Are The Most Popular Books Really The Best?

Harry Potter took the literary world by storm in the past few years, and more recently it seems like Twilight is the new trend. As a result of their popularity, J.K. Rowling is now a very rich woman, Twilight is a movie series along with Harry Potter, and Robert Pattinson is a deity. There’s no question that Harry Potter and Edward Cullen represent a couple of the most popular books around, but whether notoriety is more like it is another matter. Stephen King recently commented on the two authors and their respective series. King had nice things to say about Rowling, but he described Meyer as not writing “worth a darn.” Her many readers might disagree, but whose opinion should we believe?

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