a motley Dutch assortment

Someone just wrote, asking me the title of a book I had mentioned before on the blog. It was fairly clear that the reader meant Peter-Paul Verbeek’s What Things Do.

I sent him the Amazon link, and while doing so noticed that Verbeek’s book was #4 on the list of books by Dutch authors, a category I didn’t realize Amazon used for its English books. So I clicked on the list of bestselling Dutch authors, and found quite A MIXED ARRAY OF BOOKS. The Dutch are nothing if not versatile. (I hope that’s a permalink to the exact list I saw, but maybe it will change every hour and won’t be quite as funny by the time you click it.)

I especially love the subtitle of THIS ONE. The product description is good too, just not quite as good as the subtitle.