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The authors read or at least skimmed the Publishers Weekly bestseller lists for about the past 15 years and drew conclusions about American readers from their reading. I tended to agree with most of them, although I must admit that the "literary novel" category was the only one in which I'd read more than a handful of the books. The mysteries I read are not by Mary Higgins Clark or James Patterson, and I haven't even read The Da Vinci Code! The authors have a good sense of humor and brought me q
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I now know what Americans read but I'm not sure the authors really pinpointed why we read what we do. The book is definitely entertaining and highly opinionated. I guess I'm a unique reader as most people stick mostly with fiction or non-fiction...I tend to read a healthy balance of both. A fun read.
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This book goes through an interesting analysis of bestsellers from 1990 - 2006. It was a great reminder for me that I should be reading more fiction instead of so much nonfiction and luckily they have waded through all the popular books and give suggestions on which ones are really worth reading.
May 12, 2008
Nicole
marked it as to-read
