{"id":115040,"date":"2017-06-12T08:28:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=115040"},"modified":"2017-06-12T08:39:33","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T16:39:33","slug":"the-worlds-ten-best-selling-english-language-authors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=115040","title":{"rendered":"The world\u2019s ten best selling English language authors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comments<\/a>: However, here\u2019s a list of the world\u2019s ten best selling English language authors.<\/p>\n

Agatha Christie \u2013 English
\nWilliam Shakespeare \u2013 English
\nBarbara Cartland \u2013 English
\nDanielle Steel \u2013 Half Jewish Half Portuguese
\nHarold Robbins \u2013 Jewish
\nSidney Sheldon \u2013 Jewish
\nEnid Blyton \u2013 English
\nJ. K. Rowling \u2013 English, minor French ancestry
\nDr. Suess \u2013 German American
\nGilbert Patten \u2013 English American<\/p>\n

So 2.5 of the top 10 indicates a lot of ability to write what the public wants to buy. Also on the list are #11 Jackie Collins (half Jewish\/half English), #13 R.L. Stine (Midwestern Jewish), #23 Stan and Jan Berenstain (Jewish-American husband and English-American wife, raised their children Jewish).<\/p>\n

* Never understood the appeal of this author. Portnoy\u2019s Complaint is just about an extremely whiny, nebbishy Jewish guy who masterbates too much and drones on forever about his psychological complexes.<\/p>\n

* Unfortunately, that does explain his \u201cappeal.\u201d Jews control a large portion of the Megaphone, and did even back when Roth was starting out. Roth\u2019s works appealed to them, as he was a \u201cvoice\u201d of Jewish-Americans of that period. They thus promoted the turd out of him, and shoved him down the throats of others until he became a standard contemporary \u201cgreat\u201d author.<\/p>\n

As Steve explained, this is rather similar to how The Graduate became a hit: Jews in New York and LA kept going to screenings, keeping it theaters, until gradually it was talked up to goys and became a hit, although the Jewishness, as Steve has noted, was downplayed to goys, and the \u201cGeneration Gap\u201d\/Baby Boomer aspects were uptalked.<\/p>\n

The quite open Freudian nature of Portnoy\u2019s Complaint makes it rather laughable to anyone not in the Freudian cult, and hence it hasn\u2019t aged well. However, the Jewish obsession with sex, assimilation, their mothers, and shiksa women remains, so many young Jews can still pick it up and be enthralled by how much he \u201cgets\u201d them.<\/p>\n

Much of Roth\u2019s work is really insular to Jews, and it\u2019s rather funny to think of him as anything other than a niche author. I was forced to read Goodbye, Columbus in high school and couldn\u2019t find a bit of it to relate to. I realize why now: Roth\u2019s work doesn\u2019t even attempt to explain to outsiders the assimilation-with-American-goys Jews were obsessed with, and merely assumes you know what he\u2019s talking about as he writes. Since that\u2019s the major theme and metaphor of the book, it doesn\u2019t resonate with non-Jews.<\/p>\n

Reading Goodbye, Columbus was rather like reading a story about space travel where it\u2019s assumed you know all the mathematics and physics and historical theories behind launching a rocket and is really obsessed with faster escape velocity theories in detail; it\u2019s going to go over the heads of most readers unless you skillfully get them up to speed.<\/p>\n

Broadly, if you\u2019re ever puzzled why certain artists are extolled despite rather mundane outputs and low popularity, check if the reviewers extolling the artists share some sort of personal\/ethnic connection with the artist. This rather explains why a lowly-rated, badly-written show like Girls got so much press: lots of ugly twenty-something and thirty-something Jewish American female critics living or from Brooklyn liked Lena Dunham\u2019s depiction of fat, ugly Jewish broad having meaningless sex in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

* I have to laugh at whoever said Jews aren\u2019t good at writing fiction. They punch so far above their weight that it\u2019s not funny. Heller, Bellow, Roth, Salinger, Potok, Wiesel. Popular writers like Asimov, Ephron, Sendak, and Maria Doria Russell. Name me a genre and I can find you a zillion successful writers.<\/p>\n

Compare their output to Mormons, and see what you get.<\/p>\n

* You could also throw in highbrows like Bernard Malamud, Norman Mailer and Paul Auster if you like, plus more popular writers like William Goldman, Ira Levin, Leon Uris, Herman Wouk, and Irwin Shaw. In science fiction I particularly liked Alfred Bester, but there are loads of others. Lots of great children\u2019s books, too; The Giving Tree is a heartbreaker.<\/p>\n

* I would add to this, the case of Lenny Bruce. I never understood his status until I understood how Jews regard themselves vis-a-via the goyim. Watch videos of Bruce. He wasn\u2019t funny, not in the way, say, similar lefty Jewish comics of the era were\u2013e.g. Mort Sahl, Jackie Mason. What he was, was a Jewish martyr. What Jews (and their subordinate goys who mimic them) love about him is his subversiveness. To paraphrase Malcolm X, telling the WASP, and his Institutions, to his face just what he thinks of him and his hypocritical 1950s American values. This made him a hero to similarly adverse, highly self-identified Jews like Woody Allen and Howard Stern. Norman Mailer whose writing I do admire, was similar. He sent a copy of The White Negro to William Faulkner and Faulkner told him he needed to see a psychiatrist. Not coincidentally, Bruce, Mailer, Stern and Allen were all sexual degenerates very much into degrading the shiksa!<\/p>\n

* \u201cGoodbye, Columbus\u201d makes a lot more sense if you read it as someone who throws away a relationship with a beautiful woman from a prosperous family\u2013a family that welcomes him, instead of rejecting him as an outsider\u2013because it wouldn\u2019t allow him to feel like a victim anymore.<\/p>\n

See the movie. Ali MacGraw\u2019s Brenda may be spoiled, but she genuinely cares about him and he could influence her if he took the trouble. What he\u2019s really afraid of is that HE will be the one to be influenced and assimilated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Comments: However, here\u2019s a list of the world\u2019s ten best selling English language authors. Agatha Christie \u2013 English William Shakespeare \u2013 English Barbara Cartland \u2013 English Danielle Steel \u2013 Half Jewish Half Portuguese Harold Robbins \u2013 Jewish Sidney Sheldon \u2013 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14564],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t