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Originally Posted by fjtorres
The problem with that blanket characterization is that, while many (most?) bestsellers (single word, btw) are the product of front table payola and review hype, some get to be bestsellers the old-fashioned way.
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As she pointed out.
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As pointed out by others here, annointing *all* popular titles as BS, aka, crap, is an elitist implication that only less than popular (e.g., litfic) titles are any good because the "idiot masses" can't appreciate quality.
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Which she didn't do.
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Me, I don't read bestsellers as a class but I'm not about to condemn them as a class. Quite a few of my favorite books have managed to sneak onto the lists from time to time, after all.
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Sounds as if you'd see eye-to-eye with her.