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Trivial Pursuits => Arts & Entertainment => Topic started by: AugustWest on November 01, 2008, 02:11:14 am
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Studs Terkel has died. (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081031/ap_on_en_ot/obit_terkel)
Sad, but he lived a long, productive, interesting life.
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I have always meant to read some of his books.
Oh well, I guess now I can buy them cheap without violating my rule against buying used books by live authors.
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...my rule against buying used books by live authors.
This is a good rule.
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I have always meant to read some of his books.
Oh well, I guess now I can buy them cheap without violating my rule against buying used books by live authors.
I was thinking pretty much the exact same thing today.
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How do you feel about libraries?
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Libraries are good things because many people can't afford to buy books. But if you are not a poor person, you should buy your books.
I pay for Onstad's subscription service, too.
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This is a good rule.
I think it's a little bit too inflexible. The principle behind it is an excellent one but once a writer's sold a hundred and fifty million books I think it falls down the scale of importance somewhat.
But then that goes for rules like this generally and I'm sure they're just a convenient way of encapsulating the behavioural result of the principles behind them.
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I do relax the rule for people who are massively successful - I feel no guilt about copying a Springsteen CD, for example. But you have to be careful with this, because I think people usually overestimate how much money most creative people make.