TAN: Best sellers

[Daniel Riaño]

Yes, the remark was done tongue-in-cheek, but the fact that a book with the
word "grammar" (correctly spelled) in the cover (and even with the air of a
Routledge actual grammar) hits the best-selling list is noteworthy per se.
A very encomiastic review
here<http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/26/finnish-grammar-diego-marani-review>
.

2011/12/11 Darin Len Arrick <darrick at email.arizona.edu>

> 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.
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> > On Dec 11, 2011, at 14:56 , Daniel Riaño wrote:
> >
> >> 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?
> >
>