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amazon.com's romance bestseller list for 5/23/06 has Philippa Gregory's The Other Boleyn Girl and Zadie Smith's On Beauty in its top 25... for some reason, I don't think they belong in the same category as Nicholas Sparks and Nora Roberts.
Also, Philip Roth's latest, Everyman, is #6 on the fiction & literature list. How many of the people buying that book actually read it? Even I don't read Philip Roth. I hadn't realized there was a whole coffee table culture out there where books are bought solely to plump up their owners' supposed intellectual superiority until researching Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum.
Also, Philip Roth's latest, Everyman, is #6 on the fiction & literature list. How many of the people buying that book actually read it? Even I don't read Philip Roth. I hadn't realized there was a whole coffee table culture out there where books are bought solely to plump up their owners' supposed intellectual superiority until researching Umberto Eco's Foucault's Pendulum.