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The Guardian Unlimited lists their 10 most read book stories of 2007

Entertainment Weekly has named their five worst books of the year. Here is what they wrote…..

1. IF I DID IT (The Goldman Family)
   According to O.J. Simpson, whose name was purged from the cover of his ”confession,” it was all her fault. Nicole Brown Simpson was manipulative, whiny, and confused. She wore ”ridiculous” short skirts, partied with druggies and hookers, and kept O.J. from seeing his kids. And so if he did it — if he slashed her throat and slaughtered her friend Ronald Goldman one balmy night in 1994 — the exasperating lady had it coming. A bloody glove could have written a more tasteful book.
2. THE ALMOST MOON by Alice Sebold
   The narrator of Alice Sebold’s queasy second novel smothers her elderly mom, then calmly reflects: ”When I was a teenager, I thought every kid spent sweaty summer afternoons in their bedrooms, daydreaming of cutting their mother up into little pieces and mailing them to parts unknown.” Actually, they don’t. The few who do may be the only readers who relish this unsavory melodrama.
3. 7: THE MICKEY MANTLE NOVEL by Peter Golenbock
   With this trashy fictionalization of Mickey’s miserable life, Peter Golenbock manages to strike out, pop up, hit into a double play, and foul a ball into the stands, beaning a little kid.
4. CELEBRITY DETOX by Rosie O’Donnell
   Here’s what you learn from Rosie’s sloppy, score-settling memoir: She hates Donald Trump with such a fury she can’t see straight; she worships Barbra Streisand more than seems healthy; she can’t ”poop” in public restrooms. Thanks for sharing, Ro.
5. BOOK OF THE DEAD by Patricia Cornwell
   Like a putrefying corpse left too long on forensic pathologist Kay Scarpetta’s table, Patricia Cornwell’s thrillers just get stinkier and stinkier. Her latest gory specimen is in such bad shape it’s virtually unrecognizable as a novel.