I don't buy books nearly enough any more. Part of the problem is that with my finances, I can't really afford to buy books I'm not going to love & reread frequently.
Gaiman's adult books & graphic novels always get at least gazed at longingly, though I really should read his YA. John Crowley is on the 'must own' list, though, again, finances. If Dorothy Dunnett, rest her soul, were still with us, I would buy everything she published nine times without thought.
For used bookstores the list is broader. I love Roger Zelazney's non-Amber writing, for example -- don't get me wrong, Amber's amazing, but Lord of Light & Creatures of Light and Darkness are just better books -- and anything a used bookstore has of his I'll buy, if I can at all justify it (as in "I have three copies of Lord of Light already, but none in Cambridge with me..." If he were being published in new editions I would buy those too, as fast as they could bring 'em out.
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Date: 2009-01-29 03:35 pm (UTC)Gaiman's adult books & graphic novels always get at least gazed at longingly, though I really should read his YA. John Crowley is on the 'must own' list, though, again, finances. If Dorothy Dunnett, rest her soul, were still with us, I would buy everything she published nine times without thought.
For used bookstores the list is broader. I love Roger Zelazney's non-Amber writing, for example -- don't get me wrong, Amber's amazing, but Lord of Light & Creatures of Light and Darkness are just better books -- and anything a used bookstore has of his I'll buy, if I can at all justify it (as in "I have three copies of Lord of Light already, but none in Cambridge with me..." If he were being published in new editions I would buy those too, as fast as they could bring 'em out.