May 18, 2005

He was also distressed to learn there were 479 used copies of his book for sale . . .

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A brief item in The Onion reports that Booker Prize-winning author Yann Martel was “distraught to see what other books Amazon.com customers bought in addition to his.” The paper reports that Martel was upset to learn customers who bought his book, Life of Pi, also bought Mitch Albom‘s The Five People You Meet In Heaven. Martel was also reportedly ” surprised by the ‘sloppy writing’ in many of Life Of Pi’s five-star customer reviews.”

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.

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