OMG!
OMG!
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
Pablo, there's also this thread where you can keep a running list of your reading for the year:Originally Posted by pablo
http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/...2009+Book+List
Quoted for truth!I think Dags, Jayson, and Brice have been drinking too much -
AND FTMFW!
Just turned in my first paper on McCarthy, "Lester Ballard: Kafka's Ape Man, and Nietzsche's Suspended Bridge."
Must say that I'm enjoying him more and more. I'm actually stoked that we still have six novels to read.
Currently Reading: Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy
My books got here!
The Tales of Beedle the Bard. It is a short story from Harry Potter but it sucks compared to the books.
I've never really gotten into the Harry Potter series. Oh well.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. - Edgar Allan Poe
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. - H.P. Lovecraft
I'm still waiting for book 7 to come out in paperback.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
Well, I've waited this long, it won't hurt to wait until July.
Besides, I have a bazillion other books I want to read too.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
The book industry has decided not to release a paperback of ANY more books until YOU buy a hardcover.
That will be a long freaking wait. Only about 10% of my books are in hardcover.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
I'm only about 20 pages into Sirens of Titan, but I can already tell I'm going to love it.
Why the hardcover hate? I can't read paperbacks, unless I absolutely have to. As for Harry Potter, I enjoyed the series up to book four, where I've stopped. For some reason I haven't picked it back up yet, though I do have all the books.
I don't hate hardcovers, they just take up too much room and I prefer the portability of paperbacks.
Plus, I'm one of those OCD people who needs all her books to match. If I start buying a series in paperback (or an author, for that matter) they ALL have to be paperback.
My shelves must be neat.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
Lay off the haterade today Dags.
This bugs me as well...I don't hate hardcovers, they just take up too much room and I prefer the portability of paperbacks.
Plus, I'm one of those OCD people who needs all her books to match. If I start buying a series in paperback (or an author, for that matter) they ALL have to be paperback.
My shelves must be neat.
My first 4 HP books are paperback and the last 3 are hardcover.
My shelves look so uneven but I couldn't wait!
Apparently it doesn't bother me badly enough.
Apparently you MISSED the part about me NOT hating hardcovers.Lay off the haterade today Dags.
"People, especially children, aren't measured by their IQ. What's important about them is whether they're good or bad, and these children are bad." ~ Alan Bernard
"You needn't die happy when your day comes, but you must die satisfied, for you have lived your life from beginning to end and ka is always served." ~ Roland Deschain
Glad to hear it Feev. It paves the way for a lot more enjoyment of Vonnegut in your future.I'm only about 20 pages into Sirens of Titan, but I can already tell I'm going to love it.
As for the hardcover vs. paperback debate... I prefer hardcover but when I buy books it's typically paperback due to pecuniary concerns. Of course much of my reading is done via the library and they get hardcovers.
My preference goes:
Mass-Market Paperback > Trade Paperback > Hardcover
There are some trade paperbacks that I like more than the mass-markets, but I usually prefer little books I can take anywhere in my bag.
Hardcovers are just too bulky, heavy, and uncomfortable for me.
Not to mention expensive.
I buy hardcovers only if they're in the bargain section of the bookstore.
Hugo Chavez and the War Against America: The Threat Closer To Home, by Douglas E. Schoen and Michael Rowen
Martial's Epigrams: A Selection, translated by Gary Wills
There Is No Alternative: Why Margaret Thatcher Matters, by Claire Berlinski
I loveee hardcovers. For some reason paperbacks just bother me.My collection is almost entirely hardcovers.
I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. - Edgar Allan Poe
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. - H.P. Lovecraft
i'm with daggers, it's an ocd thing. if i start with one type of an author's books all the author's books have to be that type. that's why i get sowhen they change types midstream. all my simon r. green nightside books are paperback - they released the most recent one in hardcover. which of course, means i have to wait for it to be released in pb before i can buy it. same with my dresden files books.
don't they understand ocd?
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