Yeah...and they do buy new ones...not as many as I want, but the library is like my crackhouse so this is not possible.
Come on. You drop by for a cup of coffee, and the world's not ending? Please.
Connor ,'Not Fade Away'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
erikaj - Mar 22, 2004 9:23:42 am PST #1712 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Beverly - Mar 22, 2004 9:25:00 am PST #1713 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
They took my library card away. When I like something, I don't want to give it back. And I form an irrational attachment to the actual physical book I read the first time. No, I don't want a shiny new one of my own, I want this one.
It's cheaper to buy my own.
Jesse - Mar 22, 2004 9:25:26 am PST #1714 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The library is the BEST! And I don't think most of the books at the library are donations.
erikaj - Mar 22, 2004 9:26:45 am PST #1715 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I haven't read anything I liked that much in a long time...this is sad.
DavidS - Mar 22, 2004 9:29:01 am PST #1716 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Then again, since I've never actually been tho the library, I'm sure it's not as bad as I imagine.
I think of libraries as sanctuaries. I love being in an old, well-stocked library. Free books! How can you fear that?
msbelle - Mar 22, 2004 9:31:09 am PST #1717 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I need to start using the library more. Luckily for my poscketbook, I have been loaned a lot of books recently.
Maybe I can convince myslef that my TBR shelves are a library and just work my way through them instead of spending more money.
DavidS - Mar 22, 2004 9:31:20 am PST #1718 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
They took my library card away. When I like something, I don't want to give it back.
I was very surprised and amused at the first time this came up, and so many Buffistas admitted they were basically Evil Incarnate when it came to library books.
See, when you don't return the books other people can't read them.
But Buffistas are not and never have been particularly sane about books.
Skyzy - Mar 22, 2004 9:31:46 am PST #1719 of 10002
I haven't read anything I liked that much in a long time...this is sad.
Me neither. I have gotten really cynical with my reading. If it hasn't gotten good within the first 3 chapters, I'm done reading it. I also find myself laughing at some of the ridiculous actions/situations that occur instead of suspending my disbelief and going along with it. I have no patience any more.
When I like something, I don't want to give it back.
Yeah, probably another good reason why I shouldn't go to the library.
Calli - Mar 22, 2004 9:32:22 am PST #1720 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I was so happy when I was deemed old enough to bike to my town's library. It became nearly a ritual for me. Every Saturday I'd get my allowance (to buy lunch -- usually french fries or a hot fudge sunday), bike to the library, get as many books as I could jam in my backpack, and bike to the breakwater (my home town was on the Lake Huron shore). I'd sit and read by the lake until I had to be home for chores or dinner.
Ginger - Mar 22, 2004 9:36:15 am PST #1721 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The need to immediately hug and pet the book and call it George is why I buy Lois McMaster Bujold and Connie Willis in hardcover. For everyone else, I can wait until the paperback. (I did buy The Weaver and the Factory Maid in hardcover because I was eager to read it and to run up the number of buyers.) Unlike Beverly, I'm able to transfer my affections from the library book to the shiny new paperback if I've fallen in love with the contents.
I don't know what I would have done without the library. I would have been out on the corner saying, "Do you have any spare change? If I get another dollar, I can buy a paperback."