Anthology Hatred
I hate anthologies. I really can't stand them, and I've figured out why. It's because one they're a total scam by the publishing industry to pre-package a ton of previously published material in the form of a new book and two the stuff is available elsewhere, or most of it is anyway. I've had in my possession two anthologies of work, one is the "best" political writing of 2003 and on is a collection of the "best" non-required reading of 2002. Perusing these books has led me to the conclusion that these texts are nothing more than an attempt to exploit the buying public for the suckers the publishers perceive them to be. Most, if not all, the materials in these texts are either available in their proper format as books or they are articles that I can download (heh heh) from the databases here at the university that I still have access to. Anthologies are a joke, and this is a call for everyone to boycott them from now on.