Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:41:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Ah, retail & the public
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

The man asking for maps wasn't necessarily a book reader.
The question about whether Dickens wrote any shorter versions of
his long novels makes sense - after all, quite a few long SF novels
were expanded from their original short-story form.
Given the amount of hype in book titles, I'm not surprised
the kid thought HHGTTG might be an actual guide.

And since I didn't have to read the thing in school, it was literally
decades before I found out that Anne Frank dies at the end -
that's something people don't talk about.  They say how inspiring
it is, how emotionally affecting it is - they never say it's a downer
because she dies.  Since the woman hadn't read it and I'm betting
nobody told her either, her questionwas perfectly valid.

=Tamar

----- Original Message ----
From: Mike B. <yahoo at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Ah, retail & the public

Michael Walsh wrote:
> http://newslite.tv/2010/06/18/overheard-in-a-bookshop-are-re.html

Of course the HHGTTG contained an entry on Italy...Italy is part of
Earth, and the Earth entry is located just under the entry for
"Eccentrica Gallumbits, the triple-breasted whore of Eroticon 6".

-- Mike B.