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In my area, charity shops have terrible selections tons of fad diet books from the 80s and 90s and religious related texts.
by asciimov 2y ago
In my area, charity shops have terrible selections tons of fad diet books from the 80s and 90s and religious related texts.
- bombcar 2y agoYou forget all the horrible fad investment books; Rich Dad’s Guide to Whole Life and Timeshares
- jccalhoun 2y agoFor years I joked that it was a law that every Goodwill store had to have a copy of a Twilight or Hunger Games book on the shelves at all times. Every time I go to one I check and nearly every time they still do all these years later. Or one of the Left Behind books.
- encrypted_bird 2y agoHey, the Hunger Games are actually really good. I derided it for years until one time I was in the hospital for a few weeks, I got immensely bored and decided to try it out. I was hooked.
- bawolff 2y agoThe main issue is that pretty much everyone who wants to read it has already.
- ZeroGravitas 2y agoIt's young adult focused which means there a new crop of readers every year.
- encrypted_bird 2y agoAlso, even if it had run out of readers, how is it the story's fault? That's what happens to most long-running series. Not every story has to be among the legends to be considered good.
- jccalhoun 2y agoI'm not judging. I read them and enjoyed them. I'm just observing that they sold so many that they are very common.
- encrypted_bird 2y agoAh, then clearly I misinterpreted your comment. Apologies, I thought you were saying that it can be considered low-quality in the same vein as the Twilight series books.