I love books too. I do recomend this website http://www.gutenberg.org.
It comes in e-book or audio ranging from classic authors such as Jane Austen, Mark Twain, HG Wells, Charles Dicken and even the Grimm Brothers & etc.
All free!
Happy reading if you still haven’t found this fantabulous website. (that’s my opinion, thou).

For those of you book-lovers who have enough patience then you can get books on fullbooks.com where loads of novels are listed by title but I warn you the set-up isn’t brilliant.

Plus Java, have you read ‘The Rose and The Ring’ by Thackeray? It was the first book I got out of the library. Am trying to find a decent hardcover copy at the moment but is proving difficult…aaahh, the search goes on.

Also, for Austen lovers, I recommend Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘Wives & Daughters,’ or if the book is a little dense then watch the BBC version which was very good too. LOL.

And lastly, modern (ish) rec. I would say ‘Princess Bride,’ by William Goldman because it’s a classic.

i am currently reading catcher in the rye. i was feeling ashamed as a english major graduate. i’d never touched the classic. i’m only about 40 pages in so i have no real opinion yet. but i am getting a silence of the lambs feeling. when the silence of the lambs movie came out it was critically lauded and everyone went on and on about it. so by the time i finally saw it, my expectations were too high and i finished it thinking “ehh, it was ok” Kind of how I felt when I finallly finished Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride”

i’ll read anything, i once took a class on nordic myths. but my true love is contemporary ethnic lit by women ( Louise Erdrich, Sandra Cisneros, Laura Esquivel, etc) . J California Cooper write excellent short stories that are usually tied together by some them like love or family. her stories in Homemade love had me laughing out lad on the subway like a crazy person. i think people actually switched trains because of me. I also have to plug the late Octavia Butler, whose book Kindred I read last year and thought about for days. She was categorized as a sci fi writer which doesn’t usually appeal to me, but something made me try Kindred and I was not disappointed. Warning: it does contain accounts of slavery that can be hard to read, but if you can suck it up it is a rewarding book.

Java I want to recommend Karen Tei Yamashita if you haven’t already read her. she does have a surrealistic style but i really think you’ll enjoy her. I don’t usually like the surreal but I dug her book Through the Arc of the Rain Forest. it wove in commentary on immigration, loneliness, cultural integration and love. she hasn’t written that many books but I recommend Tropic of Orange, which is about LA.

Since you love 19th century lit, I was curious how do you feel about Jane Eyre and the contemprary response piece Wide Sargasso Sea? I’m a big fan of sargasso sea.

I could go on about books forever (don’t get me started on beach-read brit chick lit) but I won’t. wait i already have…

have a good weekend!

I usually go to book fairs or look at the books that libraries are selling =] if it’s a book I really have to have I just go to a book store xD I’ve been pretty obsessed with the Twilight series lately!

i love to visit thrift stores for cheap books unfortunately, most of the genres i read can not be easily found in thrift stores and half-price bookstore is also expensive.

i’m thinking of checking this out, it seems cheaper than paperspine and you can also trade dvds for books! http://www.bookins.com/index.php

thanks for the ilink! will check it out