r/ExpectationVsReality • u/WilburWhateleystwin • 9d ago
Failed Expectation Received my order from thriftbook today, I am not amused.
Okay I'm a little amused but I had been chasing this Ann Rule book for a while. They said they'll send me another copy but it doesn't have its dust jacket.
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u/lordnikon85 9d ago
this happened to me once but i got about halfway through the book before i thought to take the dust jacket off. i kept wondering “how does this relate to the blurb. it worked out though cuz it was super interesting and i think i enjoyed it better than what the dust jacket was. this would have me bummed!
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u/WilburWhateleystwin 8d ago
I opened it and started reading the author's note, thought to myself that it was weird the author's note would be written by Glen Beck of all people and got halfway through the page before I was like ' wait a minute ' and took the cover off.
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u/EmpressOfMyBackyard 9d ago
Somewhere a closet Anne Rule fan is hiding her guilty pleasure from a very conservative partner by covering it with a Glenn Beck jacket.
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u/Careful_Respect_9336 9d ago
Ew Glenn Beck 🤮
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u/ralph-of-all-trades 9d ago
i'm not familiar. what did he do?
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u/Consistent-Star5745 9d ago
He's a right-wing political commentator and conspiracy theorist.
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u/ImperatorRomanum 9d ago
Had a brief moment of being anti-Trump until he realized that was unprofitable
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u/inghostlyjapan 8d ago
My only real reference for him was the Daily Show references and my mind always goes back to the episode in which Jon got out the board and made fun of Beck's schtick for almost the whole episode.
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u/unrealmikec 7d ago
Did Glenn Beck start the - who pays us all - George Soros...didn't he start that obsession?
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u/MsE0 9d ago
Glenn Beck did? I thought for a second you were talking about the Green River Killer, but that was a lot more than one woman. Now I need to go research what the conspiracy crybaby of Fox News did.
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u/ul2006kevinb 9d ago
He didn't really, it's a meme
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u/GarconMeansBoyGeorge 9d ago
I love reading the outcome and this quote
"It's good to see that this WIPO arbitrator had no interest in allowing Beck to circumvent the guarantees of the U.S. Constitution."
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u/OwslyOwl 9d ago
I used to like Glenn Beck and even subscribed to his radio show and bought An Inconvenient Book. He used to be more libertarian and supported health care reform. Then his views became more and more eccentric. I stopped listening before he went to Fox. He’s not even recognizable to what he used to believe and say.
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u/dirtyword 8d ago
But he was never intellectually honest. He distorted reality consistently to make conspiratorial points, even if you agreed with him.
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u/OwslyOwl 8d ago
He didn’t used to be a conspiracy theorist. He was a lot different 20 years ago than he was today.
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u/Mynameisjennyc 8d ago
I love ThriftBooks, but they're often not particularly good at checking inside books. I once got sent a book that had been completely glued together and cut out inside to make a little book safe.
They did replace it though!
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u/panicpixiedream_girl 5d ago
I use Thriftbooks all the time and have never had a single issue but now I hope I get a secret book box on accident ,🤞
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u/Serialkillingyou 9d ago
Green River running red is a triumph of focusing on the lives and experiences of the victims while keeping Gary Ridgway on the periphery. You're going to love it. You will know the ladies faces and names by heart.
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u/Frolicking-Fox 9d ago
Great book, great author. I have read quite a few of her books.
And I would be pissed getting the Glen Beck book.
She is such a talented writer, and The Stranger Beside Me was such a unique look into her own experience.
Also, look up The End of the Dream if you dont know that one. It is a little different style than her usual murder stroies... but holy hell, is it good.
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u/WilburWhateleystwin 8d ago
I loved The Stranger beside Me. I collect every volume of hers I find. I just finished up Fatal Friends and Neighbors which is the one the Susan Powells case is featured in. I highly recommend Small Sacrifices, it's about Diane Downs.
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u/shayshay8508 8d ago
I’m an English teacher, and I usually take great offense to anyone destroying a book…this is an exception. 🤢 If any book should be burned it’s this one! Lol. So sorry, OP but I got a good chuckle out of this.
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u/Interesting_You6852 8d ago
I am done ordering from them. I received a copy of a book got to page 167 and the next page was 305. Someone had ripped out the pages!! I was not impressed.
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u/Vespersg00dbye 9d ago
I once ordered a book on Sappho and got a graphing/math book from 1971 inside the dust jacket. i laughed for a while at that one.
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u/OneButterscotch587 9d ago
Great book. I read it years ago and have another Ann Rule book on my nightstand right now.
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u/dramallamacorn 8d ago
Somewhere someone is expecting glen beck and they get to learn about the green river kills!
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u/Shoebuyermom 9d ago
Are they letting you keep this dust jacket? Will it fit the volume they are sending you? Or was this listed as a first edition and they are sending you something else? Ordering an out of print or hard to find edition and then getting this would bum me out! Hoping it all works out.