The Best Books…
I love books. I especially love good books. The challenge is, how do you know which ones are good? There’s nothing worse than getting a few pages into a book and realizing it’s rubbish.
So one day I was walking through the bookstore looking for a good book, and I had an epiphany. “Good books survive the test of time.” I thought to myself. That’s it. Bad books don’t get reprinted. Only the best ones do. So if a book was written a hundred years ago, and it’s still being reprinted and sold today, there’s a dang good chance it’s a good book.
So I went to the classics. And Barnes and Noble has a cool classics section with some inexpensive hardcover classics, all branded and colored to look like a set. So I bought my first book, “A Tale Of Two Cities,” by Charles Dickens. At first it was kind of rough, a little hard to read. But then it got better and better, and for the last 50 pages it was absolutely impossible to put down! And when I got to the end, wow! It was incredible!
So I went back and got another one. Then another one. Once, I was tempted to buy two at a time, but I resisted the urge. Better to take one home, savor it, and put it away on the shelf before getting the next one, I thought.
Since then, I’ve read about 20 of them, and loved it. It’s been a first class education, for less than the price of a single college class. So next time you’re looking for a “good book,” head on over to the classics, you won’t be disappointed!
The picture above shows my two shelves of classic books, including all the Barnes And Nobles versions, along with a variety of others that have wandered into my collection from various places.
Got a great book suggestion for me? Leave a comment!
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