Does anyone else try to stay away from the Bestsellers? Around this forum I am used to hearing how the mainstream fiction and nonfiction is filled with inane drivel. Yet many of the same people spend their days reading that drivel so they can come on and complain that is what is selling. I understand the concept of knowing thy enemy but with so many other titles to choose from why not spend your time on lesser knowns.
I have long refused to subscribe to the industry of everyone reading the book of the week because either
a. They can then get together in their social group and praise the author or
b. They can then get together in their social group and condemn the author. I choose to be
c. A silly git that reads what he wants for his own pleasure or knowledge and not for earning brownie points in his 'circle'.
To be fair I do see a bunch that read obscure titles, but that seems to be primarily from the past. I would have just thought this thread should be filled chiefly with obscure authors. As the writer that
no-one can follow would be the best candidate for worst book.
-MJ (No less guilty for having not posted an unknown title, this was posted as a
ponder as i ponder and not as I post, err, post)