Purging Books
Outer Life did a typically thoughtful and funny entry on book binging, and book purging. He notes that genre books are an easy target.
As a practicing purger, I recognized the value of the genre tactic a while ago. Like OL, I got rid of all my McDonald Fletch books, even though the first and second were really good. I got rid of my Anne McCaffrey dragon books that were so compelling when I was a teen. Ditto with a bunch of bodice rippers.
I’ve done a pretty good job of borrowing books from the library rather than buying them; this has significantly reduced my book expenditures.
I wonder if book binging coincide with general upswings in the retail market, and hopeful feelings of consumers for the economy? Or, more interesting, could it have an inverse relationship?
September 26th, 2007 at 7:12 am
i just reread a ton of my anne mccaffrey’s last summer. loved most of them just as much as previous times. i don’t think i’ll ever get rid of those.
October 17th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
I found that the longer the series went on, the worst it got, and I think that influenced my memory of the books for the worse. also, I just never felt like re-reading them, but I’m glad they’re still good, since I loved them SOOOO much, and they’re part of how I became a reader today.