# My Local Branch Library and Tila Tequila **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 2, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-branch-library-and-tila-tequila/508658 "2009-09-02T18:17:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-branch-library-and-tila-tequila/508658/21 "2009-09-02T22:53:08Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > In fairness, Tila Tequila’s breasts are much nicer than John Paul Sartre’s. Firmer too, despite JP’s well-known rigor. And… “dusk jacket”? I’m pretty sure that’s racist! ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-branch-library-and-tila-tequila/508658/22 "2009-09-02T23:12:40Z")
> [@Death\_of\_Rats](#): > > Look, if Heller or Sartre had included a hot, slutty asian bisexual they would stock more copies. They didn’t, so we have to make do with Tila. That was Verlaine, right? ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-branch-library-and-tila-tequila/508658/23 "2009-09-02T23:12:44Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > In fairness, Tila Tequila’s breasts are much nicer than John Paul Sartre’s. This thread… I mean “assertion” is useless without pics! … No… wait… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-branch-library-and-tila-tequila/508658/24 "2009-09-02T23:16:02Z")
Meh, I’ll bet it’s not as good as _Scar Tissue_, by Anthony Kiedis. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-branch-library-and-tila-tequila/508658/25 "2009-09-02T23:32:56Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Meh, I’ll bet it’s not as good as _Scar Tissue_, by Anthony Kiedis. Speaking of great breasts, er, chests… ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-branch-library-and-tila-tequila/508658/26 "2009-09-02T23:38:28Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Meh, I’ll bet it’s not as good as _Scar Tissue_, by Anthony Kiedis. I thought that book was pretty good. But after age 14 or so, Kiedis’s autobiography is basically: “got hooked on heroin, stopped using heroin, got hooked on heroin, stopped using heroin, got hooked on coke/heroin, stopped using coke, stopped using heroin, started using heroin again, stopped doing heroin, started doing coke again, stopped doing coke, started doing heroin again, started doing coke again, stopped doing coke, stopped doing heroin, started doing heroin again, started doing coke again,” for 600 pages. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-branch-library-and-tila-tequila/508658/27 "2009-09-02T23:43:18Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > I’ve not yet heard that Ms. Tequila is up for a Nobel Prize in Literature, but I’m sure that announcement can’t be far off. There must be a reason that the **West Tampa** Regional Library has a copy of “Hooking Up” and not Jean-Paul Sartre’s “The Age of Reason”. Nor does it contain a copy of Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” or “East of Eden”. I bolded the reason for you right there in your own quote. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-branch-library-and-tila-tequila/508658/28 "2009-09-02T23:54:26Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > Speaking of great breasts, er, chests… Among other things. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-branch-library-and-tila-tequila/508658/29 "2009-09-03T05:43:05Z")
My local library takes requests. They also clear old books off the shelves a lot. I’ve been repeatedly disappointed to see books I discovered at the library & \*loved \*taken off & sold for quarters. > [@maladroit](#): > > You should make some requests of your own. Sounds like they need some fresh input. This. I am personally responsible for some of what is now on my library’s shelves. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-branch-library-and-tila-tequila/508658/30 "2009-09-03T06:27:36Z")
You can bet that if your local library only stocked “Worthy” or “Literature” books, there would be people complaining there’s no books for average or below-average readers to enjoy. So yes, I can understand your frustration that (some of) The Classics aren’t readily available in your local library, but personally I’d rather people were reading anything- even if it is (most likely) ghostwritten celebrity fluff- than not reading at all. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-branch-library-and-tila-tequila/508658/31 "2009-09-03T06:28:52Z")
It could be worse. My local public library has most of the classics, but no Terry Pratchett whatsoever. Or Neil Gaiman. And they have Michael Crichton’s _Eaters of the Dead_ shelved in the non-fiction section (call number 948.02 CRI for all you Dewey Decimal lovers out there). OTOH, they have a never-ending book sale where I can purchase completely random titles from as far back as the 1940s, so I’ll forgive them their lack of taste. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-branch-library-and-tila-tequila/508658/32 "2009-09-03T11:32:55Z")
> [@Marlitharn](#): > > It could be worse. My local public library has most of the classics, but no Terry Pratchett whatsoever. My library says that the reason they have no Pratchett is because they are stolen or checked out and never returned. Apparently whatever they charge the patron for book replacement does not automatically go to replacing the missing book. So the OP merely needs to check out and throw away the Tila Tequila book. Could get expensive after a while, though. I’ll bet I could find thousands of books at the library that I don’t want to read. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-branch-library-and-tila-tequila/508658/33 "2009-09-03T13:13:02Z")
Personally, I think a branch library is a public service for people who can’t afford to buy what they want to read, to read - what _they_ want to read. Keeps them off the streets and out of trouble. 😉 I exaggerate, but if you want anything like a storehouse of the world’s knowledge, go downtown. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-branch-library-and-tila-tequila/508658/34 "2009-09-03T13:31:40Z")
Great. So if the local public library is there to serve the reading preferences of the general public, I guess in 10 years they’ll have nothing more than books by and about Kate and her rapscallion husband, Jon. A few years later each of the eight kids will have to weigh in with their own tell-alls. But hey- it’s what the people want, so I guess that’s what we’ll get. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-branch-library-and-tila-tequila/508658/35 "2009-09-03T13:33:53Z")
Well, how was it? ---
**Author:** ![tacoloco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tacoloco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tacoloco)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-branch-library-and-tila-tequila/508658/36 "2009-09-03T14:04:11Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > Great. So if the local public library is there to serve the reading preferences of the general public … it’s what the people want, so I guess that’s what we’ll get. The general public is everyone, including you. ---
**Author:** ![MsWhatsit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb8c5e/32.png) [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-branch-library-and-tila-tequila/508658/37 "2009-09-03T14:56:09Z")
> [@corkboard](#): > > Great. So if the local public library is there to serve the reading preferences of the general public, I guess in 10 years they’ll have nothing more than books by and about Kate and her rapscallion husband, Jon. A few years later each of the eight kids will have to weigh in with their own tell-alls. But hey- it’s what the people want, so I guess that’s what we’ll get. As has been pointed out, you are a member of the general public, and so am I. “General public” is not, as you seem to be using it, a synonym for “unwashed semi-illiterate heathen masses.” Our local library does an admirable job of stocking the shelves with a wide variety of books, so I’m happy even if every single title I might be interested in isn’t on the shelves at a particular moment. Then again, I don’t get my panties in a bunch at the thought of other people enjoying celebrity trash novels, either. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-branch-library-and-tila-tequila/508658/38 "2009-09-03T15:05:51Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > “General public” is not, as you seem to be using it, a synonym for “unwashed semi-illiterate heathen masses.” However, the masses _are_ mostly unwashed and semi-literate, though not heathens. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-branch-library-and-tila-tequila/508658/39 "2009-09-03T16:43:04Z")
I love it when a bunch of people on a messageboard that has more references to poop than I can count get all elitist. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2009, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-local-branch-library-and-tila-tequila/508658/40 "2009-09-03T17:06:26Z")
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