Ha! Probably, Doug. I can think of a kind of example of that, this in our
central lending library, where all the copies of (in the sci-fi section)
books by Stanislaw Lem, other than Solaris (which of course has been twice
filmed) have been dumped BUT you can get copies of the latest Doctor Who or
Star Trek novelisations in abundance. Yup, they've even managed to take
sci-fi downmarket.
On 6 May 2010 15:54, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ah, but I bet theyre keeping their copies of Pride and Prejudice and the
> Zombies?
>
> Doug
>
> On 5-May-10, at 4:01 PM, David Bircumshaw wrote:
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> Understood. I was at the same library again today: additiona\l to my
>> previous list were:
>> Ulysses; the Arnold Wesker trilogy (i.e Chips with Everything, I'm talking
>> about Jerusalem, Roots); The Rainbow; The Good Soldier; Northanger Abbey;
>> Persuasion; Emma; Pride & Prejudice; Madame Bovary ; Vanity Fair; Kes (!);
>> and at that point I gave up looking.
>>
>> best
>>
>> dave
>>
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
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> Latest books:
> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
> Wednesdays'
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> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html
>
> The secret
>
> I was immediately set upon by two or three
> critics, who hurled sophistries and
> maledictions at me that were astonishing
> in their dimness.
>
> Jorge Luis Borges
>
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