Comments on: The lost art of browsing; the power of the book inscription https://thenewneo.com/2008/11/26/the-lost-art-of-browsing-the-power-of-the-inscription/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:07:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Alexandro https://thenewneo.com/2008/11/26/the-lost-art-of-browsing-the-power-of-the-inscription/#comment-98140 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:07:02 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/11/26/the-lost-art-of-browsing-the-power-of-the-inscription/#comment-98140 V2WaNRUevYQiZ

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]]> By: expat https://thenewneo.com/2008/11/26/the-lost-art-of-browsing-the-power-of-the-inscription/#comment-94333 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 22:44:20 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/11/26/the-lost-art-of-browsing-the-power-of-the-inscription/#comment-94333 March Hare,

I’ve heard of Hay, although I didn’t remember its name–only the used books part. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have such a town in your area for weekend getaways, especially if it also offered some nice teashops, restaurants, and cozy B&Bs?

]]> By: March Hare https://thenewneo.com/2008/11/26/the-lost-art-of-browsing-the-power-of-the-inscription/#comment-94326 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:20:13 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/11/26/the-lost-art-of-browsing-the-power-of-the-inscription/#comment-94326 For an interesting look at used books and used bookstores, I highly recommend “Sixpence House” by Paul Collins. He & his family moved to the town of Hay in Wales and every other store is a used book store.

For myself, I love book stores in general and used book stores in particular. They are becoming more difficult to find, even in university towns like Berkeley. I now haunt used book sales held by my parish or by local libraries–where I found a book that had belonged to my father. My mother must have donated it after my dad died. The book wasn’t a significant piece of scholarship, but seeing his name on the label gave me a goosebumps anyway. 🙂

]]> By: nyomythus https://thenewneo.com/2008/11/26/the-lost-art-of-browsing-the-power-of-the-inscription/#comment-94316 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:13:52 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/11/26/the-lost-art-of-browsing-the-power-of-the-inscription/#comment-94316 When I lived in Tuxedo Park, NY, I used to love taking the tram from Tuxedo Metro-north station into the City, looking in all the old book and antique stores, it’s where I was browsing and picked up, purely by accident, an original hardback copy of Eugene Lyons “Assignment in Utopia”. It’s a partial autobiography of the author’s life and a critical review of the Stalin regime — from within a left-wing standpoint. It would later help inspire Orwell’s warning from history, “Nineteen Eighty-Four”

This was back in 1987-89, I had no idea I was reading neo-con material that far back, I was in my early 20’s then.

]]> By: Alex Bensky https://thenewneo.com/2008/11/26/the-lost-art-of-browsing-the-power-of-the-inscription/#comment-94313 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:19:23 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/11/26/the-lost-art-of-browsing-the-power-of-the-inscription/#comment-94313 Dalrymple is indeed wonderful but he and Melanie Phillips have cured me of my longstanding Anglophilia.

When I was in seventh grade I had to get a note from my mother so the Oak Park (Mi) library would go to the restricted books section–this was quite a while ago–and let me take out “The Catcher in the Rye.” I wanted to read it because I thought it was about baseball.

By the way, I re-read it some years later and realized Holden’s problem is not that he is misunderstood, it’s that he’s understood all too well.

]]> By: br549 https://thenewneo.com/2008/11/26/the-lost-art-of-browsing-the-power-of-the-inscription/#comment-94300 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 11:00:55 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/11/26/the-lost-art-of-browsing-the-power-of-the-inscription/#comment-94300 Time. Precious time.

]]> By: Americaneocon https://thenewneo.com/2008/11/26/the-lost-art-of-browsing-the-power-of-the-inscription/#comment-94281 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:05:01 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/11/26/the-lost-art-of-browsing-the-power-of-the-inscription/#comment-94281 One thing about Santa Barbara, where I lived in grad school until 1999, was all of the wonderful bookstores. I could browse all day!

]]> By: Rose https://thenewneo.com/2008/11/26/the-lost-art-of-browsing-the-power-of-the-inscription/#comment-94280 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 05:50:07 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/11/26/the-lost-art-of-browsing-the-power-of-the-inscription/#comment-94280 Happy Thanksgiving All.

]]> By: FredHjr https://thenewneo.com/2008/11/26/the-lost-art-of-browsing-the-power-of-the-inscription/#comment-94252 Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:43:35 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/11/26/the-lost-art-of-browsing-the-power-of-the-inscription/#comment-94252 THE best concentration of book stores (used and new) I have ever been to is Harvard Square in Cambridge. Occasionally, when I was an undergrad at the University of New Hampshire, I would get down to Boston with some of my friends and I would spend hours browsing through the book stores in Harvard Square. Years later, after I had left the Jesuits, when I was an MBA student at Boston College I often got over to Harvard Square to browse around. End of the month, when the visa bill would arrive, my wife would look at it and exclaim, “Fred, you’ve been over at Harvard Square again?”

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