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Topic: Steal this book |
sleazenation
Operative |
posted November 23, 1999 08:31 PM
 
As a kind of response to numbernun's post i'd like to see what the
coolest/ most recent book everyone has stolen is.......
and to get the ball rolling--
I stole a collection of Bertolt Brecht plays from a furnished
flat that i rented whilst living in toronto.....
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grant
Operative |
posted November 23, 1999 08:51 PM
I've mostly given up on book stealing. I did get a hardcover copy of
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" from an eerily empty Bahamian
hotel.
I used to be a terrible thief though. Most of my targets
stole from me in turn, I think. Sort of an invisible market in
paperback sci-fi/fantasy, I guess.
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seeker
Operative |
posted November 23, 1999 09:11 PM
The last books I stole, and i hesitate to say that word, more like
liberated was when me and some friends of mine were set to clean a
whole store room in my school. This storeroom was had probably not
seen people seen 1960-70, and we found books from 1863 there. Anyway
that room contained lots of books and stuff which were for reading
in class and the like. And seeing as the rest of the school got to
watch movies and the like while we were pressured to do this
(charity work, Operation DailyWork (direcly translated form
norwegian)), I felt quite justified by procuring these books.
The
titles and the writes are norwegian, so they probably wouldn't make
much sense for you people.
-Seeker (gettin' jiggy with it)
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JackFrost
Operative |
posted November 23, 1999 11:08 PM
I liberated all the Invisibles trades back from a guy I gave them to
who clearly didn't get what was going on here...
Figured they could be put in better hands.
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matsya
Operative |
posted November 23, 1999 11:50 PM
A tip of the hat to St. Swithin's day:
I stole a paperback copy of Catcher in the Rye.
Didn't do it because of the comic - it was years earlier, but I
think Grant and I were both touching on the same archetype.
m.
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Jackie Susann
Operative |
posted November 24, 1999 01:47 AM
Just a note to remind people that the 26th of November is
International Steal Something Day. Enjoy.
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70sman
Operative |
posted November 24, 1999 08:45 AM
As well as the thefts admitted to in another thread , I once
liberated a copy of 3 Men on the Bummle by Jerome K Jerome from a
WWII ammo crate I found behind a cricket pavilion.
which is
possibly the most quintasentially(sp?) English thing Ive ever
done.
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guvnor
Operative |
posted November 24, 1999 09:23 AM
I stole a copy of H.P. Lovecraft's "Fungi From Yuggoth and other
poems" from my high school library. The fact that it had not been
checked out since 1981 served to ease whatever pangs of guilt I
might have been feeling at the time. (Now I'm just guilty I didn't
steal that edition of "At the Mountains of Madness" too)
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Twig the Wonder Kid
Operative |
posted November 24, 1999 06:49 PM
I'm intending to rob ianjones's house when I'm in the Midlands over
Christmas.
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Citizen Smith
Operative |
posted November 24, 1999 08:11 PM
I liberated a copy of The Teachings of Buddha from a hotel in Osaka,
Japan, four years ago. Thought it was rude not to.
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matsya
Operative |
posted November 25, 1999 12:34 AM
From my university Library I stole a copy of Buckminster Fuller's
Universe, a really good biography of the man himself. Now there's
someone that could have been invisible. I'm pretty sure Grant hasn't
read him, because if he had, Bucky would be in the comic by now.
m.
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ianjones
Myrmidon |
posted November 25, 1999 07:47 AM
Twig, I will leave out a saucer of milk for you, and copies of Stead
and Mrs Simpson, because it ought be revived now we've forgotton
that awful film (What Film? JA)
The last stolen copies of Illuminatus I had, I left in my flat in
Beruit, when we abandoned it in 84, in the vain hope it would give
someone some insight.
The best Book was a copy of the I Ching, in an unusual Jungian
translation. But it wasn't theft because I consulted it first and it
told me to do it. THe book has a history and is I think about to
come back to me because I need it again.
[This message has been edited by ianjones (edited November 25,
1999).]
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number nun
Operative |
posted November 25, 1999 08:49 PM
Stealing books from libraries is one of the most evil things you can
do. Straight up. But I did steal a copy of a Danny Dunn book from a
waldenbooks about 15 years ago. I must say that I am not
ashamed.
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Ganesha
Myrmidon |
posted November 25, 1999 10:00 PM
Yeah, forget child-murderers, let's burn the library-thieves!
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Gentleman Assassin
Operative |
posted November 26, 1999 04:05 PM
When young I took a copy of 'Wagstaffe the wind-up boy' from our
local Library.
A couple of months later they told me I hadn't
returned it, although I could clearly remember I had. after much
debate it was decided their computers had made a mistake, and they
bought themselves a new copy.
3 months later, guess what I found
under my bed.
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number nun
Operative |
posted November 26, 1999 11:06 PM
okay so child murder is more grave, but library theft still sucks. I
tried to borrow a copy of "the magical tools of William Butler
Yeates" a couple of years ago, but alas it was stolen. Tried to get
a copy of "You Can't Win" by Jack Black, a book that greatly
influenced William Burroughs as a teenager, wanted to see what it
was about, but again- stolen! So i guess I'm greedy-I like books and
I like to read them!
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King Mob
Operative |
posted November 27, 1999 07:15 AM
yes, don't steal from the public. but it's alright to steal from
faceless organizations. steal from those who can afford to be stolen
from, redistribute the power. I AM ROBIN HOOD!
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Loz
Operative |
posted November 27, 1999 09:20 AM
Speaking as a librarian...
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guvnor
Operative |
posted November 28, 1999 07:56 AM
Hmm, if you're Robin Hood, don't forget to give as well as you
steal.
It's fun to leave copies of 'Stark Fist' lying around Christian
Science readig rooms,
and various loompanix texts (like: "A
Beginner's guide to pickpocketing" and "disruptive terrorism") in
your school library.
I can't say I've ever left anything that interesting though. The
best I've managed
was an old Tom Wolfe book with a
completely
unreadable spine.
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70sman
Operative |
posted November 28, 1999 10:18 AM
My college library includes such titles as "Fascism for Beginners"
and "the ABC of child abuse".
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JackFrost
Operative |
posted December 08, 1999 10:34 PM
I completely forgot about this when this thread was 'new', but you
guys might still find it amusing...
I actually stole the preview copy of Invisibles Vol. 1 from the
DC table the year it premeired. It wasn't going to come out for
another couple of weeks and I couldn't wait (Grant had been on
hiatus for 2 fucking years, you see). The staff behind the Vertigo
table were all occupied with other interests (i.e. had their backs
turned) and I nicked it. Someone must have spilled or drooled
something onto it because it has a water stain on the cover.
I mean, I'm sure they had more copies (at least I'm pretty sure),
but to actually steal Invisibles #1 before really knowing what it
was all about seems kinda prophetic...
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sleazenation
Operative |
posted December 08, 1999 10:41 PM
Ah, Jack, but did you lock it in the trunk of a stilen car before
booting it of a cliff too?
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JackFrost
Operative |
posted December 08, 1999 11:09 PM
LOL, sleazenation 
Alas, no, it is still safe and sound with all of the other issues
of the series.
As much as I love Grant, I've spent too long collecting to just
chuck them over a cliff. Also, if I do that, I can't give them to
others to read and infect *them*, too.
[This message has been edited by JackFrost (edited December 08,
1999).]
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Ganesha
Myrmidon |
posted December 08, 1999 11:56 PM
Mmmm. Make sure you DO pass them onto other eventually, though...
<smirks in a holier-than-thou kinda way>
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JackFrost
Operative |
posted December 10, 1999 05:35 PM
Well, I always get them *back* Ganesha, but I do lend them out as
frequently as I can...
I understand the whole thing about giving them up, I just don't
*want* to.
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