Firmer too, despite JP’s well-known rigor.
And… “dusk jacket”? I’m pretty sure that’s racist!
That was Verlaine, right?
This thread… I mean “assertion” is useless without pics! … No… wait… 
Meh, I’ll bet it’s not as good as Scar Tissue, by Anthony Kiedis.
Speaking of great breasts, er, chests…
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.
I bolded the reason for you right there in your own quote.
Among other things.
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.
This.
I am personally responsible for some of what is now on my library’s shelves. 
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Well, how was it?
The general public is everyone, including you.
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.
However, the masses are mostly unwashed and semi-literate, though not heathens.
I love it when a bunch of people on a messageboard that has more references to poop than I can count get all elitist.
I bet you could count them if you had the right motivation.