A meme, gacked from just about everybody.

[penmage]

Pick an interest from my interests page that either 1) you know nothing about but sounds intriguing, or 2) you know something about but can't fathom why yours truly would be interested in it, and request an explanation.

Edit: feel free to choose more than one. I'll happily explain any and all.

Comments

[fshk.livejournal.com]

Although it should be noted that one of the reason Penguin editions are so cheap is that they are cheaply made. Well, and they publish things from the public domain so they don't have to pay royalties or anything. I may just be bitter, though, as Penguin is one of our competitors. And, as an English major, I had to buy a fair number of them in college. I had a prof who edited one, a particularly evil anthology of abolitionist writing that the prof referred to as "ma book" (he was from Alabama). Um. Anyway.

[penmage.livejournal.com]

I actually really like the old penguin edition (hence the interest on my list ;). I've found that they're really well made, and good, etc etc. The new penguins are teh suck, though.

[darcydodo]

Except maybe you should change it to "the medium old penguin edition," because there was an even older edition that's mostly all black, though with a color picture. :) Which is what I think of when I think of the old penguin edition. Especially as I didn't know about the new ones.

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[penmage.livejournal.com]

Good point - I've seen the old old penugins. But "the medium old penguin edition" is 5 words, and that wouldn't fit as an interest ;). And besides, the yellow ones are what I regularly refer to as "the old penguin edition," so.

[darcydodo]

"medium-old"...? ;) OK.