It seems to me that the best selling "Books" are stupid diet books, The South Beach Diet being the top seller right now.
What gets me is that if I wrote a diet book it would contain one page.
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#1 Eat Well
#2 Excersise often
#3 drink lots of water ________________________________________________
Follow those three steps and you will lose weight and get in shape, but no the diet books are all like 300 pages. Funny.
But not as funny as Dr. Phil's diet book, I busted a gut laughing when that came out. The LAST thing I think of when I look at Dr. Phil is Fitness and Nutrition, the dudes got a big ole' belly, so to have him come out with a diet book and see the amount of people buy it only makes me chuckle.
Bill O'Reilly's got a new book out.
"How to pick real friends."
Or some shit like that, that's a riot too.
It seems that if Dr. Phil and Bill O'rielly got together on the same ticket for the 2004 election they'd steam roll since between the 2 men, they know EVERYTHING.
Funny side note: A day or two ago, a gentleman came in looking for all of Ann Coulteir's books, and he purchased her new one and "THE SOUTH WAS RIGHT."
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Does everybody buy the Da Vinci Code? Our local library has a waiting list with 42 people on it to read that bit of sensationalistic sop!
I wish I worked at a bookstore. I wouldn't let people buy stuff I didn't approve of. They'd ask for Dr. Phil's diet book, but I'd secretly slip them Good Poems by Garrison Keillor. They'd thank me for it someday.
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quote:I wish I worked at a bookstore. I wouldn't let people buy stuff I didn't approve of. They'd ask for Dr. Phil's diet book, but I'd secretly slip them Good Poems by Garrison Keillor. They'd thank me for it someday.
. . . and if you were a waitress, I imagine that you'd serve them only foods that you approve of. They order a rack of ribs, but are served a tofu burger. Yum.
Actually, there are places where they do as you describe. In China, I think that when you try to buy Locke's Second Treatise on Government or Smith's The Wealth of Nations you open up the bag only to find that you've purchased The Little Red Book instead.
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Oh. Have I mentioned that I really enjoy working at a bookstore?
SUPERBENEFIT #7.
Last night we closed the big bookstore, and the closing crew had all worked hard from 8 to 10pm to straighten the store before we closed so we could get out as soon as possible.
So me and Ken were standing around doing a little bit of nothing, and our manager, Terri, asked us "Is everything straight?"
we say "Yes".
So she says "sticker the 75% of section down to a dollar."
Explanation: We've got an section in the store where we mark down a large selection of books to 50% off cover price, then after a while it is marked down to 75% off, then after a while everything is a dollar.
So as I marked everything down a dollar, I grabbed what might appeal to me...
A book on the Art, Photography and history of the Civil war. Cover Price $121.50 - My price $1.00
A book on the Art, Photographay and history of World war II. Cover Price $90.00 - My price $1.00
A large hardcover book on the greatest photographs over the span of Sports Illustrated swimsuit editions. Cover Price $50.00 - My Price $1.00.
Two beautiful painting journals - Total cover price - $26.00 - My price $2.00.
A big book on Java Script - Cover Price $50.00 - My Price - $1.00
A big book on Flash MX design - Cover Price $50.00 - My Price $1.00
A book on biblical interpritations of Dreams - cover price $11.95 - My Price $1.00.
Wow.
$400 dollars in books for about $10.00.
Not bad, eh?
This is all on top of the used CD's we get at the end of the month, when I got Pearl Jam's Riot Act, Counting Crows Hard Candy and Ben Harper's new album for free.
I love working in a bookstore.
<T>
PS. we just put up a whole OSC tree with a wide range of his works.
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