TAN: Best sellers

[Mark Line]

On Dec 11, 2011, at 15:17 , Darin Len Arrick wrote:

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

Well, of all the.......

It didn't even occur to me to check and see if New Finnish Grammar is actually a new Finnish grammar.


-- Mark



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> Darin Arrick
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> On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Mark Line <mark at polymathix.com> wrote:
>> Probably.
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>> 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.
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>> 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).
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>> Still, I guess I might want to hire Diego Marani's publicist.........
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>> -- 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?
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