Miscellaneous book trivia and stuff (1 Viewer)

[Denny Oubidoux]

What do you think of this kind of bookshop labelling? It's in a local bookshop

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

What do you think of this kind of bookshop labelling? It's in a local bookshop
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I don't seem to fit into male or female...

 

[nooleen]

you should switch them and blow some minds

 

[pete]

 

[nooleen]

i think someone might have already been messing with the categories, judging by this in the male section and this in the female

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

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[Lili Marlene]

Don't Suck, Don't Die - University of Texas Press

am looking forward to.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Internet - Products: With Ebook Plan, Amazon Kills Literature

hmmm

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Internet - Products: With Ebook Plan, Amazon Kills Literature

hmmm

so conflicted. i use amazon all the time

 

[Lili Marlene]

so conflicted. i use amazon all the time

Yeah me too. I do try and check local bookstores beforehand but I'm far too all over the place to have the wherewithal to make special orders with them.

 

[Jim Daniels]

I pretty much buy all my books in Chapters, Hodges Figgis, The Secret Book and Record Store and the stalls in Temple Bar Square. I use Amazon the odd time, but only for 2nd handers.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Has anyone read this one?

The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists

I feel compelled to try but I don't think I'd be able for 1100 pages of that, particularly these days when I can barely get it together to read anything.

Written in the eleventh century, this portrait of courtly life in medieval Japan is widely celebrated as the world's first novel. The Tale of Genji is a very long romance, running to fifty-four chapters and describing the court life of Heian Japan, from the tenth century into the eleventh.

 

[Lili Marlene]

Not me, "first novel" is as contentious a title as "first rock'n'roll song" though.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I feel compelled to try but I don't think I'd be able for 1100 pages of that, particularly these days when I can barely get it together to read anything.

Same here. I've been reading the same book for the past two months now and I'm only halfway through

 

[Lili Marlene]

Same here. I've been reading the same book for the past two months now and I'm only halfway through

what iiisss it?

 

[David Kronenbourg]

what iiisss it?

Vietnam War novel. Good but big and sprawling

 

[nooleen]

i'm building a tower of half-read books beside the bed

 

[David Kronenbourg]

The Obsessively Detailed Map of American Literature's Most Epic Road Trips | Atlas Obscura

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

so conflicted. i use amazon all the time

I despise Amazon because of how they treat their workers.

I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave | Mother Jones

I try to never use them. Is there an alternative if you wanted to send a book to someone in Ireland?

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

They bully publishers too