Reflection 11/29/12

I think that all works have the chance to prize winning. The popularity or unpopularity of a work doesn’t make a book less artistic, it just means that it was finally recognized by winning a prize for its success. That doesn’t mean that all best sellers are works of art. They can simply be a fun read, one that everyone seems to enjoy. And maybe that’s the reason best sellers don’t win these literary prizes. They’re not meant to be the next Pulitzer Prize winner. Some are just meant to be a quick read or something to take your mind off of your day-to-day life. Take the Twilight series for example. They’re not extremely well written or award winners, but people really seem to love them.  So does a book have to be well written to be popular? No. But is it going to win any awards that way? Probably not. But that doesn’t automatically mean that all popular books aren’t well written. There are some out there, like  The Bible, that are extremely well written and very popular. I don’t think that popularity has anything to do with how well the book is written, it’s just all based on opinion of the reader.