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#1 Dec 25 2007 at 7:33 PM Rating: Decent
Hey there fellow readers. I can honestly say that I have only owned 1 book, I get them all from the library. But I got a 25$ Gift Card to Barnes & Noble and was wondering...Should I buy books that I HAVE read and may be interested in reading another time? Or should I buy books I have not read, read them 1 time and if I don't like them be un-satisfied and send them off to Good Will? If the later, what book suggestions?

Any ideas would be marvelous. Have a happy new year!
#2 Dec 25 2007 at 11:02 PM Rating: Excellent
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I enjoy first collecting books I know I'll enjoy re-reading many, many times!

Other then that, I only buy books that people who know what my style of enjoyable books entails, recommend to me. Without knowing what you like, I can't recommend anything!

Best of luck, and Merry Christmas!
#3 Dec 26 2007 at 9:14 AM Rating: Decent
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You may want to look out for books that are collections of several books in one. I find they tend to be a little cheaper in my area and you geet more than one book at the price of one.
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#4 Dec 26 2007 at 2:19 PM Rating: Decent
Ok thanks, I'll probably go out later tonight. If anyone wants some late suggestions, I like books about...Fiction sort of Religous adventure acton, like Angles&Demons and The Da Vinci Code and the Left Behind series. Also books about Vampires and demons.

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I like books about...Non Fiction sort of Religous, like Angles&Demons and The Da Vinci Code and the Left Behind series.
Either you meant to say "fiction" or else I'm seriously worried for you.
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#6 Dec 26 2007 at 8:54 PM Rating: Decent
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Either you meant to say "fiction" or else I'm seriously worried for you.


Yes, Fiction, sorry. For the amount that I read, I always mix up my Fiction and non Fiction.
#7 Dec 27 2007 at 3:56 AM Rating: Good
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If you usually borrow books, and only own 1, I think your idea of buying books you have already read, liked, and would want to reread is a very good one. It would be horrible to buy a couple of books and find out you don't like them. In my case, that doesn't matter, I own hundreds of books that I love and reread. Owning a few duds is no great loss in the scheme of my bookcases.

Good Omens, By Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimon.
One of the funniest and sweetest stories of the fight between Good and Evil on Earth. It's a bit of a horror, but I guess it takes a LOT to creep me out that way.

Dead Witch Walking by Kim Harrison. Our heroine is a witch and a private detective. Her housemate is a bisexual female vampire. Their business partner is a pixie (think male Tinkerbell.) They have adventures, and complicate each other's lives. It's now up to a four book series, and our witch has gotten drawn into evil demon magic against her will.

American Gods by Neil Gaiman. Dying Gods, no longer believed in by modern humans, trying to resurrect themselves any way they can. The good, the bad, and the ugly.

Since you are borrowing: the Anita Blake, vampire hunter series, by Laurell K Hamilton. The early books are stunningly good thrillers. Lots of excitement, adventure and gore. All sorts of supernatural beings. As discussed in another thread, the later books just turn into non-stop erotica. (I cant call it ****, because all the participants have personalities and their own motivations.)

Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. This is much more meaty than The DaVinci Code. Chock full of secret organisations and conspiracies. Full of religious, metapysical and literary allusions. This is serious literature by one of the most respected academics alive. Expect real life to triumph over the adventure.

The Black Jewels trilogy by Anne Bishop. Well. Just chock full of sado-masochistic erotica involving demons and evil witches. Personally I think the very last chapter in the trilogy is incredibly weak. But I cant complain about the intensity of most of the rest of the story.
#8 Jan 20 2008 at 2:06 PM Rating: Decent
Those two books suggested written by Neil Gaiman are two really good books , I think that American Gods is his best work personally but some would aregue the case. None the less everything he writes is pretty much gold.
#9 Jan 21 2008 at 8:10 AM Rating: Good
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Gaiman is a brilliant comic and short story writer but I don't really like him as a novelist. Coraline was good and Neverwhere was decent but I didn't like the others very much.
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#10 Jan 21 2008 at 4:26 PM Rating: Good
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The Black Jewels trilogy by Anne Bishop. Well. Just chock full of sado-masochistic erotica involving demons and evil witches. Personally I think the very last chapter in the trilogy is incredibly weak. But I cant complain about the intensity of most of the rest of the story.


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And I haven't read any of Laurell K Hamilton's stuff, but that's because I read Kelly Armstrong's Ladies of the Underworld books and fell in love with them. I highly suggest you pick them up, Ari. Given what you've suggested, I'm pretty sure you'll fall in love with her werewolf characters. I don't usually like books about werewolves and the like, but I liked these so much I even went to her website and spent an entire day reading all of the short stories she has on there that fill in some of the gaps in her books.

And for anyone interested in the King Arthur stories, I would suggest The Mists of Avalon. King Arthur told from the women's perspective. A wonderful novel.
#11 Jan 21 2008 at 4:57 PM Rating: Excellent
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No, send card to kao!
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#12 Jan 21 2008 at 11:48 PM Rating: Decent
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To bad Kao! I got The Hobbit and the first 2 LOTR books with the pesky little card.

This is bloodthirst by the way.
#13 Feb 02 2008 at 1:49 PM Rating: Excellent
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Oh well, At least it went for a good cause.
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#14 Feb 16 2008 at 9:10 AM Rating: Decent
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Should I buy books that I HAVE read and may be interested in reading another time? Or should I buy books I have not read, read them 1 time and if I don't like them be un-satisfied and send them off to Good Will? If the later, what book suggestions?


You should buy coffee and pie and read entire books while eating it in the store.

That's what I always do.

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#15 Feb 21 2008 at 12:22 AM Rating: Decent
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Good choices. Now you need to get the last book though. :)
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