time on my hands...(FREE BOOK!!!!)
Dec. 31st, 2008 02:09 pmWell, now that I have some unexpected time on my hands, maybe I can take this opportunity to locate my Kerouac book, the one with like five novels all rolled into one that I swear I just moved last week before we left and now it's vanished...oh, nevermind, I found it.
I have an itch to read some Kerouac for a while now. I was seriously thinking about rereading The Town and the City, but then over Christmas I picked up a copy of Dharma Bums and got quickly into the first couple of chapters before remembering that the multi-novel tome contains said. It seems to make a little more sense to read the one I've not yet read than to reread the one I've read. So seeing as it's brand new and I've managed not to get so much as a scratch or ding on it, I will see if I can return it to Borders where I bought it- though I wouldn't be surprised if I couldn't, I lost the receipt and they have a new no returns without receipts policy, though I'm not sure if that extends to exchanges or not...so maybe they will let me exchange?
So the book I have here contains the following:
On the Road
The Dharma Bums
The Subterraneans
Tristessa
Lonesome Traveler
I've read On the Road and Tristessa as well as The Town and the City, Maggie Cassidy, Visions of Gerard and part of Visions of Cody and Desolation Angels. Actually...I now have a second copy of On the Road and Tristessa. I have no idea where Tristessa is, but I have On the Road right here.
Would anyone like a copy of On the Road? I probably won't get to the post office til sometime next week (I do have several things that I need to mail so a post office trip is in short order.)
This copy is softcover, printed by Penguin Press, I've had it since I was 16. It is nicely battered like only a Kerouac novel should be, but by no means falling apart- there is some tape on the cover where it accidentally ripped but the binding is solid, all pages firmly in place, the corners are very well worn, lots of scratches and dings, and a bit of writing and doodling on the cover and on the last blank page- one of my friends in college borrowed it and I guess decided it needed a bit of embellishment or something. Some smiley faces, a little washer and dryer (no, seriously, I'm pretty sure that's what it is.)
First person to leave a comment gets it. If you're in Baltimore, we can make arrangements for you to pick it up from me somewhere in the city. If you're elsewhere, I will mail it. Postage is on me.
I'm not expecting to find it anytime soon, but if I do run across the spare copy of Tristessa, I will throw that one in too. If not, it will be up for grabs in another post when I find it.
I have an itch to read some Kerouac for a while now. I was seriously thinking about rereading The Town and the City, but then over Christmas I picked up a copy of Dharma Bums and got quickly into the first couple of chapters before remembering that the multi-novel tome contains said. It seems to make a little more sense to read the one I've not yet read than to reread the one I've read. So seeing as it's brand new and I've managed not to get so much as a scratch or ding on it, I will see if I can return it to Borders where I bought it- though I wouldn't be surprised if I couldn't, I lost the receipt and they have a new no returns without receipts policy, though I'm not sure if that extends to exchanges or not...so maybe they will let me exchange?
So the book I have here contains the following:
On the Road
The Dharma Bums
The Subterraneans
Tristessa
Lonesome Traveler
I've read On the Road and Tristessa as well as The Town and the City, Maggie Cassidy, Visions of Gerard and part of Visions of Cody and Desolation Angels. Actually...I now have a second copy of On the Road and Tristessa. I have no idea where Tristessa is, but I have On the Road right here.
Would anyone like a copy of On the Road? I probably won't get to the post office til sometime next week (I do have several things that I need to mail so a post office trip is in short order.)
This copy is softcover, printed by Penguin Press, I've had it since I was 16. It is nicely battered like only a Kerouac novel should be, but by no means falling apart- there is some tape on the cover where it accidentally ripped but the binding is solid, all pages firmly in place, the corners are very well worn, lots of scratches and dings, and a bit of writing and doodling on the cover and on the last blank page- one of my friends in college borrowed it and I guess decided it needed a bit of embellishment or something. Some smiley faces, a little washer and dryer (no, seriously, I'm pretty sure that's what it is.)
First person to leave a comment gets it. If you're in Baltimore, we can make arrangements for you to pick it up from me somewhere in the city. If you're elsewhere, I will mail it. Postage is on me.
I'm not expecting to find it anytime soon, but if I do run across the spare copy of Tristessa, I will throw that one in too. If not, it will be up for grabs in another post when I find it.