Rrrrgh.

[starfoozle]

Dear Public Library,

You fail at life. Seriously. How can you justify having absolutely none of the items on my 30-book-strong reading list when a fair amount of them are popular or even classic? What, no On The Road, no Brothers Karamazov, no Valis, and -- God help us -- no Carrie or The Stand, even? And it's not that all of these are mysteriously

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[starfoozle]

Oh, indeed. *fumes* I'd psyched myself up for reading something epic and Russian, just to find that they didn't have it at all.

[starfoozle]

I've actually managed to locate a very small used bookstore across town, so I shall check there. Some books are just worth owning, and I'm guessing this is one of them, based on your responses to it.

[layrenelement]

IF it makes you feel any better, our library here sucks too. Like horribly badly, at least the downtown branch. The one here isn't as bad as that one.

[starfoozle]

Eh, at least I'm not alone in the failure. Unfortunately we don't even have a local used book store to suppliment library material with, so I'm kind of screwed on the reading material front for now.

[betareject]

Wow what kind of crap library have you been visiting? No Stand, no Carrie? Holy those are like the staple books of every library....well the one's I've been to anyways...Maybe its like a conspiracy going on? >_>

[starfoozle]

*rolls eyes* I have no idea. My local library's made of multiple kinds of fail.

[starfoozle]

Okay, I'm in love with your icon.

Our library fails at life. *whines* I volunteered there last summer, and it's honestly more of a holding pen for small screechy cildren/temporary refuge for creepy and possibly homeless men than a place of knowledge and good literature,

I love old books. My dad gave me his copies of the Silmarillion and an entire boxed set of the Chronicles of Narnia that he had back in college, and they're all yellowed and fragile and incredibly cool.