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Best-seller list reflects student trends
By SUSAN HIRSCH
Contributing Writer
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don’t hit people.
Put thingB back where you found
them.
Flush.
When you go out into the world,
watch out for traffic, hold hands
and stick together.
College students missed these
words of wisdom the first time
around, at least according to
Campus Paperback's survey of the
top 10 best-selling books for Feb
ruary.
The advice comes from Robert
Fulghum’s, “All I Really Need to
Know I Learned in Kindergarten,”
which tops the list.
Stanley Lindberg, editor of the
Georgia Review, called the list a
“mixed bag.”
In addition to editing the
Georgia Review, Lindberg reads
current manuscripts before they
are sent to publishers for evalua
tion.
"I’m not judging the quality of
the selections, but I’m surprised
cartoon books are treated as
books,” he said.
“I like Calvin and Hobbes, but I
wish the list had more intellectual
substance. The Shell Seekers' is a
nice romance, but I don’t see how it
will stretch minds. However, I’m
surprised that a book like 'Chaos’ is
on there,” he said.
James Kilgo, an associate pro
fessor of American literature and
creative writing at the University,
said the list was “in the spirit of the
New York Times’ best seller list.”
Kilgo’s first book, “Deep Enough
for Ivorybills,” was published in
1988, and he has also been pub
lished in several literary journals.
One of his essays will be in the
New England Review this summer.
Kilgo thought the survey accu
rately reflected other American
reading lists.
"There’s always a noticeable pre
ponderance of trendy comic books,
as well as books by authors like
Tom Clancy, Sidney Sheldon and
Rosamunde Pilcher,” he said. “I’m
surprised Danielle Steele isn’t on
here (Campus Paperbacks list).”
While Kilgo said the list reflects
national reading patterns, he said
he hopes college and university
students have a more serious
reading level.
Coburn Freer, head of the En
glish department, said the survey
is “only part of the picture.”
“Students’ reading habits in gen
eral are on a level above what a list
like this suggests,” Freer said.
“For example, one book students
often tell me they’re reading is Jo
seph Cambell’s myth book. That’s
not on here.”
Freer said that students buy
books such as the cartoon collec
tions “to give as funny gifts to
friends.”
He said best-seller lists always
include a few self-help books.
‘There are always a few books
telling you to eat cookies, and you’ll
feel better, or to get your life to
gether by trimming your nails,” he
said.
“But when you take out the self-
help and the comic books, you do
have some serious work. 'Cat’s
Eyes,’ for example, is an important
book by an important writer. So is
the novel by Anne Xyler,” he said.
Freer said nfarg, sophisticated
methods are needstf • o describe the
books 18- to 22-yeafyolds read.
“For example, a lot of students
here buy hardbacks at the Old
Black Dog and other book stores,”
he said.
Kilgo encourages students “to
really take on a reading experi
ence” by tackling a “hefty biog
raphy” or such books as Taylor
Branch’s “Parting The Waters” or
James McPherson’s “Battle Cry of
Freedom.”
“It’s delightful to read 50 pages a
night, and there’s something tre
mendously gratifying in reading a
physically heavy book like that,”
Kilgo said.
“Everyone should read a weighty
Dickens novel — they’re not
painful.”
Freer urges students to read
three or four books “that have
nothing to do with classes” before
the month is out.
His advice: “Read a lot and read
a lot of different things.”
Here are a few current reading
selections and recommendations:
•Charles Knapp, University
President: “A Free and Ordered
Space-The Real World of the Uni
versity,” A. Bartlett Giamatti; 'The
Trouble With Money,” William
Greider; and “All I Really Need To
Know I Learned In Kindergarten,”
Robert Fulghum. Recommends:
“War and Peace,” Leo Tolstoy.
•Stanley Lindberg, editor of
Georgia Review: “Children of
Crisis,” Robert Coles.
•John Kozak, dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences:
"The Rise and Fall of the Great
Powers,” Paul Kennedy. Recom
mends: “Order out of Chaos,” Ilya
Prigogine.
•James Trieschmann, Asso
ciate Dean of College of Busi
ness Administration: “Winston
Churchill: Between the Wars,” Wil
liam Manchester.
•William F. Prokasy, vice
president for Academic Affairs:
“Living Atlanta,” E. Bernard West.
Recommends: "The Line of the
Sun,” Judith Ortiz Cofer.
• Gray Stewart, senior, jour
nalism major, editor of The
Blue Plate Special: "The Deuce,”
Bob Butler. Recommends:“Vine-
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•Kay Goff, head coach of
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•John Russell, dean of Col
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