The Unwanted and Unread
I just boxed up seven boxes worth of books I want to get rid of. Included are college texts (I'm finally saying goodbye to my Norton Anthologies), individual Shakespeare plays, duplicate copies of books I have already in nicer versions, bargain books I've never read and probably never will even though they sounded neat, vapid supernatural "Young Adult" crap I somehow amassed, philosophical texts, books I read but didn't care for, a bunch of UFO EXIST! and past life junk, reader copies, old books I bought during a phase when I bought just about anything that was dusty and falling apart, several large coffee table books, some bad or at least mediocre sci-fi/fantasy books, a bunch of short story collections and compilations of plays, a handful of Cliffs and Monarchs notes, a buttload of native american junk, and at least a dozen "required reading" books that I'm happy to see the back of (I'm talking to YOU, dense Russian crap, and YOU, Madame Bovary!).
There are some good books in there - especially the duplicates, penguin editions, redundant translations, compilations where I already had the components, etc. - but I don't need them, and I'm ready to let them go.. Some may even be valuable, but I don't have the energy to go through them.
I'm not sure whether to feel happy that I've sloughed off this pile of crap, or disturbed that I've managed to hold onto a few hundred pounds of books that I simply had no real interest in.
If anyone wants to go through them, let me know ASAP, because I expect them to be gone, one way or another, by the end of Monday.
EDIT TO ADD: Don't worry, I haven't been replaced by a pod person. All my collections (Tolkien, Charles De Lint, various series like Dr Who and Thieves' World) and special books are intact and unlikely to be removed before my death. I just needed to get some junk out of my life, and I've left the books alone for far too long. It was time for a pruning.
There are some good books in there - especially the duplicates, penguin editions, redundant translations, compilations where I already had the components, etc. - but I don't need them, and I'm ready to let them go.. Some may even be valuable, but I don't have the energy to go through them.
I'm not sure whether to feel happy that I've sloughed off this pile of crap, or disturbed that I've managed to hold onto a few hundred pounds of books that I simply had no real interest in.
If anyone wants to go through them, let me know ASAP, because I expect them to be gone, one way or another, by the end of Monday.
EDIT TO ADD: Don't worry, I haven't been replaced by a pod person. All my collections (Tolkien, Charles De Lint, various series like Dr Who and Thieves' World) and special books are intact and unlikely to be removed before my death. I just needed to get some junk out of my life, and I've left the books alone for far too long. It was time for a pruning.