UKRM Book Club

Apparently there's quite a good one in Bloomsbury, but the owner's
a bit of a crotchety bastard.

 

In the last one I read, that trollope, Tessie Bear,
tried to con Noddy into spending the night with her
on the pretext of a house being haunted, so they could
be discovered together and so Noddy would be forced to
marry her. Fortunately Big Ears realised what was going
on and saved the day.

Change the names and species and it could have been a
P.G. Wodehouse novel.

 

With Terry Pratchett, the answer is normally "all
of them". Not one to let a vaguely funny idea go
to waste in just one novel...

 

Any of them involving wizards, and most of the rest too.

Far be it from me to accuse TP of repeating the same joke, or
anything.

 

L-space - Terry Pratchett? - but I cannot remember which book.

Steph

 

^^^^^^^

And this is being re-applied for, I see...

 

Ben Blaney said:

Good range of books (possibly the best), but run by unscrupulous greedy
bastards who have done more to cause the closure of local book shops
than anyone else in the world.

Foyles were the first to break the net book agreement - forcing many a
local small independant to go bust.

 

Spelled "net book agreement", pronounced "price fixing", right?

 

And where small local independent = small and no choice for the
customer.

 

Cambridge is utterly fantastic in every respect. I'd live there like
a shot.

It's round the corner from the Gloucester Arms. In that big square
thing, with the good pizzeria.

Abebooks is something I've had bookmarked for ages, and never really
looked at.

We can arrange special dispensation.

 

ogden said:

Sort of - but it was an agreement drawn up by the publishers, not the
book shops. Publishers threatened (and did) not to supply shops that
broke the 'agreement'. Foyles broke it to get the contracts to supply
LEA's and as they were so big, the publishers took no action against
them, so they gradually extended their discounting of net books.

Local shops were still stuck with the agreement and couldn't discount
net books or they would lose their supply of books. Therefore they went
bust.

I was involved with a non-profit cooperative at the time, involving some
very dedicated people and we supplied several LEA's - until Foyles
fucked us over and we shutdown just prior to bankruptcy. A bloody shame
as we weren't just selling books, we were running local literary clubs,
drop in centres and other things to interest people who weren't into
books and to get them into books, all that died due to Foyles.

 

Except that it was an agreement based on altruism and common good.

 

Simon Atkinson wrote

With amazon being the final nail in that particular coffin.

 

steve auvache said:

I'm not too sure about that - I know a lot of people who use Amazon, but
wouldn't have even considered walking into a bookshop before. Once they
have used Amazon, and actually bought books, they (sometimes) start to
visit bookshops to browse... And if it's a good enough shop, once they
are through the door, they are hooked.

 

Now I see how the GYASB#0 was earned. Luckily for me I'm immune to
smooth.

 

I can only recall reading one, "Those Dreadful Children".

It had a weeping willow tree in it. I'd like a weeping willow tree.

But that's mainly because I liked the cover on my Wind in the Willows
book.

 

Champ says...

No need, she can stay with me...

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the

I remember that. The cunts. Short termism in all its glory.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

Simon Atkinson wrote

I don't know anybody who can read.

I don't buy books from shops anymore. Except for the odd SF paperback I
buy almost exclusively from Amazon. I get the impression I am fairly
typical.

 

steve auvache says...

Not that typical, I wouldn't think. I buy from Amazon occasionally; I
mostly use Amazon for checking if any of my regular authors have
released anything.

I buy from bookshops mostly. I love to wander arround and just look at
all the books, flicking through a few and taking them home.