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If you had £30 to spend on books, what would you choose?

steffee said:
Ha ha, yes :rolleyes: :D

But if you had £30 in book tokens, what would you buy?
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Well ... Barbara Vine has a new book coming out in March, but that would leave me with about half. Let me get back to you on this one?

Do not (I repeat) do not give my fifty bucks to Stewart, unless it is to buy himself a new avatar. ;)
 
steffee said:
But if you had £30 in book tokens, what would you buy?
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An equal amount of book tokens. And I would keep on doing that until I could afford to buy all the books in the world except Dan Brown and Maeve Binchy's. :rolleyes:
 
Stewart said:
An equal amount of book tokens. And I would keep on doing that until I could afford to buy all the books in the world except Dan Brown and Maeve Binchy's. :rolleyes:
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Hmmm, ALL the books? I take it you haven't yet read Janette Oke, Grace Livingston Hill, Brad Steiger, or Erich Von Daniken:D
 
Ooo,`ooo,`ooo. I know! The Penelopiad and Alan Alda's book on why you shouldn't stuff your dog. And another copy of The Enchanter. I think I accidentally 'returned' my store bought copy into the library returns chute along with the one I checked out. (I doubt that I'll ever see that one again;it's probably gone into the Friend's book sale department already.)
 
StillILearn said:
You think there's fifty dollars worth of Nabokoviana left out there that you don't already own? :D
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Unfortunately, yes.....for the moment.
just ordered "King, Queen, Knave"....and I did buy one of the "Lectures on Literature"..... :eek:

:D
 
pontalba said:
Unfortunately, yes.....for the moment.
just ordered "King, Queen, Knave"....and I did buy one of the "Lectures on Literature"..... :eek:

:D
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I think we should buy you a roll of duct tape -- or else a big new bookcase! :D
 
Steffee,
I was in Waterstones yesterday and there are some pretty good titles in their 3for2 range. It may be worth a look and would make you £30 go a bit further.
 
Hmmm, The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood, Judas Unchained by Peter F Hamilton, and maybe a couple of books in the Sword of Truth series (which I've been meaning to start for ages).
 
Hmm... with £30 I'd be able to get somewhere between 25 and 30 books from charity shops. :D

Why get 3-5 new books when theres the option of more? :eek:
 
There's no way of buying cheap English books where I live.

So:
In Cold Blood - Trueman Capote
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
 
tartan_skirt said:
Hmm... with £30 I'd be able to get somewhere between 25 and 30 books from charity shops. :D

Why get 3-5 new books when theres the option of more? :eek:
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Greediness explains it. I can never wait to get the new ones I want. What if I died before reading the latest Barbara Vine? I'd have to come back and haunt TBF! :eek:
 
I would've spent it on used books and I would've purchased works by Steinbeck or topics dealing with psychology.:)
 
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