The Longman Anthology of British
Literature, Volume 1B: The Early Modern Period
David Damrosch (Author), Clare Carroll (Author), Constance Jordan (Author)
2002
Weight: 2.2 lbs
Method of Disposal: Donating
While staying up too late and dreading another day of work, I also began to think about the distance between the United States and Britain AGAIN and grew upset AGAIN. I kept looking around my messy house and telling myself I needed to get out of bed, stop reading the New Yorker (I had like ten to catch up on), and clean. Run on the treadmill, at least, I told myself after reading several issues of Runner's Magazine while laying on my back. On one of my several trips to the kitchen to snack on something or get a glass of water, instead of smoking a cigarette, I saw this book still standing tall on my shelves. I am not sure why it is still here. I took it to half.com to see if it was worth anything and, to my renewed frustration, it was not.
That's the thing about text books. You pay hundreds of dollars for them and they rapidly decrease in value the whole time you have them. If you do not sell them as soon as class ends they will soon only be worth a fourth of what you paid and, if you stupidly wait years, they will be 75 cents--even if they include "timeless literature." None of this is new and surprising, but I was looking over my shelves after making this discovery and realizing how very much money I have spent on school books. I kept them because I loved them or felt like they had more to teach me after I graduated. With so many of them, I have never even opened them again--as is the case with this one. I wish I had just written down the titles, sold them then, and bought them back now when they were worth nothing.
On a side note, I kept wondering why none of the books I was listing ever sold and then realized I've had my settings on "on vacation" for ages. Also annoying. Nothing like being a million miles away from what I want and being hours away from what I hate to put me in a foul mood. I apologize to everyone involved.
David Damrosch (Author), Clare Carroll (Author), Constance Jordan (Author)
2002
Weight: 2.2 lbs
Method of Disposal: Donating
While staying up too late and dreading another day of work, I also began to think about the distance between the United States and Britain AGAIN and grew upset AGAIN. I kept looking around my messy house and telling myself I needed to get out of bed, stop reading the New Yorker (I had like ten to catch up on), and clean. Run on the treadmill, at least, I told myself after reading several issues of Runner's Magazine while laying on my back. On one of my several trips to the kitchen to snack on something or get a glass of water, instead of smoking a cigarette, I saw this book still standing tall on my shelves. I am not sure why it is still here. I took it to half.com to see if it was worth anything and, to my renewed frustration, it was not.
That's the thing about text books. You pay hundreds of dollars for them and they rapidly decrease in value the whole time you have them. If you do not sell them as soon as class ends they will soon only be worth a fourth of what you paid and, if you stupidly wait years, they will be 75 cents--even if they include "timeless literature." None of this is new and surprising, but I was looking over my shelves after making this discovery and realizing how very much money I have spent on school books. I kept them because I loved them or felt like they had more to teach me after I graduated. With so many of them, I have never even opened them again--as is the case with this one. I wish I had just written down the titles, sold them then, and bought them back now when they were worth nothing.
On a side note, I kept wondering why none of the books I was listing ever sold and then realized I've had my settings on "on vacation" for ages. Also annoying. Nothing like being a million miles away from what I want and being hours away from what I hate to put me in a foul mood. I apologize to everyone involved.
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