buttercup

Now, anyone who knows me knows I'm trying to get a library together, both for myself and for Rabbit when she's old enough to sneak into my bookshelves and steal all my books. We never had a really extensive library when I was a kid, and I want Rabbit to have so many books to choose from that it makes her dizzy. So I'm stocking up on the classics; sadly, I haven't read many of them yet, but luckily they're pretty cheap.

So I was searching for "Penguin classics" since I found some good ones at Borders the other day, and was curious as to what other books Penguin considers classics, and I found the motherlode. You can have 1,082 classic books for the low low price of $7,989.99. I love that ".99" at the end, like that one cent is going to make a huge difference to a person who has $8,000.00 to blow on cheap paperback books. And hey, FREE SHIPPING. Although that's actually kind of good since the books weigh SEVEN HUNDRED EFFING POUNDS in all. My house would tilt on its side. We would fall through the earth. And yet it's kind of fun to think of having that many classics. However, I have enough books now that I'm getting the "this house is not the kind of house you build a library in" lecture. So I think I'll skip it. Plus, you know, eight thousand bucks.

Other highlights include: reviewers estimating how much space these would take up, how high the stack of books would go, and bitching about the quality of the Penguin Classic paperbacks. Sadly, none of these reviews are from people who actually bought the set, although one reviewer does mention that they're saving up for it. Hee.