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- From: cdubuque@plains.NoDak.edu (Chadwick Dubuque)
- Subject: Re: People Magazine Worst Books
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:02:47 GMT
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- > 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".
- > [...]
- >Well, it's People magazine, no one really has an respect for them or their
- >opinions anyway.
- >
- >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.
-
- We all know what to do with "Best/Worst" lists like these:
-
- INVERT THEM!
- >
- >-Avumede
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