The coin of the realm is now, and has always been, the fiction that young white men read, and self-satisfied young white men, the kind who love to stick it to the man, are the majority of book shoplifters.
I have a hard time picturing independent booksellers as "the man," myself. But I am not a young white man.
1. Charles Bukowski
2. Jim Thompson
3. Philip K. Dick
4. William S. Burroughs
5. Any Graphic Novel
This is pretty much the authoritative top five, the New York Times best-seller list of stolen books.
At The Stranger.
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It's disturbing that so many of the books are stolen to be resold. I'd have more sympathy for the penniless thief who had a desperate desire to read
Although there is always the library.
So would I, and some library books are pretty dirty. I think it's scandalous to eat or pick your nose while reading a borrowed book.
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