Saturday, February 18, 2012

bookstores?

There are really very few, very very few bookstores in El Paso, Texas.
There were many, many more in Bratislava---a city of approximately the same size.

And "quality"?  Quality bookstores? Ha ha ha ha.

I mean "Barnes and Noble"???  I went there recently.  It is amazing what garbage gets published.
So much of it seems to involve a kind of pampering of the audience and appealing to prejudices, especially nationalistic ones......as well as superstitions.....

Really, very very many things that are called "books" are .....well, how can you describe them?
It makes me think that very very many people called "editors" are rather ignorant and most likely
unconcerned about their ignorance.  (Exercise for the reader:  compare and contrast crass commercialism in Hollywood and in the publishing industry.....)

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