So you're trying to make the point that the world has terrible taste in non-fiction? That's not news. Me, I'll stick with "awful, mawkish, obvious, painful, unbearable, unenjoyable, and scarring" and "a noxious sludge of sentimental woo-woo." :-)
Besides, a quick scan of this page http://www.abebooks.com/blog/index.php/2014/01/17/the-75-greatest-living-female-authors/ reveals that Marci Shimoff's name does not appear on it anywhere. The list *does* comprise both fiction and non-fiction, but there are at least 7 female authors on the list who write non-fiction, none of them Marci Shimoff. I suspect you have done your usual thing and have chosen to believe "marketing fiction" created by Shimoff's publisher and accept it as if it were true. It isn't. Marci Shimoff doesn't even have her own Wikipedia page, something one might have expected if what you claim about her book sales were true. In other words, ONCE AGAIN you've chosen to believe a lie that makes you feel good about something/someone TM-related, rather than expend even the slightest effort to see whether the lie was true. In fact, *even on her OWN Web page*, Shimoff doesn't claim what you said. The copy reads, "...one of the bestselling female nonfiction authors of all time," so it appears that you made up this particular lie ALL BY YOURSELF. What do you have to say for yourself, Share? ________________________________ From: "Share Long sharelon...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: "FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, November 9, 2014 12:56 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] The Ultimate Kool-Aid: Chicken Soup for Dumb Souls Jeez, turq, now you're blaming the TMO for chicken soup?! FYI, Jack Canfield and Rick Hanson never lived in FF, though Marci Shimoff did. Read it and weep: Marci Shimoff is the best selling, non fiction, woman authorof all time. Put that in your pipe and smoke it. PS Making any progress on that thorn in your paw? ________________________________ From: "TurquoiseBee turquoi...@yahoo.com [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife <fairfieldlife@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, November 9, 2014 3:47 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] The Ultimate Kool-Aid: Chicken Soup for Dumb Souls . Interesting article about a phenomenon that as I remember had its start in Fairfield. Descriptions of this Literary Pinnacle Of Newage Crap in the article like "awful, mawkish, obvious, painful, unbearable, unenjoyable, and scarring" and "a noxious sludge of sentimental woo-woo" just don't do its horriblenessitude justice. Someone I had known back in the TM movement once tried set me up on a "coffee date" with one of the Chicken Soup authors. It was horrific, almost the worst date in my life (for the record, the worst was with Barbara De Angelis)...I lasted less than five minutes before making some excuse and running away, and had to wash my ears out in the coffeeshop restroom before I felt human again. What Makes the Chicken Soup for the Soul Series So Addictive and Awful? What Makes the Chicken Soup for the Soul Series So Addic... My romance with Chicken Soup for the Soul began and ended with the adolescent iteration, Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul, and it was fostered in part because I re... View on www.slate.com Preview by Yahoo
