European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                His i is i i i Annew York times list fiction 1 Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley last week 1, weeks on list 14 2 needful things by Stephen King last week 2 weeks on list 13 3 no greater love by Danielle steel last week 3 weeks on list 8 4 the sum of All fears by Tom Clancy last week 4 weeks on list 21 5 the doomsday conspiracy by Sidney Sheldon last week 6 weeks on list 18 6 the Polar express by Chris Vanallsburg last week 7 weeks on list 34 7 the firm by John Grisham last week 9 weeks on list 44 8 night Over water by Ken Follett last week 5 weeks on list 15 9 the Jolly Christmas postman by Janet and Allan Ahlberg last week 8 weeks on list 4 10 Disney a Beauty and the beast by gallery books Penguin Usa last week 11 weeks on list 3. 11 wet by Garrison Keillor last week 10 weeks on list 6 12 comeback by Dick Francis last week 12 weeks on list 11 13 remember by Barbara Taylor Bradford last week 14 weeks on list 11 14 of the places you la go by or. Seuss last week 15 weeks on list 93 15 gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell last week 13 weeks on list 9 non-fiction1 me stories of my life by Katharine Hepburn last week 1 weeks on list 17 2 us of by Robert Fulghum last week 2 weeks on list 20 3 Den of thieves by James b. Stewart last week 4 weeks on list 13 4 the Jordan rules by Sam Smith last week 6 weeks on list 6 5 memories by Ralph Emery with Tom Carter last week j3 weeks on list 6 0 under fire by Oliver l. North with William Novak last week 5 weeks on list 10 7 childhood by Bill Cosby last week 7 weeks on list 10 8 when you look like your passport photo its time to go Home by Erma Bombeck last week 9 weeks on list 21 9 the world is my Home by James Michener last week 8 weeks on list 4 10 backlash by Susan Faludi last week 15, weeks on list 8 11 pair Perth by William least heat Moon last week 11 weeks on list 11 12 parliament of whores by . O Rourke last week 12 weeks on list 30 13 Iron John by Robert Bly weeks on list 58 14 brother Eagle sister sky a message from chief Seattle by Susan Jeffers last week 10 weeks on list 2 15 maus ii by Art Spiegelman weeks on list 5 paperback fiction1 the Prince of tides by Pat Conroy weeks on list 36 2 the waste lands by Stephen King weeks on list 4 3 Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton weeks on list 8 4 Coyote Waits by Tony Hillerman weeks on list 2 5 cold fire by Dean r. Koontz weeks on list 7 6 the Plains of passage by Jean m. Auel weeks on list. 11 7 Star trek i the undiscovered country by j m Dillard weeks on list 4 8 the fourth k by Mario Puzo weeks on list. 5 9 four past Midnight by Stephen King weeks on list 20 10 the education of Little tree by Forrest Carter weeks on list 29 1paperback non fiction 5 6 8 9 All i really need to know i Learned in kindergarten by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 112 a on the Trail of the assassins by Jim Garrison weeks on list 3 it was on fire when i Lay Down on it by Robert Fulghum weeks on list 42 you just done to understand by Deborah Tannen weeks on list 34 a year in Provence by Peter Mayle weeks on list 26 the cat who came for Christmas by Cleveland Amory weeks on list 32 done to know much about history by Kenneth c Davis weeks on list 27 a life on the Road by Charles Kuralt weeks on list 10 the Road less travelled by m. Scott Peck weeks on list 427 10 a natural history of the senses by Diane Ackerman weeks on list 11 paperback miscellaneous1 life a Little instruction Book by h. Jackson Brownjr. Weeks on list 22 2 scientific Progress goes a Boink Quot by Bill Watterson weeks on list 15 3 unnatural selections by Gary Larson weeks on list 11 4 the world almanac and Book of facts weeks on list 5 5 an altogether new Book of top ten lists by David Letterman Steve o Donnell it Al. Weeks on list 3 at stars and stripes bookstores latest available list of Best Sellers at stars and stripes shopping Centor bookstores fiction 1 2 3 4 5 6 Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley no greater love by Danielle steel needful things by Stephen King the Sapphire Rose by David Eddings the sum of All fears by Tom Clancy Star trek the next generation a reunion by Michael Friedman 7 All the wears of pern by Anne Mccaffrey 8 wet by Garrison Keillor 9 Majica by Clive Barker 10 grass Crown by Colleen Mccullough non fiction 1 us of by Robert Fulghum 2 me stories of my life by Katharine Hepburn 3 pair Perth by William least heat Moon 4 final exit by Derek Humphry 5 the Samson option by Seymour Hersh 6 More wealth without risk by Charles Givens 7 whereas Waldo by Martin Handford 8 Den of thieves by James Stewart 9 the Popcorn report by Faith popcorn10 America the Beautiful Cookbook by Philip Schulz i ill Uri i i r s a correcting the biggest mistakes i of last year confession is Good for the soul they say and my soul could use All the help it can get. Let us therefore seek absolution for a few slip ups and boo Boos from the year just ended. I said a few not All. Back in May or june when i was temporarily hours do combat a sick warhorse passed a saturday morning looking at the kiddie cartoons on to. I was curious to know if they Are As subversive As the Ralph Nader types say. I concluded that they were not subversive at All. Recalling this thrilling experience six months later i acknowledged the abundance of violence a roadrunner was always falling off a Cliff or running into a Stone Wall a letters of remonstrance poured in. Wrote Jerry Raymond of St. Augustine Fla a shame on you nothing Ever happens to roadrunner. Coyote is the one who always gets  i should have checked with my grandchildren. Back in March during a session of the court of peeves irks and Crotchet i entered an order demanding fealty to a the proper endings of latin  by Way of example the court cited several plural forms of latin nouns bacteria criteria alumni and alumnae. This was Fine except that Quot criterion is greek not latin. One Happy consequence of that boo boo came in the form of a letter from Arthur w. Collins of Terre haute ind. After reproaching me properly he added a word on greek endings in the plural form. These Are of Ai and a. For example phenomenon Phenomena. Regrettably for those of us who like things simple Many words derived from greek were latinized somewhere along the line so that the textbook endings cannot be relied upon. A a octopus comes from the greek but dictionaries Sanction the latinized Quot oct Opi Quot As if a a octopus were a masculine noun. Dictionaries also Sanction a octopuses a an ugly word if 1 Ever heard one. To digress i have argued for years that the plural of ignoramus should be Ign Orami. Somehow it sounds More insulting than ignoramuses. Getting Back to goofs in a september column on redundancies i agreed that a cirrhosis of the liver is in a class with Quot Rice Paddy and a Nape of the  confidently i asserted that cirrhosis occurs Only in the liver. A great Many doctors must read this column for dozens of them wrote letters of correction and amplification. I had relied upon Barnhart a j  and the random House collegiate both of which define cirrhosis As a a chronic disease of the  now it appears that other organs such As the pancreas also May suffer from cirrhotic invasion. All right by me. Universal press Syndicate january 12 1992 sunday