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Chapter One: Introduction and Outline Chapter Two: The Obvious: Diet, Wealth, and Inspiration Chapter Three: Black and White and Read All Over: Good and Evil in Bestselling Adventure Novels and Political Nonfiction
Chapter Four: Hopefully Ever After: Love, Romance, and Relationships Chapter Five: Soul Train: Religion and Spirituality Chapter Six: Reading for Redemption: Trials and Triumphs in Literary Fiction and Nonfiction Chapter Seven: Deciphering Da Code: Conclusions Appendix: Bestseller Lists
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Jacob McNutt
reviewed Why We Read What We Read: A Delightfully Opinionated Journey through Contemporary Bestsellers on June 04, 2008
Why We Read What We Read: A Delightfully Opinionated Journey through Contemporary Bestsellers
An expose. Adams and Heath neatly (and cheerfully) cut open a variety of best-sellers from the past 15 years in a gleeful, unscientific study. Partially, I'm thankful that they read all of these books so I don't have to (especially the 5,000 page mega-epic series 'Left Behind'). I'm more totally whoaed by the statistics they present (57% of Americans didn't read a single book last year, but I'm deeply grateful for their insights into What Americans Are Reading Nowadays. Without condescending, Adams and Heath trace the links between non-fiction, 'literary' fiction, romance novels, The MeglaEmpire of Chicken Soup For the Soul and Oprah reading Tolstoy. Their conclusion is sobering and has larger implications beyond the bookshelves. I'm not going to claim this book will totally change what I read from now on, but I will make an effort to be more thoughtful about how I read it.
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