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Archaea · 01-23-2007, 02:51 PM

Purchase and read, go forth and learn!

BarbaraGordon · 01-23-2007, 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Archaea

Purchase and read, go forth and learn!

But why purchase when you can check out a book from your local library?? Eh?

(Why do I feel like I'm on Reading Rainbow?)

creekster · 01-23-2007, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon

But why purchase when you can check out a book from your local library?? Eh?

(Why do I feel like I'm on Reading Rainbow?)

My wife and I have this dispute all the time. I like to buy books but she insists on going to the library. As a result, our home library is dominated by my choices, which isn't necessarily a good thing. I prefer buying becasue you can read at your leisure, read gain, and you know where it has been.

Sleeping in EQ · 01-23-2007, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon

But why purchase when you can check out a book from your local library?? Eh?

(Why do I feel like I'm on Reading Rainbow?)

I do lots of both. I've checked out over 200 books from the library in the last few years and hundreds more for my son. I buy plenty of books too.

My copy of Misquoting is well-broken in. For those trying to save $ but who want to buy, I believe there's a paperback edition out now.

I look forward to a great discussion.

BarbaraGordon · 01-23-2007, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by creekster

My wife and I have this dispute all the time. I like to buy books but she insists on going to the library. As a result, our home library is dominated by my choices, which isn't necessarily a good thing. I prefer buying becasue you can read at your leisure, read gain, and you know where it has been.

For us it has largely become a space issue. I am a bibliophile to the point that I probably need therapy. We have hundreds of hundreds of books, half of which haven't even been read. In our last move we didn't even manage to unpack most of them because we just plain don't have that much shelfspace.

So, I've finally converted over to actually using a library. Which makes sense seeing as how I am, after all, a librarian.

The thing I really don't like about library books is the coffee stains. And the
dried boogers. But maybe that's an Oklahoma thing.

BigFatMeanie · 01-23-2007, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon

The thing I really don't like about library books is the coffee stains. And the
dried boogers. But maybe that's an Oklahoma thing.

I'd rather see dried boogers than wet ones.

I think I'll buy the book and join in. I need to upgrade my reading from my current diet of Junie B. Jones/Cat in the Hat/Five Little Monkeys.

Jeff Lebowski · 01-23-2007, 04:53 PM

FYI: There is a paperback version coming out on Feb. 6th. It appears that it will have a new bonus section. You can pre-order on amazon.com.

I look forward to reading it.

Archaea · 01-23-2007, 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeff Lebowski

FYI: There is a paperback version coming out on Feb. 6th. It appears that it will have a new bonus section. You can pre-order on amazon.com.

I look forward to reading it.

Dilemma.

Do I heed my Scottish ancestry and wait, or do I purchase any way? If I wait I can also order the Introduction to the New Testament as well. Choices.

il Padrino Ute · 01-23-2007, 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Archaea

Dilemma.

Do I heed my Scottish ancestry and wait, or do I purchase any way? If I wait I can also order the Introduction to the New Testament as well. Choices.

As a Master Cheapskate, I'd advise that you wait to make the purchase.

Chapel-Hill-Coug · 01-23-2007, 07:23 PM

Bart Ehrman originally wanted to call this book "Lost in Transmission". He thought that would be a nice pun on a recent movie and adequately describe what his book was about. The publisher denied him, however, telling him partly in jest that the average reader might think this book was about auto mechanics! So to make it more salesworthy, they changed the name to "Misquoting Jesus". Bart, though he won't admit it, is actually kind of embarrassed about the title. He always wants to make sure that those close to him know that the title wasn't his idea.

[If you're wondering, I know Bart Ehrman personally. He is a terrific scholar, and one of the most honest scholars I know. This book is a great choice.]

01-23-2007, 02:51 PM	#1
Archaea Assistant to the Regional Manager Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: The Orgasmatron Posts: 24,338	I guess we will read Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus Purchase and read, go forth and learn! __________________ Ἓν οἶδα ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα

01-23-2007, 04:53 PM	#7
Jeff Lebowski Charon Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: In the heart of darkness (Provo) Posts: 9,564	FYI: There is a paperback version coming out on Feb. 6th. It appears that it will have a new bonus section. You can pre-order on amazon.com. I look forward to reading it. __________________ "... the arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice." Martin Luther King, Jr.

01-23-2007, 07:23 PM	#10
Chapel-Hill-Coug Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Chapel Hill, NC Posts: 216	A Bart Ehrman anecdote... Bart Ehrman originally wanted to call this book "Lost in Transmission". He thought that would be a nice pun on a recent movie and adequately describe what his book was about. The publisher denied him, however, telling him partly in jest that the average reader might think this book was about auto mechanics! So to make it more salesworthy, they changed the name to "Misquoting Jesus". Bart, though he won't admit it, is actually kind of embarrassed about the title. He always wants to make sure that those close to him know that the title wasn't his idea. [If you're wondering, I know Bart Ehrman personally. He is a terrific scholar, and one of the most honest scholars I know. This book is a great choice.]