TAN: Best sellers

[Darin Len Arrick]

The book is fiction, but has what is normally considered a non-fiction
title. It's not actually a grammar of Finnish.


-- 
Darin Arrick
The University of Arizona
Undergraduate Class of 2012
Major: Linguistics, Minor: Philosophy
Member, UofA Honors College
darrick at email.arizona.edu


On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Mark Line <mark at polymathix.com> wrote:
> Probably.
>
> But that's England, after all, where intellectual pursuits, even avocational ones, are not stigmatized. The 10th best-selling book is _Quantum Universe_ according to that same list.
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> By comparison, this week's bestsellers in USA Today (a.k.a. The Purveyor of American Culture) are mostly youth pulp, as nearly as I can tell. I'm sure they're popular among most adult Americans since they're likely Flesch-tested to 6th grade or so.
>
> Isaacson's bio of Steve Jobs is #5 -- something you can leave lying around on your coffee table while you're showing off your new iPhone 4S (and its dead battery).
>
> Still, I guess I might want to hire Diego Marani's publicist.........
>
> -- Mark
>
>
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> On Dec 11, 2011, at 14:56 , Daniel Riaño wrote:
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>> According to The Guardian's This Week
>> Bestsellers<http://www.guardianbookshop.co.uk/BerteShopWeb/home.do>,
>> Diego Marani's "New Finnish Grammar" is this week 3rd best selling book in
>> England. This is something of a record, isn't it?
>