Quote:
Originally Posted by Penforhire
I'm hearing some anti-bestseller snobbery in this thread.
Seriously, you guys never read David Baldacci, John Grisham, Ken Follett, John Sandford, Michael Crichton, Tom Clancy, Vince Flynn, George R. R. Martin, Jonathan Kellerman, Patricia Cornwell, or James Patterson? Because those folks and more are on the current NYT paperback bestseller list ( http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-...back/list.html ).
|
While I don't read books because they are on a list somewhere, I have read books by the people I highlighted, but only one of the books on the list. I have no intention of reading several of them again though. Others I will read if I get in the mood, although that has happened less and less often (used to read Clancy as soon as they were available, but the last of his I read was early in 2011).
I will admit that the reason I started to read Tom Clancy was probably indirectly because it was on a list like this...only because Red October probably would not have been made into a movie if it wasn't and then I would never have heard of it. Same could be said for Grisham.
I think a lot of people on this forum tend to read a lot more indie authors or just have different tastes than the "best sellers", kind of like "top 40" music. Having an e-reader (like most on this forum) really opens the door to what is available because there are so many good (and bad) indie books out there. Many of us also have different tastes than the "best sellers" typically are SF/Fantasy/Romance/etc. (Yes, GRRM is on there, but that is almost completely because of the HBO series.)