I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My first novel, 'You Lost Me There,' has been described as a beach read. Tough bracket, beach reads. There's not much room for mistakes when you're competing against the sun for a person's attention.
I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.
I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction.
Perhaps if I knew I would be stranded on an island with but one book, I would choose the Bible. For no religious reason whatsoever, but because of the varieties of stories, which might be useful as the days pass.
I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.
At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.
I can't picture going to a beach, or anywhere on vacation, without a couple of books as companions.
There's more fiction in my life than in books, so I don't bother with them.
All of my books, which are supposedly, I mean they're called YA novels, my hope is that adults would find no reason not to read them if they read them.
Here's my definition of a great beach read - a fabulous story that sucks me in like a black hole and when it's over, it jettisons my bones across the galaxy with a hair on fire mission to convince everyone I know that they must read that book or they will die.