Re: questions

The book "A heartbreaking work of staggering genius" by Dave Eggers was
compared with the CITR by some reviews when it was released in France (I
don't think it had any kind of commercial consequences, since Salinger is
not very known here). Was it the case in the US too, and if so, do you think
it contributed to its success ?
 Valérie Aron

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From: "Matthew S. Mahoney" <matthew.s.mahoney@vanderbilt.edu>
To: "m e g h a n" <bedroomdancing@hotmail.com>; "bananafish"
<bananafish@roughdraft.org>; "haikux2" <haikux2@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 3:29 AM
Subject: 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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