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Tagsfiction (618), BC remainder (389), history (205), B&N remainder (196), read (161), U.S. history (135), new (109), Book Bear used (82), short stories (73), music (58) — see all tags

GroupsBooksellers, Booksellers who LibraryThing, RYM/Rate Your Music, USERS FROM THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

Favorite authorsJ. G. Ballard, T.C. Boyle, Frederick Exley, D. Keith Mano, Philip Roth, Dana Spiotta, Hunter S. Thompson, Stephen Wright (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBen Franklin Bookstore and Worcester Antiquarian Book Center, The Book Bear

About me I toil away daily (for 6 years now, no less) running the stock room of a major and slightly evil bookstore. No points for guessing which one. (Hint: It starts with a "B" and is otherwise referred to as the "Death Star of Bookselling". Not even too ashamed of it. Job's a job, and hey! I like books.) Luckily, I share that space with a number of long-suffering book fanatics and have also parlayed my experience doing so into 1) carte blanche, just my style and 2) unparalleled arrogance directed towards making it what I respect in a bookstore. Which means lots of blatant insubordination and telling bosses they're wrong as tactlessly as possible.

In addition to amassing books, I also tend to obsess over music. Symptoms of this are on display at the insular Music Babble message board or over on Rate Your Music. Should be a link below somewhere.

About my library Currently reading: William Kennedy's Legs.

I could use this space to pretentiously rant on and on about how varied my interests are, so in the interest of pith here goes: literary fiction of the popular and more often not variety, experimental and post-modern fiction, history, music.

It takes so damned long to read a book nowadays. I've enjoyed, mostly or in part, all of the recent books I've read and the book I'm currently reading, so why don't I feel like reading at all? Feh!

Most people think I'm a complete freak because I'm completely incapable of actually deciding what to read next. So, I write all my unread books on little scraps of paper, throw them in a large envelope, and pick them at random.

This is all stuff I actually currently own, much to my own chagrin. I can't help it - I find books cheap, I stockpile them for when I'll eventually get to them. In the past year and a half, I believe I've bought 4 books at list price. All the rest have been remaindered or used.

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Member sinceJun 1, 2007