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Amazon's 1,082-volume Classics Collection: $7,989
Carl Bialik from the WSJ writes "Who would buy 828 feet worth of books, for nearly $8,000, that would take 20 years to read at the rate of one title per week? And how much does it cost to ship? The Real Time columnists at the Wall Street Journal Online ponder these and other deep questions raised by Amazon's The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection, whose sheer jaw-dropping enormity reminds them of e-tailers' wacky offers during the dot-com boom. 'We think the collection is a perfect fit for more than a few software engineers we've known -- smart, self-directed people who are eternally curious, yet abhor wasting time intellectually and can't hide their impatience with the fuzziness of liberal arts,' Jason Fry and Tim Hanrahan write. 'For them, here's a pre-selected, pretty comprehensive list of Western classics, assembled for purchase with a single mouse-click -- and available in a form that eschews frills for portability and ease of use. Think of it as Humanities In a Box. OK, a Very Big Box.'"
Ill wait for someone to rip it to an ebook i think.
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Doesn't "enormity" mean, horrible crime? Perhaps the author meant "enormousness".
Seems like a convenient way to get that I'm-too-rich-for-the-public-library mansion-library started for the rich and famous.
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.
$3.99 is a great deal for shipping... but, do they ship to Puerto Rico? I'd really hate to pay that %6.6 tax for it.
--MaxPowerDJ
Hey, you can save a whole 30 dollars if you apply for an Amazon credit card!
I can't believe the submitter didn't take the oppourtunity to link to Amazon with a refer code. *THAT* would be referer points worth getting modded down for!
They won't ship these set for free. I wonder why.
My biggest problem with this is that they call it "Complete Penguin Classics" and not one book on Linux in the entire set!
"Trademarks are the heraldry of the new feudalism."
The Aeneid by Virgil
The Aeneid by Virgil
The Aeneid by Virgil
It's a good thing they've got three copies of the Aeneid by Virgil. I'd hate to have only read two of them and missed out on what happens in the third.
Looks kind of like the selections of ready-made web templates you get for $30.00. 250,000 web-sites my foot.
Wer mit Ungeheuern kämpft, mag zusehn, dass er nicht dabei zum Ungeheuer wird. --Nietzsche
which can be found in
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
if there were only 1024 books. You know, don't want to risk overflowing my bookshelf...
1024 *will* 'overflow' your geek 'bookshelf' if- as you're implying- the number of books it holds has to be contained within 10 bits.
Unless, of course, you're using the class of bookshelves which can *never* be empty, and can thus hold 1-1024 books, instead of 0-1023.
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I dare you to read Walden cover-to-cover in one week and come back to say that. Not only is reading Walden in one week not leisurely at all, but if you actually accomplish that feat your head will explode. It's a widely believed fact!
When they would get older classical type books, the kind noone really wanted to buy used to read, but that have the nice old decorated hardback spine, they would line them in a seperate area for "decorative books". People would buy them by the yard as filler, either to fill their library with impressive looking books, or for theater props or whatever. All they really needed to do was look good filling a shelf.
Ah, Texans.
Ok, you intelligent, eh?
Lets expand that, ahall we... It's = It is (contracted form)
"It is catalog falls far short."
Sounds like "All your base" speech. Yeah.. Engrish Mager.
Did you read the story about Narcissus?
I have read the entire list
(of titles that is).
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Principia Mathematica - Russell & Whitehead
Relativity - Einstein
Origin of Species - Darwin
Necronomicon - Abdul Alhazred
OK, all but the last one.
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
The list contains:
# Beowulf by Anonymous
# Beowulf: A Prose Translation by Anonymous
# Beowulf: A Verse Translation by Anonymous
Which, as we all recognize, is a Beowulf cluster....
But how many footballs fields is that?
And what does 1082 books equal measured in Libraries of Congress?
As a Comp Sci major, I must warn you that your post sucks. It has massive massive editing errors (bizzare? Corectly? it's?). It could have been an excellent post, but it falls quite short. Its spelling and prose falls far short.
As an English major, I must warn you that your English skills suck:
Also, from where are you? I find your use of the (US) term "English major" surprising juxtaposed with your (UK) spelling of the word "catalogue".
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I'm afraid your mistaken. No worries; that error is all to easy to make.
;)
I'm afraid you're mistaken too.
Yeah, but you probably could get them there by the time you read all the others.
lol: You see no door there!
Lets expand that, ahall we... It's = It is (contracted form)
So, does "The dog's ball" expand to "The dog is ball"?
Michael
"Goodness me, how unlike the FBI to abuse the trust of the American public." -- The Onion
Also, from where are you? I find your use of the (US) term "English major" surprising juxtaposed with your (UK) spelling of the word "catalogue".
He's from England, and a Major in the British Army. An English Major.
I mean, come on
These cannot be great books, since they are almost exclusively by white men.
Only (men) wishing to extend the patriarchal phallo-centric culture would advocate a list of books such as this. We all now know that womyn and persons of color are the only ones who may speak authoritatively on any subject. At least, that's what my college lit classes were teaching.
-Styopa