{"id":1359,"date":"2009-04-14T21:23:06","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T04:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2009-04-14T21:23:06","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T04:23:06","slug":"book-lovers-in-paris-with-piles-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2009\/04\/14\/book-lovers-in-paris-with-piles-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Lovers in Paris with Piles of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube-video\"><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/T6wtsEl_t3A&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/T6wtsEl_t3A&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an excellent CBS Sunday Morning report about French book collectors in Paris.  I love the piles of books in the apartments.  The skinny book finder guy is a very amusing character.  He reminds me of the character <em>Johnny Depp<\/em> played in the <em>Roman Polanski<\/em> movie, <em>The Ninth Gate<\/em>.  That character is a shady and extremely skilled book finder who goes after rare books for wealthy collectors.  The movie is fascinating for all its investigation of ancient texts and satanic illustrations.\u00a0 One of the collectors in the video mentions how when a collector finds a book they like, then they must also acquire every other edition that they can find.\u00a0 I totally understand this, having gone through something similar with various editions of <em>Don Quixote<\/em>.\u00a0 That&#8217;s a really good book to collect because there are so many beautiful editions of it that include the work of great illustrators.\u00a0 Not to mention the fact that Don Quixote himself is a maniacal book lover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an excellent CBS Sunday Morning report about French book collectors in Paris. I love the piles of books in the apartments. The skinny book finder guy is a very amusing character. He reminds me of the character Johnny Depp played in the Roman Polanski movie, The Ninth Gate. That character is a shady and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[228],"class_list":["post-1359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-paris"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1364,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}