[ SECRET POST #4656 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4656 ⌋

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Comments

[type_wild]

You've clearly never encountered the insane popularity of "real life stories" and biographies of people who died young and tragid deaths. I suppose it could be that those genres simply aren't as popular in the Anglosphere, but I promise you, I live in a language community with a considerable appetite for tragic "true" stories.

[(Anonymous)]

There's a difference between the market for non fiction/memoirs and the market for fiction, though. Readers might be more open to angst if it's real...less so if it's fiction...and maybe even less if it's not written well. I don't know about you, but I've read plenty of stories where the author just piled on the angst to the point where the plot or characters got lost, or it strained credibility or it was so over the top that it became hilariously melodramatic and unreadable. It's not a rare phenomenon.

[(Anonymous)]

Do 'misery porn foster care or disabled children' stories count? I frequent a charity shop that gets Cathy Glass and Torey Hayden on the regular

(unless that's not an indicator of popularity)

[type_wild]

I'm not sure, given that the titles coming up a lot were all (okay, both) about children who died.

(I'd pin that as popular enough, since the books I see a lot in thrift stores are the ones who were bestsellers enough for people who don't really read boosk to buy them)

[(Anonymous)]

Oh no, they're *incredibly* popular in English. They can be called "misery porn" if it's all about the suffering or "glurge" if it's all about how they inspired others with their suffering, or if it's about the heroic parent/teacher/sibling who cared for them. Jodie Picoult writes the fictional form.

[(Anonymous)]

They are massively popular in the Anglosphere, they even have their own genre - "misery lit". Unfortunately. Voyeurism of a high and nasty order.