A comment from the blogkeeper at Underbelly (thank you Buce) inspired me to look this up. I was fairly certain that I had reviewed the book in the recent past, and so I discovered this. a good book is worth appreciation--over and over and over again. Also, while you are appreciating, you might want to take in Underbelly's look at Helena as well. La Belle Hélène on March 18, 2005 8:11 AM In reading Helena last night I stumbled across a large number of passages I would like to share. But I thought the more important thing to share was an observation. Evelyn Waugh liked this best among his books. There are a good many reasons why this might be so: it is splendidly written--both the prose and the coherence are several notches above some of his earlier, more frenetic work. It is tightly done, with just the right strokes and exactly the right selection of detail. But I suspect the reason Waugh prized this above all the other works is that in t...
I used to go to Borders regularly because it had the best selection of new books, CDs, and DVDs around. But, now I haven't been in a Borders for several years because its inventory is no longer the best in town. B&N, although not having a large selection outside of the best sellers, is still better now than Borders.
ReplyDeleteThere's an independent bookstore still around, although probably not for much longer, that specializes in mysteries, which I visit regularly.
One comment on the article--that looks like a shift from a merchandising focus to a service focus.
ReplyDeleteFew large corporations are flexible enough to change course in a short period of time.
Dear Fred,
ReplyDeleteTo your last comment--true--but when you're in a commodities market, one of the things that markets your commodities are the services that you layer around it. Many companies are feeling this painful crunch in business today.
Shalom,
Steven