We use the latest in scientific technology and state-of-the-art weaponry and you, if I understand correctly, poke them with a sharp stick.
Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
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."
Micole - Mar 22, 2004 11:39:36 am PST #1756 of 10002
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
Jess M. - Mar 22, 2004 11:40:55 am PST #1757 of 10002
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse
fifth time's the charm?
Micole - Mar 22, 2004 11:41:20 am PST #1758 of 10002
I've been working on a song about the difference between analogy and metaphor.
Really sorry about that, guys.
Vortex - Mar 22, 2004 11:44:14 am PST #1759 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
You got the hiccups, Micole?
deborah grabien - Mar 22, 2004 12:05:51 pm PST #1760 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
I avoid libraries like the plague for anything except reference. I love my books. My books. My toys! MINE!
I don't want to borrow anything from anybody; I have a hyper sense of terror and rseponsibility about not egtting it back to them in a timely fashion, or mucking it up somehow.
I buy my books used. Although, to be honest? I probably shouldn't even be in this thread, because I read very little these days. Can't, when I'm writing, and I'm writing fulltime right now.
Volans - Mar 22, 2004 12:52:31 pm PST #1761 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Libraries are excellent for computer books, which I guess counts as reference. I'm not going to drop $70.00 on a book which has maybe 4 or 5 sentences I will find useful, and which will be obsolete in 6 months anyway.
Otherwise, the combination of a regular salary and amazon.com has caused the book population around my house to burgeon.
deborah grabien - Mar 22, 2004 12:54:32 pm PST #1762 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Raquel, could you maybe talk Nic into doing that? We're hipdeep in guides for various bits of software and programming that have been outdated since three weeks after they hit the selves, each of which we paid about thirty bucks and upward for.
Ginger - Mar 22, 2004 1:02:21 pm PST #1763 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The problem with getting computer books from libraries is that they're usually a few versions behind the software I'm using. Computer books do have a depressingly high cost to useful content ratio.
I really like owning books, as the wall-to-wall books in my house will attest, but I've gotten better about using the library since the county system put in place a really spiffy online catalogue that lets you find the books you want and have them sent to the nearest branch. I just sit there going, "And I want this one and this one." It's like Amazon.com without the credit card hangover.
Java cat - Mar 22, 2004 1:05:14 pm PST #1764 of 10002
Not javachik
In case anyone else is a Nevada Barr fan (park ranger Anna Pigeon solves mysteries), the newest is just out: High Country.
Volans - Mar 22, 2004 1:07:26 pm PST #1765 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Sure deb! Although like Ginger points out it does depend on what you can get...but I'd think that the library system there would be able to get just about anything. The local library here is actually really good with the computer books, so I guess I'm lucky on that count.