What happens to old popular authors and books?

honduranhansens

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Over the years, some books are popular, stay popular for a time, then die an fade away, when others become popular and stay popular. Why if a book was once good and loved does it die away, when others are loved forever?
For example : Charles Dickens, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas. What whill happen to Stephanie Myer or J.K. Rowling in 150 years?
 
That's a really good question, actually.

But I don't really know why. Maybe books stay popular because they're written for all age groups and can always be related to, while others are relevant to one time and one time only.
 
I think that the books that are loved forever are books that have either had a hand in revolutionizing some aspect of writing (such as Tolkein's Lord of the Rings with the modern fantasy genre) or have touched a wide variety of people. Most classics have very universal themes, and in some cases, have had specific roles in history- like Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.

I don't think Rowling will be gone in 150 years. I think Harry Potter will become a children's classic series. It's done almost all of the above and is not, contrary to popular belief, merely "fun reading". It's some serious stuff. I doubt schools will ever teach it to their kids, but they don't teach The Golden Compass, either, and I don't think that that one's going anywhere. Like Narnia.

But Meyer will disappear because her books are poorly written and though they've touched hundreds of people across the world, they're the "phase" types of books. People get into them for a while and then they grow out of them because there's not much left to love after 1) you've grown out of high school chick flicks and/or 2) you realize how poorly written it is.

I hope that helped answer the question.
 
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