tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12784861.post112092284772614777..comments2023-10-25T09:48:20.939-04:00Comments on Sunny Says...: How COULD you???Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12784861.post-1121152887277438622005-07-12T03:21:00.000-04:002005-07-12T03:21:00.000-04:00If I haven't touched something in a year or two, I...If I haven't touched something in a year or two, I don't need it. I read mostly non-fiction books on religion, ethics and culture. So I go back to them freqently when I want to refresh my memory. But fiction books flow through my home like water.Lone Rangerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13278448546799358207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12784861.post-1121127536036193332005-07-11T20:18:00.000-04:002005-07-11T20:18:00.000-04:00After college, I gave away most of my crappy old p...After college, I gave away most of my crappy old paperbacks (lots of bad genre fiction, dog-eared to the point of falling apart) to friends, family, the library. I still have a box of some that I can't even give away, and it will remain with me until one of the two of us finally disintegrates. I keep everything else. Occasionally, I give a personal copy away to a friend, but I always replace it.<BR/><BR/>However, I make a confession to you all, complete strangers, because those who know me would immediately grab their pitch-forks and knives and exile me from the kingdom. Three years ago I threw a book away, straight in the trash and out to the dumpster. In my defense, it was a hideous, horrible book and I was ashamed to let anybody know I'd bought it.<BR/><BR/>And I don't even mean shameful in that secretly cool way that Lolita is shameful, or even shameful in that Mein Kampf kind of way that says you are really just a student of history: no, I mean "bad to the point that it should never have been printed on actual paper" shameful.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01333381404010599979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12784861.post-1121093539922755962005-07-11T10:52:00.000-04:002005-07-11T10:52:00.000-04:00I can lend my books out with no problem. But I can...I can lend my books out with no problem. But I can't even bring myself to give away or sell books like "The Babysitter's Club" and "Sweet Valley High". There is something very wrong with me. I know that it will be a very very long time before I have children even close to old enough to read these books and yet I cling to them and the mountain of others that I've picked up since then.Beckihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11014286301217694800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12784861.post-1121001095217027092005-07-10T09:11:00.000-04:002005-07-10T09:11:00.000-04:00One man's rubbish is another man's treasure.I like...One man's rubbish is another man's treasure.<BR/><BR/>I like people who give their books away...means I can buy 'em second hand for cheap.Tamannahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06910500014788850760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12784861.post-1120969509109666892005-07-10T00:25:00.000-04:002005-07-10T00:25:00.000-04:00Hmmm.... I will have to give this some thought. I...Hmmm.... I will have to give this some thought. It's a topic that has come up before.Vicarious Livinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14228740179458203496noreply@blogger.com