A long account about how copyright laws are being hijacked for the benefit of large multinationals or what can be worse an author's ex-spouse's step-grandchildren by her third marriage.
I haven't read the essay yet, I've been studying the best seller lists. Very interesting, especially the very few books that outlasted their decade, and even the generation that found them worth reading. The vast majority of best sellers are fantasies of one kind or another. The ones that last do so because of the writing. The common best seller' style is flat, straightforward, and remarkably unimaginative. Such books rely on the reader to supply what the writing lacks.
But in nthe end, old books are forgotten. A lifetime is long enough to show that popular literture and entertainment repeats the same themes and plots over and over again. So does non-fiction, for that matter.
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I haven't read the essay yet, I've been studying the best seller lists. Very interesting, especially the very few books that outlasted their decade, and even the generation that found them worth reading. The vast majority of best sellers are fantasies of one kind or another. The ones that last do so because of the writing. The common best seller' style is flat, straightforward, and remarkably unimaginative. Such books rely on the reader to supply what the writing lacks.
But in nthe end, old books are forgotten. A lifetime is long enough to show that popular literture and entertainment repeats the same themes and plots over and over again. So does non-fiction, for that matter.
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