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The New York Times Best Seller list

Wicked223Wicked223
edited 2011-06-03 20:04:50 in General
We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year
Today, I learned that I'm not as immune to Hype Aversion as I think I am.

I learned this while I was walking near the the book section at Duane Reade, and noticed that just about all the books for sale had the words "#1 New York Times Best Seller", "USA Today Best Seller", or "National Best Selling Author", and I also noticed that whatever will I had to read these books was completely wiped out, solely upon seeing these words.

I have absolutely no idea why this happens, or when/how it started. I'm pretty sure most of the books/series I like are best-sellers, like A Song of Ice and Fire or Discworld (although maybe not New York Times Best Sellers), but that label in particular turns me right off.

What do you think? Am I being stupid? Do you have a similar reaction? 

Comments

  • AHRAHR
    Take 'em with a grain a salt. Those titles are nice and all, but they aren't exactly one of a kind deals.

    I volunteer at the library, and there are a LOT of bestselling author's I've never even heard of. Danielle Steel, for instance. Who is she? What does she write? I don't know, but she certainly writes a damn lot.

    So yeah, don't hype avert the books, hype avert the titles.
  • IanExMachinaIanExMachina
    I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    Danielle Steel, for instance. Who is she? What does she write? I don't know, but she certainly writes a damn lot.

    Exactly I've seen so many books by her (none that look like my kind to read) but apparently according to covers she is amazing or what have you.

  • AHRAHR
    Maybe she is. I dunno.

    She writes under pen names too.

    I know this because they say 

    "Danielle Steel! Writing as XXXXX"
  • MyrmidonMyrmidon
    As a general note, if someone has written a lot of best-selling novels and you have no idea what they write and they are female, they're romance novelists. 
  • Wicked223Wicked223
    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year
    Even funnier, Danielle Steel is apparently the eighth best selling fiction writer of all time.

    She's a romance novelist, which should explain her popularity.
  • AHRAHR
    See, I'd assume that normally, but her covers always looked similar to Tom Clancy paper backs, and it lacked the porno sounding names, and the weird half art half real half naked people posing in the fold.
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