Word: book-of-the-month
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Later he turned to mountain-climbing, wrote a book on mountaineering that ranks with the best on the subject. And his first novel, The White Tower, was good enough as straight adventure in the Swiss Alps to become a Book-of-the-Month Club choice in 1945, later a Technicolor thriller. Before setting out to write River, Author Ullman took a refresher trip to South America to make sure of his earlier impressions...
Jungle to Swampland. Such careful preparations are not enough to keep the River flowing smoothly. Though it also is a Book-of-the-Month choice (for January), the story soon turns as turgid as the widest reaches of the Amazon itself: the expedition breaks down, fever rages, the natives want to quit. Scientist Barna is found, but he wants merely to live in peace with the natives so that he may expiate an old sin. Even the cast of characters seems to have escaped from the rolls of an old jungle thriller: a gigantic U.S. Negro, wanted for murder...
...William Faulkner had the best year. Over the protests of at least one Mississippi editor, the Jackson Daily News's Frederick Sullens, who still insisted that Faulkner belongs to the "garbage-can school," he was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for literature. His Collected Stories, a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate selection, demonstrated again that, at the top of his form, Faulkner is one of the very best U.S. writers of his generation...
...second book of Blandings is not so homely-timely as the first, but it will probably have just as big a popular success; it is a Book-of-the-Month Club pick for October, and contains almost as many situations for Gary Grant and Myrna Loy as Dream House...
...Heyerdahl, hoped to be carried by wind and currents to Polynesia and thus help establish his thesis: that the prehistoric settlers of Polynesia sailed from Peru. Anthropologists may argue whether Skipper Heyerdahl made his point, but no one can deny that Kon-Tiki, his book about the attempt, and the September Book-of-the-Month Club choice, is one of the best man-against-the-elements yarns to crop up in many a year...