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- From: bbrown@willamette.edu (Brian Brown)
- Subject: Re: People Magazine Worst Books
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- Organization: Willamette University, Salem OR
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:24:24 GMT
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- In article <Do you really care which?> ash50842@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Avumede)
- writes:
- >Pardon me if this was discussed over Winter Break, but I was flipping through
- >a People magazine (I don't subscribe I swear! I was just bored!) and they
- >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".
- >
- >I couldn't believe it. I can't vouch for P.J. O'Rouke's book, but Dave's book
- >... well we all know how good it is. It certainly is probably one of the
- >BEST books of the year (at least in the humor field).
-
- I am not going to defend People magazine, but did you really think that
- _Dave Barry Does Japan_ was that good? I was very dissapointed in it
- myself -- it was simply not up to Dave's standards, I felt. I only
- laughed at a few things in it, and the whole book had a rather depressing
- feeling to it, like Dave didn't really want to write about Japan, but
- Random House had already paid him to do it.
-
- I love Dave's writing, but I just don't think that Dave should have done
- Japan.
-
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