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FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 5/23/02, 10:55 AM

As a sort of follow-up to the "genre gets no respect" thread, here's
Joe Bob Briggs on what books get reviewed and what doesn't:

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=14052002-055042-1541r

(It's over the top, unfair, politically incorrect and so on; it's
also to my mind laugh-out-loud funny and often on-target. Which
is to say, typical Joe Bob.)

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

FROM: "Diane Giarrusso" <[removed]@mailserv.mvlc.lib.ma.us>
REC'D: 5/23/02, 10:55 AM

Thanks, Dennis! The article was a hoot!
Diane H.C. Giarrusso
Coordinator of Community Planning
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> As a sort of follow-up to the "genre gets no respect" thread, here's
> Joe Bob Briggs on what books get reviewed and what doesn't:
>
> http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=14052002-055042-1541r
>
> (It's over the top, unfair, politically incorrect and so on; it's
> also to my mind laugh-out-loud funny and often on-target. Which
> is to say, typical Joe Bob.)
>
> Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu
>
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