The Best Relationship Books Are Readable






by Amelia Peck


The best relationship books explain everything clearly. That is why they sell well. What makes the other half of the world population tick is a sources of wonderment and fascination from puberty until death. People never tire of trying to understand what they cannot, and if a text explains the inexplicable it is bound to be snapped up.

In some countries people buy the bottled parts of rare animals believing that it will improve their sexual prowess. In Africa one can buy a cloudy potion in a recycled bottle. It is guaranteed to attract the opposite sex. In the West one can buy a book by an author with degrees from an American university. The book has roughly the same purpose as the potion. It offers a simple solution.

Writers of best sellers are experts at constructing texts that are pleasurable to read. Sentences are clear and simple, usually about sixteen words long. They are organized into paragraphs that state a single idea which is explicated and illustrated in interesting ways.

In the hands of a skilled academic issues within the fields of psychology, physiology and philosophy can become complicated Chinese puzzles. The same issues can be clarified by skilled writers so that mud seems to be purified into crystal clear streams of fast flowing mountain water. The ability to do this is said to be an indication of high intelligence.

The banal, the trite and the superficial are things in the closet that good authors take out. If these can be shaken and sexed up with some metaphors or catchy phrases from popular TV shows they become the stuff of good sellers in the genre.

Before the advent of best relationship books romances and novels served to illustrate and elucidate some of the problems that arise between men and women. Some people believe that Jane Austen said most of what needs to be said on the subject in her novel, Pride and Prejudice. The number of films that appear every year based on the novel are an indication of the ongoing relevance of the classic book written two hundred years ago.




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