My Only Experience with Loompanics...

...and it was a good one. When I heard about the Loompanics Unlimited going out of business sale, I thought to myself, "I oughta be able to find something in that kooky, oft-referenced, and yet never-perused-catalogue at 50% that I like."

And I did.

1. Men Against the State, by James J. Martin, for $4.95
   
2. The Ego and Its Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority, by Max Stirner, for $19.95
   
3. The Myth of Natural Rights, by L.A. Rollins, for, $7.95
   
4. Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use, by Jacob Sullum, for $14.95
   
5. Natural Law: or, Don't Put A Rubber on Your Willy, by Robert Anton Wilson, for $7.95
   
6. Defensive Use of Firearms: A Common-Sense Guide to Awareness, Mental Prepardness, Tactics, Skills, and Equipment, by Stephen P. Wenger, for $20.00
   
7. No Treason and A Letter to Thomas F. Bayard< by Lysander Spooner, for $4.95
   
8. Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights, by Thom Hartman, for $15.95
   
9. The Freedom Outlaw's Handbook: 179 Things to Do 'Till the Revolution, by Claire Wolfe, for $20.00
   
10. Self-Sufficiency Gardening: Financial, Physical and Emotional Security from Your Own Backyard, by Martin P. Waterman, for $13.95
    
11. Primitive Wilderness Living and Survival Skills, by John & Geri McPherson, for $24.95
    
12. Why Atheism?, by George H. Smith, for $19.00
    
13. Think Free to Live Free: A Political Burnout's Guide to Life, Activism, and Everything, by Claire Wolfe, for $14.95
    
14. Principa Discordia: Or How I Found Goddess and What I Did to Her When I Found Her, by "Malaclypse the Younger and Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst," for $10.00
    
15. Loompanics' Greatest Hits: Articles and Features from The Best Book Catalogue in the World, for $14.95

Combined with the $13 shipping charge, this would have cost me $227.45, but apply the 50% sale, and my final price for these 15 books was $127.02. Not too bad.

Some of them I bought because I'm concerned about the state of my knowledge regarding emergency and crisis situation survival (e.g., #6 and #10). Some of them I bought because I want to read direct arguments against ideas I think are faithful to reality (e.g., #3 and #5). Some of them I bought because the hype convinced me to check them out (e.g., #2 and #14).

Longtime readers are probably thinking, dude, you went out and bought *more* books when you know you've got a backlog of a few thousand pages to deal with already!?, and they'd be right to wonder what the hell I'm thinking.

Well, I can't pass up a good deal for curious things I'd normally never buy unless priced cheap, especially literature. I've also found a good reading rhythm and am actually actively cycling my way through lost-ignored tomes. I'll get to these some day and I'd rather have them now than later.

Posted by Drizzten at January 27, 2006 08:24 PM