It's like you don't want my money or something. >:( : comments.
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No, don't worry, I saw the same thing. $300. For, like, 200 pages. I could understand if it had been out of print for twenty years - well, no, I still wouldn't get it, but it would make a little more sense, at least. But for something that's been out for two months? I don't even get it. People would probably not stop ordering if they had the promise of getting it earlier than six months after they ordered it.
Also, crappy, what? *headtilt*
And by crappy I mean slow to leave reviews on things I've read and liked. I should do that, I have the tab open and the comment box open and everything and I just. What do I saaaaay. >___<
You know, I'm normally a big Modernism fan, but The Wasteland never connected with me the way, say, E. A. Robinson's poetry did. I liked most of the rest of Eliot's work, but I found The Wasteland too huge and sprawling and full of footnotes for me to get into. Which is odd, because I loved "Howl" when we got to Alan Ginsburg and that's just as sprawling and huge and full of references I don't get, but. It felt like it sprawled in a more specific direction, if that makes any sense?
I should probably still mine it for titles, though. And maybe read it again and see if I get it this time.
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Exactly, right? TF stuff is so backwards. Well, okay, I guess collectible stuff is like this, but I'm new to it, so I still find it boggling. I do get that the Almanac is awesome but I'm sorry, it's not 300 bucks worth of awesome. According to the email I got from Amazon though, I could get my copy of Volume 2 by the end of the month - holy shit! That is way sooner than I expected :D
On that note, I just got your other comments in my inbox and I was like OHHHHH THAT'S WHAT YOU MEANT XDDDDDD I, uh, did not put two and two together on that one, and now I am somewhat embarrassed ahahaha. I'm usually pretty terrible about leaving feedback, but I'm trying (really, very hard) to be better about it in this fandom, because it is relatively tiny and there are so many canons that if you find someone who writes That Thing You Like, you want them to feel appreciated. That being said, I pretty much have to go through about half the links on my delicious account and leave feedback where I haven't yet. *weep*
That makes perfect sense! I figure the difference between being ~into poetry~ and being into a couple of poems is that when you find something that speaks to you, that's important, but you don't sit there waxing prosaic about every single poem in the universe and what it means. I'm with you though, The Wasteland was why I went looking for the rest of his work, and while I love it, it's not my favorite. The Four Quartets are, without a doubt.
Mining for titles was so my ulterior motive :3 I have found many I would love to use.
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You know what it is? It's Beanie Babies the hell all over again. Where there'll be one or two that are hundreds of dollars because they made like, five of them. And then as soon as everyone who's going to shell out that kind of money has done so the price goes down and everyone has one of those five-hundred-dollar bears. And the upshot is that little kids don't get the stuffed toys they want half the time because they get retired every five minutes to drive demand up. Why do I get involved in collectibles I should know better by now. :(
I'm usually pretty terrible about leaving feedback, but I'm trying (really, very hard) to be better about it in this fandom
It's the same thing for me, really - Doctor Who fandom is enormous, but there's only a few people writing Old Who fic and even fewer writing about the particular Doctors and companions I wanted to read about, so I was more conscious of the fact that, if I didn't leave feedback, not as many people would. IT still took me ages to not feel awkward leaving comments when I didn't think I had anything particularly constructive to say beyond "I loved this and it was awesome" but...getting there. Slowly, slowly getting there.
I don't think even people who are ~into poetry~ can go on about every single poem ever; I had a couple of professors in college who were poets or who studied poetry, and while they were much more widely read in poetry than I was, their study and work still tended to cluster around the writers and themes that personally meant the most to them. A poet who loved the themes of the Postmodernists wasn't about to go on about how great William Blake was without prompting
although they should because Blake is amazing. But, yeah, I'd already read "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" in school by the time we really got into Eliot in college, and for the most part I preferred his earlier works, but I remember trying to read through "The Waste Land" just because I felt like I should, hitting a footnote *within* a footnote, boggling, and putting the book away. Maybe I should give it another shot now that I'm not trying to actually think about anything else; I might be more patient. XD