Comments on: Dear Otto http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2006/08/14/476/ One more bite of the apple. Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:05:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: David Thayer http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2006/08/14/476/#comment-8686 David Thayer Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:43:52 +0000 http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2006/08/14/476/#comment-8686 You're not knocking the Swimsuit edition I hope. Those articles are great. You’re not knocking the Swimsuit edition I hope. Those articles are great.

]]> By: david i http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2006/08/14/476/#comment-8685 david i Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:38:08 +0000 http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2006/08/14/476/#comment-8685 The man is barking up the wrong tree. The problem isn't that chick-lit is invading other fields (more power to it), but the fact that, at last count, only about 17 men in this country read anything last year other than the backs of cereal boxes and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. Of those 17 men who actually read a novel last year, 9 of them did so because they grabbed a Robert Ludlum novel at an airport bookstall. The recent banning of most carry-on items on planes suggests that the number of males reading novels in 2007 will drop to a total of 8 guys...and I hear one of them is quite elderly. The man is barking up the wrong tree. The problem isn’t that chick-lit is invading other fields (more power to it), but the fact that, at last count, only about 17 men in this country read anything last year other than the backs of cereal boxes and the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition.

Of those 17 men who actually read a novel last year, 9 of them did so because they grabbed a Robert Ludlum novel at an airport bookstall. The recent banning of most carry-on items on planes suggests that the number of males reading novels in 2007 will drop to a total of 8 guys…and I hear one of them is quite elderly.

]]> By: David Thayer http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2006/08/14/476/#comment-8633 David Thayer Mon, 14 Aug 2006 23:40:57 +0000 http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2006/08/14/476/#comment-8633 You may have the ingredients for a bestseller. Why cats? Why not primates? You may have the ingredients for a bestseller. Why cats? Why not primates?

]]> By: Steve Clackson http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2006/08/14/476/#comment-8631 Steve Clackson Mon, 14 Aug 2006 22:52:44 +0000 http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2006/08/14/476/#comment-8631 My cat gave up a life of crime solving and is now a wedding planner. Which isn't bad considering the alternative was to be an uninformed columnist for the SUN. My cat gave up a life of crime solving and is now a wedding planner. Which isn’t bad considering the alternative was to be an uninformed columnist for the SUN.

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