Expensive Books

I don't know Liana, I traded a house, a car and a shit load of furniture for a set of Tom Clancy books once. I'm still making payments on the order of $1000 a month too.

Bloody hell was looking for a paperback memoir that went out of print a couple of years ago and I choked at £35. I once bid on some original knox illustrated bibles on e-bay but gave up at £500. will remember to search all relatives bookcases etc for a copy of .Kinder- und Haus-Märchen. Gesammelt. GRIMM, (J. & W.).

Liana said: No, no, that would fascinate me. (Make sure you read Vladimir Propp.) * The most expensive book I ever bought was "The Complete Egon Schiele" for £85, and I've never regretted a penny of it. d.beswetherick.

Most expensive book I ever bought was a big glossy one on Chagall with top notch reproductions, about £30 a good 15 years ago.

Thanks Bes - am having REAL difficulty getting hold of most books. A person might imagine that the subject is a dull one by the lack of texts - we know otherwise eh? Ha. The cheapest I can get Linda Degh's "Studies in East European Folk Narrative" is £59. Seems cheap now. Propp is just as difficult to get hold of. Grr.

College is pricey and what is infuriating is when you can't buy a second hand copy because the new edition is quite different, with whole added chapters. This is especially true when I was studying for my first degree because Biological science is so fast paced! Theology, I have got away with a bit more because the crusty old professors usually wither away long before they can add anything radical to their theories on "doctrine of revelation" and such.

I think the most expensive book I have bought was a Microsoft Server guide which weighed in at over £50. I have never read it.

A friend of mine pays his mortgage by going to house clearances and picking up books to flog over the net. Seriously lucrative stuff if you know what you're looking for (I don't).

I've been going round charity shops with a big crate of books and they wont have them. Binned them all in the end. Horrifying? (Ex husband's stuff.)

Perhaps they weren't sure you had his permission. * Liana, if you're prepared to ferret around on the internet, you can find pretty well all of Propp's theories, terms, and lists of narrative elements. The big question for me is whether these elements are passed down culturally or represent, as Jung might say, inherent structures in human consciousness (explaining why culturally unconnected peoples have similar archetypal folk tales). d.beswetherick.

Liana - if you end up studying Jung I'll be dead interested. My masters revolved around his writings (in relation to dream in the songs/operas of Tippett and Britten).

I feel for you liana... can't find any useful books this term in any library in the known universe and can't afford the electricity let alone reading material.. Thank God for the internet.

Bes, will you move in with me? Do bring a pen and some paper. Thanks all.