Even more words in the way
Written at: 01:39 26 Jan, 2001
Speaking of cleaning up, I need to make space on my bookshelf, as it has become too crowded. This is due mostly to my burgeoning library of O'Reilly books. I love O'Reilly books. They have a nice consistent spine color for all the web-related titles so that they emit a faint glow on their shelf. And they have nice engravings of animals on the front, with an little paragraph about that animal in the colophon. Oh, and something about knowledge and writing and design and stuff.
Anyhow, I need to get rid of some books to make room for all these new books. It's kind of silly that I have read very little of them, turning to them more for specific questions about a given topic. As such, I think I'll be getting rid of some of my more superfluous Tolkien books, most of which I also have not read. I bought them back in junior high, soon after completing The Lord of the Rings. Hey, it's a good book. And thinking that it could only get better, I bought up a whole lot of stuff: The Silmarillion, Unfinished Tales, The Book of Lost Tales, Volume I, The Book of Lost Tales, Volume II, many other books of lost tales, Tree and Leaf, Farmer Giles of Ham, the leatherbound Lord of the Rings single-volume edition, ... And then I actually sat down to read the Silmarillion. And it was more arduous a task than my short attention span was prepared for. But I did it. So I tried one of the books of lost tales. And in the process lost my love for Christopher Tolkien's, ahem, career made of transcribing his father's late-night scribbling on cocktail napkins (cf. "The Completely New Adventures of Tom Bombadil in the Valley of Gol-Siddur, or why it is that hobbits' doors are round").
I suppose I don't make as much time for reading as I wished I did, but it's likely because I spend so much time waiting for me to buy photo albums.
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