George Takei spoke and signed books at an event in East L.A. this afternoon. After twenty minutes of one speaker introducing another who introduced another, with lots of thank yous, finally Takei answered prepared questions for about forty minutes, mostly about his latest books, They Called Us Enemy and My Lost Freedom: A Japanese American World War II Story.
There were hundreds of attendees, many with multiple books they wanted signed. (It was announced in advance that he would not sign any Star Trek memorabilia.) I was about at the halfway point in the signing line, and it was more than ninety minutes before I got to the front. As I waited, after a while, they said Takei would sign no more than three books per person. A bit later, they changed it to one book. And soon after that, they said he would only sign his name, no personalizations. I did also get his husband's signature.
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