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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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Good to know I am not the only one who agonizes over what to read next. I may try out your method, as my current method of "stare at books, pick up and put right back down, stare some more, grab one and read 5 pages, put down and stare some more" is not very efficient.
Oh Billy. Oh Milly.
We share some interesting books.
Thanks so much for enabling me to see Senator Hoar's statue. It is almost as good as being in Worcester in person.

The book I listed : George Frisbie Hoar and the Half-Breed Republicans, by Richard E. Welch, Jr. (read 20 Oct 1984)

is mostly about him and I thought it a good book. Only one other Library Thinger list the book.
Greetings from Manchester!!! Are you enjoying the holiday setup? Our warehouse was so crowded today we actually lost an employee for a little while. Ok, it was me, and I was hiding from customers :-> You know the ones: "I was here last week and saw a book on a table up front - where is it now? I think it was blue." Someone really should tell Corporate that we need to start shelving books by color for our intellectually challenged customers. Cheers!
Greetings from Manchester!!! Are you enjoying the holiday setup? Our warehouse was so crowded today we actually lost an employee for a little while. Ok, it was me, and I was hiding from customers :-> You know the ones: "I was here last week and saw a book on a table up front - where is it now? I think it was blue." Someone really should tell Corporate that we need to start shelving books by color for our intellectually challenged customers. Cheers!
Yeah, the dialogue is ridiculously good. I didn't realise when I started to read it, but since discovered that his use of long emphasis dashes instead of quotation marks was thought to be still very radical at the time of publishing (I don't know whether he uses this technique in Carpenter's Gothic too). See: http://www.nyx.net/~awestrop/ftb/ftb.htm (at pp. 34-35, "conform! (punctuationwise)").
I'm reading The Recognitions. Within a hundred pages it was my favourite book.
Wow...really, wow. It is so refreshing to see someone who has a such a unique and self-personified collection of incredible modern fictional works - i.e. Pynchon, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Stephen Wright, Robert Coover(!), Delillo, A.M Homes, William Gaddis (!!!), I could go on and on...so I won't.

I'll second the excellent photo remark; the only thing better than boxes of books filled w/styrofoam peanuts is a person buried beneath such buffering. Cheers! - Jeremy
Cool pic!

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