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I welcomed the discomfort of the cognitive dissonance of reading "The Last Bookstore in America" on my Kindle. It made the novel even more delightful! Although the Gizmo seems a real possibility in the near future, I had never intellectually pursued its logical end result. I feel strangely compelled to defend my e-book ownership: Since June, the 60 Kindle books I've read are not swaying in dangerous 4-to-5-foot towers in front of the eight floor-to-ceiling bookcases in our house.

Also because our daughter graduated three years ago from Humboldt State University in contiguous Arcata, I am familiar with Eureka, its Old Town, and the waterfront. I love the North Coast culture.

Amazingly, as a writing professor and lover of books and bookstores, I found no plot line, character development, or local description that I would recommend Amy Stewart to change before final publication.

I'm putting this on all amazonian.com's required reading list. Read it now!


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The Last Bookstore In America edition by Amy Stewart Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews

This book is indeed a comic novella centered around the Firebreathing Dragon Bookstore as the last bookstore in America. While reading, I thought it was funny that it spoke constantly about the trouble digital books have caused printed books while I was reading it on my , known as the Gizmo. But what really got me was the plot centered more on a non-reading element that helped the book store survived then on the book store itself. The book was well written and funny in parts, however, it seemed to drag in the middle. Though I love reading a book fully, I finally gave up and started skipping chapters until I just went to the last four chapters to finish.
I think the writer is gifted and the story is well written. But there's some conclusions that the story makes that defy logic. This made the book more of a science fiction story.

The example that struck me the hardest follows. Crawford, the former best selling author, is now a bookstore clerk, because the e-reader has destroyed him. For some reason, all his fans neglect to download his latest release. His contract ended with the book company and so no more tours, etc.

Electronic books would have had the opposite effect on Crawford's life. If he's already got a best seller, then he's got a built in market to self-publish and become far wealthier than he would have under a contract with a New York company and with the advent of the ebook. More realistic approach to this character would have made his second book a real stinker, and his fall to bookstore clerk would be a result of his losing confidence.

The whole concept of gizmos bringing an end to publishing and reading is so hard to buy in, I kept arguing with the writer. Just from personal experience, I've read and purchased far more in the two years I've owned the that probably the ten years previous. Not to mention that I would never have heard of this particular author or book unless such a gizmo existed.

I do find this book to be a great discussion starter. I must admit that I kept with the book to follow through her illogical conclusions. I did get bored with the whole substance legalization angle but at the same time wanted to defend my precious ebook/ habit.

Character wise, I didn't find anyone to root for, but plenty to root against. I also kept wondering, "is the author promoting the use of marijuana?" I'm pretty sure she didn't have that as an agenda by book's end, but I can't help but wonder...
For those of us who love to read and love our eReaders (I have two, one of them being a the other being another brand), the title of this book is totally captivating. When I read the product description, I had to purchase it and the price was definitely right to take a chance on an author I was unfamiliar with.

The premise of the story is that a new technological device has come along - the Gizmo - that does everything. It's a phone, an MP3-type device and an eReader all combined into one handy gadget. The comparisons to 's own are obvious but with even more capability than just reading books. Everyone in America has one of these handy dandy devices and just what does that mean for the bookstores selling traditional, paper books? In our narrative, that means the demise of the bookshop and they are slowing closing with only a handful remaining. Throughout the novel, they close one by one until only "The Firebreathing Dragon" remains. How has it managed to not only stay open but make a tidy profit along the way, providing the financial support for the owner and two employees? We find out when the owner dies and passes along not the bookstore and his home to his long-lost nephew. The nephew and his wife come to Eureka, California to see what's what and discover a town filled with interesting characters and a culture vastly different than the one they left behind in the big city. Should they give up the fast-paced lifestyle which has left them in debt up to their ears to continue running the quirky bookstore or should they sell and take the money? Just how much is the bookstore making and how are they making anything in this out-of-the-way hamlet? All these questions and more get answered. In addition, the exploration of how this situation has evolved and the implication to the reading public will get the reader thinking about this very possibility.

For originality and writing style, I definitely give this novel kudos. A novel that I finished many days ago but still haunts me with the idea of an alternative world I am not too crazy about. The setting of Eureka is described very well and the town itself becomes an intricate part of the work. The number of characters is just about perfect - enough to give the story life but not enough to overwhelm the reader. The characters themselves are quirky and interesting and I wanted to know more about them. This is where the novel lost one star for me the characters weren't developed as much as I would have hoped. I really liked them and found them fascinating, just not enough about them so felt I was left hanging just a bit. Other than that, a wonderful novel that I enjoyed from beginning to end.
I welcomed the discomfort of the cognitive dissonance of reading "The Last Bookstore in America" on my . It made the novel even more delightful! Although the Gizmo seems a real possibility in the near future, I had never intellectually pursued its logical end result. I feel strangely compelled to defend my e-book ownership Since June, the 60 books I've read are not swaying in dangerous 4-to-5-foot towers in front of the eight floor-to-ceiling bookcases in our house.

Also because our daughter graduated three years ago from Humboldt State University in contiguous Arcata, I am familiar with Eureka, its Old Town, and the waterfront. I love the North Coast culture.

Amazingly, as a writing professor and lover of books and bookstores, I found no plot line, character development, or local description that I would recommend Amy Stewart to change before final publication.

I'm putting this on all ian.com's required reading list. Read it now!