So. Hey. Books Again.
Apr. 26th, 2009 02:22 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stillonmystringOh my God. Is it possible to love books too much? Because I think I need to join Book Buyers Anonymous or something. I swear, I was only going to do the Amazon 3-for-4 thing and then buy some Flannery O'Connor and Carson McCullers but I got a bit carried away. Do I really need all these right now when I still have, like, twenty unread books waiting on my shelves already? No. But it's so much fun to buy them and so exciting to get them! I am officially addicted. I'm a compulsive book-buyer. I guess there are worse things I could be addicted to though. Anyway, my spoils, let me be ridiculously excited about them.
So these are the four I got with the Amazon deal. I believe two were $7.99 and two were $6.99 so it was one of those I got for free. And even though after that one was subtracted the total was less than $25 I still got free shipping, yay!
I've been reluctant to get this because I really did not like A Wolf at the Table at all. So I hope I like this one at least a little bit more.
I honestly have no idea whether I will like this or not. It seems very, uh, dense - as in light on dialogue, heavy on extremely long and descriptive paragraphs - which is not a style I generally enjoy too much; I get easily frustrated by slowness and little action. However, I am a big fan of the period it's set in, as I've made clear many times before, and I've heard so many good things about it. We shall see.
This seemed like the perfect opportunity to complete my Salinger collection. I've already read Catcher but I really want to read it again and it's just one of those books that you pretty much have to own a copy of, you know?
As I mentioned in a post a week or two ago, there are about seven thousand other books I want. Chief among them being anything by Flannery O'Connor and Carson McCullers. I was looking at the big Library of America collections that gather nearly all of their works into one volume but, even though that's probably the cheapest option, I wasn't sure I wanted to own everything right away no matter how certain I am that I'll love them. Also, it's more convenient and looks more impressive to have each book seperately, you know what I mean? And I wanted McCullers' collected short stories as well and that happens to include two of the novellas in the Library of America collection which would've meant I'd have two copies which is unnecessary. Phew. So, anyway, I decided to just go with buying everything separately and to make it a bit less costly I went used - though I tried to be very selective because I have not been impressed by the quality of my used purchases lately! (And I am kind of OCD about keeping things looking new.) These are what I ended up getting of theirs for now:
Not related to her stories at all (which I am so excited to read, by the way; the parts that I've been able to read on Amazon are amazing and such a tease) but I think she was really pretty in an unconventional way. I'm just kind of... enraptured... by her face whenever I see a picture of her.
I made sure to get this edition because the cover is way better than the most recent edition's. And also it matches the Complete Stories cover. Yes, I am a nerd.
And, okay, I guess I didn't go that overboard but I just had to add in these two books as well.
I've been meaning to get this one for awhile. Mostly so I can have an excuse to re-read Vile Bodies sometime in the very immediate future. Not that I need an excuse to read anything but they are kinda-sorta companion pieces so it makes more sense to read them both together.
This seems better than Atonement to me. Mostly because the plot looks fucked up as hell and I enjoy all things fucked up. So I couldn't buy that and not buy this too because I'm much more sure I'll enjoy this one. The cover it's listed with on Half.com has got a picture from the movie adaptation on it but the description for the copy I purchased says its cover is different so I hope it's this one because the movie one is really ugly. If you can't tell, I care about these things way too much when all that really matters is the inside content. But I like books to be pretty on the outside too so I can show them off.
Anyway, so, um, ten books. Yeah. Kind of excessive. They were like $60 altogether and it totals out to a little more than $6 per book which is pretty good, I guess. Jesus. Our mailman must think I'm some sort of crazy recluse who never steps foot outside because I get packages in the mail, like, every single day. Haha.
By the way, what makes this even worse is the fact that I bought a bunch of books just a couple weeks ago that I haven't even mentioned. Let's see... The Stranger - Camus, Collected Poems - T.S. Eliot, The New Girl - Emily Perkins, Fierce People - Dirk Wittenborn. And then I bought two more at Borders when I went to see Maria last Sunday - Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines, both by John Green (I got those ones pretty much because they were the cheapest of everything I was interested in; I just honestly can't justify spending more than $10 on a book anymore after getting so used to buying them used). So I'm actually way more obsessed than it seems. I need an intervention or something.
So these are the four I got with the Amazon deal. I believe two were $7.99 and two were $6.99 so it was one of those I got for free. And even though after that one was subtracted the total was less than $25 I still got free shipping, yay!
I've been reluctant to get this because I really did not like A Wolf at the Table at all. So I hope I like this one at least a little bit more.
I honestly have no idea whether I will like this or not. It seems very, uh, dense - as in light on dialogue, heavy on extremely long and descriptive paragraphs - which is not a style I generally enjoy too much; I get easily frustrated by slowness and little action. However, I am a big fan of the period it's set in, as I've made clear many times before, and I've heard so many good things about it. We shall see.
This seemed like the perfect opportunity to complete my Salinger collection. I've already read Catcher but I really want to read it again and it's just one of those books that you pretty much have to own a copy of, you know?
As I mentioned in a post a week or two ago, there are about seven thousand other books I want. Chief among them being anything by Flannery O'Connor and Carson McCullers. I was looking at the big Library of America collections that gather nearly all of their works into one volume but, even though that's probably the cheapest option, I wasn't sure I wanted to own everything right away no matter how certain I am that I'll love them. Also, it's more convenient and looks more impressive to have each book seperately, you know what I mean? And I wanted McCullers' collected short stories as well and that happens to include two of the novellas in the Library of America collection which would've meant I'd have two copies which is unnecessary. Phew. So, anyway, I decided to just go with buying everything separately and to make it a bit less costly I went used - though I tried to be very selective because I have not been impressed by the quality of my used purchases lately! (And I am kind of OCD about keeping things looking new.) These are what I ended up getting of theirs for now:
Not related to her stories at all (which I am so excited to read, by the way; the parts that I've been able to read on Amazon are amazing and such a tease) but I think she was really pretty in an unconventional way. I'm just kind of... enraptured... by her face whenever I see a picture of her.
I made sure to get this edition because the cover is way better than the most recent edition's. And also it matches the Complete Stories cover. Yes, I am a nerd.
And, okay, I guess I didn't go that overboard but I just had to add in these two books as well.
I've been meaning to get this one for awhile. Mostly so I can have an excuse to re-read Vile Bodies sometime in the very immediate future. Not that I need an excuse to read anything but they are kinda-sorta companion pieces so it makes more sense to read them both together.
This seems better than Atonement to me. Mostly because the plot looks fucked up as hell and I enjoy all things fucked up. So I couldn't buy that and not buy this too because I'm much more sure I'll enjoy this one. The cover it's listed with on Half.com has got a picture from the movie adaptation on it but the description for the copy I purchased says its cover is different so I hope it's this one because the movie one is really ugly. If you can't tell, I care about these things way too much when all that really matters is the inside content. But I like books to be pretty on the outside too so I can show them off.
Anyway, so, um, ten books. Yeah. Kind of excessive. They were like $60 altogether and it totals out to a little more than $6 per book which is pretty good, I guess. Jesus. Our mailman must think I'm some sort of crazy recluse who never steps foot outside because I get packages in the mail, like, every single day. Haha.
By the way, what makes this even worse is the fact that I bought a bunch of books just a couple weeks ago that I haven't even mentioned. Let's see... The Stranger - Camus, Collected Poems - T.S. Eliot, The New Girl - Emily Perkins, Fierce People - Dirk Wittenborn. And then I bought two more at Borders when I went to see Maria last Sunday - Looking for Alaska and An Abundance of Katherines, both by John Green (I got those ones pretty much because they were the cheapest of everything I was interested in; I just honestly can't justify spending more than $10 on a book anymore after getting so used to buying them used). So I'm actually way more obsessed than it seems. I need an intervention or something.
