Books, books, books

[pegkerr]

Gacked from rivka: The Penguin Classics Library Complete Collection. Only $7,989.50 (hey, you save $5,326.34, and the shipping is free!)

From Edwin A. Abottt to Emile Zola, the 1,082 titles in the Penguin Classics Complete Library total nearly half a million pages--laid end to end they would hit the 52 mile mark. Approximately 700 pounds in weight, the titles would tower 828 feet if you stacked them lengthwise atop each other--almost as tall as the Empire State Building. But don't worry, a nice set of bookshelves will hold them side-by-side just fine.

Someone who did buy it took a picture for Amazon. Just look at that. Just look.

Here is the complete list of titles.

Comments

books!

[mon-starling.livejournal.com]

...

I HATE BEING POOR.

[chavalah.livejournal.com]

The Creative Writing program at my college is actually attempting to raise the money to buy this collection for our literary house. It certainly looks amazing on those shelves!

[knitmeapony.livejournal.com]

Silly reviewers, saying that it being paperbacks is a negative.

That is seven hundred pounds of bus-reading, fifty-two miles of picnics, so much beach time that it outweighs the car I'd take to get there. Hell, it outweighs my dad's truck.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

I look at them and think "where in the world would I put them?"

B

[scott-lynch.livejournal.com]

Oh sexy bookporn. Come hither, little shelf.

[sarekofvulcan.livejournal.com]

Oh, so metaquotesed. :-)

[akamarykate.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if it's those books or the bookshelves that are making me drool right now. Wowiewowwow.

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

"Tis too croggle. I'd think that if you wanted to, assembling that in HC (used) might be 2/3rds less in cost.





x-posted to rivika

[orangemike.livejournal.com]

I'd be delighted to help somebody try; but the shipping costs would be depressing to contemplate.

[sraun]

I want! Well, I'll just have to add it to the 'when we win the lottery' list.

[romancoat.livejournal.com]

*speechless*

[dreamflower]

Hmm...I think of one of my friends who probably lost at least 8 grand worth of books in Katrina. If she got replacement cost from her insurance, she could get those--as soon as she has a house with shelves to put them on...

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Problem I have with the idea is, I don't *like* the Penguin classics editions. The covers are OK, and I don't have a major problem with them being PBs (after all, the idea is to make littrachewer available to the masses) but the ones I've seen are on cheap, dingy, easily-torn paper.

*boggles*

[lapin-agile.livejournal.com]

I'm completely boggled by the idea of buying a complete library of books in one go (Penguin editions or otherwise). Do you then sit down and crack the spines on all those paperbacks to make it look as though you've read them? Is it a design statement? (Look! All the covers have the same colour scheme!) It's like buying one of those sets of leather bound 'classics' (Just 19.95/month for the rest of your natural life!) -- only it's really, really not. Is it supposed to seem more real or less pretentious if you buy that truckload of books you'll never read in paperback instead of in hand-tooled leather?

I must be missing something.

*looks at icon*

Perhaps not.

Re: *boggles*

[romancoat.livejournal.com]

If you're actually going to read it, or have read a lot of it from the library or something, then it's a good deal. If it's just for the look of it, then of course not.

I have English professor friends who would die for this. :)

[lapsus-0-calami.livejournal.com]

I'm jealous! What a fantastic collection to own.

[rachet.livejournal.com]

Oh
My
God.

I'm in awe. And EXTREMELY envious! To have $8,000 to spend on books would be a dream come true!

[fireflowerlass.livejournal.com]

*gasp* my goodness! That is a lot of books! lol

[skylarker.livejournal.com]

Ooo. Precious.