tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533520388153109945.post3336092436148540975..comments2023-08-12T01:24:04.359-06:00Comments on Fuzzy Goes West: Books are Precious and Wonderful...Fuzzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15676463497863817512noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533520388153109945.post-32633914546012715542008-01-07T15:28:00.000-07:002008-01-07T15:28:00.000-07:00Well, part of the reason for the size of my collec...Well, part of the reason for the size of my collection is that my high school expected us to purchase our textbooks, much like college. So I had a huge collection of stuff from four years of high school English, plus college classes. Very few of the books that hit the curb were books I had purchased for my own enjoyment.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533520388153109945.post-55989225390469537062008-01-05T21:02:00.000-07:002008-01-05T21:02:00.000-07:00Thats why you only purchase books that you like an...Thats why you only purchase books that you like and mean something to you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3533520388153109945.post-18587617317252105072008-01-02T20:12:00.000-07:002008-01-02T20:12:00.000-07:00Certainly there's a lot of crap getting printed (g...Certainly there's a lot of crap getting printed (good lord, they'll let just ANYONE publish a book with someone else's money these days). But there's a transportational power to a really good, absorbing novel, the kind that you stay up way past your bedtime to finish, the kind you're still thinking about two days later... But THOSE were not the books I threw away. Even among the classics of literature that I pitched, not one of them particularly gripped me, and I figure if I ever want to go back to Dostoyevsky... it's not like Crime and Punishment is ever going out of print, eh? So if it was a crappy paperback that I was never realistically going to read again, out it went. <BR/><BR/>And of course, there are a couple of paperback classics sitting here in a box, waiting for a trip to the Post Office.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com