EDITED ON THURSDAY TO ADD: I added two more stacks of books. These are ones that I do love, but I’m honestly not going to read again any time soon. Click on the same link — there’s two more pictures whose names start with “new.”
Ok, these are the books I’m cleaning out. If anyone wants any (those of you in NYC), let me know. The Harry Potter books are for Rachael — I forgot to take them out of the pile when I snapped these shots.
http://www.willhines.net/books/index.php
Mind you: just because I’m getting rid of these doesn’t mean I haven’t loved these books. I feel like the lowest infidel throwing away Peanuts books, honestly. But I just have too many. So I’m getting rid of books that I’m either a) enjoyed, but am unlikely to look at again or b) could easily get again if I needed it (like any “classic” novel like Crime and Punishment).
A few of these were gifts, long ago. It’s very hard to throw out something given to you that you liked very much. But this is a Great Purge, and I had to be strong. My rule of thumb was “Have I opened this book in the past 10 months?”
On my iTunes now:
Child Star by The Unicorns from "Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?"
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Aug 24th, 2005 at 12:22 pm
Will -
I’d love the following if they are still up for grabs:
24 Favorite one-act plays
The Best Nonrequired Reading 2003
Aug 24th, 2005 at 12:32 pm
They’re yours. I’ll bring ‘em by the office.
Let me know if you want 10 volumes of Doonesbury comics anytime, also.
Aug 24th, 2005 at 12:36 pm
If they’re still available:
Generation X - Douglas Copeland
Fraud - David Rakoff
Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer (Only if it’s paperback - it looks like it might be hardcover)*
Paradise Lost - John Milton
Inferno - Dante
* I’m very choosy.
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Also, I love the titles of the various pictures. “Nixon” was my favorite.
Aug 24th, 2005 at 12:42 pm
Sorry, I spelled Coupland wrong.
Aug 24th, 2005 at 12:45 pm
I’ll take the Dark Knight Strikes Again. I heard it wasn’t great, but I never read it.
Aug 24th, 2005 at 2:03 pm
I will take the Big Sleep.
And maybe Essential Thor? I am just going to read it and put it in a box in our storage space after I finish it.
Aug 24th, 2005 at 2:11 pm
If I may-
Kingdom Come
Pure Drivel
Essential Hulk
Thanks!
Aug 24th, 2005 at 2:15 pm
If they’re still available:
The Beatles Anthology
Best American Short Stories 2001
Aug 24th, 2005 at 2:37 pm
How about that old-school, hardcover Best of Peanuts if it’s still available?
Aug 24th, 2005 at 2:42 pm
Could I have the Marx Brothers book?
That’d be a great subway read I think.
Aug 24th, 2005 at 2:44 pm
I’ve pulled and saved all of these for y’all. I’ll get them to you soon.
Aug 24th, 2005 at 4:49 pm
Is there some place where people can pick these up so you don’t have to lug them to multiple places? Like the Magnet or other such central location?
Aug 24th, 2005 at 5:10 pm
Something like that — I will get in touch with people and just make 1 or 2 dropoffs — UCB theatre, Magnet, etc. No worries! I’m happy just to not have all my books squashed by the pulp machines!
Aug 24th, 2005 at 10:50 pm
may I please have the following if available -
Best non-Req 2002
Great Shark Hunt
A Long way Down
Peggy Sneed
Aug 24th, 2005 at 11:25 pm
hey,
I feel your pain. When we moved the last time Mike finally gave up on some books (that he hadn’t even looked at in 10 years) and we found that selling to the Strand was pretty sweet. They don’t take everything but they give you a few bucks each for things. You can make some $$ that way and then not feel like you’re wasting books.
Aug 25th, 2005 at 11:38 am
You’re really into Lincoln… what the fuck?
Haw haw, Orson Scott Card. You nerd!
Next time post images of the food in your cabinets, I want to make fun of that too
Aug 25th, 2005 at 12:16 pm
I will take Lord of the Rings books, Something Wonderful Right Away, and the Second City book if they are still available. I could take so many more but am trying to control myself. Thanks Will!
Aug 25th, 2005 at 12:33 pm
I’m going to stop by VU tonight (thursday Aug. 25), then be at UCBT tonight (still Thursday, Aug. 25), then be at UCBT tomorrow.
If anyone wants books then, email me — address at the bottom of the screen.
Aug 25th, 2005 at 1:50 pm
Hmm, now I may want some. (don’t tell Mike or he will think this opens the door on us hording more crap!)
How to be Good
Barrel Fever
Microserfs
Is that Jonathan Ames any good?
Aug 25th, 2005 at 2:52 pm
I’ll take the Ames if Crystal doesn’t want it.
Aug 25th, 2005 at 4:57 pm
Oh, Tony can take it. I loved the Extra Man but really didn’t like Wake Up, sir. I am a jerk anyway! I didn’t even claim but just requested a review.
Aug 25th, 2005 at 8:19 pm
Hey, I gave you “Wait Till Next Year” and it’s even signed by the author!
Aug 25th, 2005 at 9:52 pm
the book in the picture is my SECOND copy of Wait Till Next Year. No foolin’. it was discovering things like that that made me realize this Purge was long overdue.
Aug 26th, 2005 at 6:40 am
Just giving you a hard time for no good reason. Well, no good reason other than whatever petty enjoyment I got out of yanking your chain. But that should come as no surprise.
Aug 26th, 2005 at 8:35 am
I have claimed:
Live from New York
Eisner/Miller
A Confederacy of Dunces
Aug 26th, 2005 at 9:44 am
I’ll take Lolita.
Aug 26th, 2005 at 12:10 pm
will,
can i have Wait til next year? if no one’s claimed it. i also wish you had posted this 2 days earlier. i wanted to reread Kavalier and Clay, and jen and i have both lent out our copies. so i bought it again. if only i had waited…
Aug 26th, 2005 at 4:21 pm
Will-
May I please have Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Klay, and the pair of Spidey collections?
And why not throw in Graham Greene’s “The End Of The Affair,” just to see if it can be made to sit on a pile of books about comics, or if it will instead float superiorly above them until I pick it up and never read it.
I can pick them up @ UCB if you wanna leave them in the box office. I’m never not there.
Thank you! You’re a gentleman and a scholar.
Aug 29th, 2005 at 1:23 pm
Will,
is that Morrissey/Marr book any good? Will it put me in a COMA? Har har.
kevin,
can i borrow confederacy of dunces when youre done?
Sep 1st, 2005 at 4:05 pm
yes. you can have it first if you want, as I won’t get to it for a while.
Sep 7th, 2005 at 11:38 am
I’ll take Reinventing Comics if it’s still available.
thanks, will.
Sep 7th, 2005 at 11:46 am
ooo, and Web Database Applications, Apache, Safe Area Gorazde, Something Wonderful Right Away, HARRISON and whatever early Doonesbury you would recommend. you kick ass, Will.