“Alone in the room, my curiosity got the better of me. Besides, what harm was there in “casually” observing anything that might be on the desk? There were no pictures so I had no clue as to what this guy looked like. On his desk sat a sleek black laptop, various car and sports magazines and an assortment of classic literary novels as well as Shang Tzu’s The Art of War. Writer, philosopher, and legendary bad boy, he was going to be a handful.”

Did the "classic literary novels" and the copy of Art of War still have the $4.95 stickers from B&N's front table?