Comments on: Have Publishers’ Reading Group Guides Gone Around the Bend? Bizarre Discussion Questions for Nora Ephron’s ‘I Feel Bad About My Neck’ http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/have-publishers%e2%80%99-reading-group-guides-gone-around-the-bend-bizarre-discussion-questions-for-nora-ephron%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98i-feel-bad-about-my-neck%e2%80%99/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Thu, 16 May 2013 19:28:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Don’t Ask Stupid Questions « http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/have-publishers%e2%80%99-reading-group-guides-gone-around-the-bend-bizarre-discussion-questions-for-nora-ephron%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98i-feel-bad-about-my-neck%e2%80%99/#comment-6050 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:31:57 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=938#comment-6050 [...] Posted by Amelia under blogging, literary rumination | Tags: books, nonfiction, stupidity |   Janice Harayda pointed out the retardedness of discussion group questions in the back of a certain book. I cannot [...]

]]> By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/have-publishers%e2%80%99-reading-group-guides-gone-around-the-bend-bizarre-discussion-questions-for-nora-ephron%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98i-feel-bad-about-my-neck%e2%80%99/#comment-6049 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:14:40 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=938#comment-6049 Publishers actually provide readers’ guides for free. They post them on their sites or put them in the back of paperback editions (though they’re not “free” if that adds to the cost). It’s probably a good they they do, because you wonder who would pay for some of them.

If you’re feeling stressed, some of the lines in “Primary Colors” (which I’m writing about tomorrow) may make you smile, or smile again.
Jan

]]> By: knightofswords http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/have-publishers%e2%80%99-reading-group-guides-gone-around-the-bend-bizarre-discussion-questions-for-nora-ephron%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98i-feel-bad-about-my-neck%e2%80%99/#comment-6048 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 14:13:01 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/?p=938#comment-6048 I know study guides are BIG BUSINESS even though I think people ought to be smart enough to come up with their own questions and talking points. In this case, I think almost anyone could do better than the publisher who apparently should have asked, “Could Emily Post have written such a book as this in her day and time?”

I need a drink and it’s still early.

Malcolm

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