Snap Judgements
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dweniusWe have started packing. As with any move, the inevitable culling will occur. "That box hasn't been opened since we moved last time" and so forth. This weekend, I tackled two categories:
This process could take hours if you carefully considered each volume, so I didn't.. Some things, I have never wished to re-read. Some things didn't even grab me that much the first time. You make snap judgments based on a quick flip-through.
For the comics, I made choices based both on author and by series. Any singles that are duped in trades are going I'm just not that kind of collector. I haven't gone to a comic shop yet, and odds are they won't take much of this anyway, so if you're interested in anything from the "Going" section, speak up.
Staying: The trade collections of Animal Man (Morrison's run, which I would keep just for the Coyote Gospel issue), Black Orchid, Books of Magic, Bone, Cerebus, Chase, Doom Patrol (single issues mostly, how I wish they would trade up the Brotherhood of Dada story arc!), DR & Quinch, Hellblazer, Invisibles(many single issues that I would replace at some point, cash permitting), JLA (Morrison's run again...spot the trend!), The Killing Joke (Moore's Batman tale, the only quasi-valuable first edition thing I hang onto...I stole bits of this for the monologue that got me into the Shakespeare company in 1991, so it has a somewhat complicated emotional value as well), Lucifer, Luther Arkwright, Menz Insana, Milk and Cheese, MiracleMan (Moore and Gaiman and Apocrypha, actually), Ronin, Sam & Max, Sandman (and related, like The Dreaming), Sebastian O, Stardust, Theater of Cruelty, The Tick (early issues through "the tick cave" only), Through the Habitrails, Transmetropolitan, V for Vendetta, Watchmen.
You know, looking at that list, it seems excessive, but I have difficulty imaginging a "more minimal" list.
Going, for sure: Bacchus, Ballads and Sagas, From Hell, Kabuki, Mage (old and new), Strangers in Paradise, everything by Ted McKeever (yes, even Metropol), and Rachel Pollack's run on Doom Patrol (ugh).
Popular Science is different. I am keeping a few things that I know are out of date or likely to be invalidated in the next decade. But here it is very easy to sort by author rather than title.
Keeping: John Barrow, John L. Casti, Eric Drexler, Richard P. Feynman (Required), Buckminster Fuller, James Gleik , Brian Greene (Trending towards required), John Gribbin (Still my favorite summarizer), Stephen Hawking, Douglas Hofstadter (including Le Ton Beau de Marot), Marshall McLuhan , Roger Penrose (got to have the counter arguments to Hofstadter), Alvin Toffler, Norbert Weiner, and John Wheeler. Plus a handful of compilations or anthologies.
Already Gone: Timothy Ferris, Paul Davies...and others I am forgetting. Shoot, they've only been gone for three days.
This process could take hours if you carefully considered each volume, so I didn't.. Some things, I have never wished to re-read. Some things didn't even grab me that much the first time. You make snap judgments based on a quick flip-through.
For the comics, I made choices based both on author and by series. Any singles that are duped in trades are going I'm just not that kind of collector. I haven't gone to a comic shop yet, and odds are they won't take much of this anyway, so if you're interested in anything from the "Going" section, speak up.
Staying: The trade collections of Animal Man (Morrison's run, which I would keep just for the Coyote Gospel issue), Black Orchid, Books of Magic, Bone, Cerebus, Chase, Doom Patrol (single issues mostly, how I wish they would trade up the Brotherhood of Dada story arc!), DR & Quinch, Hellblazer, Invisibles(many single issues that I would replace at some point, cash permitting), JLA (Morrison's run again...spot the trend!), The Killing Joke (Moore's Batman tale, the only quasi-valuable first edition thing I hang onto...I stole bits of this for the monologue that got me into the Shakespeare company in 1991, so it has a somewhat complicated emotional value as well), Lucifer, Luther Arkwright, Menz Insana, Milk and Cheese, MiracleMan (Moore and Gaiman and Apocrypha, actually), Ronin, Sam & Max, Sandman (and related, like The Dreaming), Sebastian O, Stardust, Theater of Cruelty, The Tick (early issues through "the tick cave" only), Through the Habitrails, Transmetropolitan, V for Vendetta, Watchmen.
You know, looking at that list, it seems excessive, but I have difficulty imaginging a "more minimal" list.
Going, for sure: Bacchus, Ballads and Sagas, From Hell, Kabuki, Mage (old and new), Strangers in Paradise, everything by Ted McKeever (yes, even Metropol), and Rachel Pollack's run on Doom Patrol (ugh).
Popular Science is different. I am keeping a few things that I know are out of date or likely to be invalidated in the next decade. But here it is very easy to sort by author rather than title.
Keeping: John Barrow, John L. Casti, Eric Drexler, Richard P. Feynman (Required), Buckminster Fuller, James Gleik , Brian Greene (Trending towards required), John Gribbin (Still my favorite summarizer), Stephen Hawking, Douglas Hofstadter (including Le Ton Beau de Marot), Marshall McLuhan , Roger Penrose (got to have the counter arguments to Hofstadter), Alvin Toffler, Norbert Weiner, and John Wheeler. Plus a handful of compilations or anthologies.
Already Gone: Timothy Ferris, Paul Davies...and others I am forgetting. Shoot, they've only been gone for three days.
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Re: interested
Date: 2005-02-17 06:55 am (UTC)I am behind on Transmet, and yes it hurts. but it got a little too grim there for a while, and my dollars were going elsewhere. I'll pick them up eventually.