Honestly none of the other books are even on my “To Read” list right now. I DO have a Tolstoy book on my bookshelf but its Anna Karenina, not war and peace. And whether I ever read it or it just continues to collect dust… we’ll see in the next 5 years 😀

How to Find Books on a Budget
By Katie Arnold-Ratliff

For cost-conscious readers who want to trade, borrow, or buy, these sites are the best things to come along since the public library.

Book swap
The Swap Meet
Post books you’d like to exchange on BookMooch.com, and whenever one of 100,000-plus “moochers” requests one, you’ll earn a point for mailing it. Redeem each point for any of the million-plus titles in the BookMooch inventory–all you pay for is the postage.

Postage stamp
The Postal Service
Trade hardcovers and audiobooks as well as softcovers at PaperBackSwap.com, and get updates on newly available titles via their daily e-mail digest. Stroke of genius: the online postage program, which allows you to print the postage on a mailing label directly from your computer.

Book in water
The Deep End
BookSwim.com lets you organize a “pool” of titles you’d like to rent (just like a Netflix queue); for $20 to $40 per month, you’ll receive two or more at a time. Shipping is included in the subscription fee, and you can purchase any BookSwim rental at the click of a button.

Reading
The Good Read
With more than two million titles at bargain prices, BetterWorld.com donates a portion of revenues to literacy causes such as Books for Africa and Worldfund. Shipping is free within the U.S., and the site minimizes its carbon footprint through an offset program with CarbonFund.org.

And don’t dis those who love mindless reading. Best thing after a long day is to enjoy People magazine because I don’t have to think about any of the dribble!

Hemingway did leave a legacy of cool cats at his Key West home. That should buy him a little respect, unless of course, you hate cats!

I love it.

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crocodilian – Were we separated at birth?? Hemingway, ugh! Hate him! And I agree about anyone who likes Hemingway. Horrible. However, I love “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” even though it was deeply disturbing.

What about people who like Faulkner? I usually hate them, too.

I am a new reader of yours and was brought here by your most hated books post – hating books is so much more rewarding than lying about them! I was thrilled to see that you had listed The Awakening, because I can think of few books I hate more. Did you know she also wrote a short story called Desiree’s Baby, in which – gasp – the mother/protagonist walks into the water at the end and drowns? Sound familiar?

Other books that I have a particularly special place for in the hating part of my heart are Song of Solomon, The Grapes of Wrath, the already condemned Ulysses (imagine normal book hatred, multiplied by the number of pages), The Great Gatsby, anything by Hemmingway, and anything by anyone who likes Hemmingway.

Also deserving of special mention is Flannery O’Connor, for “Good Country People”, in which a woman named Hulga has her wooden leg stolen by a salesmen who seduces her in the loft of her farmhouse. With that kind of plot, it should have been a thrill to read. It was not.

When they use a paragraph to describe the color of the sky or the weather I want to gut the author. GET ON WITH IT!

So I just read “fact” based books – which of course are the biggest fiction of all.