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Disadvantage of having the product at your finger tips. It used to take me 2-3 weeks to actually make it to the store to get a new release. Now I get emails telling me a week ahead of time and offering to let me order it early.Quote:
Originally Posted by blacklabel
1st world problems. [facepalm]
Read the first two Joe Nobody books not too long ago (the Bishop / Holding their Own series) because my wife had bought the kindle books. But the next books in the series don't seem to ever go on sale. Not sure I'm up for another $80 in ebooks.
Amazon says Forstchen's sequel to One Second After - "One Year After" is coming out in 2 weeks. Somewhere I think I knew he was writing a sequel, but it was a surprise to see the reminder.
Side note, anybody use goodreads.com? I've been getting ads from them forever and had just thought it was a book store. I didn't realize it tracked books you had read and suggested other books you might like. I think I'm going to like it. Not sure if I want to be sharing with friends/family though which is one of the options that people seem to like. Would be nice to see what some of my friends are reading though - I wonder if you have to share to see...
I mentioned that site a few years ago. After painstakingly trying to remember every book I ever read up through college and making a list, I found that site and saw how much easier using that site was. Doh.
Not much of a book reader myself, but just finished Misery. Could hardly put the thing down. Now to watch the movie again (which I haven't seen in a long time), as I'm certain there are some significant differences that I recall.
“Nobody looks like what they really are on the inside. You don’t. I don’t. People are much more complicated than that. It’s true of everybody.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Just picked up "Holding Your Ground"Quote:
Originally Posted by Slapps74
By Joe Nobody.
That one is next
Just read the latest "Old Man's War" series installment by John Scalzi - "The End of All Things". Also the latest "Long Earth" book by Pratchett and Baxter (posthumous for Pratchett), "The Long Utopia". "1636: The Cardinal Virtues" from the "1632" universe series.
About to start "Proxima" and "Ultima" by Stephen Baxter.
I'm re-reading all the Sherlock Holmes stories, after a LONG time. Some are spoiled because I remember the plot, a lot of others are "like new" again.
One thing I'm doing this time that is fun, and possible now with Google, is looking up all the words/terms that made no sense at all due to being 1880's English. It has added a whole new level. Who knew there were so many terms for a carriage!
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Originally Posted by Circuits
That series is a good read. Read the MHI (Monster Hunter Int) series a few months back. Followed that up with the Hard Magic series. Just finished the Jack Puller books by David Baldacci. The spouse is a Detective / Mystery reader so i read what ever she gets from the library .
I use Bookbub.com for free books. Here's a few others i utilize
http://hundredzeros.com/category/fic...hrillers-books
http://www.smashwords.com/
http://www.freebooksifter.com/
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/
I have a love, hate with Amazon. Enjoy the free books, but refuse to pay for the privilege of reading. That's what the library is for. BUT........... not ever book one reads in a series IS available there. A lot of writers are self published or through smaller distributors like BAEN.
http://www.baenebooks.com/c-1-free-library.aspx