having recently discovered how dirt cheap books are on amazon, im wanting to buy some new ones but out of the millions available, whats good? surely there must be a website somewhere that caters for my needs?
2006-10-31 02:06:19 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
allreaders.com, nytimes.com, bn.com, yahoodirectory (search).
2006-10-31 02:08:57 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you hit the mother lode when you found Amazon used books, I use it a lot. So, here u are with a great source, but you don't know a title or author you are looking for, you're just looking for a great book (right?). That is an issue. I found myself reading only authors I knew because I didn't want to plow through a bunch of dreck. I started making my own list of books that I read great reviews of. New books may take 4 to 6 months to get to the "used" part of Amazon. So I use my listing of reviews to check the used section later. Another way to use Amazon is with their "Listmania" feature. Readers make lists of Ten Best XXXXXX Books. Could be sci-fi, books they have read this year, suspense novels, anything. Then you can take the title or author from the Listmania recommendation and read both professional and public reviews of the book. If there is a particular genre you are interested in, you can search Listmania for it, or if there is an author you like, search Listmania for lists carrying this author. If someone likes an author you like, their other recommendations could be good.
P.S. Be aware of Amazon shipping costs (they determine this, not the book seller). The books are very cheap, the shipping is gonna cost you.
2006-10-31 02:33:17 · answer #2 · answered by Caper 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A couple of books that really surprised me in the way they always thwarted my expectations or predictions about what would come next were The Counterfeiters by Andre Gide and The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky. For the latter, get one of the more modern translations, NOT the Constance Garnett one. I'd say The Counterfeiters is easier to read than The Idiot, but the latter isn't nearly as complicated as some Russian novels! Also Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls has a lot of unpredictability, especially in that you don't really get all that much knowledge about the main character until the end of the book! I know it sounds weird, but it works! I also think Our Mutual Friend and The Pickwick Papers have enough interesting twists and turns to keep you entertained, especially The Pickwick Papers, which is very funny. (Roald Dahl said it would be one of only five books he hoped he'd have with him if he were stranded on a desert island.)
2016-05-22 17:02:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you're on Amazon, check out if there are any reviews written about the book that you are looking at. Amazon also check what you have bought and recommend other books for you to try. It's a quick and easy way of finding out.
2006-10-31 02:14:32 · answer #4 · answered by nooka 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can go to mugglenet.com (Harry Potter fansite), and one of its editorials called the "Book Trolley" is a collection of reviews for other books besides HP.
2006-10-31 02:12:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i find wikipedia.com is the best site to find books and detail reviews or synopsis the site is really go through and they give you links to other sites and this connected to what ur searching for.
2006-10-31 07:39:54 · answer #6 · answered by Du3ad 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The elegant variation, fresh eyes, moorish girl, la bloga, xispas.com, critical mass, bookdaddy, etc. there's a ton out there
2006-10-31 04:19:39 · answer #7 · answered by roginaru 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
www.lovereading is very good. You can even read opening chapters of books and they also have pre-publications books.
2006-10-31 02:17:18 · answer #8 · answered by sharon m 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
www.waterstones.co.uk or
www.litcrits.com
I usually head for waterstones....I used them to buy books..their offers and ability to order items was great...that was the one in Inverness but they are all linked...GOODLUCK !!!!
2006-10-31 02:15:29 · answer #9 · answered by minitheminx65 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you like romance, check out www.mrsgiggles.com -- she's honest and funny to boot!!
2006-10-31 03:58:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋