Sunday Salon PostSecret
Posted by Cottontimer on 30 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: Reading
This PostSecret seemed perfect for Sunday Salon.
I enjoy going into bookstores
and tearing the last pages
out of novels.
GAH!!
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No! No!
Can you imagine?! If I saw someone doing that, I’d have to resist beating them senseless. Another reason to order books online unless one of their psycho workers do the same….
I once requested a book on interlibrary loan and the only book they could find was one from a prison - that had so many pages ripped out they said I could keep it - but I don’t think I did. You could see that the pictures that had been ripped out were those of women. It was a bit sad and spooky.
Oh dear.
At the risk of incurring the wrath of library lovers, I’ll add that to the list of reasons I haven’t borrowed a book from the library in years.
Actually, I lie. When I first moved to London, I borrowed some children’s books and a parenting book from the local library. It was a good experience.
WHEW!
How can anyone?!
Shocking!
Hi gautami, Unbelievable, right?
A few weeks ago, I took out my anger on the paperback I was reading. It ended up splitting down the spine and I felt so guilty….
Nooooooooo!!! Don’t tear out the last page! I’d cry!
J. Kaye, *pat pat* It certainly is twisted behavior.
I don’t understand! Why would someone want to do that?
Literary Feline, I don’t know what could have damaged this person to make him/her want to do this but I remember once watching a pirated DVD all the way through only to find that the last 15 minutes or so was completely b0rked. I never did find out what happened.
Man, and I get pissed enough when I read about people moving books around because they didn’t like the section in which they were shelved. If I ever run into this person, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” will start playing out of the ether, and I’ll be giving someone a very ominous gap-toothed grin.
King Rat, How do you know they don’t already have a gap-toothed grin?
Hi Hsien, hope u don’t mind if I take a peep at your blog. What a riot! But this post really caught my eye. Ouch! I can’t bear to hurt a book! Even when my son was at this book tearing phase, i’d stick it all back with tape. So what if the pop outs didn’t pop out anymore! Think the orphanage in Cambodia that I sent his books to is finding out now …
Hi Alcovelet, Of course I don’t mind! The more the merrier.
I was just thinking yesterday about baby #2 and how she will have to go through some pawed through books. Fortunately, Stephen is one of those “read it once and I’m done” kind of kids so few books are that worn out. I may have to get another copy of Goodnight Moon, though. That was the first book he asked for REPEATEDLY and it is in sorry shape.
Oh, yes, I saw this on PostSecret yesterday — isn’t it awful? The worst I think is that it seems done so spitefully. And, no less, with pleasure.
My question: is it books they hate, or people? Both, perhaps?
Hi Christine, Thanks for the comment! Maybe it’s an April Fool’s PostSecret? Only another book lover would know how much controversy such an admission would create.