Literary elitist.

Wow, I'm having a really tough time posting comments to Slog today.

Anyway, Paul, what I tried to say earlir is, if you compile this book, you could stand to make millions!

@2: It's not just you, it's taking 5+ minutes to post a single comment.

And it's entirely appropriate to use the word "sheeple" in this case. I can't believe I'm going to see this next weekend.

Is it appropriate to call people sheeple from inside the flock?

It's an advance press copy.

Elitist.

I'll bet it DOES exist, in about two weeks.

@2 & 3

Amen.

Baa.

Well it is dumb, but from what I understand the movie is chock full of product placements so it's not surprising that the sheeple (aww, look at that cute word) would think the book was real.

I'm off to catch the bus to slog happy. Given the speed of the server today I imagine I'll arrive in Seattle before this is uploaded.

How dare people want to read for reasons that aren't good enough!

How dare they solicit booksellers for the books they want to read!

How dare --

Actually, no, I don't get any of this. You like reading, right? So it's a bad thing that people want to read a book they erroneously believe to exist because...?

Yikes. Almost as sheeplish as reading books reviewed by Mssr. Constant.

the book is titled "love letters of great men," which, for reasons that aren't entirely clear to me, makes me hate "sex & the city" even more.

The abbreviation for monsieur is M, or less popularly Mr. Unless we're talking about the Medieval "Messaire," which may very well have been abbreviated Mssr.

/pedant

11: The reasons are clear to me. It screams of a woman desperate to land a "perfect man," i.e. rich and narcissistic, ideally one who will shelter, protect and financially support her. It's about as anti-feminist as a book title can get. It perfectly reflects the shitty consumer ideology and traditional ideas of love (landing a man) the series and film promote: "The best women are those are closest to great men."

There should be a "who" in that last sentence. Oops.

So since I'm not supposed to read about anything that I might become aware of from a popular source, I assume it's still OK to take Paul Constant's advise, as he does not work for a popular source? Or is the mere fact that I didn't find a book myself in an Indiana Jones-style treasure hunt enough reason for me not to read it? I can't read any books that might be popular before I find out about them. Got it.

But whoever writes it first will be rich rich RICH!

@15: No no, popular books are okay. Paul's just asking that people not try to buy popular books that don't exist. You see the difference?

The nerve of those women. Wanting to read a book and all.

Way to be a douchebag Constant.

@15:

I'm sure some philosopher would ask: how do you know something doesn't exist until you ask?