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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (67238)	2/28/2005 12:23:39 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

That is truly sad. I've never been there, but just knowing it's there is comforting, that I COULD go there some day if I wanted to. Much like Hay-on-Wye, aka Booktown, which has nearly 40 bookstores. I have been dealing with one of them, Stella and Rose's, for more than 10 years, filling out, among others, my Arthur Ransome collection and picking up copies for young additions to the extended family. Start a young'un on Arthur Ransome books when they're about 8 and you've got a perpetual source of Christmas and birthday gifts for years to come. Some day, I promise myself, I will go there. As I have wanted to go to McMurtry's. Someday.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (67238)	2/28/2005 8:19:49 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

Hi Tom, What sad news. We have been to Archer City a couple of times, and Carranza2 has been a frequent visitor there. If he is reading DAR, no doubt he had the same sinking feeling you and I did reading that article. I hate when things end-- especially good things. Barnes and Nobles are all well and good, but nothing compares to finding a dusty, whimsical collection of strange books in a hole-in-the-wall bookstore. We have an unspoken rule in our house that when we see a used books sign on our travels, we go in- no discussion about it. I equate the rush I get from buying books and adding them to the stack of unread books by my bed, to taking drugs. We admit it's our addiction and we make no apologies. There is no way we will get through all the books by the time we die, but we go on buying. I have the book my mother was reading when she died. My Pamet-A Cape Cod Chronicle, though I've never read it because I am superstitious. You just never know when some weird twilight zoney thing might happen. That book might be cursed. And there are still so many, many books on my stack to get through.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (67238)	2/28/2005 3:42:33 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Terrible news. Perhaps someone will pick up where McMurtry will drop off. Perhaps he'll have a change of heart. He is, after all, the poster boy for bibliomania. My first jaunt to Archer City took place before McMurtry opened up his shops, and I will continue to go there once a year regardless of the shops' closing. I do feel for the AC community, however. McMurtry gave it a much needed economic shot in the arm. Perhaps the worst thing from a selfish point of view is that my threats/requests that we retire to Archer City will now be met by my wife with even more derision than before. Perhaps I'll be able to buy the 1964 Goldwater for President poster he has in the main office which I've been lusting after for a decade.

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (67238)	3/1/2005 6:44:03 PM
From: Rainy_Day_Woman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

I love used book shops here, in any country I visit I always scour them where ever I find them, forage and rummage through piles and shelves treasure troves there was one shop in New Orleans french quarter that was my favorite - typical aged quarter structure, long, narrow, crooked, high ceilings - books everywhere, dripping off shelves, askew piles on the floor - little rhyme or reason - several literary cats residing among the books, sleeping in nooks, crannies - cat napping on shakespeare, swatting at book ribbons it's gone now I know how the people of Archer feel