Fortunately, my tastes are a little (ahem) eclectic. I cruised over to the history section, and saw this:
That's The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant. 10,000 pages of Pulitzer Prize winning overview of Western Civilization. Alas, they did not have Volume VIII (Louis XIV), but I scooped up the rest for a buck a book.
Ahem.
I expect that this is the best deal in learning ever seen on the face of the earth. Amazon has used sets from $85 or so. I firmly believe that if you were to read this cover to cover, you would be better educated than 99.99% of anyone you will run across.
And note to self: saddle bags for the bike are a good idea, but don't size them for 10,000 pages of Western Civilization. You probably won't run across this sort of cosmic win again.
I picked up first-edition hardcovers of every Tom Clancy novel out at the time at a library sale...paid a buck a book.
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good score. something to read on those cold winter nights.
ReplyDeleteGot you beat--my aunt GAVE them to me when I graduated high school. I still have them (and my K&E slide rule, which will give you an idea of my age). I've never read them all cover to cover, but I read from them a great deal. The Age of Louis XIV, and The Age of Voltaire give you an idea of the intellectual ferment that fueled the American Revolution like nothing else I know of.
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