Word: paperbacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than a princess phone; portable ultrasound machines that fit in the trunk of a car. There is even a hand-held mri scanner in the works that is about the size and shape of a catcher's mitt. And last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a paperback-size automatic defibrillator that can shock a stopped heart back into a normal rhythm...
...almost 200-point type--which is to say not so risky at all--The Green Mile has become a publishing sensation, with each of the first five installments having shipped more than 3,000,000 copies, and four of the five currently occupying positions on the New York Times paperback best-seller list, which all but guarantees that the sixth and concluding installment, in stores this week, will also be a hit. It's a nifty trick: at $2.99 a pop for each roughly 90-page paperback book, and $1 more for the half-again-as-long conclusion, readers...
...plume, Richard Bachman (Dutton; 475 pages; $24.95). Along with The Green Mile's 592 pages, this means King will have graced his fans with a total of 1,755 pages of fiction in less than 12 months. By way of comparison, you can get a standard-size, paperback King James Version of the Bible that tallies only 1,112 pages--a pretty slack job considering the Bible's authors had a number of centuries in which to crank it out (although in fairness to Moses, Jeremiah, Matthew, Mark et al., it must be pointed out that King's books...
...lover. There's the "real character" of an weird FBI agent (Jeffrey Combs) who, while getting to the bottom of this, has his hair slicked in a horrendous Hitler part. There's Heav'n and Hell, an aspiring serial killer, and a title worthy of some Clive Barker paperback...
...Mankind, is the key to the rest, and though it is customary to say of concluding novels that they can be read independently, this is emphatically not true of the Buru Quartet, whose first three volumes, including Child of All Nations and Footsteps, have just been republished in paperback by Penguin...