Collecting Bête Noire?

Is there a book that haunts you--and not in good way? A bothersome piece
that pops up on your eBay searches and continually gets in your path in
secondhand bookstores?

Mine is the *Great Religions of Modern Man* a six-volume boxed set published
by George Braziller in the early 1960s They must have printed MILLIONS of
them. I see this thing (and its component parts) EVERYWHERE! There's
probably almost always one up on eBay, e.g.:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...tem=4515869109

Whatever the merits of these works, I have never seen a positive review, a
scholarly citation, or even a cross-reference. There just seem to be so
many more interesting and authoritative books on the subjects. They seem
like one of those great BOMC turds (like the Durants' *Story of
Civilization*)--omnipresent and worthless.


William M. Klimon
http://www.catholicbookcollector.com