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Bestseller
by Ahmed Faiyaz
• Bestseller by Ahmed Faiyaz •
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The Bestseller is the story of Akshay, an editor who moves from London to Mumbai for a year to accomplish the arduous task of bringing up the value of a publishing house that hasn't published a new book for years. He has to achieve this feat while working with people who have no idea about what they're doing and work toward publishing books that can hardly be called that.
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Ahmed gives us a detailed description of what goes behind publishing a book. From reading a manuscript, to editing it, deciding which ones are worth publishing, designing the cover, marketing the book, and in the end, getting the right number of books published, it is a lot of people's hard work and involves a lot of decision making which may or may not be worth it all in the end.
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However, I couldn't connect with the book very well. Neither with the way it was written nor with how the characters were constructed. I often found the plot predictable and thought the characters lacked depth. Maybe it's just not what I was looking for, in the book, on reading the blurb? Maybe, my 15-year-old self would have appreciated it way more? I don't know. But right now, it is not something I enjoyed reading. And would give it 2 stars out of 5.
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The Bestseller is the story of Akshay, an editor who moves from London to Mumbai for a year to accomplish the arduous task of bringing up the value of a publishing house that hasn't published a new book for years. He has to achieve this feat while working with people who have no idea about what they're doing and work toward publishing books that can hardly be called that.
.
.
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Ahmed gives us a detailed description of what goes behind publishing a book. From reading a manuscript, to editing it, deciding which ones are worth publishing, designing the cover, marketing the book, and in the end, getting the right number of books published, it is a lot of people's hard work and involves a lot of decision making which may or may not be worth it all in the end.
.
.
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However, I couldn't connect with the book very well. Neither with the way it was written nor with how the characters were constructed. I often found the plot predictable and thought the characters lacked depth. Maybe it's just not what I was looking for, in the book, on reading the blurb? Maybe, my 15-year-old self would have appreciated it way more? I don't know. But right now, it is not something I enjoyed reading. And would give it 2 stars out of 5.