Comments on: Stealing Books http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/stealing-books/ Reflections of a working writer and reader Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:09:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: M.E Ellis http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/stealing-books/#comment-108058 M.E Ellis Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:22:59 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/stealing-books/#comment-108058 Hahahahahaha! :o) Hahahahahaha!

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]]> By: Ali http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/stealing-books/#comment-108056 Ali Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:17:17 +0000 http://johnbakersblog.co.uk/stealing-books/#comment-108056 Great piece - Many years ago I interview a few UK crime fiction booksellers and discovered the most 'boosted' [aka 'shoplifted'] books from the Crime Fiction section were - Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan-Doyle's Sherlock Holmes series I pondered on the philosphical significance on why these two authors of Crime Fiction appealed to the contemporary criminal? But soon discovered that shop-lifting criminals are not that well-read and hence only knew Christie and Holmes. However a few crime-writers I know who tutor in the UK Prison system have told me that these hardened criminals have a much wider reading list due to the time spent on Her Majesty's Time <strong>jb says</strong>: Every cloud has a silver lining, eh, Ali? Great piece - Many years ago I interview a few UK crime fiction booksellers and discovered the most ‘boosted’ [aka 'shoplifted'] books from the Crime Fiction section were -

Agatha Christie and Arthur Conan-Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes series

I pondered on the philosphical significance on why these two authors of Crime Fiction appealed to the contemporary criminal? But soon discovered that shop-lifting criminals are not that well-read and hence only knew Christie and Holmes.

However a few crime-writers I know who tutor in the UK Prison system have told me that these hardened criminals have a much wider reading list due to the time spent on Her Majesty’s Time

jb says: Every cloud has a silver lining, eh, Ali?

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