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DarkSteven -> Does anyone else get worked up about books? (9/19/2009 1:07:24 PM)
I was at a book sale a few days ago... I walked up to the ladies selling and made a snarky comment when I recognized a Sax Rohmer collection. (Rohmer wrote some incredibly xenophobic crap, notably the Fu Manchu series.) Five minutes later, I did it again when I found out that a Burton-translated Arabian Nights, in order to save space, omitted Burton's invaluable commentary. Does anyone else take their books so seriously?

Musicmystery -> RE: Does anyone else get worked up about books? (9/19/2009 1:09:35 PM)
Without the snarkiness, yes.

subtlebutterfly -> RE: Does anyone else get worked up about books? (9/19/2009 1:16:08 PM)
...nope

Aylee -> RE: Does anyone else get worked up about books? (9/19/2009 1:20:05 PM)
Sure I get worked up about books. However I typically do not deign to make my personal opinion of what I might consider a book or author's short comings. I have enough people that start conversations with me, that I do not know, that I endeavor not to do so to others. Furthermore, I do not know WHY they may be choosing a work. Perhaps it is for illustration of the xenophobia itself. After all, Moby Dick, is often refered to as "The Greastest American Novel," but I would strongly say that there is no way in hell that this could possibly be. However, a salesperson really does not need nor want my opinion.

lizi -> RE: Does anyone else get worked up about books? (9/19/2009 1:20:59 PM)
Yes, I take the world of books that seriously but where we differ is that I'd THINK the snarky comment and not say it outloud. Everyone has their own taste and reasons for liking something - I'm not the judge of good books for the rest of the world. Besides you never know where you can learn something, the women selling the books could have pointed out something to me about the series I was looking down my nose at and perhaps I'd have learned a thing or two.

LaTigresse -> RE: Does anyone else get worked up about books? (9/19/2009 1:23:24 PM)
I even get turned on by the smell of a book store or library. Can get lost in either one for hours and not realize how much time has gone by. I adore books.

porcelaine -> RE: Does anyone else get worked up about books? (9/19/2009 1:38:41 PM)
i love books immensely and can spend hours in a bookstore. i'm always having something delivered or out adding to my collection. in regard to comments, i keep them to myself. i have found books that didn't appeal at one point in my life that i came to enjoy later. i also appreciate the fact that what doesn't work for me might be the joie de vivre for someone else. who am i to judge? furthermore, why would i take away their enjoyment by exerting an opinion that wasn't requested? sometimes it isn't what we say or how we say things, but all the things that never slip from our lips that demonstrates who we are. there are moments when being right and self-expression can seriously collide. porcelaine

Lockit -> RE: Does anyone else get worked up about books? (9/19/2009 1:38:50 PM)
I've had to distance myself from my books... yes... it was that bad. I cannot allow myself to get close to a new book now. It's just too trumatic when I must leave them behind. I still dream of them, miss them and damn it, yes, even their scent. In this they are much more important than my rock fetish as they don't have a scent, but they mean almost as much. I even wrote about my love for my favorite dictionary... in the front of it. I spent time with it every day, it opened up the world to me and I... I... (sob) miss it soooo much! I used to go to old book stores... even had one owner ask me to let him hang a gone fishing sign on the door so I could go read him a lil... bastard... damn he was cute... but I was there for the books, not for fishing in a back room. He had some great books though damn it! Took years to find another book store as good.. or close to it. Maybe I should have gone fishing with him come to think of it. I do have a love affair with some books and finally got my ex to send me a box of my books I left in my hurry to leave. These have been with me for years and I won't give them up, but I do miss the other's. It only took a year and a half of working on him to get them back! Books can be a very personal thing. lol

subtlebutterfly -> RE: Does anyone else get worked up about books? (9/19/2009 1:41:52 PM)
Ugh I used to read tons of books but yanno..university & college kinda took the joy out of it..I read enough of boring books now so reading something fun is just meh...[8\|]

worthlesstrash -> RE: Does anyone else get worked up about books? (9/19/2009 1:57:55 PM)
I love books sooooo much. I can't imagine one of the electronic devices that a lot of people get their books on now. I want to touch it, feel it, smell it..to drink in the whole experience. I guess you could say I find the reading of books a complete and exhilarating experience.

pahunkboy -> RE: Does anyone else get worked up about books? (9/19/2009 3:11:45 PM)
I love books

MarsBonfire -> RE: Does anyone else get worked up about books? (9/19/2009 3:26:24 PM)
I love some books... others not so much. (To the point I had a rubber stamp made up, which says "Be Warned: This Book is Lying to You" and I stamp it in the contents pages of shit like Limbaugh's crap or Rev Dobson's anti-sex, anti-female diatribes.) I view this as a comprimise... Frankly, if it were left up to me, I'd use Coulter, O'Riley, Limbaugh and Becks works as fire starters. After all, turnabout is fair play. They burned God knows how many copies of Potter, Stephen King, Califia... went to the bonfires because of them.

Level -> RE: Does anyone else get worked up about books? (9/19/2009 3:44:14 PM)
I do love books, but the computer has seriously cut into my reading time. That may change. Love a good book scent, as others mentioned; bought a used copy of Harlan Ellison's An Edge In My Voice, it has the most exquisite smell...reminds me of a good tobacco shop. As opinonated and sarcastic as I can be, I don't seem to get that way regarding what others read. It's just cool to see someone enjoying the act, so that dampens any negative reaction, maybe.

Rule -> RE: Does anyone else get worked up about books? (9/19/2009 4:23:19 PM)
I came home one hour ago tonight with twenty copies of an anthology that has one of my stories in it. It's kind of an vanity publication: all authors had to buy twenty copies each, though at very low cost. I will give away six or ten to my relatives, and some more to some friends.

windchymes -> RE: Does anyone else get worked up about books? (9/19/2009 4:46:29 PM)
My grandmother loved books more than anything, and while I don't share the strong obsession she had, I do like them. And because of her, I'm very particular about how they're kept. I try really hard to read them without bending the spines or the pages, and try to keep them in the same pristine condition they were in when new. Since I'm not usually successful at that, though, I don't buy many hardbacks anymore, I just buy cheap used paperbacks (for "fun" reading....for special things I buy them new) and give them away when I'm done.

Musicmystery -> RE: Does anyone else get worked up about books? (9/19/2009 6:06:39 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: subtlebutterfly Ugh I used to read tons of books but yanno..university & college kinda took the joy out of it..I read enough of boring books now so reading something fun is just meh...[8\|] A curious pride in missing so much.

pahunkboy -> RE: Does anyone else get worked up about books? (9/19/2009 6:14:29 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: windchymes My grandmother loved books more than anything, and while I don't share the strong obsession she had, I do like them. And because of her, I'm very particular about how they're kept. I try really hard to read them without bending the spines or the pages, and try to keep them in the same pristine condition they were in when new. Since I'm not usually successful at that, though, I don't buy many hardbacks anymore, I just buy cheap used paperbacks (for "fun" reading....for special things I buy them new) and give them away when I'm done. I keep many of mine in a book case in the living room. I too dont like to break the binding. BUT I will write in my books. Most of are how to- non fiction. So hot liner and notes are in many of the books...and I also will fold 1/2 inch of the corner of the page to easily return to an area. It amazed me what authors try to put out. Some good and some bad.... too simplistic or too complicated. As a matter of routine I would order 2-300$ worth of rare books every few months..... but then my favorite dealer retired. He had a great sale beforehand. Then shortly after that the net took off more in the bandwith area.

slaveluci -> RE: Does anyone else get worked up about books? (9/19/2009 6:26:19 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Musicmystery quote: ORIGINAL: subtlebutterfly Ugh I used to read tons of books but yanno..university & college kinda took the joy out of it..I read enough of boring books now so reading something fun is just meh...[8\|] A curious pride in missing so much. I concur and I would have to say if I ever begin to find reading or books "meh," just shoot me, please. Life wouldn't be worth living[8D] luci

windchymes -> RE: Does anyone else get worked up about books? (9/19/2009 6:26:41 PM)
Eww, I can't stand writing in them either, lol. Not even textbooks. I always cringe when I see people highlighting the pages or writing in the margins.

Arpig -> RE: Does anyone else get worked up about books? (9/19/2009 6:55:40 PM)
I am a bibliophile from way back. And as to getting worked up...well just watch my happy dance when I come across volume 6 of Churchill's history of WWII!![:)]

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