The last entertainment book I’ve found worth the time was Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. Of course, it’s poorly plotted, badly written, and makes no sense at all but I find the very phenomenon of its insane popularity to be curious.
In case you don’t know, this is the most popular novel the mystery / suspense / thriller genre has produced in the past two years. Everybody has read it, and many people read it more than once. The whole point of the novel (and I hope nobody considers this a spoiler) is that you spend the first 70% of the book believing that the female protagonist is a pathetic, needy, clingy victim and then discover she’s none of these things.
So if there is anybody here who wants to write fiction, here is a free pointer: there is an enormous audience eager for books about non-pathetic women. The readers of novels are women. And while many still want Shades of Grey, there is a very strong need for the opposite.
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There is a rule in Hollywood I think I read that in any movie, if two women are talking, they shall not talk for more than a predetermined amount of time without speaking about a man.
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What do I know? POP READS: Numbers of people have loved: “Men who hate women.” Or the American title: “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.” Plus to two books that followed. Stieg Larsson wrote books the world should read.
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