Book Review: Making the List

Well, this one didn't make my list. Don't read it. Making the List is supposedly an American cultural history of the best-seller list and it started off with a lot of promise, but quickly, I got tired of it.

Perhaps b/c I was listening to it, but there were sections of recitations of the top 10 best sellers from 1904 in fiction and non-fiction, then 1905, then 1906. OK, I get it. Tell me more about what it means, but by the time Michael Korda, some big publishing industry hotshot got there, I had lost interest.

The beginning, telling about how the list evolved and why was good, but this was probably an article that someone said, "hey write a book."

Bad idea.