Published on Saturday, November 15, 2008
By Daily Bulletin Staff Writer
More recent postings my blog while your scribe takes a day off:
"DIRK PITT is Everywhere," posted Nov. 3: Last month at Babbling Books in Ontario, I was at the counter buying a John D. MacDonald paperback when an older fellow with a stack of books asked the clerk, "Who wrote the Dirk Pitt series?"
She'd have come up with the answer, but since she was fumbling for it, I answered: "Clive Cussler."
The man said he used to own them all but no longer did. He sped off and added a couple to his stack.
The only reason I knew the answer was that I'd read some of the news coverage of the "Sahara" movie lawsuit. Some of it involved the studio, which took a bath on the movie, saying Cussler overstated the sales of his suspense novels.
I've never read one and doubt I ever will, but that's how I learned of his Dirk Pitt character.
Last week, when I pulled into the parking lot of the CVS center in La Verne to eat at Red Devil Pizza, I noticed the sign for Book Rack on my immediate left
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