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Try these poems to get a feel of poetry: Daffodils - William Wordsworth, Leisure - WH Davies, The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge. If you've ever heard the phrase "water, water everywhere; not a drop to drink" then it's from the third poem.

YES!!! It's like a conspiracy!!

Like 30% off on all books in my case for being a loyal customer for the last 16 years

Yes lol, but if I had to do that I'd go to a shop I've never been to. It's like buying condoms from a medical shop you've been using since you were five. The shopkeeper has seen you grow and all of a sudden you ask for something like that... haha No wait, here I am breaking my own commandment. Or near enough anyway. *runs away*

I haven't stepped in the local library in about nine years. I used to almost live there back in those days. I just somehow learned to love buying books more than reading them in the last few years. Thankfully, that's coming to change since I've joined this place. I think I'd like to frequent the library once more, but only post this semester.

"Hello... yes, I'm looking for erotica. What kind? Well... it should have scenes regarding...." *blushes and runs away* Example enough?

haha Reminds me of Mephisto from the Diablo game. Wasn't the devil in the Faust legend called Mephistopheles?

I do like being asked if I'd like a basket though. That's helpful. But the staff are really useful when I'm looking for a particular author.

haha I think the same things sometimes. My copy of Histories cost me less than my copy of Cujo!! And it's atleast seven times larger!!

This I know from personal experiance. One of the ten commandments for men should be "Thou shalt not indulge a woman in speech about sex, lest thou burn from burning thy face red."

Dear god in heaven. That sir, is more beautiful to mine eyes than Dulcinea Del Toboso was ever to Don Quixote. I take my chance at bowing elaborately before a superior. My small collection There's row of books behind each rack. I want a different bookshelf, I got this at a cheap store and there's no place for more books.... sigh I make an effort at sorting by genre and TBR pile. I can't for the love of me understand author last name based sorting. Feels better to sort according to Genre so I can just find what I'm looking for. A measly 185 books in all. Catalogued in my LibraryThing account. Though on a sidenote all of this is from my allowance. Come july I'll buy one book a day from my job. (yay!)

I have problems related to remembering characters' names too, but I say that's the fault of the writer in my case. If I can't remember the character's name, then the writer isn't doing a good enough job. It's not about how tough the name is, it's about how well acquainted he/she makes the character to me. I remember a lot of characters from books I've read sometimes several years after the book is back on my shelf. Harry Potter, The Wheel of Time, The Belgariad, The Lord of The Rings, The Shannara books, A Song of Ice and Fire, Les Miserables, Brothers Karamazov are a few to give an example. If I can't remember the storyline or the characters, then the author isn't doing a good job. Sometimes, this is also true with authors who're good, but the original work is in another language and the translator is at fault. The Wordsworth edition of Don Quixote is that way. The translator is dreadfully awful... It feels like the equivalent of getting a google translation of the original work. And some other times, I'm still not ready to read certain authors because I fail to imagine the scene in question. Charles Dickens is of that category I'm afraid. I'd deem anyone able to understand Dickens with ease as extremely lucky as compared to myself. For some reason I just can't seem to picture what he writes about. My loss... But I'll get there in time.

But would you sell them to people? I know I wouldn't. What do you call this storage space? The World Library? I have no idea when I'll be even close to reading 3000 books. I've read what... 400?

But what happens when sometimes the sex is necessary? Many tough people are helpless in bed, villains are easily dealt with. I can't see the point of a book about a rapist, for instance, that's bereft of sex. Or a book about an empowering man who is finally killed by the woman he is in love with because of some harm he had done to her family etc etc. As opposed to a shot in the back, the scenario where he gets killed in the throes of passion sounds a little more believable somehow. Or am I just messed up wanting a little grandiosity in life? I'm not trying to question you per se... I dislike sex in books too so I just leave the scene hanging when I have to write one. "After the long kiss she kicked open the door and hauled him in by his necktie." Or some such. But in once scene I do face a problem where a character is killed during the act of sex itself. Which is sort of the reason for this thread in the first place to see if I could learn a way around it. But then again, when the story dictates itself, I have little say in it.

Beldin shrugged. "He didn't believe me. He can't accept the fact that Angarak society disintegrated." Belgarath The Sorcerer ~David and Leigh Eddings. Shame on me for not having what I'm currently reading (or supposed to be reading) on my desk as opposed to a book I've read four times already.

Parsemonious. Especially when speaking. Fun to call someone parsemonious. Especially if they say thank you thinking it a complement and not wanting to ask what it means. Likes it so much that he adds it to vocabulary for daily use.

Don't-disturb-me hats given to customers as they walk in? I'm only kidding lol yeah you do make a point... oh well after three of four visits most people learn which customers like to be left alone I guess. Another thing I sometimes hate is when music is played in a bookshop. Bookshops should be quiet, almost like a library. Not filled with the sound of Britney Spears's latest album.

oh wow... larger print I guess.... So most of my books might seem like the print is ant sized to everyone lol.... My Wheel of Time books would be 3000 pages long in that case then...

Not to be rude but I've never seen Terry Pratchett books over ~250 pages.

Aw man this reminds me of my only James Hadley Chase book.... I think it was We will die a double death or something like that. I was all of 15 and I was sitting in the back of a language class where the teacher was an annoying lummox, reading it with my friends. Suddenly he swooped down on us and snatched the book away. And after he gave us the usual "thou shalt not read novels in class." he went up front of the class and began reading the sex scene out loud. He didn't realise what he was reading until he finished and then shut the book suddenly and walked out of class fuming. *shudders* I thankfully can't remember most of the words but I do remember trying to draw my head into my shell-less torso. And from then on I gained near godhood among the guys for discovering Chase and the girls looked at me like I was a pervert and they deduced that my writing talents would now go towards describing them should they come near me. :| The funny thing to this being that teacher never returned my book. Many of us remember him reading a book of the same size covered with a newspaper sheet.

haha no problem. Like Giulia said. Read Les Mis!!! That has the essence of all the others put in. JRR Tolkien's war scenes, Dostoevsky's philosophy, Herodotus's historical depictions and a Gandhian figure in Jean Valjean. haha I never realised this!!! Les Mis has every element I love in my other favourite books?!

lol good point. Never saw it that way. I guess newcomers to the bookshop will always appreciate the help. But then again the shop I frequent always has enough staff to help me find the book I can't find by myself. Usually that book will happen to be a tome of ancient proportions given I couldn't find it myself

I think she's talking along the lines of Anne Frank.

Haha I usually put down a lot of books because of the same reason. Makes me feel like the author put it there on purpose. I had G R R Martin's The Game Of Thrones with me for four years before I read it completely. He now falls under what is acceptable sex to me in fiction. But his gore is a little off the charts.

It's called Blossoms... lol The shopkeeper is this awesome guy who quit his awesome paying IT job to sell books because he likes the smell.