How to Choose a Novel

[Daniel Julius]

On Dec 11, 2007 8:03 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,,1842639,00.html
>
> How, then, to find the novels that you do have the time to invest in?
> As the science-fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon (the original for Kurt
> Vonnegut's Kilgore Trout) observed: "Ninety per cent of science
> fiction is crap. But 90 per cent of everything is crap." How can we
> identify the 10 per cent, or less, of fiction available that is not
> crap?
>
> [...]
>
> Marshall McLuhan, the guru of The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), recommends
> that the browser turn to page 69 of any book and read it. If you like
> that page, buy the book. It works.



 YEAHAH, 69!!  I think i might LIKE this MCLuhan character, wooo, Spring
Break.  (Note: Is he related to Lindsay Luhan?  I bet he's banged her!!!)



Hey, seriously, though, you guys: read a page of the book you're thinking of
reading...BEFORE YOU BUY IT?!?!?!?!?!  This shit is genius!  I wish I had
come up w/ that!  Never again will I be duped by cool covers like
Goosebumps.  I gotta buy this, uh, what's his name's guide to novels here.
Thank you, Mama England!
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