| I have all but stopped going to bookstores in the last ten years, because of the corporate feel of the major stores and their merchandising of garbage books too numerous to mention, although the names O'Reilly and Coulter do come to mind. Even university presses are publishing cookbooks and even sillier titles, going for the goonish lifestyles market. You know, the one that turned everyone into cigar, wine, and mustard experts overnight--or, actually, with each successive breezy magazine article or "best stuff" book. Yecchhhh!! |