Not That You Asked...

Andy Rooney, Andrew A. Rooney. Penguin Books, $15 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-14-013172-7

The often controversial Rooney here picks on such easy targets as the decline of romance, dull textbooks, the U.S. postal service, the dearth of good conversation, unwanted Christmas gifts and the Miss America contest. ``These calculatedly curmudgeonly pieces touch on phenomena with which almost everybody can identify,'' remarked PW. 100,000 first printing. (May)

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