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...unbridled boom has brought wealth, yes, but it's wildly uneven. The typical Sunday shoppers crowding middle-class Beijing Street are looking, not buying. Most of Guangzhou's workers have little disposable income. Two 18-year-old youths stand in the spiffed-up Xinhua bookstore gazing at a paperback that at 8 yuan is beyond their means. For fun, they go to the zoo because it's free...
...cliche in the computer business, but occasionally it yields little miracles. At PC Expo in New York City last week, Toshiba displayed a smaller, faster computer that, geeks were wagging, is actually better. With all the capabilities of a full-fledged laptop, the teensy (roughly the size of a paperback book) beige Libretto is a fully functional Windows 95 computer fueled by 75 MHz of Intel Pentium power. This mini-notebook also features one of Toshiba's finest-quality color screens (albeit a tiny 5 in. wide) with a pointing device built into its panel. The only downside...
...works, and requests for other books, personal appearances and television shows arrive every day. Weil's publishers justifiably expect a fresh explosion of sales sometime next year when 8 Weeks to Optimum Health, which is still on the best-seller lists as a hardcover, at last appears in paperback. The barnstorming touring that Weil has agreed to of late has done a good job of keeping all this merchandise moving, but it has come at a personal price. Weil and his wife Sabine Kremp recently agreed to end their marriage, the split coming as much as a result...
Eugene Izzi wrote pretty good detective stories. So they say. But he was never in the same class--business class, with every suit in every seat in every 747 out of O'Hare reading the same paperback--as John Grisham or Robert B. Parker. This reviewer never happened to read any of the 16 Izzi novels listed on the op-title page of his last thriller, A Matter of Honor (Avon; 424 pages; $24). A lot of other people didn't either...
Franzen and the others may benefit from Wallace's success. The Twenty-Seventh City, Franzen's deft social-science fiction about a former Bombay police chief who plots to take over St. Louis, Missouri, first published in 1988, was recently released in paperback (Noonday Press; 517 pages...