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This is how ebooks are supposed to be priced. Not the same price as a paperback or even more, as seems to be the norm.
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That would be a pentalogy.
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He's referring to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hit..._Galaxy#Novels
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Well, I'm feeling like a tool right now.
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I'm midway through the second dark tower book. I thought the first was pretty good, but this one is much better.
Can't wait to read the other 5.
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Picked up a couple of books - my school was literally giving them away.
Robin Cook - Outbreak
Stephen King - Skeleton Crew (amazing time killer)
Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
Erich Maria Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front
William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair
Dennis Overbye - Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos
I'm quite happy.
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All Quiet is one of my favorite books of all time.
A suggestion: don't get to connected to anyone in the story, things change, you'll find out why.
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What do you mean?
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Read Slaughterhouse 5, it was good. To be honest though I preferred Cat's Cradle and maybe Galapagos, not sure. I think Galapagos was more enjoyable but Slaughterhouse 5 had more substance and depth. It was still good though.
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I'm reading Cat's Cradle right now, just started.
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Because printing books is not free. The base cost for that book to sell is $6.45, and at that I get no profit. So I put it to $9.99. I originally intended for the eBook to be 99c, but I would get no profit from that either.
I make ~$1.80 per eBook and ~$2.80 per printed book.
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my father just bought me the prince
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Has anyone here read the The Watsons go to Birmingham - 1963? A pretty good book, if I do say myself.
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Just finished reading REAMDE, loved it, but it's Neal Stephenson, so it'd be hard not to. Kinda hated the main character a little, but not enough to keep me from loving it.
After I finished Cryptonomicon for the second time (which is a fucking journey), I've gone on a huge Stephenson bent. Gonna read Cobweb next, then Diamond Age, then the Baroque Cycle. If my calculations are correct, I should be done in about ten years.
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I read that book a lot when I was 12 or 13 or so. Really enjoyed it.
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Just finished Zahn's Star Wars trilogy. Much better than almost anything else in the EU.
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I loved Skeleton Crew. His best short story collection in my opinion. Nightmares and Dreamscapes is a close second.
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Just got The Book of Deacon for free from Amazon Kindle Bookstore. So far I'm enjoying it. Gotta thank FreeKindleDude for posting it.
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Should I read Brave New World or 1984 first?
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They are completely different in the presentation of their ideas, so it doesn't really matter.
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flip a coin
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Doesn't really matter, both are good. I suggest BNW first, because 1984 is the better book (best for last) IMO.
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recently finished At Swim Two Birds by Flann O'Brien.
it's funny, it's weird, it's very Irish. Recommended
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Read it some time ago aswell. Good read.
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it's weird last week i saw the trailer for hunger games, which led me to read about the book and just an hour ago i finished the third book in the triology, very good reads but they don't beat the first book
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Finished Cat's Cradle recently.
Christ, that ending sure was bleak. I don't mean to say that it's caused me to re-evaluate my life, or that it was exceptionally dark, but I did not expect that at all. (Not massive spoilers, but I just don't really feel like giving anything away.)
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the main character reminds me of a few of my friends
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Started on A Feast for Crows yesterday evening.
I'm halfway through already...
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Finished the Lord of the Rings Trilogy by JRR Tolkien on Monday and finished Lunatics by Dave Barry and Alan Zwieble today.
I'm now gonna start The Hobbit.
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I just finished BNW, it's a great book, but 1984 is easily the better of the two in my opinion.
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My book is now listed on the iBookStore. But since I do not own an Apple device, I can't view it.So I wrote a book, and I will shamelessly advertise it here. Most of you will already know all the information presented inside, but it is a beginner's book after all.
Here's the eBook cover.
Description -
eBook.
$2.99
Printed book.
$9.99
eBook preview.
I decided to be a jerk and make the prices slightly less than the other similar books.
It'll be up on Barnes and Nobles and the Apple book store soon, then Amazon later.
Darn.
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By the way, the ePub is unrestricted. Once you buy it you can do what ever with it. If it gets popular it's going to be pirated anyways vv
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I like Brave New World better. 1984 is a bleak world. It sucks. It could happen, but that type of world wouldn't last long. BNW is a place that you hate to love. 1984, you love to hate. I also think BNW is more relevant today than 1984.
Anyway, just finished the first Foundation book, surprisingly good. I mean, I'd heard it was good, but I expected the style to be, I'm not sure, old? But I really liked it. Next, finally get to read the first Game of Thrones.
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Honestly, 1984 is the more likely of the two to actually happen. Any 'utopian' society is bleak, regardless of it's merits.
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I'm reading 'A Clash of Kings' ATM, it's amazing.
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I'm reading Lone Survivor.
A basic summary is on the cover of the book above^^^. It's also about what it takes to become a Navy SEAL, as it details every part of training Marcus Luttrell had to go through to become one.
I seriously recommend this book to anyone who's interested in joining the special forces of the U.S military. It's really opened my eyes to what it takes to do what they do, which is truly some pretty intense stuff.
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That book was great. I could feel my balls shriveling when I was reading about the training parts.I'm reading Lone Survivor.
A basic summary is on the cover of the book above^^^. It's also about what it takes to become a Navy SEAL, as it details every part of training Marcus Luttrell had to go through to become one.
I seriously recommend this book to anyone who's interested in joining the special forces of the U.S military. It's really opened my eyes to what it takes to do what they do, which is truly some pretty intense stuff.
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It is bleak. It's a shallow world full of instant gratification. And that's why people would love it. Not over night of course, but it could steadily get there. It's already heading that direction. Now I'm not saying that it would for sure happen, but I think it's more likely. 1984 has an underground group. BNW doesn't, because no one wants it to change (well, besides John and a handful of others, who are given what they want anyway).
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I like how, despite the bleakness, life goes on. It's not the end. Also, in the first page Jonah says that he started his book "two wives ago", which implies that they do meet up with some more survivors
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True, when I read BNW I was sort of thinking "hmm..maybe this wouldn't be so bad after all.."
Anyway, currently reading this right now
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It seemed to me though that they were fucked. They showed no interest is having sex with the only other woman. Furthermore, he made reference to two wive's thing when he was writing his book on the atomic bomb. His first wife is unkown, and his second was Mona.
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should probably fix that tag.
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Wat no it isn't
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As long as you're living in the developed world, that is
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