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I never buy new releases unless I already know the author. I rarely read authors I have already read, which I suppose really does beg the question- how do I find books?
Generally I go to Waterstones in Piccadilly because I like the layout. Start at A, skip to P and then work my way inbetween, get frustated, go to Crime, do the platforms and then haphazardly work through 50% of the fiction shelves. This pattern has developed over a good number of years, takes around 3 hours and usually turns up 2 or 3 books by people I've never heard of and were first published between 2 and 6 years ago. It's really very random, I pick out novels if I like the name, title or image on the spine and then read page 1, the middle page and the last page. If the last page leaves me curious about the inbetween then I buy the book.
I do this 4 or 5 times a year. Sometimes people pass books to me, sometimes I go to a smaller bookshop and find something a little shoddy. The best, most memorable books always come from the huge Waterstones though. Possibly because it allows the predator inside to do her hunting.
I don't like new releases, I find them annoying, the melodrama that reviewers use often leaves me drained. They never tell you about the language, tone or style of a book and those are the things that make me able to read the bloody things. Sometimes I think "this sounds fantastic" and the words make me want to stamp on the book screaming about insipid nonsense. So, erm, I stopped reading reviews after my near miss with complete insanity beside the letter S. |
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