Recently I've been on a money shortage. As a result I haven't read a new book in a while. The little square bastards are expensive and I have a cat to feed.

It’d be great if I could read the books and then eat them. Obviously this is not a good solution. So I decided to sell some of my crap. I traded one DVD*, one CD**, and $3.45 for:

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

The Fall by Albert Camus

I’m holding off on Ayn Rand. I really fear that bitch. I've already read two Albert Camus books; The Stranger and The Plague, so I know I'll like The Fall. I've never heard of Tom Stoppard before, but the second I read the back cover of the book I was hooked.

These books should keep me entertained for the next three weeks. I would appreciate recommendations.

Note: I'll be reading Ayn Rand last.

*Minority Report (I need to stop buying DVDs just to see how the special effects are done)
**Britney Spears. (It belonged to my sister)

All books are used and in very crappy condition. Special thanks to the guys at Book & Music Exchange.

Heh. I think this thread should be retitled: I sold crap for my soul. Your sister's CD, a pathetic DVD and $3.45 for

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
The Fall by Albert Camus

is a pretty good deal.

Yeah, I know. Three weeks from now I'll be right back to square one with nothing to trade.

I don't trade my books. I keep them.

EDIT: Comment to add. My copy of Atlas Shrugged has no cover to it and smells like someone wiped their ass with it.

There are many ways to get money: Become a gigilo, a stripper, a fast food worker, a gambler, beggar, etc. Seriously, the UPS gig has to go...At your age, I was making good money ripping the university and my fellow student's off with pretty easy schemes.

EDIT: Comment to add. My copy of Atlas Shrugged has no cover to it and smells like someone wiped their ass with it.
I would encourage you to rip the current 'cover' and likewise wipe your ass with the book.

Is Ayn Rand really that bad? I have this fear of her for some reason. A friend of mine, Jack, told me about her book Atlas Shrugged. I think Jack is a nihilist now, or gay.

Fountainhed, I'm glad you mentioned the UPS gig. I've already talked to my supervisor and told her that she's going to get my two weeks notice on Thursday. I'm outta that place. Now I have to write up a damn resume.

EDIT: UPS does pay well. It's just that the work really sucks ass and I can't get the hours that I need to sustain myself. $9.50 an hour is good. But $9.50 an hour times 20 hours a week isn't a lot. Now if it were full time it'd be a different story.

Nah, Rand isn't that bad(blatant lie)....there are simply better ones you should read before Rand, i.e. Kant. Nietsczhe, etc..

I could invest some money into a Nietschze book. I've heard a lot about him. I better go give some hand jobs so I can buy another freakin book.

:bugeye: That's certainly an interesting way to make money. But at least you will be making more money so why not go for it?:D

Some of the guys just wanna nut on me. The women are truly sicker then the men. They want at least two fist in em' at the same time.

Let's end this type of talk here. I don't feel the need to prattle on about hand jobs and such. Let's move onto hardcore scat sex.

:bugeye: :bugeye: Wow kiddo. How much do you intend to charge your customers for shitting on you? I suppose you have 700 pieces of paper to wipe yourself with, so no matter.

I'm only kidding. I don't do that type of stuff anymore. That's all in the past.

I would really appreciate book recommendations. I do value the opnions of certain posters. (Tiassa, Xev, GoofyFish, Pollux, Thor)

You can get some complete Nietzsche books from the net. Try http://promo.net/pg/ and enter Nietzsche as author. Beyond good and evil is in there. So is the Zarathustra, which he calls his most important work. It is wise to ignore Ecce Homo :)

No! Project Gutenberg, back to haunt me again! I've strained my eyes reading books off of my computer screen. I've attempted to print those same books to reduce the strain on my eyes and now my printer is broken! The only thing I've read from there is Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau.

No more! *Cowers in corner* Please, no more!

Yes, I know what you mean. But you did sound desperate :)

Try the library!

Or are you really iinterested in ownership? In that case: let it be said that your noble cause is worthy of your suffering :)

I go for ownership. I am the library for my friends, my mom, and my sister. I also don't go to the library because I don't have the time. Plus I hate late fees and I haven't returned a book yet...

Return those books now you thieving bastard!

Speaking as a fellow bibliophile who has only let books out his hands when he realised that he had those three already, so made a couple of quid selling them, your going too far stealing library books. They are there for communal use, not you to steal.

You could start cat sitting. Or renting your cat out to people to pet.

Coffee, I feel your pain. For the library at least. I have 150 bucks in late fines, plus six or seven books at my house.

My bad. BUT they issued me another card good in any library in my county through the college. Muahahahaha! It's like a get out of jail free card. Muahahahaha.

If only the book had been Goethe's Faust.
Oh, the irony would have been delicious.

my calculus book is dedicated to ayn rand. i suspect the author is a little screwy.

I've got a large collection coffee.... if you want to set up some kind of sharing thing ;)

That is, if your collection is large as well :P

I have lots of ebooks... let's tradez0r!

Recent books I've read, coffee--

Into the Wild, Krakauer->awesome, awesome book, haven't finished it yet, cannot put it down.

Catcher in the Rye, Salinger->I really enjoyed this book but I don't think Xev liked it that much. She's a ho anyway.

The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald->Also an awesome book I have to read for class. I really like it, but I can understand how others don't (the great crappsy hehe).

So those are my recommondations. I enjoyed reading the thread, and hope to become a part of it.

I've read Catcher in the Rye, I hated it. That rich bastard has no right to bitch. And at the end, the very end; the teacher should of bent him over and butt fucked em'.

As for ebooks... They hurt my eyes and don't agree with my printer. However, certain books that I cannot afford are downloaded. Fafnir, it depends on what you need. Tell me what it is, and I'll find it.

Fafnir, it depends on what you need. Tell me what it is, and I'll find it.

What every man needs - a bag of gummy worms and a good blowjob from a transvestite hooker.

I didn't like Catcher either. Mope, mope, mope.

Recently I read some books for English class, feminist literary criticism and "Whipping boys of the Stockholm brothels".

Some confusion? I have a massive e-book collection, I meant real books ;)

I dont know where this thread is going, but I havnt read catcher in teh rye, might get round to it. The great gatsby was good.

Has anyone else noticed that reading books at school isnt half as good as reading htem when your an adult? Theres a few books I read at school, sort of 16 age, etc, and now, when im 21, 23, etc, they make so much more sense because i actually have a better idea of how the world and people work, and more experience of it all, so suddenly the characters make sense.

By the by, I have over 2,200 books, which I keep thinking I aught to start a library with. Theyre stuffed all over the place, in shelves, under the bed, etc.