Eugene David
...The One-Minute Pundit

Monday, October 02, 2006


A marketable book is not the same as a GOOD book. What we have here is a surfeit of marketable books. As any half-dozen titles on the best-seller lists can attest, a marketable book is not a good book. And books by "John Le Carré; Stephen King; Michael Crichton; Robert Ludlum; James Patterson; Dean Koontz; Michael Connelly; Tess Gerritsen; David Baldacci; and Danielle Steel...Gore Vidal...Bob Woodward, Frank Rich, Bill O'Reilly, Andrew Sullivan, John Ashcroft and Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.)", plus tons and tons of the usual boring li-te-ra-ry fictions, are almost certain NOT to be good books.

With luck all these marketable books won't sell.

(Via ArtsJournal.com)

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