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user-inactivated · 3858 days ago · link · · parent · post: America dumbs down: a rising tide of anti-intellectual thinking
Here, though, is a real comment. I will ignore your opinion of Dickens as firmly and stoutly as I ignore your opinion of Asimov and (I think?) your opinion of Tolkien. I was reading Bryson's Summer 1927 last week and he talked a bit about the bestselling books of the 1920s. He says it better than I, but ... it's all people you've never heard of, and Zane Grey. There was a crazy eugenics book which outsold all of Hemingway, or something along those lines. Past Sinclair Lewis, it's essentially a graveyard.
Interestingly enough, I tried to look up the NYT best-seller's list for 1927. I failed. So I looked it up for summer 1978, the year in the article above.