Very well done. Well worth the effort. Looking forward to the sequel: My Trip To The Post Office
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I just want to thank you for what you did. A lot of us bow to you!!!
I live in a red state, this store is in a red district.
I've had similar experiences buying books in San Francisco. Of course, it's San Francisco where the liberals are king. At Staceys Bookstore, I have to search for best-selling conservative authors, while poor-seller lib books are all over the front. When I demand a book, say one from Ann Coulter, then they say there was a slip-up in putting them on display and they found them in a box in a back storage area. Yeah, right.
I have seen the same thing at Borders. I was going to write a post here about it as well. Thanks for doing it.
Immediately walking in the door the display is only Bush bashing books or the like.
Years ago, when Rush's first book first came out, I stopped at a Crown Books to see if they had it. I was perusing the wall of best sellers, then asked the hippy dippy salesperson if they had it yet. He almost snarled that they didn't, and anyway it wouldn't be expected to ever be among the books displayed on the most important selling books. He expected it to start out in the mark downs, if even there. I was so happy to drop in often and note Rush's book hitting the top of the charts, the guy would skulk off every time he saw me.
My consistent minor protest in Costco and Barnes and Nobles is as follows-
when I walk in and see the anti-Bush books, I slowly turn the front book on the stack around, and just keep going. It is petty and minor, but it makes me feel better that I might have prevented one sale.
Good for you, although I am reading the Morris book right now, and I am a little bit disturbed by it. While Morris says he is anti Hillary, there is a undertone of praise for her on about every page. Not so sure I trust this man for sure after reading more than half of the book.
And as an aside, when I purchased a Starbucks coffee there a couple of days ago, I was served by the first transvestite (obviously so) I think I have ever spoken with-interesting, to me. Kinda weird, very funky.
It's not just Barnes and Noble. Hastings has all the New Age books and the liberal books prominently in the front, and all the anti bush books. In the "current events" section, they have one or two conservative books but most of them are liberal. (and this is in Oklahoma)
Now, I'm a book freak who used to travel 100 miles to a good book store when I lived in Minnesota. My budget is $100 a month for books/DVD/Music. But in Hastings, their religion, current events, and history sections are bunk, so I mainly buy music there. And even for DVD and music, I can more easily find it in Walmart when we go to shop for other things. It's not worth my time to go to that bookstore, so in effect because of their bias, they are losing my business...
Thank God for Amazon...where I can order any book I want to.
You are good!
I usually see more pentagrams at a Barnes and Nobel than at a metal concert.
Hooray! Stand up, speak up!
I found the same thing to be true of Costco. No Morris book at all and a lot of anti-Bush books. But they did have Hannity's. So I bought mine from Amazon. Haven't read it though.
Good job!
I will say that the local Borders, here in Miami, always has the conservative books prominently displayed, up front, along with the socialist stuff.
I thought I was the only one that did this (did it today in a Borders in Simi Valley, CA).
I have to give Barnes and Noble a little credit. They actually carried UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES when I was there.
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Good for you. After seeing the same in my book stores, I am not afraid to move books. One store in our mall had the Gay section sandwiched in between the Christian books and the conservative books. This did not last long. I have also found many Nazi and Hitler books stacked side by side with Bush.
I just have one question. Why do you shop at B&N. Stop abusing yourself. Go online, please.