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Which book should be our first selection?

Albert Camus/the Plague
- 1 (4.3%)
Nick Cave/And the Ass Saw the Angel
- 1 (4.3%)
Leonard Cohen/Beautiful Losers
- 1 (4.3%)
Katherine Dunn/Geek Love
- 3 (13%)
Neil Gaiman/American Gods
- 5 (21.7%)
Chuck Palahniuk/Survivor
- 2 (8.7%)
Thomas Pynchon/Gravity's Rainbow
- 0 (0%)
Tom Robbins/Still Life with Woodpecker
- 0 (0%)
Salman Rushdie/The Satanic Verses
- 2 (8.7%)
J.D. Salinger/Franny and Zooey
- 8 (34.8%)

Total Members Voted: 22

Voting closed: July 26, 2005, 05:15:27 pm


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« Reply #45 on: July 27, 2005, 06:43:02 pm »
Here you do get charged a dollar per book if you don't come pick up a book you've requested, but only if you don't show within like 10 days.  So basically it's free if you're not a slacker.

I've actually just returned to the pleasures of the public library after years of visiting only the university library and/or buying books. After accumulating so many books that I'll never read more than once, and having to move with them, I've realized that I need to stop wasting money and shelf space.
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« Reply #46 on: July 28, 2005, 01:34:47 am »
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Ark, does your library have inter-library loans?  Maybe the can have the book shipped to you from some other library, or there's always Amazon.


- my sister has her master's degree in the dewey decimal system.

- i got it at hastings when my sister wouldn't return my phone call in .01 nanoseconds when i was going to ask her to get it for me through her "contacts".

- the dour bitch "offered" to try and "check the system" to see if she could "try to get it" for me.  i said "my sister's a librarian" and "i'd check with her".  i also said "i hate hastings, they'll prolly have cathcer in the rye, and not frannie and zooie, the sign says "literature", it should say "we have a book!"".
she remained humorless.

- yes, hastings _did_ have the book.  fuckers. (oops, sorry, fuck*rs).

- please be advised i do not believe the woman was dour, nor a bitch, as a result of her career choice.


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- i beleive i am allowed to walk the stacks.  it is a very sad place, this library.  it sweats unhappiness.  i keep waiting to see "come to the local library friday nights for book burnings!" in hte "happenings" section of the local paper.
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« Reply #47 on: July 28, 2005, 01:59:33 am »
The Barnes and Noble had Franny and Zooey and Catcher in the Rye in the Required Reading section of the Back to School table.  That was surprising.  I thought Catcher in the Rye was supposed to make kids go nuts and kill people.  Catcher in the Rye and Marilyn Manson.  I figured it'd be banned or something.  Like Huckelberry Finn.

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« Reply #48 on: July 28, 2005, 02:22:28 am »
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The Barnes and Noble had Franny and Zooey and Catcher in the Rye in the Required Reading section of the Back to School table.  That was surprising.  I thought Catcher in the Rye was supposed to make kids go nuts and kill people.  Catcher in the Rye and Marilyn Manson.  I figured it'd be banned or something.  Like Huckelberry Finn.

It came in at #13 for the most challenged books for 90-00. This stuff pisses me off so bad. Hell, I could challenge Narnia right now for innapropriate religious themes or any of 10 billion other books which "promote heterosexuality" but I have enough respect for the 1st Amendment (and innate human rights) not to.
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