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By Stephanie · 3501 posts · 467 views
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Bibliophiles themselves, reviewers clearly wanted to like The Man Who Loved Books Too Much. The degree to which they actually did depended on how they viewed Bartlett's authorial choices. Several critics were drawn in by Bartlett's own involvement in the story, as in the scene where she follows Gilkey through a bookstore he once robbed. But others found this style lazy, boring, or overly "literary," and wished Bartlett would just get out of the way. A few also thought that Bartlett ascribed unbe
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The true story of John Gilkey whose perverted sense of right and his "rights" entice him to "collect" books which almost always lands him in jail since they belong to someone else. The author finds herself conflicted by how close she is the the ongoing story.
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"Even though anyone can look up photos of books...online and view up-close images where every mark on the page is in sharp detail, every year thousands choose to visit the books [in the Huntington Library:] in person. In addition to being objects of beauty, like all ancient books, they provide a physical link to the past. This is one of their most powerful, enduring effects." p. 104
Winston Churchill quote on books: "...if you cannot read them, at any rate handle them...Peer into ...more
"Even though anyone can look up photos of books...online and view up-close images where every mark on the page is in sharp detail, every year thousands choose to visit the books [in the Huntington Library:] in person. In addition to being objects of beauty, like all ancient books, they provide a physical link to the past. This is one of their most powerful, enduring effects." p. 104
Winston Churchill quote on books: "...if you cannot read them, at any rate handle them...Peer into ...more
Bibliophilia - from the perspective of a book thief, rare book dealers, and the author's (Bartlett). Big money involved. As a side note, read an interesting blurb in last Sunday's paper. Poe's first book of poems (40 pages, c1827) recently sold for a whopping $662,500 at Christie's!
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Very interesting premise that would have been better as a long magazine article. Certainly stranger than fiction
I love all things "book", so there was more then a fair chance that I was going to love a book about books and the people who collect them! This is the story of John Gilkey, a book klepto and Ken Sanders a rare book collector and bibliodick, that makes it his life story to capture Gilkey.
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Enthralling and well-written. The author does a great job painting a portrait of an inveterate thief of rare books.
Jun 15, 2009
Laura Ellis
marked it as to-read
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Charisse
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Julie
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Mimi
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Anne
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Amanda
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