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To read but what to read: that question preoccupies many fiction readers who are besieged by countless options that stare at them from shelves in huge bookshops. The majority choose bestsellers, a Stieg Larsson book from The Millennium Trilogy being an intoxicant they simply cannot do without. Larsson, as most readers know by now, was a Swedish author who passed away well before his Lizbeth Salander starrers mesmerised thriller addicts the world over.

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For those interested in ‘different’ characters, the new kid on the block who has acquired some fan following is John Grisham’s little boy lawyer Theodore Boone. With or without Lizbeth or Theo, however, what actually counts is that bestsellers get published in huge numbers. Their devotees are in millions. That being the case, every fiction lover should be venturing towards the bestseller territory, right?

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Wrong. For, there exists a small world comprising readers who mostly read serious fiction. That space, in turn, harbours a distinct minority consisting of those who believe that bestsellers are read by those who don’t read! This ‘discerning’ group consumes every book that wins the Booker; or, those in the running for the Pulitzer; and, of course, the Mario Vargas Llosas and the Thomas Pynchons of the world, all exquisite writers with an enviable mastery over prose and the art of storytelling.

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on staying away from those like Wilbur Smith, Stephen King, Grisham and many others whose popularity is based on their ability to tell very good and gripping stories.

How can you condemn a film and call it disastrous without watching it? How can you say that a certain musician is bad if you haven’t heard what s/he composes? How can you rubbish, say, a Stephen King if you haven’t read Under The Dome or The Stand? King may not write great prose, but his plots are as ambitious and enjoyable as those of many other so-called classy writers. ‘I haven’t read a certain author because I am told that his writing caters to the masses. So, he cannot be good.’ That is juvenile assessment masquerading as an intellectual viewpoint of a reader with a lot of white matter in his brain attic.

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Making judgments without experiencing the concerned reality is a criminal act. For, every fiction writer has a mission in life: that of telling a story that the readers enjoy. Some of these writers may be outstanding; a few merely remarkable, while the others absolutely terrible. Many of them become temporary residents of bestselling lists every time a new book of theirs hits the mart. It’s important to get rid of one’s reader’s block and read what they write. Some of them rock. Trust me.

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