The most borrowed library books of 2010
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.. library users turning to crime, with thrillers and detective fiction making up almost two-thirds of books borrowed in 2010
Trying to explain why the wartime British public were turning to "brutal and sordid" American crime novels, George Orwell suggested that pulp fiction offered "a distilled version of the modern political scene" in an era of "mass bombing of civilians, the use of hostages, torture [and] secret prisons", and "systematic falsification of records and statistics". The average man, he proposed, "wants the current troubles of the world to be translated into a simple story about individuals".
Some such theory is needed, 65 years later, to account for the stunning appetite for evil evinced by people popping into their local libraries ...
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