Well, my wife asked me to stop buying books for a while. I guess I'll start reading them. Work on a reading program. Try to find the ones I want to read that are hidden behind the crates I put on top of the other crates so they wouldn't fall over. Admit to biblioholism. Actually finish something.
I almost wrote, "throw some away." Can't do that. Cardinal rule.
I have planned on reading the Robert Jordon WHEEL OF TIME sequence, but I limit myself to only copies I find in thrift stores. And maybe Stephen King's DARK TOWER sequence. You can always wait for them to be remaindered. And they can keep a fire going for a long long time.
Find the book HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS EVEN IF YOU DON'T HAVE A PENIS and post the cover. I only bought it because it was a dumb title. Lots of dumb titles about. SCOUTS IN BONDAGE. THE MAN WHO RODE HIS TEN SPEED BICYCLE TO THE MOON. THE WEREWOLF VERSUS THE VAMPIRE WOMAN. Etc.
posted by Robert Whitaker Sirignano @ 12:33 PM
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Those look so very organized, compared to my books. Good luck with the project.
That's an off the wall kind of statement. Can you elaborate, or do your books sit in a big pile at the center of your living room in a vaguely conical shape?
My books are scattered around the house in random stacks. Sometimes a book which has been missing for years and I think I must have lent to someone and not had returned will surface unexpectedly. Going through my house is a delicate operation because of the general clutter, but a large fraction of the clutter is stacked books and magazines.
Herein, I have stacks hiding a few things. I was trying to locate Edgar Allen Poe's EUREKA: a prose poem, but it was sucked up in the kipple and I really want to read it, but am unwilling to buy another copy. Several times I've bought copies of books, only to have the errant book show its covers in a place I pass by each day.
Kipple is Philip K. Dick's term for "trash that grows".
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