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Post by Dominique on Nov 5, 2006 6:45:13 GMT -5
what's the weirdest one you've come across? In my old copy of Lolita (which I've since gotten rid of because I didn't enjoy it) there was one that said Christmas 1965 To Rob, Lolita, what else? Merry Christmas from John. It made me think of some kind of perverted ring of old men, because they were both male and it seemed odd. Lol that's just my rampant imagination though.
I like finding other people's inscriptions in books, but it's kind of sad that they're giving away a gift someone gave them, or they've died and their estate has sold it or something...
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Post by Bina on Nov 5, 2006 7:25:54 GMT -5
I haven´t found that many inscriptions but I found a lot of postcards or bills or stuff like that. It´s kind of fun to read the cards, some are more than 20 years old!
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on Nov 5, 2006 9:12:42 GMT -5
I think it's the saddest when you see a book at a used book store and it says "To so-and-so, Merry Christmas! I hope you really enjoy this book! Lots of Love, whatsherface" or something to that extent and then you look over the book and it's clearly in too pristine a condition to have ever been read. That always makes me very sad.
I can't remember the weirdest one I've come across, but I did find a book where, right in the spot I always sign my name in my books, there were two other people's names, in a list, right in the exact spot. I signed my name below, and thought that was so cool. Knowing that copy has been enjoyed by 2 people before me, and having their names right there is pretty cool. Hopefully some day it will get passed down again and a new name added.
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Post by Bina on Nov 5, 2006 13:27:02 GMT -5
I know, I´ve seen lots of books at the used books sale that have never been opened before. What´s up with that? Do you always sign your name in your books? I usually do so before lending them to others but it feels weird. Once I found some kind of card in a book that was clearly from the third Reich. It showed a perfect Aryan family. So creepy!
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Post by zeldafitzgerald on Nov 5, 2006 13:45:50 GMT -5
I always write my name and the year that I bought it. I started doing that several years ago, because my parents have a huge library, and whenever I went in there to look at books, I thought it was so cool to pull down a book of F. Scott Fitzgerald's short stories and find "Ray Wilson 1970" inside. I just thought it was so fun to know exactly when the book was purchased, when it joined his collection.
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Post by Bina on Nov 6, 2006 14:03:34 GMT -5
That is cool. I should start doing that.
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Post by bookaddict on Nov 6, 2006 14:13:07 GMT -5
I hate writing in my books, but that really does sound interesting. I think i'll start writing my name and year.
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Post by applechamp on Nov 7, 2006 11:01:09 GMT -5
I know, I´ve seen lots of books at the used books sale that have never been opened before. What´s up with that? Do you always sign your name in your books? I usually do so before lending them to others but it feels weird. Once I found some kind of card in a book that was clearly from the third Reich. It showed a perfect Aryan family. So creepy! That's really interesting. I'm studying the third Reich right now. What did the card say? -Lauren
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Post by holliday on Nov 8, 2006 14:19:04 GMT -5
When I was little I found a note made in a book to my dad's first wife from whoever gave it to her. I didn't know my dad was married before....
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Post by Isa on Nov 8, 2006 14:39:19 GMT -5
That must have sparked quite a discussion!!
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Post by holliday on Nov 8, 2006 14:47:15 GMT -5
It caused me to ask about it at the dinner table. Not much was said about it though, other than yes, he was married before my mom. My parents have lots of secrets, well, they think they're secrets anyway.
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Post by Isa on Nov 8, 2006 16:01:26 GMT -5
With my parents it's pretty much all out in the open - to the point where I sometimes wish they had more secrets! But my mom did say once that she's got boxes full of stuff and that we'd have a good laugh looking at it after she's gone, which makes me wonder....!
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Post by Bina on Nov 9, 2006 14:01:29 GMT -5
That's really interesting. I'm studying the third Reich right now. What did the card say? -Lauren[/quote]
It was a picture card, seemed like it was a piece of a collection. There was no text except for something like perfect family. Just a piece of propaganda advertising how you were supposed to look and behave like.
Which aspect are you concentrating your studies on?
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Post by Kristie on Nov 9, 2006 17:01:47 GMT -5
sorry, but your mention of the aryan stuff reminded me of the KKK in the US. i just wondered the other day if the KKK would have fought the Nazis or join them. There's a website I was looking at for my ethnic studies class, about the civil rights movement in the 1950-60s, that was the KKK website. The disclaimer was way creepy (http://www.kkkk.net)
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Post by Bina on Nov 10, 2006 4:45:15 GMT -5
That is so unbelievable. How do people come to think in those ways? I know violance is not the answer but I´d really like to run them over. They don´t want "Personen mit unmoralischem Charakter" ?? How sarcastic is that?
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