NY Observer 6/2/97

[Sean Klein]

>      
>      The article itself describes M&D as one of those books that people 
>      have on their bookshelves rather than actually read (and put it in the 
>      same category as works by Salman Rushdie, among others), since it is a 
>      "difficult" book -- a thread that has been explored on the p-list 
>      recently.  

I have often wondered recently how many of those 200K copies of M&D will actually be read and how many will sit prettily upon people's bookshelves collecting dust?  I wouldn't be surprised if the latter number was quite large.