bestsellers

[Paddy]

i've never read a bestseller in my life until i started The Godfather last night at about 11pm. i read 160 pages in an hour and a half, so easy to read!

[emef]

are ya usually too underground to read a bestseller?

[Paddy]

haha not at all, i just never seem to fancy them. i'll read pretty much anything if i'm bored though, but you can't really go wrong with the godfather eh.

[Orang Utan]

Yeah, I usually avoid anything with embossed lettering on the cover.
I read The Da Vinci Code and that was an awful piece of shit, but not all bestsellers are - The God Father is great and there are some cracking thrillers and detective novels about.

[jukka]

the godfather is indeed a great read, anyone read godfather 2 (not sure if its called godfather 2 though), yet ?

[V Knid esq]

When I was doing my English degree and getting bogged down in too much heavy Kafka, Derrida, Beckett, blah blah blah, Emma introduced me to the joys of Jackie Collins novels. Like you say, hundreds of pages fly by in no time, and it reminds you about reading for pleasure instead of poring over every sentence, decoding and reading into everything.

[emef]

thats why i like bestsellers... i just read hollywood wives :) top read like

[ivan]

i read "gogol - dead souls" not long ago.
also "moby dick" is a good one.

[emef]

one of the things that makes me laugh about book threads here is that almost no-one admits to reading trashy books... its all hyper serious clever books
which is fine... but it always gives me a chuckle when i go through book threads here

so.. big up knid and emma for jackie collins

[May Kasahara]

I love a Jilly Cooper novel.

[Paddy]

also "moby dick" is a good one.

i'd hardly class Moby Dick as a bestseller, that's some classic literature right there...

[Paddy]

one of the things that makes me laugh about book threads here is that almost no-one admits to reading trashy books... its all hyper serious clever books
which is fine... but it always gives me a chuckle when i go through book threads here

so.. big up knid and emma for jackie collins

but i never actually read trashy novels. i don't always read hyper serious books, but i never read trash, my brain can't get into it, not the way i can watch trash on tv.

[love_tempo]

"The Killer Inside Me," by Jim Thompsons kept me reading for hours at a time. Like peeking inside the head of a sociopath. It's grim but you can't wait to see what he'll do next and whether he'll get caught. You're almost routing for him by the end.

It's not trash but it is trashy, if you know what I mean. Same for Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Agatha Christie and even some Murakami.

[emef]

i'd hardly class Moby Dick as a bestseller, that's some classic literature right there...

aren't bestsellers just books that sold a lot???
clue is in the word i guess... bestseller ;)

@love tempo...read 3 books by jim thompson recently... all good... not usually into that sort of stuff but the local library had them in some crime masterworks thing... so took a chance and they were great

[Paddy]

yer you'd think that's what it'd mean, but i think the term 'bestseller' means something entirely different. i'm sure Dostoevsky has sold a fair few copies of Crime and Punishment, hardly a 'bestseller' though, is it?

[emef]

is bestseller some sort of derogatory term then... like pop music??
how unpleasant

crime and punishment = classic/bestseller

got notes from the underground from someone on a book swap site
never checked how many pages... expected it to be fairly thick
its a fucking pamphlet

[Paddy]

the term 'bestseller' doesn't have particularly pleasent connotations to me, no. 'bestsellers' seem to become just that overnight, with what seems like no publicity, because some big publishing house decides that that's exactly what that book's gonna be. no thanks.

[marcel]

one of the things that makes me laugh about book threads here is that almost no-one admits to reading trashy books... its all hyper serious clever books
which is fine... but it always gives me a chuckle when i go through book threads here
can'T speak for the others but I won't read a "trashy book" again (read tons of stephenkingnovels when I was younger, would call them trash nowadays). mainly because I figured once that by no way I'll be able to read every great book I'd want to in my lifetime. so I try at least to read some of them and not waste time with shitty bookls. which on the other hand I seem to can't enjoy anymore, if htere is a lakc of good language.
so yeah, put me into the hyper serious clerver books corner...

have to say though that I only read books I enjoy doing so. I can read 200 pages of a Philip-roth-novel in one go and enjoy it like hell.

what about a thread about hypr serious clever books that are at the same time a joy to read.

[V Knid esq]

I have such a bad attention span and university put me off reading so badly that I actually find that by occasionally reading a 'trash' book I read *more* of the 'clever' books... otherwise if I stick to clever stuff I just end up getting bored and end up just reading nothing but fucking magazines and the internet for weeks at a time - so trash gets me back into the rhythm of reading. My favourite things are probably both and neither... William Gibson, James Ellroy, that sort of thing

[Orang Utan]

It's funny you should say that cos I really can't do serious on the internet. I can only read properly on white pages in my hand.

[garew]

Im reading Heat by Bill Buford on chef Batali. Its actually really good.

[operator]

i just read the 1st 3rd of a book and leave it somehere...
start reading it again a few years later when it turns up again,
they're all waterproof and about some dog... he sees a ball or something... he runs dos...
or xp...

[Paddy]

well, The Godfather was a wicked book, made me wanna be a wiseguy.