What makes a best seller?
Discussion
In the 70's there were massive hits like 'Jaws', 'Watership Down' and 'The Day of the Jackal'. Overgrown shark, bunny rabbits and a french assasin plot. Nothing much in common except that at the time they came out they captured the public imagination big time.
In the 80's James A. Michener, Robert Ludlum and Sidney Sheldon turned out massive multi-generational, huge cast of characters tomes that sold by the shipping container load
In the 90's there was John Grisham with his lawyer-as-hero thrillers.
In the 00's there was Dan Browne and his pseudo-religious thrillers.
Latterly there has been massive sales for books about a public school for wizards and mild BDSM sex.
I cannot see that any of them have much in common? What is it that makes a book wildly popular all of a sudden?
In the 80's James A. Michener, Robert Ludlum and Sidney Sheldon turned out massive multi-generational, huge cast of characters tomes that sold by the shipping container load
In the 90's there was John Grisham with his lawyer-as-hero thrillers.
In the 00's there was Dan Browne and his pseudo-religious thrillers.
Latterly there has been massive sales for books about a public school for wizards and mild BDSM sex.
I cannot see that any of them have much in common? What is it that makes a book wildly popular all of a sudden?
Edited by Ayahuasca on Wednesday 26th September 21:35
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