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• zhochaka commented on This explains everything
  That's very likely, but remember that sound recording also, eventually, let loose the weird stuff. The original Doctor Who theme may be the best-known example, but it was arguably an example of popular music (in the film and TV form) picking out the good ideas from the "electronic" music of the previous decade which those such as Stockhausen had created). I suppose the same sort of thing has happened in books: "literature" being more experimental, and the popular books picking up on the ideas that work. Could Use of Weapons have been written and published without the experiments of the...
• Andreas Vox commented on This explains everything
  "Gone Girl" from Gillian Flinn is a great book, "Racketeer" is a nice Grisham, although having a happy ending with a boat in the Carribean gets a little repetitive. Haven't read the other books from that list. It seems that most books I read get the "NYT bestseller" tag one way or the other, but I wouldn't read every NYT bestseller....
• paws4thot commented on This explains everything
  I'd agree; In the general case "$journal best seller list" is a list of the N titles which move most copies in a given period. If said journal has a specific category for "literary fiction" and one for "technothrillers that you buy to read on a beach holiday", it's fairly likely that in, say, July (Northern hemisphere) the bottom seller on the technothrillers list will have outsold the top seller on the literary fiction list about 100 to 1. None of which is a comment on the literary quality, accuracy, rereadability etc of either book....
• RDSouth commented on This explains everything
  "Is Charlie writing Literature? ... imagine .. The Laundry." I imagine he'll come out about like Shakespeare. The Laundry series will be the equivalent of the light comedies, such as As You Like It while other works may rise to the level of The Tempest....
• Jim commented on This explains everything
  Are conspiracy theories true? Nope. Is that important to Conspiracy Theory Believers? Nope. The important thing to remember about CTBs is that CTBs will believe nearly anything. The more outlandish, the better. So when we set out to select a target market to bilk, CTBs are rather inviting....