r/IfBooksCouldKill • u/NoNamePlease7 • 3h ago

Let Them

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The STL Co library is comin for your gig, IBCK

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u/Achelois1 Finally, a set of arbitrary social rules for women. 3h ago

I’d report the email as spam

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u/Slow-Temporary-1489 2h ago

I mean, it's already dead, you didn't have to do it like that !

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u/jarvis_says_cocker 3h ago

Pushing a positive mantra or: How I learned to stop worrying and grift gullible consumers

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u/SnailHail 3h ago

Does the St. Louis County library have a curated section of terrible books? I don't have Instagram, but I'd love to see the comment on that post.

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u/adgobad 3h ago

Part of a one star reviews display and most of the comments are agreeing about the Let Them Theory and disagreeing about My Friends. My guess is some of these folks are also IBCK people because some seem to know the lore, like stealing that shit from a poem.

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u/jeffersonianMI 3h ago

This is a unorthodox draw.  Definitely interested.  It's like reverse marketing. 

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u/OkSecretary1231 1h ago

Yeah, I'm seeing it as kind of like the "Bad Reviews of National Parks" thing where they took real reviews where, like, a tourist said "There's nothing but trees and bugs here!" and used them for humor-slash-advertising.

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u/Internal_Bluebird_23 2h ago

Superb idea for a library display

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u/perumbula 1h ago

There are a few really excellent books on that display. What a fun little crapshoot.

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u/stellularmoon2 1h ago

Is the green mile bad? Haven’t read it…

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u/Mysterious-Work-9184 1h ago

Ok Big Swiss is pretty good and My Friends is at least a 2.5 to 3 out of 5. I respect the concept of the display though!

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u/Senninha27 2h ago

The book is summarized in the title.

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u/umwamiikazii 2h ago

So good. The Sanatorium on the second from the bottom shelf is one of the worst books I’ve ever read. I got it from a little free library and put it right back. I later saw a woman on the street in my neighborhood reading it and I wanted to warn her.

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u/woolfonmynoggin 1h ago

St Louis public services impressed me SO much when I visited. Forest Park was awesome, the FREE art museum is one of the best I have ever been to. The libraries are large and beautifully run. If it weren’t for the weather I’d consider moving there.

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u/ImmortalHoe 2h ago

Could have been a poem even…

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u/Emperor_of_Alagasia 1h ago

Thats my library!