What book would you leave behind?

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I like to seek out odd and unusual places to stay, visit and eat at when I travel. Once such place in Connecticut that offers wonderful pancakes became a favorite stop, what made this an unusual place was that it offers food and books. Visitors are offered free books or a chance to purchase one from the old, odd and out of the ordinary book shop in the basement. Books that are sold are often donated or left behind on purpose from other travelers.

I was lucky to find and purchase a very out of print Richard Brautigan “The pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster” for a few cents. I am still searching for several other books of his.

With that as a start:

What book would you search for and what book would you leave behind?


jz
 
What book would I search for? Well, Log Book for Grace by Robert Cushman Murphy comes to mind. Antarctic Island by Tim and Pauline Carr.

Leave behind Walking on Water by Derrick Jensen, or, Catfish and Mandela by Andrew X. Pham, or, Cradle to Cradle by William McDonough and Michael Braungart. These books because I think everybody should read them.
 
I would love to find a copy of 'Uncle Shel's ABZ Book'

There are lots of books that I could share...one of my duplicate Patrick O'Brian books...The Little Prince...Tree Climber's Companion
 
I quess if I found such a lovely coffee shop as you describe I'd search for a copy of Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene, then I could drift through the day drinking and eating and reading.

Book to leave behind...much harder, bit of a book hoarder me. However would probably like someone to read either Catcher in the Rye...J.D. Salinger, or Devil on the Cross..Ngugi wa Thiong’o both will show you parts of human psychy that are often taken for granted.
 
I'd leave behind John Steinbeck's little gem, Travels with Charley.

Since I collect English dictionaries, I've always got an eye out for Worcester's 1860 A Dictionary of the English Language. It was a masterpiece, and it was the definitive American dictionary for a brief period until a collective of lexicographers did a major revision of Webster's.
 
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...one of my duplicate Patrick O'Brian books...

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I figured you for a Patrick O'Brian guy.


I would look for Requiem - a book of photography by the press photographers who died in Vietnam and Indochina. I would leave behind yet another book about the Vietnam War, 'The Cat from Hue' by John Laurence.
 
I'd search for 'The Communist Manifesto' by Marx and Engels and leave behind 'The Wealth of Nations' by Adam Smith
 
For awhile now, I've been looking for a copy of "Moving Heavy Things" by Jan Adkins (recommended here or at a previous tree board).

For the leave-behind, I assume I should be choosing a book I like and want others to have a chance to see. My favorite would depend a lot on my mood, but as a Texas boy I'm leaning toward Larry McMurtry--"Horseman, Pass By" or maybe "Lonesome Dove." I could also see choosing a Cormac McCarthy. Since the Border Trilogy would be three books, maybe I'd pick "No Country For Old Men." OTOH, for pure vacation reading, you can't beat Elmore Leonard.
 
what do people do all day by Richard Scarry,
and leave the War of Don Emmanuelle's nether regions, by Louis de Bernieres
 
I was in a backpackers in New Zealand and it had a similair policy, ie take a book leave a book.

I left behind, East of Eden. and i took The Deer Hunter with me.

I havent backpacked for some time so i still have the copy i took, I`ll have to leave it somewhere again though.
 
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