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It's okay, Verily. I usually just borrow it from the library. I'm a terrible person like that.
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Oh my goodness! the library! So I don't have to wait for the paperback!!
Believe me, if we weren't hurting for money badly right now, I'd buy the hardcover. I'll just have to settle for buying the paperback when it comes out. Cause I'll have money by then. I'm an eternal optimist.
But I really forgot about the library option... which is sad because I work in a library... (but it's an academic library, they don't get cool new books in.)
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Well, I just requested it from the library yesterday...I'm something like seventh in line.
Oh, and the thing about academic libraries never getting new cool books in...depends what you think the definition of cool books is. Posts: 2454 | Registered: Jan 2003
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And paperbacks are way easier to move. And when your friend drops one in the gutter while helping you move, it's cheaper to replace and you keep the friend.
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Actually, the first hardcover OSC books that I've ever owned were the women of Genesis series...my mother got me the first two for a birthday present (thinking that I hadn't read them yet) and my slight OCD forces me to have a matching set. Imagine my chagrine when I found out that I'd have to buy 2 books instead of the just Rachel and Leah. !!
But, my mild OCD is going crazy now because I own all of the Ender/Shadow series in paperback...except for my lovely autographed copy of SotG. *throws hands up in the air* So NOW what do I do?
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Well, I've had it since the first day, and I still haven't finished reading it . It was a good early birthday present from my brother. I own all of the shadow series in hardback. I however didn't get into the Ender's series until they were all paperback.
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I got mine from the library too. I usually don't buy books because I have nowhere to put them in. Posts: 3389 | Registered: Apr 2004
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I'm slowly replacing all my paperback OSC books with Hardback copies as I find them. Because I want to be a "real" collector... Posts: 9538 | Registered: Aug 2003
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As a teenager with no credit card, I went through hell hunting out anything other than Ender's Game and Xenocide in local bookshops.
I managed to get 5 OSC books through a mixture of 2nd hand markets and Canadian Libraries and I got 'A Storyteller from Zion' as a present from my sister bought from Hatrack. Most recently, I've ordered 3 more books from Amazon.
My real breakthrough was getting 3 Shadow books and 5 Memory of Earth books, all hardback 1st editions, through ebay! Even from America, it only cost me Ā£30 or so, including shipping. Yay Posts: 77 | Registered: Mar 2005
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30 pounds? how many dollars would that be @.@ ? Anyway, I plan on picking up the Homecoming series as soon as i'm done with SotG.
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Very roughly, that's about $54, (but I'm not sure of the exact exchange rate at the moment).
I'm so pleased - I feel like a 'proper' fan, now! Only problem is, being the completist that I am, the more books I get, the more I feel I have to get to complete my collection.
Still, I have yet to get Shadow of the Giant and it's driving me mad, reading all these posts about Bean's kids and all the other stuff I'm missing out on!
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I like softcovers better than hardcovers. And I borrowed all the Shadow books from the library. Even though I really love Ender's Shadow.. I don't know if I'll ever buy the series. (So poor)
But I got some really nice softcover copies of Songmaster and Hart's Hope. (which I loved) There are very few authors I'll buy books from without already having read them. OSC's one of them.
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I find hardcover books a bit impractical - You can't stuff them in your bag to read on the train & you hardly want to lug around a couple hard-backs all day anyway. I also find them annoying when I'm reading in bed - My arms get tired if I'm holding it up!
But they look nice on my bookshelf. And that's what counts, obviously.
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quote:In literary criticism, this term refers to the pattern of events in a narrative or drama. In its simplest sense, the plot guides the author in composing the work and helps the reader follow the work. Typically, plots exhibit causality and unity and have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Sometimes, however, a plot may consist of a series of disconnected events, in which case it is known as an "episodic plot." In his Aspects of the Novel, EM Forster distinguishes between a story, defined as a "narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence," and plot, which organizes.
Therefore, by definition, J. R. R. Tolkiens Fellowship of the Ring is NOT "plotless" as you put it. Quite the opposite.
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quote: I'm slowly replacing all my paperback OSC books with Hardback copies as I find them. Because I want to be a "real" collector...
Yeah, that's what I meant when I posted that bit about Ebay....I'm BUYING hardbacks, not selling my lovely autographed hardback! Never!
I too am holding out for the box set of Harry Potter. I have a box set fettish though. I think I just like the box. I won't buy any movies that I know have sequels, trilogies, etc...because if I really like them, I want the BOX! Posts: 6415 | Registered: Jul 2000
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come on Ranch Girl!! Ignore what everyone else says, just concentrate on what I have to say. PLEASE LET ME HAVE THE OSC BOOKS YOU NO LONGER WANT!!!!!!!!
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quote: Therefore, by definition, J. R. R. Tolkiens Fellowship of the Ring is NOT "plotless" as you put it. Quite the opposite.
FSoR. Forty Signs of Rain. I read Fellowship when I was 10, and still don't think of it as plotless. Quite the opposite.
40 Signs is the most scattered novel I've yet read of KSR's. (Kim Stanley Robinson's) This will make it an easy choice between the only two novels I was posting about.
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Why would you turn a book I've never heard of (and I'd wager several others on this thread) into an acronym? I had a friend who used to do this kind of stuff. She never understood why noone understood a word she was saying or why we'd get so annoyed at her for doing it. She thought she was being cool. It was kind of sad.
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