Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:34:53 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: So out of the mainstream
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 4/7/2006 10:45 AM, Michael Walsh wrote:
>from one of the book industry newsletters:
>
>"Unborn babies must be reading Da Vinci. Who else on this planet is
>left?"--Larry Kirshbaum, literary agent, in an AP story via the Globe
>and Mail, about the paperback sales of The Da Vinci Code. (The publisher
>reports that more than 500,000 copies of the book sold in its first week
>of paperback release, and now six million copies are in print.)
>
>Not only do I not have a blog, nor do I watched "reality" tv, it seems
>I'm even more out of the mainstream...

Me too.  I keep hearing about that book, but I haven't bought it, and don't
plan on reading it any time soon.  6 million sold, to 6 billion+ people,
and he thinks we have to include unborn babies to explain it?  I guess they
are requiring even less math in schools today than they used to...

-- Mike B
--
Never forget: 2 + 2 = 5 for sufficiently large values of 2.