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extuscan
Citizen
Username: Extuscan
Post Number: 248
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 5, 2004 - 6:48 pm: |     |
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/cm/browse-communities/-/220212/books/002-61 16274-1114461
any comments?
-John |
Cynicalgirl
Citizen
Username: Cynicalgirl
Post Number: 248
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 5, 2004 - 7:23 pm: | |
We didn't buy any of that stuff! And we bought a lot this year from Amazon, books CDs and DVDs and some toys... |
Marvin Gardens
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Username: Marvin_gardens
Post Number: 50
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 5, 2004 - 7:50 pm: | |
I read The Pity of It All: A History of the Jews in Germany, 1743-1933 and I have to be honest with you.....not that funny
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Do Not Pass Go |
knak
Citizen
Username: Knak
Post Number: 39
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Monday, January 5, 2004 - 8:28 pm: | |
well, that's an interesting list.
#2: One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss: like most households with a young child, we own this though we might not have read it since she was 5.
#3: The Three Junes: currently reading (from the library): fairly interesting novel, not riveting
#9: The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd: I liked this one a lot - some mysteries about the connections between generations of women escaping their constricting lives. (library)
#12: The Lovely Bones: A Novel by Alice Sebold: pretty sad, and seems to be part of a theme involving young people, death and regrets. It was frustratingly unresolved at the end. (library)
I'm surprised the list has so little in the self-improvement & parenting categories! But maybe there are just too many possible titles. Or, of course, our reading doesn't show up on the purchase lists because so many of us are avid library users!
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Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 1632
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, January 5, 2004 - 9:07 pm: | |
The list for South Orange is entirely different, though that's a surprise, given the similarity in the demographics. My guess is that the sample sizes are small and therefore inaccurate.
But hey, this is fun anyway. Thanks for that trick, extuscan.
Tom Reingold
There is nothing
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bookgal
Citizen
Username: Bookgal
Post Number: 451
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Monday, January 5, 2004 - 9:51 pm: | |
The sample sizes are very small...you'd be surprised how few buys are required in order to influence the number rankings on Amazon. |
Cynicalgirl
Citizen
Username: Cynicalgirl
Post Number: 249
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 6, 2004 - 6:08 am: | |
I find amazon's applications the coolest going, and this one, too. My household bought mysteries (Nevada Barr, Reginald Hill, Elizabeth George), books about flower arranging, about Wales, classic DVDs, a mess of old Frank Zappa (I wonder if this app includes purchases from related stores?). I guess ours were all "onesies," though.
That "cheese" book has been around for awhile now! |
NCJanow(akaLibraryLady)
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Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 1134
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 6, 2004 - 10:26 am: | |
Here's what South Orange will be reading in 2004 (Maplewoodoians are welcome to join us)
The South Orange Public Library's selections for 2004. All meeting start at 7:30pm and are help in the library meeting room. Call me if you need further info. (973-762-0230) Nancy Janow
2/2/04 Classic Madame Bovary - Flaubert
3/1/04 Best Seller - Secret Life of Bees by Kidd
4/12/04 Non-Western- Life of Pi by Martel
5/3/04 Non-Fiction - American Studies by Menand
6/7/04 - Historical Fiction - I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company by Hall
8/2/04 Fiction into Film -Quiet American by Greene
9/13/04 Mystery - Da Vinci Code by Brown
10/4/04 Nancy's Pick- Time Traveller's Wife by Niffenegger
11/6/04 Biography - Seabiscuit by Hillenbrand
12/6/04 First Fiction - Known World by Jones
1/3/05 Book Selecion Meeting
2/7/05 Classic- Anna Karenina - Tolstoi
Please come join us!
NC
NCJ aka LibraryLady
On a coffee break..or something like it. |
Ukealalio
Citizen
Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 342
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 6, 2004 - 10:45 am: | |
No Paul Auster or Philip Roth ?.
Bah Humbug. |
NCJanow(akaLibraryLady)
Citizen
Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 1135
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 6, 2004 - 12:21 pm: | |
Should of joined us last year for The Human Stain.
NCJ aka LibraryLady
On a coffee break..or something like it. |
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