Recent best-seller?

[Dave Monroe]

Ditto.  During the last reading, I'd often pick up
$4.99 paperback copies on the fly, esp. as the wear
and tear I put on 'em whilst hosting can be pretty
brutal.  I used to hand out used copies of that Bantam
ed. of Gravity's Rainbow like Gideon's Bibles ...

--- The Great Quail <quail at libyrinth.com> wrote:
>
> Man, I *rely* on that! I *always* scarf up a few
> cheapie "Mason & Dixon" copies and then give them
> to my friends, neighbors, associates, family,
> coworkers.... I swear, I think everyone I know well
> has a hardcover M&D. I figure one of the is bound
> to read it sooner or later....
> 
> (And actually, one friend finally *did* read it, a
> fellow who never read Pynchon before. His
> review? "Hard and kind of wacky, but pretty fucking
> cool.")

And I'm not sure what my success rate has been, but I
do know that the one person who hated GR at least went
to the trouble to finish it first ...

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