Terry Brooks

[Kalimac]

Birdland - I couldn't say for sure why it's still selling, but I will say that reading this thread (plus the other "great idea for a story" thread) has *almost* tempted me to pick up a copy of the book just to witness the desecration myself firsthand. It's sort of like owning a copy of the Rankin-Bass ROTK - you don't buy it because you like it, but because it's so entertaining to watch in an awful sort of way. And also, of course, because you've heard other people reviling it and want to see what they're talking about. Though admittedly movies can be MST3K'd and thus almost made worth the purchase price, while with books it's rather harder to do that.

That's my guess on why it's still selling. And no, I wouldn't buy it new - not going to drop THAT much on it. Rather, if I get it at all, it will be at the same fourth-hand bookstore where I got "Bored of the Rings" for forty-five cents.