I have a 50- page rule: best seller or not, if it hasn't grabbed me by page 50, it's on to the next book in the pile. There are too many good books to waste time on ones that don't appeal.
I notice that the article seems to refer to DOWNLOADED e-books, though I suspect print books suffer the same fate. I'm amazed GOLDFINCH was finished by that many, and I wonder how honest readers were about finishing, and how many skimmed their way through a lot of these books.
Jeff, Barbara really liked the GONE GIRL film, but didn't read the book.
I thought Cuckoos Calling and Gone Girl page turners. The Goldfinch which I haven't tried yet is a rather long book which can account for readers giving up. The message here is crap novels by talentless romance writers(are there any other kind?)are more popular than other books.
When I visit someone's home for the first time, my eye is immediately drawn to the bookshelves. If I see nothing but best-sellers I draw my own conclusions.
The Page wouldn't open for me, so I don't know what books were discussed. However, I can say that I've never been able to read through a Steven King novel, although I've enjoyed the movies and mini-series made of his books. The same with Larry McMurtry. Yet their books are best sellers, and they all go to movies. Maybe it's just me..
LONESOME DOVE is one of my favorite books ever, so...
Jackie tried to read a Danielle Steel book - once - and found it so appallingly badly written that she quit long before 50 pages. And yet she sells millions and her fans (my mother was one) love her.
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Well that was certainly the case with my and GONE GIRL. In fact, 50 pages was about my limit.
Jeff
I have a 50- page rule: best seller or not, if it hasn't grabbed me by page 50, it's on to the next book in the pile. There are too many good books to waste time on ones that don't appeal.
I notice that the article seems to refer to DOWNLOADED e-books, though I suspect print books suffer the same fate. I'm amazed GOLDFINCH was finished by that many, and I wonder how honest readers were about finishing, and how many skimmed their way through a lot of these books.
Jeff, Barbara really liked the GONE GIRL film, but didn't read the book.
I also would note that a great many of these respondents to the survey probably only read a dozen or less books a year...
I thought Cuckoos Calling and Gone Girl page turners. The Goldfinch which I haven't tried yet is a rather long book which can account for readers giving up.
The message here is crap novels by talentless romance writers(are there any other kind?)are more popular than other books.
Right you are, Steve, yet Danielle Steel and others like her sell a hell of a lot of copies.
When I visit someone's home for the first time, my eye is immediately drawn to the bookshelves. If I see nothing but best-sellers I draw my own conclusions.
I never start them.
The Page wouldn't open for me, so I don't know what books were discussed. However, I can say that I've never been able to read through a Steven King novel, although I've enjoyed the movies and mini-series made of his books. The same with Larry McMurtry. Yet their books are best sellers, and they all go to movies. Maybe it's just me..
LONESOME DOVE is one of my favorite books ever, so...
Jackie tried to read a Danielle Steel book - once - and found it so appallingly badly written that she quit long before 50 pages. And yet she sells millions and her fans (my mother was one) love her.
Go figure.
Jeff
Chacun à son goût, as we say in Alvin.
Re: bestsellers. I read THE MARTIAN and really enjoyed it.
NOS4A2 was good, that may have been a bestseller.
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