In the case of "Wimpy Kid," it appears that word of mouth is driving sales as much as readers first finding the novel online.
As much as readers may come to love a series detective (few characters have ever been more beloved than Sherlock Holmes), the genre mostly doesn't give us this.
However, the sad fact remains that digital readers aren't worth as much as print readers to newspaper publishers.
If she knew as much as the reader, she'd be even more afraid.
You get the sense that Fleming — bored, cynical and out of sorts — wrote them to entertain himself as much as the reader.
I'm a rereader as much as a reader, and the classic that I would take with me is Colette's Le blé en herbe.
The second thing is that the novel is always as much about the reader as the writer.
As a result, in the climactic moments when Plimpton gets called into the action for a few minutes to perform – in pre-season warm-up games, but in full intent – his vividly drawn teammates appear to be rooting for him just as much as any reader will undoubtedly be doing.
We grieve the end as much as the reader.
