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Fire Walk With Me

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12. Libraries are life!

Reply to devilgrrl (Original post)

Thu Feb 14, 2013, 11:14 PM

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This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] devilgrrl Feb 2013 OP

Talk about "entitled" Aerows Feb 2013 #1

Self-serving ignorant cynical twaddle jsr Feb 2013 #2

This message was self-deleted by its author devilgrrl Feb 2013 #31

Bureaucratic Book Burning kairos12 Feb 2013 #3

Your last sentence says it all Angry Dragon Feb 2013 #4

They'll take my librarians....... rdharma Feb 2013 #5

libraries help people learn to LIKE reading, Mr. Deary 0rganism Feb 2013 #6

What a moron. It all starts at some level of "free". dkf Feb 2013 #7

Libraries buy the damn books dixiegrrrrl Feb 2013 #9

I wonder if he is against used book stores too. dkf Feb 2013 #17

And book sharing! Quantess Feb 2013 #34

good news! libraries can now remove all his books from their shelves as "obsolete" nt msongs Feb 2013 #8

"This is not the Victorian age" They_Live Feb 2013 #10

Businessmen hate the word "free," don't they. reformist2 Feb 2013 #11

Ayn Rand fans hate the word free. Initech Feb 2013 #16

Libraries are life! Fire Walk With Me Feb 2013 #12

he writes childrens books which are treated just like kids clothes SmileyRose Feb 2013 #13

Asshole. Aristus Feb 2013 #14

what a jerk... Puzzledtraveller Feb 2013 #15

Disgusting. TDale313 Feb 2013 #18

Whenever someone uses the word "taxpayer" ElboRuum Feb 2013 #19

I'd noticed that too n/t Prophet 451 Feb 2013 #20

Very true! LeftishBrit Feb 2013 #35

Deary is a moron. The purpose of a library is the ability to research, not the promulgation JVS Feb 2013 #21

No, no, he's right. His books shouldn't be in a library. He should remove them. aquart Feb 2013 #28

I say...bullshit! DearHeart Feb 2013 #22

What an ASS! burrowowl Feb 2013 #23

"at the expense of authors" um the libraries buy their books you entitled ass. nt TeamPooka Feb 2013 #24

What an idiot. Sorry, stupidity like this deserves nothing more. n/t Demo_Chris Feb 2013 #25

REGRESSIVE. patrice Feb 2013 #26

Right. Horrible Histories author elleng Feb 2013 #27

hard to understand why a writer would badmouth libraries, but fuck him. i bet his books suck too. HiPointDem Feb 2013 #29

In our county, there's a space on the tax form asking if you want to support the library fadedrose Feb 2013 #30

He sounds like musicians and moviemakers lbrtbell Feb 2013 #32

I think that a society that creates libraries is truly civilized renate Feb 2013 #33

Obviously wants parents to buy his children's books no_hypocrisy Feb 2013 #36

I'm sure he won't mind LWolf Feb 2013 #37

Another children's writer, Julia Donaldson, gave a refreshingly sensible response LeftishBrit Feb 2013 #38