A SPECIAL REPORT: BOOKS

WHAT’S HOT: Three cartoon books--”Totally Mad,” “The World of Charles Addams” and “Disney’s Art of Animation,” above, are big sellers at Brentano’s. “Maybe,” theorizes manager Dages, “it’s the escapism thing.” . . . Laguna Niguel Super Crown manager Lance Pettit reports that up until the start of the holidays, the best-seller was “Final Exit,” the controversial suicide book, “but it’s really died off.”