Comments on: In Libris

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 05 Apr 2002 22:24:13 +0000

I had my entire CD collection stolen in the past. After this event, I talked to many owners of used record stores and places that sell used records in my city, in the hopes of recovering the few easily identifyable items in my collection. I failed to recover any CDs, but I came away with the impression that they all were very aware of the problem of ass-holes stealling CDs and unloading them through their store. Some of them had very nasty words to say about such people.

Another data-point : I was in one of the scruffier pawn shops many years ago and was supprised to see a policeman taking down serial numbers of several pieces of gear. I remarked about this to the person behind the counter afterwards. Person looked at me as if I was from another plannet and a mutter I don’t recall these many years latter. I got the impression that they wouldn’t be in business if they didn’t. Wheither this is based on the mutter I don’t know.

-Leolo

By: rumplestimpskin

rumplestimpskin — Fri, 05 Apr 2002 11:34:42 +0000

You do realize that CDs at pawn shops (vs reliable used CD stores) are the #1 stolen item around? Ditto stereos.

I shop at used and consignment stores, but the places I go have big WE CHECK ALL MERCHANDISE WITH THE POLICE stickers around.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 05 Apr 2002 01:32:38 +0000

I typed in a nice long comment to this, but LJ complained it was TOO LONG! Feh

pied.nu/fringe-finance.txt to see what I wrote

Au plaisir,

-Leolo

By: frobisher

frobisher — Thu, 04 Apr 2002 01:01:42 +0000

Personally, I’m currently trying to figure out where to put the books that are blocking the use of the sofabed, as I have visitors impending…

Lolita is quite excellent. An interesting read is The Annotated Lolita – although I’m glad I convinced myself to read it without the annotations the first time through.

As to the Kubrick film: Nabokov didn’t feel that it close enough to the book. Supposedly, the recent version is much more faithful. Not sure if that would incline you to see it more or less, based on how it would affect your own interpretation.

By: deviant_

deviant_ — Wed, 03 Apr 2002 23:01:24 +0000

In the last 3 weeks I have purchased, at some bookstore or another, mostly without intent:

Ender's Shadow
Ender's Game (needed for comparison, I borrowed it the first time through)
Shadow of the Hegemon
The Universe In A Nutshell (more on this some other time)
Neverwhere
Good Omens

Current size of my to-read bin: approximately 1/6 m^3. Yeah, you're not alone here.

By: valentit_love9

valentit_love9 — Mon, 01 Jan 2001 08:00:00 +0000

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 01 Jan 2001 08:00:00 +0000