What makes for a bestseller? Is this now a genre in itself, operating in a separate sphere from other types of fiction. His books are now being published with the words “The New Bestseller from John Grisham” before they even go to the bookshops, and most of his novels have been made into very successful films. His is one of the top five bestselling authors, and this year he has had two books in the top ten list simultaneously The Brethren and A Painted House. John Grisham made $28 million from his writing last year. However, the setting out of critical apparatus for objective book reviewing is important, and in an effort to further elucidate the merits of literary as opposed to purely populist fiction, a review of a book which is clearly not literary, might prove interesting, particularly in terms of setting out the criteria for aesthetic judgement: what makes a fiction good or bad? It is perhaps not fair to review The Painted House from a literary perspective, since the literary and stylistic quality of his prose is not part of his appeal.
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