fpw Wrote:I'm at the Jersey Shore.
Seriously, keeping the backlist on the shelves is an ongoing battle if you're not a household name or a perennial best seller. That's why I love the online booksellers. They have everything in print all the time. I'm all for supporting the indy booksellers, but they have limited space. If you can wait a few days, they can get it for you, but if money's an object (and it is for just about everyone these days), the online discounts can't be beat.
Well, I just wanted a "Cash and Carry" situation. When I went into Borders bookstore downtown and saw almost ALL of the RJ copies they
had (Of course, only ONE copy each) I grabbed them up pretty fast, I can tell you that. There were a couple (like "Hosts") that were missing, but I did not mind in the least, dishing out 80 plus dollars to get MINT clean copies of my favorite fictional hero, since James Bond! I was VERY happy to see that nearly all of the books I purchased were replaced about a month later. I support the independents as well, but, as you said, they have limited space. I would just love to see one store, any one store who would have a FPW "Collected works" section! I know that you are not THAT well known, as King, Rice, or Bradbury, but your collected works are bigger than Rice, a better read than King, and (in many cases) easier to understand than Bradbury. Reading a RJ novel is almost like watching a movie, and VERY hard to put down, once you get started. Some stories (Like "Tommyknockers") I had to skip over whole paragraphs, because King went off on some "other" story, and did not pertain to the main story. The story in a RJ novel stays ontrack from the first page to the last. I had ADD as a kid, so I can really appreciate that factor! Thanks again, and STILL looking forward to the movie. Hope they don't screw it up, like with the keep!
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