European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 15, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Baker Cooks up hot message with a Vox books by Hillel Italie the associated press Vox by Nicholson Baker random House. An obscure Well regarded author writes a novel about an erotic phone conversation. His High powered publisher plays it up big hot Pink counter displays Advance copies in Plain Brown wrappers radio ads the today show a even an �?o800�?� phone line with a sexy prerecorded message. The Book called Vox ships More than 100,000 copies and quickly goes into its seventh printing. Star struck teen agers Are spotted in stores demanding it. Baker a former stockbroker too shy to read from his Book in Public becomes a Best Selling writer. How did it happen were people looking for Good sex or Good writing was it grass roots support for erotic literature in the tradition of Lolita and Tropic of cancer or aggressive a and suggestive a marketing by random House a i done to think sex Sells because there Are zillions of books out there that have sex in them a Baker said. A so it has to be that originality Sells originality about sex and that seems perfectly reasonable to me because sex is an interesting a i think sex Sells especially when it has some Good writing behind it a said Amy Rhodes vice president and director of marketing at Little Brown amp co. She was director of marketing at random House when the books promotion was first being planned. A i think its a great dirty Book. There san awful lot of bad dirty books out there and in a very impressed with what random House Baker a resident of Rochester n.y., had written three novels a All praised by critics and All uncommercial. One Book Mezzanine was an in depth look not Nicholson Baker a sex is an interesting subject a at a Many a lunch hour that featured a ride up an escalator. U and i was a tribute to the influence of John Updike. Vox a Quick read at 165 pages depicts a phone conversation Between two yuppies who meet on an adult party line and decide they enjoy talking exclusively to each other. They share their sexual feats and fantasies. The Man recalls inviting a woman Over so they can masturbate to a pornographic movie. The woman describes How she talks a Date into massaging her with Olive Oil. Many reviewers have praised Vox with the new York times calling it a brilliantly funny a but there have been dissenters. The Village voice considered it a a forgettable washout that lacked the a brilliance of his earlier the Charlotte observer declared a a pox on Washington Post critic Jonathan Yardley went further. He panned the Book As a a trivial and a self infatuated a dismissed Baker As a a Young novelist on the make a and boiled Down the novels allure to sex Appeal the result of an unavoidable publicity Back with latest evil thriller by Kathleen Ostrander up hideaway by Dean r. Koontz Putnam. This is a study of evil Energy and the startling thought that maybe evil Isnit a consequence but just is. If that is so can there be anyway to Stop it and if not it will just come Back again wont it Koontz once again turns out a chiller thriller with a Promise of redemption. For Koontz a evil just As wicked As Stephen Kings seems to always eventually have a More fitting end. He gives us horror with a guaranteed Happy ending and its Good. Hatch and his wife Lindsey Are Good people experiencing a terrible loss Over the memories of their Young son who succumbed to cancer. When Hatch gets a second Chance at life resuscitated by a Brilliant surgeon he thinks he will find peace. Instead he has brought Back a psychic empathy for a sadistic psycho killer and they begin to share memories. Then the killers mind Waltzes into hatches and he wants to take hatches newest brightest and warmest memory Regina a disabled child the couple adopts. Koontz a novels give horror a taste like a thickening of the Tongue after an unpleasant bite of something. His horror has a life something glowing that emerges As a Bright flame of terror carried through a novel. Here a another Best seller or. Koontz. You deserve average a silly ready Charles Solomon los Angeles times in an average lifetime. By Tom hey Mann Fawcett. This compendium of statistics supposedly illustrates the habits and tastes of a typical . Citizen. In an a a average lifetime of 74.9 years the a a average american attends five operas and four professional hockey games eats 801 pounds of chocolate 8,389 hamburgers 11,113 a amp is and 304 dunking donuts drinks 23 glasses of Champagne 56,044 cups of Coffee and 20,301 bottles of Beer. The Reader quickly begins comparing himself to the hypothetical Standard a ahead on operas Champagne and chocolate behind on hamburgers Coffee Beer and hockey games. It soon becomes obvious that these numbers done to necessarily reflect anyone a real behaviour. By printing one fact or pseudo fact per Page in Large Type Heymann stretches the contents of a marginally interesting Magazine article into a silly Book. 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