Thread: The Decline and Fall of American Literary Culture
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Old 03-18-2013, 05:49 PM   #23
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Write a book that people want to read instead of a book that you think people ought to read, and you just might sell a lot of books. I don't see anything shocking about the Silmarillion being the #1 book of 1978.
I do, actually, although I can see how it came about. A significant number of people who read LOTR will have bought it sight unseen, thinking it was 'more LOTR'. Well, it was, in a sense, but it sure wasn't the same...

So I wonder how many of those copies have been read cover to cover .
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