And, oh dear me, that relentless staccato rhythm. One Word Sentences. One Word Paragraphs. Above all, Further. Perhaps it all reads better in Finnish.
Bestsellers are never simply vacuous.
Nothing, as King Lear rightly thought, will come of nothing, even in the modern world of skilled publishers' hype. They would not sell if there were not something there for the reader. The God of Small Things is not, as Harry Ritchie, former literary editor of the Sunday Times , has put it with abundant provocation, simply silly. The merely silly does not sell, however hard it is pushed. Even in publishing there are no bricks without some straw.