Comments on: Hit Lit: Cracking the Code of the Twentieth Century’s Biggest Bestsellers By James W. Hall http://georgekelley.org/hit-lit-cracking-the-code-of-the-twentieth-centurys-biggest-bestsellers-by-james-w-hall/ Wed, 22 May 2013 18:23:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: george http://georgekelley.org/hit-lit-cracking-the-code-of-the-twentieth-centurys-biggest-bestsellers-by-james-w-hall/comment-page-1/#comment-47175 george Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:25:38 +0000 http://georgekelley.org/?p=11439#comment-47175 Ask your library to buy HIT LIT, Patti. My library buys everything I suggest.

]]> By: george http://georgekelley.org/hit-lit-cracking-the-code-of-the-twentieth-centurys-biggest-bestsellers-by-james-w-hall/comment-page-1/#comment-47174 george Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:25:08 +0000 http://georgekelley.org/?p=11439#comment-47174 You’ll find HIT LIT intriguing, Jeff.

]]> By: Patti Abbott http://georgekelley.org/hit-lit-cracking-the-code-of-the-twentieth-centurys-biggest-bestsellers-by-james-w-hall/comment-page-1/#comment-47173 Patti Abbott Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:05:45 +0000 http://georgekelley.org/?p=11439#comment-47173 My library doesn’t have it. Make a copy, Jeff. (Only kidding).

]]> By: Jeff Meyerson http://georgekelley.org/hit-lit-cracking-the-code-of-the-twentieth-centurys-biggest-bestsellers-by-james-w-hall/comment-page-1/#comment-47165 Jeff Meyerson Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:35:07 +0000 http://georgekelley.org/?p=11439#comment-47165 I reserved HIT LIT at the library and it is already on the way!

]]> By: george http://georgekelley.org/hit-lit-cracking-the-code-of-the-twentieth-centurys-biggest-bestsellers-by-james-w-hall/comment-page-1/#comment-47164 george Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:22:52 +0000 http://georgekelley.org/?p=11439#comment-47164 I have no interest in “Mommy porn,” Jeff. I guess there’s a market for boring S&M, but I’m not in that demographic.

]]> By: Jeff Meyerson http://georgekelley.org/hit-lit-cracking-the-code-of-the-twentieth-centurys-biggest-bestsellers-by-james-w-hall/comment-page-1/#comment-47163 Jeff Meyerson Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:19:19 +0000 http://georgekelley.org/?p=11439#comment-47163 When I heard that 50 SHADES started out as Twilight fan fiction it was all I needed to know. And no, despite their claims that men read them too (which men are those, exactly?) I don’t think this household will be among the readers.

]]> By: george http://georgekelley.org/hit-lit-cracking-the-code-of-the-twentieth-centurys-biggest-bestsellers-by-james-w-hall/comment-page-1/#comment-47161 george Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:13:51 +0000 http://georgekelley.org/?p=11439#comment-47161 50 SHADES OF GREY is a huge seller at the independent bookstore I frequent, Beth. I have no interest in “Mommy porn” as the media have labeled E. L. James’ work. You’ll love HIT LIT!

]]> By: george http://georgekelley.org/hit-lit-cracking-the-code-of-the-twentieth-centurys-biggest-bestsellers-by-james-w-hall/comment-page-1/#comment-47160 george Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:11:10 +0000 http://georgekelley.org/?p=11439#comment-47160 THE DA VINCI CODE wasn’t the worst book in the world, but it needed an editor Big Time, Rick. You’re right about audio books really exposing the gaffs in novels.

]]> By: Beth Fedyn http://georgekelley.org/hit-lit-cracking-the-code-of-the-twentieth-centurys-biggest-bestsellers-by-james-w-hall/comment-page-1/#comment-47158 Beth Fedyn Mon, 30 Apr 2012 18:02:42 +0000 http://georgekelley.org/?p=11439#comment-47158 I’ll be ordering this book.

Fifty Shades of Grey is selling like hotcakes at our bookstore. One of my friends read it and thought it was mediocre at best, claiming there were better sex scenes in Judith Krantz novels. My theory is that this is popular for the generations that missed out on the steamy novels in their youth. Harold Robbins, Terry Southern, Erica Jong, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, etc. never got rich from us because a whole class passed around the same book. Today nobody knows who they are and Fifty Shades of Grey keeps on selling.

]]> By: Richard R. http://georgekelley.org/hit-lit-cracking-the-code-of-the-twentieth-centurys-biggest-bestsellers-by-james-w-hall/comment-page-1/#comment-47154 Richard R. Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:06:29 +0000 http://georgekelley.org/?p=11439#comment-47154 I was just thinking how nice it is to have this 3-way conversation without waiting two months between comment and answer…

I didn’t mind Da Vinci Code, but then I listened to it as an audio book while out for walks so that’s quite different then trying to read the thing.

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