European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse I s i skill Kronew York times list fiction 1 Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley last week 1 weeks on list 6 2 needful things by Stephen King last week 2 weeks on list 5 3 comeback by Dick Francis last week 5 weeks on list 3 4 the sum of All fears by Tom Clancy last week 3 weeks on list 13 5 remember by Barbara Taylor Bradford last week 7 weeks on list 3 6 night Over water by Ken Follett last week 4 weeks on list 7 7 sleeping Beauty by Judith Michael last week 9 weeks on list 4 8 the doomsday conspiracy by Sidney Sheldon last week 6 weeks on list 10 9 All the wears of pern by Anne Mccaffrey last week. 8 weeks on list 4 10 reunion by Michael Jan Friedman last week 15 weeks on list 2 11 Lila by Robert m. Pirsig first week on list 12 the firm by John Grisham last week 10 weeks on list 36 13 gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell last week 11 weeks on list 5 14 the deceiver by Frederick Forsyth last week 12 weeks on list 8 15 of the places you la go by or. Seuss last week 14 weeks on list 86 non fiction 1 Den of thieves by James b. Stewart last week. 1 weeks on list 5 2 me stories of my life by Katharine Hepburn last week 2 weeks on list 9 3 under fire by Oliver l. North with William Novak last week 3 weeks on list 2 4 the new world order by Pat Robertson last week 5 weeks on list 3 5 us of by Robert Fulghum last week 4 weeks on list 12 6 dance while you can by Shirley Maclaine last week 14 weeks on list 2 7 pair Perth by William least heat Moon last week 13 weeks on list 3 8 parliament of whores by . O Rourke last week 9 weeks on list 22 9 childhood by Bill Cosby last week 8 weeks on list 2 10 Iron John by Robert Bly. Last week 7, weeks on list 52 11 cruel doubt by Joe Mcginniss last week 6 weeks on list 5 12 Molly Ivins can t say that can she by Molly Ivins first week on list 13 Savage inequalities by Jonathan Kozol last week 12, weeks on list 3 14 fire in the belly by Sam keen last week 11 weeks on list 27 15 chutzpah by Alan m. Dershowitz weeks on list 21 paperback fiction 1 the Plains of passage by Jean m. Auel weeks on list 3 2 Circle of friends by Maeve Bitchy weeks on list 4 3 memories of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon weeks on list 10 4 the Eagle has flown by Jack Higgins weeks on list. 3 5 hocus pocus by Kurt Vonnegut weeks on list 3 6 four past Midnight by Stephen King weeks on list. 12 7 the rift by Peter David weeks on list. 3 8 the Mummy by Anne Rice weeks on list 17 9 snare of serpents by Victoria Holt first week on list 10 the education of Little tree by Forrest Carter weeks in list 21 i a write re a Art paperback non fiction 1 you just done to understand by Deborah Tannen weeks on list 26 2 a year in Provence by Peter Mayle weeks on list. 18 3 a life on the Road by Charles Kuralt weeks on list 2 4 All i really need to know i Learned in kindergarten by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 104 5 the Road less travelled by m. Scott Peck weeks on list 419 6 done to know much about history by Kenneth c Davis weeks on list 19 7 sexual personae by Camille Paglia weeks on list 4 8 a natural history of the senses by Diane Ackerman weeks on list 3 9 it was on fire when i Lay Down on it by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 34 10 composing a life by Mary Catherine Bateson weeks on list 19 paperback miscellaneous 1 scientific Progress goes a a Boink by Bill Watterson weeks on list 7 2 unnatural selections by Gary Larson weeks on list 3 3 life s Little instruction Book by h. Jackson Brownjr. Weeks on list 144 the to Factor fat Gram counter by Jamie Pope Cordle and Martin Natahn weeks on list 68 5 the seven habits of highly effective people by Stephen r. Covey weeks on list 48 at stars Ano stripes bookstores latest available list of Best Sellers at stars and stripes shopping Center bookstores fiction 1 Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley 2 the sum of a fears by Tom Clancy 3 needful things by Stephen king4 Star wars heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn 5 night Over water by Ken Follett 6 the doomsday conspiracy by Sidney Sheldon 7 the deceiver by Frederick Forsyth 8 firebreak by Richard Herman or. 9 Saint maybe by Anne Tyler 10 harlots ghost by Norman Mailer non fiction 1 us of by Robert Fulghum 2 me stories of my life by Katharine Hepburn 3 cruel doubt by Joe Mcginniss 4 exposing myself by Geraldo Rivera 5 final exit by Derek humphry6 the frugal gourmet Cooks three ancient cuisines by left Smith 7 wealth without risk by Charles Givens 8 when you look like your passport photo its time to go Home by Erma Bombeck 9 pair Perth by William least heat Moon 10 parliament of whores by o Rourk sisyphus would Likely have found writing As hard James j. Kilpatrick Harold Ross died 40 years ago hut his legends a and his lessons a live on. I be was for 2b years editor of the new yorker. As such he was largely responsible for the tie a signer prose that made the Maga Ine famous. He had a thing about allusions the Story it gets that Ross Onee was Reading a manuscript in which the writer referred confidently to Robert Emmet As if everyone knew who Robert was. Ross scrawled a note on the margin Quot who he a Good question. It is a question writers must regularly ask themselves. 1 thought about Ross the other Day in Reading a piece in nation a joke View about the gubernatorial election in Louisiana. Gov. Buddy Rocker was identified As Quot the Couch of polities smart egotistical a master of Auto suggestion. His modes is to make things better by saying they re How Many readers would have asked about Coue a win he Quot i expect the allusion was reasonably Clear to to percent of the readers of National review. They Are presumably a literate lot they would have identified gone 1s57-102ft As the French psychotherapist who advised his patients constantly to say to themselves a a every Day in every Way i am getting better and j Well chosen allusions provide a Nice Garnish j for the meat and potatoes we serve our readers j but mind you if the allusions Fly Over the Heads j of the audience the allusions Are worse than j useless. They do not evoke the associations we Hope for. They evoke instead a silent resent j mint against the author Tor showing off his learning at the readers expense. A gentleman in Mattoon iii., wrote me last year to complain about a reference in a Book he had been Reading a the kingdom of the partly Blind is a Little like of a Little like wonderland a Little like he had heard of the land of of and he caught the reference to Alices adventures in wonderland hut Pic twesme where that for the record Point Csc was a fictional medieval province invented by novelist James Branch Cabell in the Early Voos. Nobody reads Cabell anymore. Nobody has read Cabell in years. How Many readers of the Book would have understood the allusion not Many i suspect. A a year or so ago the Wall Street journal suspended its Effort to circulate in Singapore. The government had just adopted a licensing Law with All kinds of strings attached. The journal found the act intolerable. The editors concluded that Little could be gained by sentencing its Singapore stall a to the labor of hoes anyone ask Quot who he Quot this poor fellow was condemned in hell to Roll a huge Stone up a Hill Only to have the Stone Roll Back Down again. In Quot the labors of sisyphus Quot do we have an allusion Lor All readers Pritsos Syrol a nov Emht 17. 1991 sunday a Page 9
