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Post by Craig Herbertson on Sept 1, 2010 3:41:23 GMT
The smoking ban destroyed the trade of a lot of the pubs with older clientele. I still remember the days of smoking on the plane to Spain, on the top deck of the bus and the cinema. My anecdotal evidence based on working in hundreds of bars every year and talking to the landlords suggests that old folks generally stopped going to bars. I know many of the people who went out of business and universally they blamed the smoking ban.
It's a highly emotive and contentious issue. Smokers have become the modern witch.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 1, 2010 7:58:08 GMT
when the library delivers on the book, i'll quote lemmings original post and give the book a new thread as, in the unlikely event of Mr. Horowitz ever stumbling upon this thread, i wouldn't want him to think we're blaming him for the smoking ban, extreme flautist abuse, stoke-on-trent and other atrocities too vile to mention. Am planning to pick up where i left off with Chris Priestly's Tales From The Black Ship now the bride and monkey the magnificent have done with it. They loved it - favourite story being the when-snails-attack shocker Nature.
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Post by mattofthespurs on Sept 2, 2010 11:06:04 GMT
I've got an even better one; how about pubs selling cheap beer AND full up with lots and lots of books? With a separate room for non-smokers and flute players. I'd happily donate a few of my overflow volumes to the cause. I admit, I'm so sick of trying to find any fiction older than last year's in our groovy snacking stop (or indeed, any non-fiction more recent than a Haynes manual for a 1975 Hillman Imp) that I bought a Kindle; I can download hundreds and thousands of out of print lovelies without leaving my chair, idle shite that I am. I know, I know, I'm a techno traitor, but needs must when an illiterate yob city council drives. I've just bought the missus a Kindle for her Birthday. Personally it never interested me as I like the look and feel of a book and that I assumed, incorrectly it would seem, that the type of fiction that I enjoyed (the fiction that is championed here) would not be available for the Kindle. I see that many out of copyright stuff is availble on Amazon. Could you perhaps point me in the direction of more? Gobless
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Post by lemming13 on Sept 2, 2010 20:54:57 GMT
Well, I just aquired more or less the complete works of William Hope Hodgson from the Kindle store for zero pence - count 'em, zero - as well as a lot of the more obscure tales of Ambrose Bierce; and there's a lot more Kindle friendly material available here, including a link to Project Gutenberg; www.archive.org/details/texts. You could try forgottenbooks.org as well, and I've had a lot of interesting material via this site; www.sacred-texts.com/
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Post by jamesdoig on Sept 2, 2010 21:47:45 GMT
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Post by mattofthespurs on Sept 3, 2010 6:37:35 GMT
Thank you both kindly. I shall have a peruse. Merci!
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