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Your very own bookstore!

dele

dele

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I've been thinking about opening a bookshop recently. Not right now, but someday when I have a lot of money, and a lot more books.

If you could open your very own bookstore, what would you call it, and which books would you have in it?

I for one would ban romance books from my store. I would probably lose a lot of business from laughing at every person who tries to buy a romance book from me. :D
 
I would call mine 'murphyz' (how original) just becuase I have wanted that name as my own business fro the last 11 years (since I was 14, so I won't go through the various businesses I have wanted to own).

It would probably be a second hand bookstore specialising in rare books and author readings.

Mxx
 
I like the author readings idea! I didn't even think of that! I wonder how much it would cost to host some of my favourite authors? Probably a lot. :rolleyes:
 
Most authors, I imagine, would do it as part of their contractual obligations to promote books. Most bookstores charge for priority spacing (something I disagree with) which means publishers are able to buy the best space in the store to have their book. I imagine if they agree to have an author signing in that store would help to lower that price.

I'll endeavour to find out for sure though.

I live in a suburb of London and notice that some authors od sign this far out of 'the city'. Our local Ottakers has Ian Banks signing soon. I can't imagine that the store would pay for him being there themselves.

Mxx
 
At least in the US, the authors do signings for the pleasure of selling many books. One of the local bookstores has a good relationship and reputation for "literary" authors so they all go there. A shame, the store is staffed by pretentious prigs. Ah, well.

I have worked in a chain bookstore and have talked to someone often who owns a secondhand bookstore, and it's a lot of work. You have to choose your stock carefully, if you have limited room and resources. I'd consider a used bookstore/internet cafe if I had the money. I'd specialize in fiction, regardless of genre. But I'm not proud, I'd be happy to sell all the self help and autobiographies that people will buy. Profit is good.
 
I'd have to name the store after myself, but I am afraid I don't care to divulge my last name here. I will tell you, though, it would only reinforce the idea that names are harbingers of destiny (though I don't own a bookstore, so maybe they aren't).
At any rate, I would try to stick with used books in most categories (except Romance, and probably "True Crime" - (I just don't get the fascination with serial killers)).
 
dele said:
I've been thinking about opening a bookshop recently. Not right now, but someday when I have a lot of money, and a lot more books.

If you could open your very own bookstore, what would you call it, and which books would you have in it?

I for one would ban romance books from my store. I would probably lose a lot of business from laughing at every person who tries to buy a romance book from me. :D
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Hmmm....I'd call it..."Sarahs dreamful book store" ;)
 
funes said:
I just don't get the fascination with serial killers.
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Their growth from being sporadic cases - notably since London, 1888 - to the assembly line range of today is a most interesting study. Exploring the reasons for the explosion in serial killers is fun.

Following the life of Dahmer in his biography; reading about Albert Fish's eating habits; finding out what Fritz Haarman or Andrei Chikatilo were up to when they were hanging around train stations in their respective nations; unravelling the clues as to who Jack the Ripper; the Green River Killer; and the Zodiac killer were; why an intelligent guy like Gary Heidnik was also obsessed with creating his own baby factory, why, on rare occasions, murderers such Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono or Leonard Lake and Charles Ng worked in pairs; why Ed Kemper shot his grandparents - all of these make serial killers interesting.

There's nothing glorious in reading about how Dahmer strangled his victims or how Jack the Ripper sliced his or even the odd hunting practive of H.H. Holmes (the inspiration for Robert Bloch's American Gothic)

Getting to know the killers is the interesting part; understanding them.

Understanding women who communicate with them whilst in prison (and, on occasion, marry them) is the bit I'll never understand.
 
Abulafia said:
Understanding women who communicate with them whilst in prison (and, on occasion, marry them) is the bit I'll never understand.
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What's to understand? I like dangerous men.
 
I think serial killers are pretty fascinating as long as they don't come close. We try to see them as different from normal people, pin them down like dead insects and study them to fully understand their motivations. Surley there has to be a reason for the recent explosion in their numbers and I'm waiting for someone to find out!
 
Freya said:
What's to understand? I like dangerous men.
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Dangerous men are attractive but I would not marry a guy who will chop me into pieces when we ran out of cold beer. :eek:

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Gizmo said:
Dangerous men are attractive but I would not marry a guy who will chop me into pieces when we ran out of cold beer. :eek:
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Women are always expecting men to live up to impossible standards and then complaining that they can never hold down a relationship. You're too fussy, that's your problem. :rolleyes:
 
Talk about double standards too. If I ran out of cold beer because of some foolish oversight of a man, I would think myself well within my rights to chop him up into little pieces.
 
Yes, maybe I'm way to normal and a nice relationship with a handsome young serial killer (with a least a dozen victims) would do a little character building to me. :D :D :D "Killing time" would certainly gain a whole new meaning.
 
As long as you get dinner on the table, and keep yourself looking pretty, I'm sure he'd never even raise an axe at you. He wouldn't just kill you out of hand. It takes two to tango. Behind every brutal serial killer there's always a woman who's let herself go.
 
Litany said:
.... Behind every brutal serial killer there's always a woman who's let herself go.
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That means men are weak. they have to find a certain woman as the excuse for killing. :cool: hehe. :p
 
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