TAN: Best sellers

[Vyv Evans]

Hi Mark,

"But that's England, after all, where intellectual pursuits, even 
avocational ones, are not stigmatized."

Unfortunately England (I think you mean The United Kingdom, btw) is not 
all intelligence and forgiveness.  We have just turned our back on the 
rest of Europe, and apparently isolated ourselves from the EU  (see 
today's Guardian:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/).

With saddest wishes,

Vyv

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Mark Line 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?
>>     
>
>   

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