How come a book that initially (1st 50 pages especially) strikes one as "the guy can't write" becomes a bestseller? I've read several of these - The da Vinci Code for one. Seems what we want (to buy? or to read?) is a good story, despite style, language, skill...
Yes: someone lent me "The Shack", supposedly a No 1 bestseller not only in Canada, USA, England, but various far-flung places like China and Brazil, and I read it - all of it (don't stop reading here!).
I made a host of inward notes about can't write, should've started with the crisis, using too much predictable PC thought to play to the times, innocent beyond belief...
My feelings didn't engage. It's Narnia, but more embarrassing.
I certainly didn't cry! (on-line bloggers and forums claim they did all the time)
Why's it so popular (if it really is, being read all through, not simply bought?)
Someone has pushed out onto the market, (however they did it) an innocent book about forgiveness.
Hum.
Why are we mostly all so cynical?
At least my reading of it proceeded to in-depth dialogue, delving deeper into How do we cope with those feelings which remain long after a bad situation should be "in the past"?
Hum.
