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Bestsellers: A Very Short Introduction
By:John Sutherland
Published on 2007-10-25 by OUP Oxford

'I rejoice', said Doctor Johnson, 'to concur with the Common Reader.' For the last century, the tastes and preferences of the common reader have been reflected in the American and British bestseller lists, and this Very Short Introduction takes an engaging look through the lists to reveal what we have been reading - and why. John Sutherland shows that bestseller lists monitor one of the strongest pulses in modern literature and are therefore worthy of serious study. Along the way, he lifts the lid on the bestseller industry, examines what makes a book into a bestseller, and asks what separates bestsellers from canonical fiction. Exploring the relationship between bestsellers and the fashions, ideologies, and cultural concerns of the day, the book includes short case-studies and lively summaries of bestsellers through the years: from In His Steps - now almost totally forgotten, but the biggest all-time bestseller between 1895 and 1945, to Gone with the Wind and The Andromeda Strain, and The Da Vinci Code. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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(Please understand that many a sic are implied in the next reviews.) their actually complicated and stupid! why cant we be examining like Romeo and Juliet?!?! at the very least that book is good! There you've it. Refreshingly, not just a review written in among the witch's sounds or alluding to Hillary and Bill Clinton or discussing the reviewer's first period. Only a primal shout unleashed to the dark wilderness of the cosmos.Yes, Mr. Nieberle is (probably) an adolescent, but I admire his power to strongarm the temptation to be clever or ironic. (Don't you?) He speaks the native language of the idk generation with an economy and a clarity that renders his convictions much more emphatic. Here's MICHAEL's report on the exact same play. You may'know'MICHAEL; he is the'Problems Architect'at Goodreads. (A problematic title itself in that it implies he designs problems... which might be the case, for all I know.) This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that that you don't want to see is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks in the first place, if it was designed to be read, then it will be a novel, not a play. Together with that the teach had us students read the play aloud (on person for every character for a couple pages). None folks had read the play before. None people wanted to read it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that appeared to be they weren't paying attention. All of this compounded to make me pretty much hate reading classics for something such as 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. And yes it can definitely fuck up your GPA. There's no wasteful extravagance in this editorial... no fanfare, no fireworks, no linked photos of half-naked, oiled-up, big-bosomed starlets, no invented dialogues between mcdougal and the review-writer. It's simple and memorable. Being required to read plays is wrong, and in the event that you require anyone, under duress, to see a play you then have sinned and are going to hell, if you believe in hell. If not, you're likely to the DMV. I'm also fed up with all you smug spelling snobs. You damnable fascists with your new-fangled dictionaries and your fancy-schmancy spell check. Sometimes the passionate immediacy of a message overcomes its spelling limitations. Also, in this age whenever we are taught to respect each other's differences, it seems offensively egocentric and mean-spirited to anticipate others tokowtow for a small linguistic rules. Artistic appearance will no cost alone however you are attempting to help shackle it. That is certainly the stick, Aubrey. 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