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"Lots of guys here read novels," he wrote his father. "A lot of them spend time sitting in safe houses where they have time to read. I've heard mention of a book exchange, where people could drop off and pick up books. I'm getting a bookcase to put in our front 'lobby,' and now we will need some books. "I will have room for up to about 200 novels or so, and would like to get a bunch of books to start them. Suppose they don't all have to be novels, as long as it's interesting reading. Classics are fine,...

I have a house that has too much clutter - so I took apart a bookcase, along with some other uncluttering actions. I have a stack of 50 or more "Tom Clancy types of books" that I have finished and, after some agony, have decided to part with. To some of you this may not seem like a big deal - I mean what good is a cheap novel after you've read it? I don't know, but I have this habbit of keeping every book I have read. Are my bookshelves a type of trophy case? ..... well maybe they...