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for book lovers only
Do you love books? Can you ever have enough books? Do you just want to keep getting more and more of them so that you can hold them and feel the way the pages turn and caress them and love them and, oh yeah, and read them? Am I speaking your language?
Do I have the book for you! It is BOOKS(Simon&Schuster) the new memoir by Larry McMurtry. When we think of McMurtry of course we think of books. He has written quite a number of them. Have you ever read LONESOME DOVE? What a book! He has written lots of others, too.
But this memoir isn’t really about that. Of course he does talk a little about books he has written but this memoir is really about his love affair with books. McMurtry is a book lover supreme. He writes them. He buys and sells them. He collects them.
McMurtry has owned over a million books during his lifetime. His personal library in Texas contains 28,000 of his favorites (so, he’s picky!). He has bought and sold the contents of personal libraries and entire book stores. McMurtry is mad for books.
Are you crazy about books, too? Then this is the book for you. McMurtry seems to remember every single book he has ever owned. He shares his memories of all the great book finds and the eccentric characters he has known over the years; book scouts, collectors, book store owners, and book hoarders. It is a fascinating story.
This book isn’t for everybody. If you believe that books will be replaced someday by computers or other ways to read then don’t bother. You would not understand.
If you love the scent of an old book then this book is the one is for you…
Vick Mickunas
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By Max D
July 14, 2008 2:48 PM | Link to this
Vick, old chum, you’re making my brain ache.