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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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Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
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.
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....
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.
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.