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Why We Read What We Read: A Delightfully Opinionated Journey Through Bestselling Books

Description

What do weight loss, evil emperors and tales of redemption have in common?

We readers have many dirty little secrets-and our bestselling books are spilling them all. We can’t resist conspiratorial crooks or the number 7. We have bought millions of books about cheese. And over a million of us read more than 50 nearly identical books every single year.

In Why We Read What We Read, Lisa Adams and John Heath take an insightful and often hilarious tour through nearly 200 bestselling books, ferreting out their persistent themes and determining what those say about what we believe and how we relate to one another.

Some of our favorite (and revealing) topics include:

* Repeating the Obvious:
Diet, Wealth, and Inspiration

* Black and White and Read All Over:
Good and Evil in Bestselling Adventure Novels and Political Nonfiction

* Soul Train:
Religion and Spirituality

* Hopefully Ever After:
Love, Romance and Relationships

* Reading for Redemption:
Trials and Triumphs in Literary Fiction and Nonfiction

* Controversy and Conspiracy in The Da Vinci Code

Explore the nature of what and how we read-and what it means for our psyches, our society and our future.

Reviews

Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2008-10-17
Summary: "Apologists for Literature"

Disclosure: I am friends with the authors. Neither of the authors has solicited my opinion of this work. I have not been offered, and will not receive, any compensation (financial or otherwise) for posting this review, except for the valuable opportunity to air my opinions.

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This book is not a scientific survey of the American public's reading habits for the years 1990-2006. I suppose the introduction might sucker you into thinking that the book is a sociological writeup--if you're not particularly acute, and somehow manage to miss the authors' powerful current of sarcasm--but in fact the very subtitle of the work gives the game away. Heath and Adams are not disinterested scientists (doubtful if such mythical beings exist), but propagandists in the cause of intellectual curiosity, understanding, and humanism. The aforementioned sarcasm is characteristic of the authors, but it is also a tool used to probe popular books and genres, and to engage in a non-sappy fashion the interest of the reader in a weighty topic. Pondering why it is that so many "literary" works of fiction are read predominately by women, the authors give the following:

"Certain novels are obviously exclusionary, such as The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood...or The Red Tent....(And in fact we would advise most anyone to avoid "sisterhoods" of all kinds and any use of the word "red" that might refer to stained underpants.) But most literary bestsellers do not contain scrapbooks, excessive weeping, or menstrual tents." (P. 250)

You may have winced if you are fond of the abovementioned books, but this passage is a funny one which leads into a thought-provoking rumination on theme and gender. It is fairly representative of the larger work. The final conclusion, that reading material that challenges us "can still provide our best shot at a transformative experience, altering our opinions and enlarging our sensitivities" (p. 276), rings true.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2008-09-14
Summary: "Quick, Easy, and Thought-Provoking"

I breezed right through this book a couple months ago, but I still think back on it from time to time. Their conversational tone made it pleasant and easy to read, but their insights really stuck with me and have actually affected the way I choose what I read.

The book is divided by genres: romance, political, self-help, Oprah, and compares the best-sellers' common qualities. You don't need to have read the books to understand them; their descriptions are short but apt. All in all, it was just an interesting, pleasant thing to read. Try it; you'll like it.

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Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2008-04-01
Summary: "Disappointing and Painful"

Using the bestsellers lists from Publisher weekly and USA Today from 1993 - 2003 John Heath and Lisa Adams read all the books we were buying to devise an opinion on what type of readers buy what books. They looked at four categories: hardcover fiction, hardcover non-fiction, trade paperback (fiction and non-fiction) and mass market paperback (fiction); but deliberately steered clear of reference books, books made into movies, biographies, memoirs and cookbooks.

The book is broken into six chapters:

1 - The Obvious: Diet Wealth, and Inspiration
2 - Black and White and Read All Over: Good & Evil in Bestselling Adventure Novels and Political Non-fiction
3 - Hopefully Ever After: Love, Romance, and Relationships
4 - Soul Train: Religion and Spirituality
5 - Reading for Redemption: Trials and Triumphs
6 - Deciphering "Da Code": Conclusions
Appendix - Best sellers lists from 1991 - 2005 from Publishers Weekly and USA Today's 100 Top books from 1993 - 2003.

I think their overall sense can be felt in this quote: "Is there no hope for our idiot nation of hate-filled soul vampires?" The sarcasm that can be found throughout is really not hilarious as the book cover suggests. The authors' attempts at humor are just shoddy insults at best that distract from the book and irritate more than educate.

Most of the books discussed were trashed or given mediocre raves. Except for John Grisham who they call a {book-selling god}. Romance readers and Low-Carbers get a particular bashing. I don't know who they thought would be reading this book but it obviously wasn't people interested in these two subjects. They also spend a lot of time harping on Dan Brown's books, The Da Vinci Code /Angels and Demons and how they are essentially the same book (a repetitive annoyance).

The impression I was left was that American readers are simplistic, lazy, know-it-all, escapists with no {attention span} or {ability to sustain antithetical ideas}; who are only looking for reinforcement for our own beliefs. More than explain why we read what we read, it explains why we are fools for the book choices we make.

This book could have been so much more.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2008-03-18
Summary: "On America's Reading Habits"

Finding the answer to, "Why and What We Read?" is not the reason to read this entertaining journey thru the lists of contemporary bestsellers - that answer is easy, we like stories that simplify things which confusion us and/or reading that uplifts thru an infusion of hope and/or certainty. Rather, you will want to read this book for Adam's and Heath's humorous perspectives and Cliff Notes like reviews that simplify and uplift as they dissect various tomes we have made bestsellers.

More than knowing what made the bestseller's list with in each of the categories the authors segregated the lists into, what I found most enjoyable was the authors' take (their simplifications for me, I guess) on the various books. I thought the authors were good when providing their "opinions" as in, why the various diet books did well; but they were at their best when their "opinions" were used to review a book such as Spencer Johnson's, "Who Moved My Cheese?" It was these 'Cliff Notes' versions of several bestselling books, sprinkled with ample opinions, which were most enjoyable and down right entertaining. Quite frankly, I would rush to buy a book devoted entirely to the authors' satirical reviews of current bestsellers.

Dennis DeWilde, author of "The Performance Connection"

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2008-02-11
Summary: "Why or What We Read--AND How"

Yes, the book Why We Read What We Read is an opinionated treatise on the American penchant for simplistic stories that lack complexity, subtlety and difficult to define innuendo. But, more importantly, Adams and Heath's literature review is a fun savvy method to determine which of those "simplistic" and "uncomplex" bestsellers just might tickle your own fancy! Not only do the authors sift through the most popular reads circa 2000, they also describe and analyze general themes, trends and subject matter for numerous books. For many, Why We Read is much like preaching to the choir--in that I, too, believe that Oprah Book Club books may not lead to heady discussion on literary genres but will likely only lead to baseline comparisons such as "I liked it" or "I hated it". My only complaint is that I don't believe that the books are at fault here. Americans are hedonistic and tend to gravitate towards entertainment rather than education. Why We Read could just as easily lend itself to a more scholarly work that discusses basic trends in entertainment and its affects on knowledge attainment and educational practices--the veritable foundation of not just how we read but how we absorb information. For now, pick up the book! Every library should have a copy!! It's incredibly funny and might just make you think--at least more than the Da Vinci Code:-)