How to Choose a Novel

[Mark Kohut]

Anyone know what is on page 69 of The Gutenberg Galaxy?


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From: Daniel Julius <daniel.julius at gmail.com>
To: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
Cc: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 1:21:54 PM
Subject: Re: How to Choose a Novel


 
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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