A.J. has often reflected that, bit by bit, all the best things in the world are being carved away like fat from meat. First, it had been the record s… - Gabrielle Zevin

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A.J. has often reflected that, bit by bit, all the best things in the world are being carved away like fat from meat. First, it had been the record stores, and then the video stores, and then newspapers and magazines, and now even the big chain bookstores were disappearing everywhere you looked. From his point of view, the only thing worse than a world with big chain bookstores was a world with NO big chain bookstores.