A couple of weeks ago Roth and I went into the Walden books at the mall with a 30% off coupon burning a hole in my pocket. We picked up the last remaining copy of Christopher Moore's You Suck (hardback, natch). In flipping through the book we discovered that someone had signed the title page (see below). Weird . . . it kind of looked real and we could make out a "C' and an "M." Roth goes up to the old guy at the counter who proves to not know much of anything about it - as in is it vandalized or real - and just says the red sticker on the back means its from the warehouse. We buy it because chance it's real outweighs any possible disappointment of it being a weird fake. We get home, google it and guess what!It's legit!
On other copies of the book the signature is in the same place, same size and same color, so I feel fine saying we've got the real mccoy. So how did a signed copy of You Suck end up in a mall bookstore in Montana?
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