.
But Li Kun, a 26-year-old assistant in a Beijing-based public relations company, told China Daily that she would buy a classic biography, not an instant book. “It would be a kind of disrespect to my pop idol if I paid for a scrappy book of his legendary life which was finished in two days,” she said.
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Surviving on a diet of coffee and cigarettes, two Chinese writers have written an “instant book” on Michael Jackson in just 48 hours.
The 130,000-word book, titled Moonwalk in Paradise — the Michael Jackson biography, written by Jiang Xiaoyu and Xing Han, and published by Chinese publishing house Xiandai was available for pre-order sales online on Friday and on bookshelves Saturday.
The writers, who were contacted within hours of Jackson’s death, said they switched off their mobile phones and didn’t sleep for two days while they wrote the book.
A report in China Youth Daily said the writers never met or interviewed Jackson and simply wrote the story from their “accumulated knowledge about the king of pop”.
…
“I am not only a music critic but also a fan of the King of Pop, so I understand what fans really need,” [one author] said.
“The ‘painkiller’ could be a book I fought the deadline around the clock, as fans cannot wait for months,” he said.
But Li Kun, a 26-year-old assistant in a Beijing-based public relations company, told China Daily that she would buy a classic biography, not an instant book. “It would be a kind of disrespect to my pop idol if I paid for a scrappy book of his legendary life which was finished in two days,” she said.
