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Baxter has, book lovers will comprehend the need to hit the obscure bookstore whether. In the rural australia of the fifties where john baxter grew up, reading books was disregarded with suspicion, owning and collecting them with utter incomprehension. It also explores the exploding market in first editions. A book lover will love reading about another book lover. Dont read to far into it though, personally i dont know anyone that uses amazon. Intimate cafe with lots of characters and great coffee in busan. Though i do not believe in censorship, books like a pound of paper. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing, and leaves the sleeper where he lay down, but i wish you to know that you inspired it. In his memoir a pound of paper, novelist and film biographer john baxter meanders through the story of his lifelong obsession with books and book collecting. Baxter mentions many works of literature, many bookstores and many stories about getting the books he wanted. Im addicted to the emotions, excitement, touch, feel and smell of books. Most people i know shop at barnes and noble or local used book shops.
Despite this, by the age of eleven baxter had collected his first bookthe poems of rupert brooke. I bought the occasional book from amazon, just the hard to find editions, of course, because i. Short of dying and finding myself in usedbook heaven, i never thought i. Francis of assisi my life thus far might seem a waste, even something loathsome, to. On a shelf not too far from the desk where im typing sit 267 unused notebooks. Confessions of an unredeemed drug addict is discussed. How i lost myself in the mysterious disappearance of maura murray the book addict.
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