Ever look at a bestseller list and ask -- "who the hell is reading that?"

[Bleacher Creature]

Seriously, who goes out (or logs onto Amazon) and actually puts up money for O.J.'s book? And who spends their time reading a biography about some B-list celebrity or public figure?

And don't even get me started on the right-wing screeds.

[Mike03]

1. Frequently, I'm puzzled just as you are

But in the case of the O.J. book, I think people might be buying it to give money to the Goldmans, and also to psychoanalyze Simpson, which actually would be interesting to me, although I have not bought the book.

Sometimes very great works of fiction do get onto the best seller list, like Don Delillo's recent novel on 9-11 and Thomas Pynchon's "Against the Day", and also for sure Cormac McCarthy's "The Road," with a little help from Oprah Winfrey.

Happy reading!

[JuniperLea]

2. I'm just happy that people are reading again... eom

[Bleacher Creature]

3. Even if it's Mary Cheney's book?

Granted, I never read it, but I suspect that it's not necessarily a fine piece of writing :)

[JuniperLea]

5. I usually find THAT kind of book in the dollar bin...

That's the most fun!

[tigereye]

4. yeah, I usually have the same reaction unless it's some cool writer from India

or a Pulitzer or Booker Prize winner.

It's the same stuff and same writers over and over again. :wtf:


It often seems like it's what the book publishers WOULD LIKE everyone to read.

[triguy46]

6. I think they are the same folks who watch network TV.

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