Should I buy two books?

[tufty79]

and.. and.. and...

if you need to offload any books to make room for the new ones, i'm only a PM away...

 

[Throbbing Angel]

buy the books
read the books
sell the books

 

[Idris2002]

I have two books in my Amazon shopping basket.

Both of them are fairly seminal thingies (Folk Devils and Moral Panics; and There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack) and I'd be quite interested in getting them. I could afford them but'd flinch a wee bit if I clicked 'YES!!! Send it now!!!' only to be happy and interested when they arrive.

This should probably be counterbalanced by the fact that I've just had two books delivered, a third is on the way, I've already read through approximately a foot-high stack of pre-term reading and I need to get my house in a slightly better (rentable) state for Sept 29th when I move out. Including painting the kitchen and sorting out the bedroom ceiling.

SO.

Should I hit the button?

Help

I'd be very surprised if your library didn't have these things.

 

[indigo4]

or buy the books from a charity shop

read the books

give back to the charity shop

everyones a winner - well apart from you cos you've read a shit book that you didn't intend on reading at all.

TA hows that story coming along ???

 

[Throbbing Angel]

the one about photoshopped urine you mean?
[/derail]

 

[indigo4]

yes yes she screamed

that one...

 

[Throbbing Angel]

oh it's piss poor

 

[indigo4]

MWAHSAhAhahAhah

:d

 

[tufty79]

*dies of snorting helplessly*

 

[Throbbing Angel]

*dies of snorting helplessly*

curious

 

[tufty79]

you don't want to know. it's worse than cake.

btw - did you om me the other day? i deleted it by mistake and if it wasn't you, i'm sorry whoever it was

/derail of derail.

anyway, yes. kidda, i prefer the smell of second hand books. not sure why

 

[indigo4]

im also curious

as to what om me means..it sounds kind of fascinating.

 

[tufty79]

its literal translation is 'pm'

/steps away from keyboard

 

[sojourner]

as to what om me means..it sounds kind of fascinating.

I think she meant pm

Unless it meant...omni me, or overpower me, or oil me, or ovulate me, or ovencook me

 

[sojourner]

its literal translation is 'pm'

/steps away from keyboard

Bum, none of my suggestions then?

 

[indigo4]

ovencook me...

mwhahahha beer spillage from mouth ....

 

[tufty79]

nope. but you're welcome to do all but two of them to me any time

 

[mrs quoad]

*applauds*


I barely even get that 'should I' feeling whilst buying books - Amazon is usually so cheap that I just click away happily. The bastard is that they store me card details, so buying music turns out to be slightly more expensive

And of course you won't be down the student bar every night getting pissed like the rest of them.

Those two posts sold me

Blast.

The original two books turned into five, helped on particularly by Sojourner's fantastic take on things and a very full, contented belly

Gruel for a week

 

[sojourner]

Those two posts sold me

Blast.

The original two books turned into five, helped on particularly by Sojourner's fantastic take on things and a very full, contented belly

Gruel for a week

Yay!

Gruel is great, when you have good books to look forward to!

hint - make soup, it's cheap, and you only have to warm it up for 10 mins, thereby making more time to READ

 

[sojourner]

So what 5 did you pick then?

 

[mrs quoad]

Yay!

Gruel is great, when you have good books to look forward to!

hint - make soup, it's cheap, and you only have to warm it up for 10 mins, thereby making more time to READ

Shit. Your logic is impeccable. It was also only after I'd paid that I remembered I'd also paid council tax, filled up the car and gone for a weekly shop today - arrg, ha.

But worth it

Like the prospect of soup too

Books:

Becker's Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance;
Cohen's Folk Devils and Moral Panics;
Matza's Delinquency and Drift;
Gilroy's There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack;
Le Carre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy;
Le Carre's The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.



e2a: Balls. That's six.

*checks*

Matza didn't go through for some reason. Thank god, ha, that's thirteen quid saved

NB: Thirteen quid SAVED. Not forty quid SPENT. Yes. I've saved money. Win!

 

[sojourner]

Shit. Your logic is impeccable. It was also only after I'd paid that I remembered I'd also paid council tax, filled up the car and gone for a weekly shop today - arrg, ha.

But worth it

Like the prospect of soup too

Books:

Becker's Outsiders: Studies in the Sociology of Deviance;
Cohen's Folk Devils and Moral Panics;
Matza's Delinquency and Drift;
Gilroy's There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack;
Le Carre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy;
Le Carre's The Spy Who Came In From The Cold.



e2a: Balls. That's six.

*checks*

Matza didn't go through for some reason. Thank god, ha, that's thirteen quid saved

NB: Thirteen quid SAVED. Not forty quid SPENT. Yes. I've saved money. Win!

Christ quoady, you make me sea-sick with your to-ing and fro-ing

The folk devils book is well alright actually - but le carre's more of an acquired taste

 

[mrs quoad]

but le carre's more of an acquired taste

Reckon?

I fell into Smiley's People and couldn't put it down... It's one of comparatively few books in the last year or so that's just *clicked* for me

Admittedly I haven't picked up that many (too much academic blather going on)... But as soon as I'd finished Smiley's, I wanted ALL the Smiley books

Folk Devils - I'm a bit cautious of actually! Looking forward to getting it and it is 'seminal', but I've got a bit of an 'unsure' mental barrier around it No idea why!

 

[Kidda]

kidda, i prefer the smell of second hand books. not sure why

eww but you dont know where they've been

they could be full of nasty germs and bacteria

you might get bookworm

 

[mrs quoad]

I have Marx and Engel's Communist Manifesto and Rawls' Theory of Justice in my basket (I've lost both my copies, arg).

HOWEVER.

Shall not be purchasing them.

I just put them there to play with the concept of not buying them, so that I could gain comfort from the fact that I'm saving eighteen squid with their non-purchase

 

[tufty79]

if you hang on a couple of days i should be able to get you a freebie copy of marx/engels.

*taps nose*

 

[mrs quoad]

if you hang on a couple of days i should be able to get you a freebie copy of marx/engels.

*taps nose*

OOooooo?


p.s. my entire office is on the CPGB mailing list after I got bored one lunchtime, and none of them have the technical nous to designup themselves

 

[mrs quoad]

Extremely surprised to see someone's added Rousseau's Social Contract to my non-basket too

 

[rollinder]

you've been sleepbookordering have you?

 

[mrs quoad]

you've been sleepbookordering have you?

Seemingly... I mean, I'm interested in Rousseau, but haven't looked at it or owt.

And certainly aren't buying this time