The free books I've downloaded have been lackluster also. There have been a couple that I have read all the way through but feel no desire to keep on my Kindle app (but I can't remember how to delete them). There have also been a couple that I started but haven't bothered to finish.
My love for me now / Ain't hard to explain / The Hero of Canton / The man they call...ME.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
WindSparrow - Mar 19, 2014 11:55:07 pm PDT #22189 of 28375
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Connie Neil - Mar 20, 2014 6:25:10 am PDT #22190 of 28375
brillig
Thank Heaven for Gutenberg and public domain. When in doubt I can always read The Moonstone again.
EpicTangent - Mar 20, 2014 6:39:14 am PDT #22191 of 28375
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Thank Heaven for Gutenberg and public domain. When in doubt I can always read The Moonstone again.
Or Robinson Crusoe!
Signed, Just finished The Moonstone (and was very fond of Betteredge). Also, am a Huge Dork.
Amy - Mar 20, 2014 6:41:57 am PDT #22192 of 28375
Because books.
There's also the library for new books free, Connie.
sumi - Mar 20, 2014 12:27:05 pm PDT #22193 of 28375
Art Crawl!!!
I have to say that most of the book bub books are not good. Sometimes you find one you really like. For me: Lindsay Buroker's Emperor Edge books, A. Wendeberg's "Kronberg" books are the ones that totally got me.
Consuela - Mar 20, 2014 3:55:20 pm PDT #22194 of 28375
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I liked Buroker's Emperor's Edge books, although they're not brilliant. And the prequels/affiliated books read a bit too much like Bujold's Cordelia Naismith novels with the sharp bits filed off.
I bounced off the steampunk thing set in Alaska, though.
Instead, I recently read ALL of PC Hodgell's Kencyrath books, which are great fun. Classic epic fantasy, with really creative cosmology and cultures, and vivid, distinctive characters that you care about, even when they screw up royally because they're tired or lazy or selfish. Good stuff.
Toddson - Mar 21, 2014 4:49:46 am PDT #22195 of 28375
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I love those books! I've been reading them since the first one came out. I also like that, in the middle of all this epic fantasy, there's humor (Jame's tendancy to fall off her horse, for instance).
Toddson - Mar 21, 2014 5:54:43 am PDT #22196 of 28375
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
This may or may not be the place for this, but I wanted to share: 40 Worst Book Titles and Covers.
Amy - Mar 21, 2014 5:57:40 am PDT #22197 of 28375
Because books.
Well, I'm on board with Eating People Is Wrong.
le nubian - Mar 21, 2014 1:58:00 pm PDT #22198 of 28375
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Y'all, I have been reading some columns on Pajiba about George R R Martin and the GOT books/series on HBO.
One author said that they wished GRRM would finish the series ASAP so it is his story to tell and not have to be finished by another in case he dies before finishing it. Another claims that his pitching to HBO a prequel series will help delay the filming of the conclusion of GOT to give him time to finish the final 2 (?) books.
For those of you who are fans of the novels (I have never read them, only have seen the HBO show), and keeping in mind authors' time, effort, and any responsibility they may have fans, what are your thoughts on the above?
On the one hand, I am of the position: it is his work, let him do whatever the fuck he wants. On the other, he sold the rights to HBO, and HBO needs closure. Oh well if the tv series finishes before the books do.