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That old guy at the library sale swore I'd regret skipping the 1965 paperback
There's this retired librarian who hangs around the local library sales in Phoenix. He told me to grab a beat up copy of 'Stoner' by John Williams for 50 cents. I passed because the cover looked boring and the pages were yellowed. Six months later I saw it on a 'best novels you never read' list and paid $12 for a used copy online. He was right, it's one of the best books I've ever read. Anyone else had a random stranger at a book sale steer you right or wrong?
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ryan_kim6315d ago
47 years of thinking old paperbacks were just junk nobody wanted, and then I had a guy at the Goodwill bins in Tucson push a ratty copy of "The Dog of the South" into my hands. He said it was the funniest book ever written and I almost threw it back. Ended up reading it that night and laughing my ass off. That changed my whole outlook on those yellowed, beat-up books. Now I grab anything that looks like someone cared enough to keep it, because those people usually knew what they were doing.
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angela19115d ago
Wait, @ryan_kim63, there's a guy at the Goodwill bins who just hands out life-changing books for free?
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