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Read This!: Handpicked Favorites From America's Indie Bookstores (2012)

by Hans Weyandt(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1566893135 (ISBN13: 9781566893138)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Coffee House Press

review 1: Weyandt asked buyers, owners, and others from some of America's best indie bookstores to contribute lists of 50 books each. They're wonderful lists. My only displeasure is that there is only room in this little book to annotate about five of those choices from each contributor. There are also interviews with each about reading and life running a bookstore and handselling books. These sections are OK, but they get a little repetitive after you've read a few. I'd rather have seen more annotations of the books they selected. Still, I think any avid reader would have a good time browsing this book.
review 2: I have a lot of books to think about. This is an accumulation of independent book store owners 50 favorite books. And the variety was immense, though many we... morere on several lists. I did notice that through the interviews most were liberal. I'm a conservative and would love to own a book store. Are there conservative book store owners, or was this a very selective bunch? I like to support independent bookstores, but when I ask for a book by certain people I'm told they don't carry that garbage. I walk out. If those stores go under it's fine with me. Offending customers is not a way to succeed. And it's a form of censorship we should all find appalling. less

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