Is it rude to take a galley to a book signing?

I like to get them to sign books by other authors and tell me what they think of it.

now i am old enough to know he is the messed-up one.

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i have a signed copy of this book. beat that!

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not sure if this beats that or not, but i have an autographed copy of this
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i found a great signed copy of dion dimucci's autobiography at the dump one day. score! (i'm a big dion fan.)

ooh i love dion! that is a score.

I'm a big fan of Ariel Dorfman but the book I got him to sign for me was a copy of "the nanny and the iceberg" which really isn't among his better works :(

It might not be rude, but it sure was embarrassing to have to buy a copy of a book at the store Jonathan Franzen was talking @, him ask me "have you read this?" to which I could only reply "aaahm, nope". He was gracious enough to answer with "this is a real favourite of mine" (Strong Motion, which I've never come close to picking up and am now feeling so guilty about that I'm seriously thinking about reading it next)

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^^by far the coolest signing of a book that i own. other sigs i have: a couple of douglas coupland, 'ash wednesday' by ethan hawke, soon to have a signed ray caesar art book, a lewis carroll photo book signed by publisher franco maria ricci.

lol ethan hawke. he writes books?

no, he just signs them

awww come on dudes, 'ash wednesday' is actually really really good!

(i sold my copy when i came to the US, but i picked up a signed one the other day for $9 so his sig is obv not worth v much)

Did he actually write it? I know there were rumours otherwise, but then there would be, wouldn't there.

hmmm i just assumed so...

max cannon signed my copy of the first red meat book as well as drawing a picture of a severed human finger.

my signed ray caesar art book arrived today!! signed in the book and a signed print too.

dave eggers signed a book of mine "jordan! you are my friend!" that's my favorite inscription in any of the signed books i have. (my name is jordan, btw.)

^^he forgot to mention the time we went to an exhibition opening and stalked two artists to get signatures for the copronason book.

and then travis louie mutilated it with his ballpoint pen!

I have a book signed by Terry Pratchett (I was very young) "Dear James, burn this book."

Back when I worked in a bookshop, I got Alasdair Gray's agent to get him to come in (as he was passing through) and sign my copy of the Anthology of Prefaces, which had just come out and which I had brought in first edition - very handsome it is too.

Anyway, when he came in, it was rather busy and I was rushing around a bit, eventually managed to duck out from behind my desk and speak to him.

'Hello young man,' (or whatever)
'Er, yep, Gamaliel Ratsey.'
'So, I hear your a fan of my work.' (as indeed I was then, and I'm sure I would be now if I ever read any, although with slight reservations about a certain parsimony about his prose - a touch of the Scottish schoolmaster perhaps)
'Yes, yes I am.'
'What is it you like about it?'
'Er,' I said wittily. 'Er.'

Then I stared for a bit, sweating, mind revolving like a dead planet.

'Er.'
'Would you like me to sign your book.'
'Yes,' I said, rather gauchely handing it over, like an awkward schoolgirl.

And he did. And then he left. Presumably to relay the contents of our gay repartee to his Caledonian confreres. Me and my f'ing peasant mind.