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- From: coury@duke.edu (L.A.Coury)
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- Subject: Re: People Magazine Worst Books
- Summary: People Magazine's opinions
- Message-ID: <8883@news.duke.edu>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 15:00:51 GMT
- Expires: 1 Mar 93 05:00:00 GMT
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- In article <C16nMK.FLJ@news.cso.uiuc.edu> ash50842@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Avumede) writes:
- >...People magazine...
- >had a list of the Worst books of the year, and P.J. O Rourke was in there
- >with his book (I don't remember the name) and Dave Barry got a runner-up
- >spot with "Dave Barry Does Japan".
- >[...]
- >Incidentally, all the BEST books were books that I've never heard of, and
- >sound VERY dry and boring like "A Study of Southern Tibet in the 12th Century"
- >or stuff like that.
- > -Avumede
-
- Well that`s interesting. I would
- have guessed People magazine
- would have chosen coloring books
- before books with words. Guess
- they didn't like Dave's book because
- he doesn't mention Cher.
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- The Academy of Big Words recommends that, in business situations,
- you should, whenever possible, use the words ``erstwhile'' and
- ``penultimate.'' -Dave Barry
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