Comments on: Classic Literature

By: dustbury.com

dustbury.com — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:26:52 +0000

Much more in hardcover…

A note from Nate: Over at Amazon, you can apparently buy the entire Penguin Classics library for $7,989.50, which, it turns out, is a savings of exactly $5,326.34 (40%). Imagine that for a moment, if you will: this is a……

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:52:48 +0000

That’s EXACTLY what one of the reviewers on Amazon said. He made note of the fact that the Penguin classics paperbacks are of particularly shoddy manufacture.

Only, he didn’t say it quite as eloquently as you.

Interesting note: I once had a roommate who, in a toilet-paper emergency, did use a book to wipe with. The beauty? It was a copy of George W. Bush’s book “A Charge To Keep.”

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:49:24 +0000

Aside from the fact that the Penguin editions are often not the best critical editions of the classic works available (cf. the Penguin version of Augustine’s Confessions vs. the Oxford classics edition), it’s a bunch of PAPERBACKS. which means they will last approximately 3 yrs. Why not just wipe yourself with the $7000?

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:04:37 +0000

“That reminds me of a story” is probably the single-most used sentence in my entire vocabulary. That’s why I created the “I Have A Story” tag: because I’m always telling these stories, and I want to document them.

By: palinode

palinode — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:09:31 +0000

The sentence “reminds me of a story” should be mandatory for all English-language stories.

By: Hypeful

Hypeful — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:34:34 +0000

$7,989.50 for the entire collection does sound tempting. If they would throw in an actual penguin, then they would have a deal.