Why We Read What We Read: A Delightfully Opinionated Journey Through Bestselling Books Review

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Why We Read What We Read: A Delightfully Opinionated Journey Through Bestselling Books ReviewUsing the bestsellers lists from Publisher weekly and USA Today from 1993 - 2003 John Heath and Lisa Adams read all the books we were buying to devise an opinion on what type of readers buy what books. They looked at four categories: hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, trade paperback (fiction and non-fiction) and mass market paperback (fiction); but deliberately steered clear of reference books, books made into movies, biographies, memoirs and cookbooks.
The book is broken into six chapters:
1 - The Obvious: Diet Wealth, and Inspiration
2 - Black and White and Read All Over: Good & Evil in Bestselling Adventure Novels and Political Non-fiction
3 - Hopefully Ever After: Love, Romance, and Relationships
4 - Soul Train: Religion and Spirituality
5 - Reading for Redemption: Trials and Triumphs
6 - Deciphering "Da Code": Conclusions
Appendix - Best sellers lists from 1991 - 2005 from Publishers Weekly and USA Today's 100 Top books from 1993 - 2003.
I think their overall sense can be felt in this quote: "Is there no hope for our idiot nation of hate-filled soul vampires?" The sarcasm that can be found throughout is really not hilarious as the book cover suggests. The authors' attempts at humor are just shoddy insults at best that distract from the book and irritate more than educate.
Most of the books discussed were trashed or given mediocre raves. Except for John Grisham who they call a {book-selling god}. Romance readers and Low-Carbers get a particular bashing. I don't know who they thought would be reading this book but it obviously wasn't people interested in these two subjects. They also spend a lot of time harping on Dan Brown's books, The Da Vinci Code /Angels and Demons and how they are essentially the same book (a repetitive annoyance).
The impression I was left was that American readers are simplistic, lazy, know-it-all, escapists with no {attention span} or {ability to sustain antithetical ideas}; who are only looking for reinforcement for our own beliefs. More than explain why we read what we read, it explains why we are fools for the book choices we make.
This book could have been so much more.Why We Read What We Read: A Delightfully Opinionated Journey Through Bestselling Books Overview

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