Very interesting and unexpected about the covers. And I don't mean to put the books down, I'm loving them. I wonder if the soap opera feeling might be restricted to the second book, as I didn't have the same feeling about the first.
Read this a couple of months ago. Excellent book that starts out seemingly as a children's tale (and was adapted as The Sword in the Stone) and ends up far from that. It's really very long though!The Once and Future King is only $2.99 for Kindle today.
Bought three more Kindle books and got my copy of The Count of Monte Cristo just now.
Started reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire lol. They're so easy to pick up! Might have to finish the whole series before I can start reading anything new properly.
Read this a couple of months ago. Excellent book that starts out seemingly as a children's tale (and was adapted as The Sword in the Stone) and ends up far from that. It's really very long though!
I hope this means you got the Penguin Classics edition!
At some point, I'm definitely going to read this again and make sure I go for that version. I read this version (mainly because it was free).I hope this means you got the Penguin Classics edition!
At some point, I'm definitely going to read this again and make sure I go for that version. I read this version (mainly because it was free).
HOLY SHIT. Gonna have to buy one or two of those.Some amazing deals on Kindle today. A lot of classics are on sale:
-East of Eden by John Steinbeck
-Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
-The Godfather by Mario Puzo
-Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
-On the Road by Jack Kerouac
-2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
-Foundation by Isaac Asimov
-Lord of the Flies by William Golding
I own all of them except The Godfather. Does anyone have any thoughts on it? It obviously spawned an amazing couple of films. But unlike, say, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or 2001: A Space Odyssey, I haven't heard much about to original novel itself.
HOLY SHIT. Gonna have to buy one or two of those.
Some amazing deals on Kindle today. A lot of classics are on sale:
-East of Eden by John Steinbeck
-Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
-The Godfather by Mario Puzo
-Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
-On the Road by Jack Kerouac
-2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
-Foundation by Isaac Asimov
-Lord of the Flies by William Golding
I own all of them except The Godfather. Does anyone have any thoughts on it? It obviously spawned an amazing couple of films. But unlike, say, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or 2001: A Space Odyssey, I haven't heard much about to original novel itself.
It's reads like a longer cut of the movie, as the movie was a very faithful adaption of the novel. The novel has more characters their stories.Some amazing deals on Kindle today. A lot of classics are on sale:
-East of Eden by John Steinbeck
-Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
-The Godfather by Mario Puzo
-Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
-On the Road by Jack Kerouac
-2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
-Foundation by Isaac Asimov
-Lord of the Flies by William Golding
I own all of them except The Godfather. Does anyone have any thoughts on it? It obviously spawned an amazing couple of films. But unlike, say, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or 2001: A Space Odyssey, I haven't heard much about to original novel itself.
The Once and Future King is only $2.99 for Kindle today.
Thanks for the heads up! Grabbed a few of these books.Some amazing deals on Kindle today. A lot of classics are on sale:
-East of Eden by John Steinbeck
-Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
-The Godfather by Mario Puzo
-Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
-On the Road by Jack Kerouac
-2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
-Foundation by Isaac Asimov
-Lord of the Flies by William Golding
I own all of them except The Godfather. Does anyone have any thoughts on it? It obviously spawned an amazing couple of films. But unlike, say, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or 2001: A Space Odyssey, I haven't heard much about to original novel itself.
Some amazing deals on Kindle today. A lot of classics are on sale:
-East of Eden by John Steinbeck
-Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
-The Godfather by Mario Puzo
-Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
-On the Road by Jack Kerouac
-2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
-Foundation by Isaac Asimov
-Lord of the Flies by William Golding
I own all of them except The Godfather. Does anyone have any thoughts on it? It obviously spawned an amazing couple of films. But unlike, say, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or 2001: A Space Odyssey, I haven't heard much about to original novel itself.
Yeah, I'm wondering too if I would like it. Never read anything by Heinlein.Stranger in a Strange Land's reader reviews are a bit too polarized for my liking, how was it?
Yeah, I'm wondering too if I would like it. Never read anything by Heinlein.
Some amazing deals on Kindle today. A lot of classics are on sale:
-East of Eden by John Steinbeck
-Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
-The Godfather by Mario Puzo
-Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
-On the Road by Jack Kerouac
-2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
-Foundation by Isaac Asimov
-Lord of the Flies by William Golding
I own all of them except The Godfather. Does anyone have any thoughts on it? It obviously spawned an amazing couple of films. But unlike, say, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or 2001: A Space Odyssey, I haven't heard much about to original novel itself.
Some amazing deals on Kindle today. A lot of classics are on sale:
-East of Eden by John Steinbeck
-Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
-The Godfather by Mario Puzo
-Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
-One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
-On the Road by Jack Kerouac
-2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
-Foundation by Isaac Asimov
-Lord of the Flies by William Golding
I own all of them except The Godfather. Does anyone have any thoughts on it? It obviously spawned an amazing couple of films. But unlike, say, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or 2001: A Space Odyssey, I haven't heard much about to original novel itself.
Could those be, I don't know, regional or something? Can't buy Foundation on kindle, it just says "This title is not currently available for purchase".
It is a regional issue, but you can get around that. I do it all the time. I buy from both the Amazon UK and the US store as they have wildly different deals going on at any one time. You just need a valid US address that you can change your settings to. Switch to that when you want to buy from the US kindle store through the Manage Your Content and Devices page.
what do you guys do with old physical books you don't want anymore?
is it even worth it to try and sell them? I'm thinking not.. should I just give them to the library?
I reread The Goblin Emperor mostly yesterday and the remainder today. Just as fantastic as it was the first time. <3
Reading it for the first time right now, almost halfway through, still not quite sure how I feel about it.
I reread The Goblin Emperor mostly yesterday and the remainder today. Just as fantastic as it was the first time. <3
This was in the post box when I got home:
Assassin's Fate by Robin Hobb. I'm about to start reading it now
Yeah the pace is fairly slow. A lot of characters thrown into the mix and the odd names make it hard to keep track of them all.
For a book that was published only a few years ago and appears to be quite well-regarded its surprisingly difficult to find anywhere, at least locally and/or in formats that I prefer. The audiobook is unavailable in my country and in terms of physical releases the only options are either a slightly too expensive hardcover edition or a mass-market paperback edition which I usually dislike. While its not ideal, with any luck I might get the latter of the physical editions come next weekend. Im looking forward to it.
Recently I began reading The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (which happens to have been originally published in the same years as The Goblin Emperor but is readily available even here) by Becky Chambers.
I don't find them hard to keep track since they are unique in their own ways. Or maybe as a ASoIaF fan I was just used to a large cast.Yeah the pace is fairly slow. A lot of characters thrown into the mix and the odd names make it hard to keep track of them all.
I don't read physical books all that often but what I do is I put my used ones in a box and when it's filled I take it to Goodwill. I had been saving them to donate to a community library that was in the works but plans for it fell through.what do you guys do with old physical books you don't want anymore?
is it even worth it to try and sell them? I'm thinking not.. should I just give them to the library?
I sold the majority of my fiction library a couple of months ago to make space for a woodshop. I sold 29 banker's boxes of books, mostly paperback, about 60% science fiction. I made about $250. Just enough tfor buy a band saw.what do you guys do with old physical books you don't want anymore?
is it even worth it to try and sell them? I'm thinking not.. should I just give them to the library?
Great series of books. Pohl was one of the great masters. I had this exact cover on a hardback until recently.
Loved it just as much as the first one. Great action, tight plot and fascinating lead character. There's a lot of good tough-guy book series these days, but Victor above most of the competition because of how compeling the lead is.
Very fun and short read. To the point, not dwelling on useless tropes typical for fantasy light novels. It's just a dude who is obsessed with killing goblins and is incredibly inventive at doing it.
That's a much better cover than the one I've seen.
I can definitely recommend Cutter's The Deep and The Troop. Have Little Heaven on my To Read listGetting back into leisure reading after having not picked up any novels in a couple years. Working on these two atm:
I've found most of Stephen King's short stories to be better on average than his novels, so Bazaar has been pretty fun. Little Heaven has been interesting thus far.
The UK hardback editions for this series are really nice. In the flesh, that yellow on the cover is shiny gold. And it has decorative endpapers.
It sounds - rather alarmingly - like you haven't bought a copy!Also, considering your opinion that Maia makes Fitz look bad, your timing... *grumbles*
(I've been meaning to re-read The Goblin Emperor as well I'm happy it's just as good the second time.)