![]() Sometimes, though, book phenomenons can be a little more subtle. Whenever someone learned your desperate secret, they would browbeat you: But why haven’t you read it yet? ![]() And if you somehow managed to avoid reading them, you were hopelessly subjected to peer pressure at parties and in the office. After each of those books was published, you simply couldn’t escape any of them. Suddenly, every talk show features a slightly nervous-looking writer, who has clearly never experienced anything even close to this level of attention before.Ī few recent examples of such phenomenons include Fifty Shades of Grey, the Twilight novels, and Gone Girl. For a few weeks or months, the book is all anyone can talk about and the only one the book clubs want to discuss. Every now and then there is what literary scientists call a “book phenomenon,” loosely defined as that moment when everyone in the universe seems to discover a book or author simultaneously.
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