<p>Merry Christmas, people!</p>
<p>Favorite gift: gift card to books-a-million. I'm going tomorrow. What should I get!? Already on the list: Catch 22 and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Name me some good ones.</p>
<p>The Birth of Venus, The Rule of Four, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited, The Fountainhead to name a few.</p>
<p>Cat in the Hat!!</p>
<p>LMAO killer!</p>
<p>the picture of dorian gray - it's such a good book!</p>
<p>........bump......</p>
<p>Well, I'm going to the bookstore (hopefully) tomorrow, and I'm planning on buying Madame Bovary, the Book of Laughter & Forgetting (Milan Kundera), Beasts (Joyce Carol Oates),and the Virgin Suicides.</p>
<p>Uh, why do you buy classics when you can walk into any run-down old library and find multiples copies available?</p>
<p>I'm weird and don't like beat up, broken books. Something about opening up a new book excites me immensley. Plus, I like to highlight and have a tendency of carrying around books in my purse, and then using the pages for random notes - couldn't do that in a library book. If I don't agree with something someone else has highlighted (found in some library books), it drives me crazy. </p>
<p>Oh yes, I'm odd.</p>
<p>curious george</p>
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<p>I guess I'm the opposite: I like my books tattered and worn, with a hard colourless cover.</p>
<p>I think it's exciting when I pick up a book I own that is all worn out...I'm also weird about germs and stuff, so books that I don't know where they have been kind of irk me in that fashion...haha, weird I guess.</p>
<p>I like new textbooks.</p>
<p>However, the excitement wears down after reading the first page.</p>
<p>I like new books as well. Sometimes I'll buy old ones- depending on the subject. Like I got these original Le Corbusier books published in 1950 at a used book store and I love them.</p>
<p>But having new books is also exciting.</p>
<p>I like to buy them new and then read them enough times that they start to look really old. I guess its like a pride thing..</p>
<p>I like to buy them new and not read them at all, because I am lazy.</p>