Red Mosquito

The Argonaut wrote:I tried to offload my Franzens at the used bookstore for one dollar of store credit each and the guy was uninterested

dad wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:I tried to offload my Franzens at the used bookstore for one dollar of store credit each and the guy was uninterested

this reminded me of the time I went back to Connecticut with my wife to visit my mom and stepdad. we stopped at a used bookstore called Book Barn?...and there were about 15-20 copies of Revolutionary Road. I've never read it, but saw that as a sign that maybe I shouldn't.

The Argonaut wrote:

dad wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:I tried to offload my Franzens at the used bookstore for one dollar of store credit each and the guy was uninterested

this reminded me of the time I went back to Connecticut with my wife to visit my mom and stepdad. we stopped at a used bookstore called Book Barn?...and there were about 15-20 copies of Revolutionary Road. I've never read it, but saw that as a sign that maybe I shouldn't.

Ehh, I think it's mostly a function of how many new copies were in circulation. I've never read Revolutionary Road either, but I've always meant to. I somehow ended up with a copy that has Leo and Kate Winslet on the cover that I've had in my collection for at least ten years. The first couple pages are great

Mickey wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:

dad wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:I tried to offload my Franzens at the used bookstore for one dollar of store credit each and the guy was uninterested

this reminded me of the time I went back to Connecticut with my wife to visit my mom and stepdad. we stopped at a used bookstore called Book Barn?...and there were about 15-20 copies of Revolutionary Road. I've never read it, but saw that as a sign that maybe I shouldn't.

Ehh, I think it's mostly a function of how many new copies were in circulation. I've never read Revolutionary Road either, but I've always meant to. I somehow ended up with a copy that has Leo and Kate Winslet on the cover that I've had in my collection for at least ten years. The first couple pages are great

It's not a very good book.

The Argonaut wrote:

Mickey wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:

dad wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:I tried to offload my Franzens at the used bookstore for one dollar of store credit each and the guy was uninterested

this reminded me of the time I went back to Connecticut with my wife to visit my mom and stepdad. we stopped at a used bookstore called Book Barn?...and there were about 15-20 copies of Revolutionary Road. I've never read it, but saw that as a sign that maybe I shouldn't.

Ehh, I think it's mostly a function of how many new copies were in circulation. I've never read Revolutionary Road either, but I've always meant to. I somehow ended up with a copy that has Leo and Kate Winslet on the cover that I've had in my collection for at least ten years. The first couple pages are great

It's not a very good book.

The first couple pages are great, though

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:

dad wrote:North Woods by Daniel Mason.

How’s you enjoy the Franzen?

blueviper wrote:Get those books back! You’re the ones effin’ up our wait lists!

epilogue wrote:

"Prophet Song becomes a testament to a world unraveling. The comparisons are inevitable -- Saramago, Orwell, McCarthy -- but this novel will stand entirely on its own." -- Colum McCann.

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