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Stephenie Meyer's Twilight 3 Book set - £7.99

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  • gwhitfield
    gwhitfield Posts: 1 Newbie
    If you really want to save money, why not just check the books out at your local library? I work in a library and our customers are waiting a max of two weeks to get these items on reservation (free for teens and 50p for adults). If you read them and love them and really really want a set to keep forever then go buy a set after lol.

    I would urge folks not to buy books unless it is something they are sure they want to keep and cherish forever. I also volunteer in a charity bookshop on my day off and it's really made me think about the money and trees wasted on books in this country. Go to a charity bookstore in 6 months to a year's time and it will be flooded with Stephenie Meyers. It's the same after every big publishing phenomena. We could now open a shop full of Dan Brown books alone lol. The sad thing is that people donate these books because they have read them and so have most other folks. Often we can't even sell them in the charity shops. So they go to church fetes etc or do the rounds of other charity shops. Then when they still haven't sold they go in the bin. You can't even recycle books due to the glue along the spine (although I believe they are trying to come up with ways to combat this).

    So please think next time before you go and buy the latest paperback novels, if it's something you really NEED to have your own copy of, or whether you couldn't read it secondhand or from the library. You will be saving the planet as well as your cash!

    *gets off soapbox* lol
  • jennynoo
    jennynoo Posts: 1,516 Forumite
    I absolutely understand your point and have been the recipient of many 'unsellable' books which is how I got into fantasy in the first place (practically all I read now) but I just love having my own books on my book cases and seeing the books I have read even if I'm not going to read them again. I didn't know they couldn't recycle them - how can that be possible in this day and age!
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  • pulliptears
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    louisa81 wrote: »

    They're brillaint books- I'm currently reading the fourth one

    Ooh prepare for disappointment. Its affectionately known amongst Twilight fans as "Breaking Down" :o

    Love the first 3 though!
  • phunkles
    phunkles Posts: 1,711 Forumite
    Ordered for sisters birthday :) thank you op
    Love is the answer. At least for most of the questions in my heart,
    Like why are we here? And where do we go?And how come it's so hard?
    It's not always easy,And sometimes life can be deceiving,
    I'll tell you one thing, its always better when we're together
  • laura2481
    laura2481 Posts: 4,305 Forumite
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    jennynoo wrote: »
    There is a film coming out here soon.
    The film came out here just before christmas..may still be on in a few places. It was quite good :)
  • jennynoo
    jennynoo Posts: 1,516 Forumite
    laura2481 wrote: »
    The film came out here just before christmas..may still be on in a few places. It was quite good :)

    Thanks, wouldn't want to see the film before I have read the books though so might have to see the film later on DVD or something.
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  • VanyaHargreeves
    VanyaHargreeves Posts: 937 Forumite
    God damn!
    I bought these last year, £8 for Twilight, £8 for New Moon and £13 for Eclipse - now the prices of these books have seemed to go down as the popularity goes up...
    Undergrad law student. Take my advice with a pinch of salt! :rotfl:
  • pulliptears
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    VanyaHargreeves wrote: »
    God damn!
    I bought these last year, £8 for Twilight, £8 for New Moon and £13 for Eclipse - now the prices of these books have seemed to go down as the popularity goes up...

    I bought all mine in the USA, hardback :mad:
  • VanyaHargreeves
    VanyaHargreeves Posts: 937 Forumite
    It was worth it though - love the book. Have you read The Host? I prefer that to the Twilight series personally.
    Undergrad law student. Take my advice with a pinch of salt! :rotfl:
  • pulliptears
    pulliptears Posts: 14,583 Forumite
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    VanyaHargreeves wrote: »
    It was worth it though - love the book. Have you read The Host? I prefer that to the Twilight series personally.

    No, I have ordered it though :D
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