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DearHeart

(692 posts)

22. I say...bullshit!

Reply to devilgrrl (Original post)

Fri Feb 15, 2013, 01:59 AM

Feb 2013

Libraries around my area are always packed with people. There is one bookstore within a 20 mile radius...and that area is very congested and a pain to get to. People use the computers, they use the quiet rooms for study groups, and reading in general. Ours has a fantastic DVD rental program with lots of great titles and they have the "Friends of the Library" sales all the time to generate more money.

These asshats want to kill off the libraries, simply because they don't want the citizens of the country to be informed and literate. That should be enough of a reason to keep giving to and using your public libraries!

There is no way that libraries are going to die!

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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