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Kiouni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-01-07 11:09 PM
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So I'm Confused
in the Saturday's "Omaha World-Herald" John Grisham was listed twice in the Arts & Books section. His "the Innocent Man" novel was listed on the New York Times Bestseller list: non-fiction, and again in the "what is omaha reading" category under Fiction. I am certain it's Non-fiction but I thought it was funny that even when factual literature comes to Omaha, Nebraska it gets a new label!

Love my state.
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Counciltucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-01-07 11:10 PM
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1. We'll welcome you over here in Council Bluffs!
Don't believe what you hear from all other Omahans about my fair city.
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illinoisprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-01-07 11:15 PM
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2. He is a fiction writer and put out a nonfiction so,
it was a mistake. That is common. when people go by just the name it gets in with the authors usual catagory and not always listed in it's real catagory.
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WiseButAngrySara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-01-07 11:16 PM
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3. Someone on DU recommended it as good reading, and I
purchased it for myself, my sister and my mother for Christmas. The book cover states that it is his first non-fiction book, and that is what I've heard and read about it. My sister is an attny and a huge Grisham fan, as is my mother.
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illinoisprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-01-07 11:22 PM
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4. He is a fantastic writer
I first read him about a decade ago and loved his work. he is so good. but, having worked in a bookstore I know how if a writer who is known for say mysteries and then goes and writes say, science fiction, it will be lumped in with the mystery. It is just because most times, it's thought to be the persons genre.
Not a big deal. It is a non fiction.
Let us know if it is good.
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WiseButAngrySara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-01-07 11:45 PM
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5. I sure will! My sister just started it and we briefly discussed it
today (among ten thousand other things!) I also gave her Garrison Keillor's Homegrown Democrat and Gore's An Inconvenient Truth ... good reading!
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