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January 15, 2008
From Publisher's Weekly
Major Adult bestsellers of the year:
Adult Fiction: Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Suns 1,377,000
Adult NonFiction:Rhonda Byrne's The Secret 2, 947,000
Children's Ficiton: J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 7,740,000
Hmmm.
Posted by Steven Riddle at January 15, 2008 2:16 PM
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Oh, come on, which would you rather read: modern secular society's newest pseudo-religious positive thinking crap, or a life-and-death magical battle between good and evil? I know which one I read; and I stayed up more than half the night to do it.
(The Thousand Splendid Suns, I haven't read).
Posted by: Brandon Field at January 15, 2008 2:57 PM
Dear Brandon,
You know where my sympathies lay. However, I suspect that The Thousand Splendid Suns may also be superb (The Kite Runner was the most moving and affecting book I had read since A Fine Balance). And these numbers appear not be accurate totals as I looked further into the article, so I have to figure out what I'm reading wrong.
shalom
Steven
Posted by: Steven Riddle at January 15, 2008 3:25 PM