Worst Bestsellers Ever

[GUT]

I have only read one book by Jeffrey Archer, I believe it was his early novel Kane & Abel. It's probably his most famous novel and was absolutely dire. I doubt he got any better as a writer.

It wasn't his first be any means.

[Azarna]

I was just thinking that "Portrait Of A Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed" by Patricia Cornwell may well have been a best seller, as she is such a well-known author.

I looked at the Amazon page for it, to check I had the title correct, and oh dear, the reviews are dreadful.

I guess I was not the only person who was very disappointed with this book then.

[RockySullivan]

My motto is...if a ton of people like something....you know it sucks. Even if you take a giant star like Johnny Cash...the best records are the long forgotten ones...sound of JC 1962, songs of our soil etc. if a book is a best seller....burn it

[Robert]

Has anybody read Barbara Cartland?

[pinkmoon]

Has anybody read Barbara Cartland?

If it was a choice between putting my head in a chip pan or reading one of old babs books the chip Pan would win every time.

[barnflatwyngarde]

"Even if you take a giant star like Johnny Cash...the best records are the long forgotten ones...sound of JC 1962, songs of our soil etc."

Really?

What about The American Recordings produced by Rick Rubin?

These albums are right up there with the greatest ever produced.

[Robert]

If it was a choice between putting my head in a chip pan or reading one of old babs books the chip Pan would win every time.

I think Marc Bolan felt the same :

[pinkmoon]

harry potter

The must unrealistic books ever have to be the Harry potter series I mean come on we have a boy with ginger hair with more than two friends just not realistic.

[RockySullivan]

"Even if you take a giant star like Johnny Cash...the best records are the long forgotten ones...sound of JC 1962, songs of our soil etc."

Really?

What about The American Recordings produced by Rick Rubin?

These albums are right up there with the greatest ever produced.

Compared to Ride This Train, Fabulous JC, Bitter Tears, Blood Sweat & Tears, sings the Ballads of the True West, now there was a song? Orange blossom special..not to mention the sun stuff

Do you the story about the Girl in Saskatoon?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N542KdwDsJo

Johnny Cash once sang "Girl in Saskatoon" in front of a crowd to Alex Wiwcharuk, a beautiful young woman who had just started her career as a nurse in the small Saskatchewan city.
What happened to her not long after changed Saskatoon forever, says author Sharon Butala.
On May 31, 1962, Wiwcharuk's body was found in a shallow grave beside the South Saskatchewan River. She was 23 years old and had been beaten and raped, her skull smashed in, and buried alive.

http://m.thestar.com/#/article/entertainment/2008/09/18/the_girl_in_saskatoon_revisits_murder_of_saskatoon_beauty_queen.html

I always loved that song and then I learned the story. Can hardly listen without getting chills.

I'm a huge JC fan but never found the american stuff interesting compared to the 50s and 60s records.

[Beowulf]

Have you ever bought a paperback with enormous sales driving expectations sky high, only to find yourself bitterly disapointed ?
Here are a few that underwhelmed me, and swiftly made there way to the charity shop.
The Da Vinci code.
The Amityville horror.
Nobody claimed that either of these novels were great; but how did they achieve such enormous commercial success ?

I had to laugh when I saw you listed the Amityville Horror because I was exactly thinking of that one when I was going to post but wanted to see if anyone else thought so.

It's no 1 on the posts, lol.

I never read the DaVinci code, knew it was a fake from the second I heard of it, the author even admitted as much.

Speaking of fakes, just the same with the Amityville Horror. I only read it because my father used to drive us pass the house in the 60s to look at how pretty a house it was.

The copy I had had drawings of flies increasing as the story went on. Really corny. Of course the appearance of flies indicates the devil.

The devil evidently is Lord of the flies...but that is another bad book, although I'm sure many will disagree with me on that one.

[GUT]

I had to laugh when I saw you listed the Amityville Horror because I was exactly thinking of that one when I was going to post but wanted to see if anyone else thought so.

It's no 1 on the posts, lol.

I never read the DaVinci code, knew it was a fake from the second I heard of it, the author even admitted as much.

Speaking of fakes, just the same with the Amityville Horror. I only read it because my father used to drive us pass the house in the 60s to look at how pretty a house it was.

The copy I had had drawings of flies increasing as the story went on. Really corny. Of course the appearance of flies indicates the devil.

The devil evidently is Lord of the flies...but that is another bad book, although I'm sure many will disagree with me on that one.

You knew DaVinci Code was a fake, it was never presented by the author as anything but a novel.

[Beowulf]

You knew DaVinci Code was a fake, it was never presented by the author as anything but a novel.

I never even got as far as finding that out. Just smelled false from the publicity surrounding it.

[GUT]

I never even got as far as finding that out. Just smelled false from the publicity surrounding it.

Maybe I should amend that slightly in that there was some BS at times about it being based on fact and research etc, but it was always classified as fiction, now I know I ain't the sharpest knife in the draw, but I do know that if a book is in the fiction section I can't take what it says as fact.

One of the first books I read that was like that was Jack Higgins "The Eagle has Landed", he introduces it as having found out this information, but it was always a novel, it like DaVinci may have had some nuggets of truth in it but most novels do. They also make up a whole bunch of stuff.

What I don't like is the book that claims to be non-fiction but makes up more than the novel does.

[barnflatwyngarde]

Compared to Ride This Train, Fabulous JC, Bitter Tears, Blood Sweat & Tears, sings the Ballads of the True West, now there was a song? Orange blossom special..not to mention the sun stuff

Do you the story about the Girl in Saskatoon?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N542KdwDsJo

Johnny Cash once sang "Girl in Saskatoon" in front of a crowd to Alex Wiwcharuk, a beautiful young woman who had just started her career as a nurse in the small Saskatchewan city.
What happened to her not long after changed Saskatoon forever, says author Sharon Butala.
On May 31, 1962, Wiwcharuk's body was found in a shallow grave beside the South Saskatchewan River. She was 23 years old and had been beaten and raped, her skull smashed in, and buried alive.

http://m.thestar.com/#/article/entertainment/2008/09/18/the_girl_in_saskatoon_revisits_murder_of_saskatoon_beauty_queen.html

I always loved that song and then I learned the story. Can hardly listen without getting chills.

I'm a huge JC fan but never found the american stuff interesting compared to the 50s and 60s records.

Thanks for this Rocky.
You are clearly a Cash fan, so I'll put my cudgel away!

I didn't know the "Saskatoon" story: very interesting!

What I love about music is that what one person regards as a masterpiece of an album, another person can be unmoved by it.

Have you heard "Personal File" by JC?

It is a double album that Johnny recorded in his basement, with only himself on guitar. It covers all the music that he loved and grew up with.
It really is excellent stuff!

[RockySullivan]

Thanks for this Rocky.
You are clearly a Cash fan, so I'll put my cudgel away!

I didn't know the "Saskatoon" story: very interesting!

What I love about music is that what one person regards as a masterpiece of an album, another person can be unmoved by it.

Have you heard "Personal File" by JC?

It is a double album that Johnny recorded in his basement, with only himself on guitar. It covers all the music that he loved and grew up with.
It really is excellent stuff!

Hi barn, personal file is great I love the next one in the series Bootleg 2 from Memphis to Hollywood.

Sorry for the off topic