Vampire Book Search Mayhem?!
Hi fellow book lovers! The funniest/most frustrating thing just happened to me. After hearing a lot of hullaballoo about vampires and whatnot I decided to look into the genre and see if there was a vampire series I could get into. I had come across the Sonja Blue series in a post in this community a few weeks ago and finally decided to check it out. Thus, I headed to one of the local chain bookstores to try to find a very specific book, Sunglasses After Dark by Nancy A. Collins.
By way of back story: I had totally forgotten the title other than "Sonja Blue series," didn't write down the author and couldn't really remember what the book looked like, only that it was a book about vampires... Obviously this was not helpful AT ALL amidst the recent vampire/Twilight craze. Ugh!
After searching for 10 minutes on my own in the YA, Sci-Fi and Horror sections and not seeing anything that looked familiar I finally enlisted the help of the bookstores employees.
20 minutes later?
Any employee that wasn't at a register was scouring the shelves with me searching for the damned book. I had to leave because my ride showed up, so I went home and searched it via the mighty internet. The problem? It's a 1989 book that's not in print anymore!!! d'oh!!!!! (By the way, I called the store after my discovery to let them know... no, I'm not a weirdo, they actually asked me to call so it wouldn't drive them crazy, haha.)
So, after all that trouble, is it worth it to order a used copy online? I feel after that ordeal I owe it to the novel to order and read it- after all, I wasted a good half-hour trying to find the silly thing and sending all the book store employees on a wild goose chase!
Fun note: I ended up walking away with Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. I haven't read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but I wasn't feeling zombies at the time. I really wanted to take home a vampire book, dammit!!
Are there any other funny/humiliating/frustrating book searching stories that you folks have had?
Also, are there any other vampire series that you would recommend? I glanced at the first book in the Vampire Academy series and it didn't sound like something I wanted to read, I have reservations about the True Blue series, and the Anita Blake series seemed like it was trying too hard. Are my assumptions misguided? I just want to avoid cliches and cheesy stereotypes, if possible.
Thanks for reading!
ETA: I can't believe I didn't say this in my original post, but I have NO desire whatsoever of reading the Twilight saga, so any books that are comparable are probably not the types of books I'm looking for. Thanks!
By way of back story: I had totally forgotten the title other than "Sonja Blue series," didn't write down the author and couldn't really remember what the book looked like, only that it was a book about vampires... Obviously this was not helpful AT ALL amidst the recent vampire/Twilight craze. Ugh!
After searching for 10 minutes on my own in the YA, Sci-Fi and Horror sections and not seeing anything that looked familiar I finally enlisted the help of the bookstores employees.
20 minutes later?
Any employee that wasn't at a register was scouring the shelves with me searching for the damned book. I had to leave because my ride showed up, so I went home and searched it via the mighty internet. The problem? It's a 1989 book that's not in print anymore!!! d'oh!!!!! (By the way, I called the store after my discovery to let them know... no, I'm not a weirdo, they actually asked me to call so it wouldn't drive them crazy, haha.)
So, after all that trouble, is it worth it to order a used copy online? I feel after that ordeal I owe it to the novel to order and read it- after all, I wasted a good half-hour trying to find the silly thing and sending all the book store employees on a wild goose chase!
Fun note: I ended up walking away with Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. I haven't read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but I wasn't feeling zombies at the time. I really wanted to take home a vampire book, dammit!!
Are there any other funny/humiliating/frustrating book searching stories that you folks have had?
Also, are there any other vampire series that you would recommend? I glanced at the first book in the Vampire Academy series and it didn't sound like something I wanted to read, I have reservations about the True Blue series, and the Anita Blake series seemed like it was trying too hard. Are my assumptions misguided? I just want to avoid cliches and cheesy stereotypes, if possible.
Thanks for reading!
ETA: I can't believe I didn't say this in my original post, but I have NO desire whatsoever of reading the Twilight saga, so any books that are comparable are probably not the types of books I'm looking for. Thanks!