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Journal Article
Tapping into the Appeal of Cult Fiction
2011
Overview
According to Thomas Reed Whissen, cult fiction appeals to readers who feel cut off, socially disenfranchised, deprived of their rightful place in the community of man. CULT FICTION SUGGESTIONS FORTEEN READERS * The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath * Crash by J. G. Ballard * The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart * Dune by Erank Herbert * Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk * The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams * Geek Eove by Katherine Dunn * Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link * Neuromancer by William Gibson * One Day in the Eife of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander SoIzhenitsyn * One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey * Only Forward by Michael Marshall Smith * One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez * Perfume by Patrick Suskind * The Pigman by Paul Zindel * The Stranger by Albert Camus * Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh There is something about cult fiction titles that make them easily spotted.
