Re: Is it just me?

From: tina carson <tina_carson@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue Jun 24 2003 - 12:16:07 EDT

Good Lord, how awful! Might as well have teamed it with "Cooking With Gas".
tina

>Hi all,
>
>Perhaps I am just being too sensitive, but is it me or is the following a
>tad
>crass? I was gathering ISBN numbers in order to order books for the coming
>semester and so I went to Amazon to check for new editions. One of the
>books I
>needed was Sylvia Plath's *The Bell Jar*. As most of you probably know,
>often on their pages Amazon will offer bargain deals for book combos. For
>instance, if you order *Crime and Punishment* together with *The Brothers
>Karamazov*
>you get a discount on the price of both books.
>
>So I call up the *Bell Jar* page, and scrolling down I find the following:
>
>
>
>*********************************************
>
> Buy this book with <A
>HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1573225126/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/103-7549035-7429427?v=glance&s=books&st=*">Prozac
>Nation</A> by Elizabeth Wurtzel today!
>
>Total List Price: $26.95
>Buy Together Today: $21.56
>
>*******************************************
>
>
>
>Is it just me, or is this in slightly bad taste?
>
>Just wondering,
>
>--John
>
>

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