I gave away a bunch of my old Piers Anthony books-- and I had EVERYTHING (up to about 1990, anyway). I figured that his books were important to me when I was a kid and during high school, and that was great then, but I'm not going to re-read them, and I don't assume my kids want to read them (or if they _do_ they should find him themselves and not have them be painted with the "dad's books" stigma). And if some kid find a bunch of them at Goodwill somewhere and is really excited, so much the better!
I kept some of his weird old books, Orn and Chthon and a couple of others I enjoyed and want to hang onto for sentimental reasons, and I kept the postcard he sent me when I wrote him a letter, but the rest? I hope they found a good home with somebody who was really thrilled to read them.
EDITED: Oh yeah! I gave them to my high school library, who put them on their "books for a dollar" shelf! (And probably gave some away, because I know the librarian and she wouldn't say no to a kid who wanted to read.) That is really the ideal situation I think.
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I kept some of his weird old books, Orn and Chthon and a couple of others I enjoyed and want to hang onto for sentimental reasons, and I kept the postcard he sent me when I wrote him a letter, but the rest? I hope they found a good home with somebody who was really thrilled to read them.
EDITED: Oh yeah! I gave them to my high school library, who put them on their "books for a dollar" shelf! (And probably gave some away, because I know the librarian and she wouldn't say no to a kid who wanted to read.) That is really the ideal situation I think.