My first piece of advice is "get thee to a viewing night" so that you can look through other people's scopes.
If you have not yet done that please do this first so that you can gain an appreciation of what each type of scope can do. The best scope for you is the one that you will use...and what you will use might be different from me.
While we can all offer many words of advice and helpful information, I find "touching" real gear and watching it move and talking to the owners and looking through it myself to be of great help...
After you do that, then (and only then) you can go buy a Dobsonian reflector
Cheers!