# Amazon.com *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 16 Jul 1999* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### David_Lebling *16 Jul 1999, 16:52* Apropos of nothing, I find this interesting (from Amazon.com): "Customers who bought titles by Gene Wolfe also bought titles by these authors: Frederick Forsyth John Le Carre Daniel Silva Joseph Kanon William Safire" What an unexpected list! Except for Safire, it's all spies and thrillers. Only one prose and plot stylist (IMHO), Le Carre. Also, _On Blue's Waters_ ranks 65,062 in sales several months pre-release. Not exactly _Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban_ (which ranks 8th), but respectable. ---