/lit/ - Literature

>>6875850
Roberto Bolanos wannabes.

>>6875866

>>6875850
I was caught stealing a book that I ironically already had on my e-reader. Was really shaky afterward

>>6875850
i steal from bookdepository, never been caught.

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/

Hallelujah

>at bookshop
>hearing staff talking while restocking the shelves
>"Wheres the Charles Bukowski?"
>"Stolen. Again"

Ron Rosenbaum, an author and New York Observer columnist, wrote in 1999 that Barnes & Noble had a list of these authors whose books are the most frequently stolen from that book-store chain (or perhaps the Union Square store in the chain, where his source, "a helpful clerk", worked): Martin Amis, Paul Auster, Georges Bataille, William S. Burroughs, Italo Calvino, Raymond Chandler, Michel Foucault, Dashiell Hammett, Jack Kerouac, Jeanette Winterson, but none more frequently than books by Charles Bukowski.[4][5]

In 2008, Constant gave this list, which he called "pretty much the authoritative top five, the New York Times best-seller list of stolen books": Bukowski, Jim Thompson, Philip K. Dick, and Burroughs, along with "any graphic novel". Constant wrote that other popular targets are books by Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats, Chuck Palahniuk, Haruki Murakami, and Mark Z. Danielewski, and the most-stolen books tend to be a steady group with little variation over time.[2] As of late 2009, Danielewski's House of Leaves was the most frequently stolen book from Vroman's Bookstore in Pasadena, California, according to a store manager there.[1]

In the United Kingdom, The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides was the most-shoplifted book, according to a January 2008 article in The Telegraph.[6]

St. Mark's Bookshop in the East Village of Manhattan, like Barnes & Noble, moves frequently-stolen titles behind the counter. At that book store, as of late 2009, the books behind the counter included works by Amis, Bukowski, Burroughs, Raymond Carver, Don DeLillo and Jack Kerouac. Sometimes the staff moves books back to the shelves with the idea that a book's popularity for theft may lessen over time. "Amis went out and came right back," a store manager told a writer for The New York Times.[1]

According to Rosenbaum, "[I]f you look at who's actually doing the shoplifting, they're not really down-and-out, lower-depths types but like to pose as being down and out, and shoplifting is part of the aura."[5] Constant wrote, "[F]iction 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."

>walk into Salvation Army outpost
>dress like the one percent
>Hide a folded cardboard box under shirt
>go into the books section
>unfold and start collecting books
>walk up to counter asking where the donation drop off location is
>walk to area until out of sight
>sneak to automobile

Living the literary lifestyle gentlemen.

>>6875873

What did they do to you? Did you get fined or have to community service like Tao Lin?

I've traveled a bit and been caught a couple of times:

In a 1st world city they make you pay or call the cops
In a 1st world village they ask you why and call the cops feeling bad about it
In a 3rd world city they call the cops and make you pay later
In a 3rd world village they dont call cops but use violence in the backroom

not to generalize tho, im sure it depends on who you are and where you are. Being in an overnight prison, believe it or not, can be a quite interesting experience.

>>6875910
They roughed me up a bit, but I don't think they're going to actually press charges. It happened recently and it just causes me a lot of anxiety

i stole a copy of On Man In The Universe from this local book store owned by an old gypsy woman

i swear she knows, she probably cursed me oh well

>>6875919

It's understandable that you're anxious Anon. I hope it all works out for the best.

I'm putting this on the inside of my novel once I find a publisher:

>This book is copyrighted by the author (all rights reserved) and anybody caught stealin' it will be mighty good friends of mine, cause I don't give a darn. Take it. Read it. Publish it. Pass it out in the street. I wrote it and that's all I wanted to do.

>>6875967
>implying

>>6875906
you must be a proud man

>>6875967
Good idea, Anon. You wouldn't want anyone to think you weren't middle class.

>>6876034
This is why I hate rich people

I stole 11 books from my high school library. The punishment was sitting in a room reading all day.

>>6875875
They stole my money.

>>6876079
Then steal back. Level the playing field.

>>6876117
how can you steal back from a website?

>>6875893
true, but a nice paperback in your hands cant be replaced