RE: questions

referring to this email by meghan, that is exactly what i was saying about
reviewers giving a book extremely favorable reviews, as if engaged in some
sort of understanding - because frankly - and i am as guilty of this as anyone
anywhere - if a book cover has a CITR comparision on it, it will sell much,
much better. rather paranoid i know, but still not at all impossible

>===== Original Message From "m e g h a n" <bedroomdancing@hotmail.com> =====
>>Has anyone read Rule of the Bone?
>I've never even heard of it. *checks out amazon.com to get a review* Seems
>to me to be another typical teen angst story.. why do they all have to
>involve kids being stoners?
>
>It's possible that maybe these books are compared to CITR because they want
>to ride on Salinger's success.. knowing that any book that can appeal to the
>disillusioned generation as well as CITR did will be successful. I'm sure
>there are a lot of kids who read CITR in school, and go "wow that is so me!"
>and then go around looking for books similar to it, such as "Perks." I mean,
>if every kid who ever related to CITR went out and bought any book with a
>comparable main character, I'd say those authors have the opportunity to
>become a best-seller.
>
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Received on Wed Nov 6 21:29:11 2002