I'm totally with your mom on that. It reminds me of reading Cold Mountain when it was on the New York Times bestseller's list. I would have the book with me on the bus, and complete strangers would come up to me and tell me that it was a good book. Like I asked for their opinion. And then I didn't really like it all that much. It was fine, but it just wasn't an incredible work of literature. If only people could come up with something better to say than, "I liked it. It was a good book."

Generally I've come to the conclusion that if the masses like it, I won't. It won't be disturbing enough, or provide a new, different perspective. Maybe it's just an attraction to edgy-ness or something.