Word: paperback
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Unfortunately, Americans have started seeking out the same kind of miracle cures for emotional illnesses, particularly in relationships. Instead of soothing gel-caps, heartache medicines come in either hardcover or paperback. The popularity of self-help books on relationships and the mysteries of man-and womanhood has certainly served to entertain, but at the same time, it has also over-simplified and limited people's conceptions of love and gender...
TIME WAS WHEN A LITTLE BOY WHO wanted to see a dirty word in print made a surreptitious trip to the dictionary and got his thrill. Now, with the publication of The F-Word (Random House paperback; 232 pages; $12.95), any curious boy or, for that matter, girl can get a bonanza of thrills and at the same time become the most foulmouthed and maybe most envied kid on the block...
...HAVE BEEN READING BOOKS BY MIchael Crichton [SHOW BUSINESS, Sept. 25] since encountering the first paperback edition of The Andromeda Strain in high school. I have never read Crichton for his characters, and his occasional lack of interest in them is not necessarily a shortcoming. I read Crichton because he is my most reliable guide to areas of cutting-edge technology, foreign culture and intrigue in corporations and courts of law. To acquire this degree of diversity while writing to entertain and inform the general public is a magnificent achievement. DAVID J. SCHOW Los Angeles...
...Michael Crichton will be a trivia answer, and his books will be out of print, worth nothing but regret for the trees felled to make them. Meanwhile, America's true pre-eminent novelist of ideas and scientific conundrums, Don DeLillo, will be taught in university courses, read in classic paperback reprints and celebrated for his genius. Why is the future always smarter than the present? DAN POPE West Hartford, Connecticut...
...aspiring English professor"), so he switched to anthropology, graduated summa cum laude and, after a yearlong fellowship overseas at Cambridge University, returned to Harvard Medical School. He plowed through with plenty of pocket money, earned by writing a shelf full of novels before he left college. Eight were paperback adventure novels written under the name John Lange, one was an Edgar Award-winning medical-detective paperback under the name Jeffrey Hudson, and another was the hardcover breakthrough under his own name, The Andromeda Strain, which was published as he worked out a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Salk Institute...