03-29-2011, 12:35 AM
I was watching an episode of The Culture Show yesterday where comedian Sue Perkins carried around one of those pound and charity shop book carousels filled with popular prose (thrillers, crime novels, romantic fiction etc.) from the last hundred or so years and asked famous authors to pick the one which meant the most to them. So what do you like to read in terms of bestsellers? What would be on your own carousel? And which popular fictions do you hate?
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe