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Type | Title | Teaser | Author | Views | Rating |
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| Images | Look ma, no hands! | ... | Tuner | 240 | |
| Trivia | Origin of the word Nerd | "And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo, and bring back an It-Kutch, a Preep, and a Proo, a Nerkle, a Nerd, and a... | root | 100 | |
| Jokes | Lew McCreary: Amazon.con | "Lew McCreary saw his well-reviewed thriller `The Minus Man` (Penguin Books, 1994) locked in Amazon.com`s dark middle... | Anonymous | 74 | |
| Jokes | Al Gore: New Book | "Al Gore announced that he is finishing up a new book about global warming and the environment," Conan O`Brien reported... | Anonymous | 61 | |
| Anecdotes | Helen Walsh: erotic reading | Helen Walsh read from one of her books in public "only once, at this erotic reading in the south of England in this... | root | 59 | |
| Anecdotes | Author uses Adwords to choose his book's title | In Super Crunchers, Yale law and management professor Ian Ayres explains how human intuition and flair are easily beaten... | root | 55 | |
| Anecdotes | Jack | Despite Easy Rider`s critical accolades and commercial success, bad blood boiled for years between Dennis Hopper... | Anonymous | 51 | |
| Anecdotes | Jimmy Carter: Hornblower | Jimmy Carter delivered a memorable oration at the funeral of former vice president and Democratic presidential nominee... | Anonymous | 51 | |
| Anecdotes | Heroic Failure | To mark the tenth anniversary of The Book of Heroic Failures, Stephen Pile, founder of the "Not Terribly Good Club... | Anonymous | 50 | |
| Anecdotes | Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck`s first wife (Carol) found the title for his most famous book in Julia Ward Howe`s "The Battle Hymn of... | Anonymous | 47 |
