Entertainment For Lively Minds
Whither Word of Mouth?
Posted by markunderwood on 10 July 2009 - 9:14pm.
Apologies if this has appeared before, but it looks like a couple of issues since the demise of WOM. Whilst it was never my favourite feature, and I felt there were some all too obvious and boring choices from better known celebs in the recent past, there were also a number of choices which merited further investigation and purchases on my part.
Gone for good?
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I miss it too
I remember David, or someone else at Word Towers, explaining that they thought it had run its course, and that so many other publications had copied the idea that it had lost its value as a selling point.
Coincidentally
I realised that WOM had disappeared only last night - I am currently one issue behind. Mr Ellen, this feature has NOT run its course, it was great fun and should be reinstated. Please.
I liked it too. Some folk
I liked it too. Some folk were a bit too esoteric for their own good or went for the obvious but I still like to find out what some of the people I admired were into. There was always the comfort of validating your own interests by finding out that Simon Pegg/Bjork/Jeremy Paxman liked it too.
I loved it because I realized I was not alone in thinking that..
'A Confederacy of Dunces' by John Kennedy Toole is the funniest novel ever penned.
Always The First Section I Read
I'm not convinced that it had past its sell-by date. Other sections such as the Best/Worst and the 99% True seem a lttle more tired. I don't care if other magazines have copied it, I don't read other magazines regularly. I miss it too, will it ever return?
I liked it too
and would be happy to see it return.
Seventhed
Bring it back and lose 99% unamusing if you need to make the space.