Bricks can double as a bludgeon in case he runs out of bullets for all those guns [;)]
Same… but I can’t help feel like I am desecrating something sacred.
However, If I was to buy Das Capital or some other piece of vomit, I’d scribble the hell out of it.
Something along the lines of “LOL” wouldn’t be out of place either, considering it is a nice representation of the level of thought the author (whore of the state) put into it.
Could you imagine someone getting a copy of Capital off of Ebay and having “important” information circled and highlighted with “LOL” and “WTF” beside it in the margin? Would be better if someone added notes referencing the reader to some credible economist. Some young would-be socialist gets a copy and reads “debunked by von Mises” in the margin.
He could throw coins in a cannon and shot them. My gosh! Haven’t you thought these points through!?[:P]
Well its not so much the books that are sacred but the information they contain. Books are just a means of dispensing knowledge.
Ahhh… obviously. But I’m not going to go buy another copy, so I want to keep the one I’ve got pristine.
You’re all a bunch of tree killers as far as I can see! Read .pdfs - help save the Amazon!
I’d rather save the Amazon.
Good lord, why would you want to shoot your wealth at people? That’s what the state does best [:P]
Personally, I’d keep my commodities in a trap box with pockets of sulfuric acid. It brings new meaning to the phrase “getting your fingers burned”. [H]
Mises’ Theory and History. In fact, that book should be read before Human Action and Man, Economy, State. In that book the underpinnings of Misesian economics and philosophy (and how it contrasts with Rothbardian philosophy) are made crystal clear. Mises’ concision and clarity are astounding in Human Action, but when he wrote Theory and History later in life, he really outdid himself. It’s an ice cold glass of pure reason.
Your value preferences are bizarre! [:D]
That does sound humorous, perhaps I should sell my copy of the first volume of Capital then!
Yes! I do let people borrow them, though, if they’re not the kind of people that insist on folding paperbacks backwards, or folding the corner of the page over as bookmark, or similar horrors. (And when I do get one damaged, I fix it…rebind, put it in a new cover; but there’s no way I’d put ink on it…can’t fix that!)
I don’t plan on letting someone borrow my books till they are as organized as I with literature. I keep all my books on a stained bookshelf I made and I make sure that the corners stay sharp (so to speak). I wash my hands before I read, also.
One of my friend’s wanted to borrow some books I have on Norse paganism (which I value highly), and I told her I’d let her read my Ayn Rand paperbacks instead and she got mad.
There is an alarm bell going off somewhere. [:P]
I’m the same way, in fact I’ve been known to buy both the hardcover and paperback version of the same book so the Hardcover can sit on the shelf in mint condition while I read the paperback. I don’t have OCD, I swear.
To get back on topic. The books that I cherish and changed my life and would recommend to anyone.
For a New Liberty
Man, Economy and State
The Myth of National Defense