[Colonol Dekker]

Discovered the joy of searching for "0.00" on the Kindle store. I won a 4th Gen kindle at an Army christmas raffle two weeks before Christmas. I only spent a fiver on tickets.


Sooooooo, pretty much all of em.

[G0atmaster]

I just started reading "Til We Have Faces," by C.S. Lewis.  It's essentially Lewis's retelling of the Cupid/Psyche Greek myth.  Pretty intense so far.

Before that I read The Great Divorce, also by Lewis, which is pretty much the greatest book I've ever read.  The level of insight into what makes people tick that that book gave me was incredible.  The best way I know to describe it is it's about pride, in all its forms.  From vanity, to pity, to conceit, and what it means to truly love despite all of our failings.

Other than that, Inheritance was awesome.  I read about a dozen books on pacifism, just war, and justifiable violence for a research paper recently.  Nothing too interesting, except Martin Luther King Jr.'s book, "Strength to Love."  That was simply amazing.  But I don't know if you could really call that literature, as it's more a collection of speeches and sermons than anything.  But it reads like a commentary.

[StarSlayer]

I wrapped up Six Frigates and Shattered Sword is nearing completion.  I believe I will pick up A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle and The Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi.  After chewing up Shattered Sword and Pacific Crucible I'm on the lookout for a good rendition of Guadalcanal.

[NGTM-1R]

I'm on the lookout for a good rendition of Guadalcanal.

Neptune's Inferno is a good choice for a readable history, but I'm still looking for a Shattered Sword-style book on the subject myself.

[The E]

The immaculate conception of Private Ritter, by the goddamn Battutaman.

[Dilmah G]

Must read...the main had a different name last time I saw it.

[LordMelvin]

I just finished reading Surely You're Joking, Mister Feynman

For SCIENCE!

[StarSlayer]

The immaculate conception of Private Ritter, by the goddamn Battutaman.

Hehe zipped through that, very good fun.  Does anybody know when the Cormorant Betrayal is available?

NGTM-1R thanks for the heads up on Neptune's Inferno, consider it added to the queue.

[FireSpawn]

Pushing Ice by Alistair Reynolds. All his books are great Scifi reads in in between the realms of "Complete and utter bull****" and "I can sorta see it happening a few thousand years ahead".

[Mongoose]

The immaculate conception of Private Ritter, by the goddamn Battutaman.

I never got the chance to read this.  Wow.  Crazy stuff.

[StarSlayer]

The immaculate conception of Private Ritter, by the goddamn Battutaman.

Hehe zipped through that, very good fun.  Does anybody know when the Cormorant Betrayal is available?

NGTM-1R thanks for the heads up on Neptune's Inferno, consider it added to the queue.

Apparently it already is...

[Scourge of Ages]

Anybody know a place to get good, free (legal) science fiction e-books, preferably in .pdf or text? And naturally, besides that Ceaseless Skies magazine deal. I'd be pretty silly to up and miss that

You know, other things like Batutta's stuff, or like that Three-Worlds-Collide thing from a while ago. The place I used to go, went from all ad-supported free e-books to mostly pay e-books, and a few crappy free ones.

[LordMelvin]

Have ya tried the Baen CD repo, Scourge?

baencd.thefifthimperium.com has all the archived ebook cd bind-ins that they've included in recent hardcovers, each one with (almost) all the previous works by that author/in that series on it. There's some really good works, by some of the bigger names, available free and legal. I highly recommend Bujold's works - the free versions are the omnibus collections, this one is a good starting point - it opens with The Warrior's Apprentice, sort of a 'Sorceror's Apprentice with Space Mercenaries' vibe.

They've also got the complete (to-date) Honor Harrington books on the latest David Weber CD image, and a wide variety of other stuff.

[The E]

And yes, this is completely legal.

[Colonol Dekker]

They've also got the complete (to-date) Honor Harrington books on the latest David Weber CD image.

http://www.baen.com/library/books.asp

I can't find "The Short Victorious War" D:

[Nuke]

ive read most of the dune books out there. im starting to loose intrest though, thanks to the drivel mill qualities of the newer books. il just stick to the original 6 and pretend the others didnt exist. that said i probably haven't read a book in about a year.

[FireSpawn]

ive read most of the dune books out there. im starting to loose intrest though, thanks to the drivel mill qualities of the newer books. il just stick to the original 6 and pretend the others didnt exist. tan said i probably haven't read a book in about a year.

The first three were enough for me. They had just the right blend of polotics, action and all that other hooha that makes Dune good. Then it just started getting confusing.

[The E]

I can't find "The Short Victorious War" D:

That's because you are looking in the wrong place.

[LordMelvin]

I can't find "The Short Victorious War" D:

That's because you are looking in the wrong place.

Though technically this place is even righter - it's the newer CD image, with a couple more books in it.

ive read most of the dune books out there. im starting to loose intrest though, thanks to the drivel mill qualities of the newer books. il just stick to the original 6 and pretend the others didnt exist. tan said i probably haven't read a book in about a year.

I find that this review (penny-arcade.com) covers most of the issues I have with the new Dune books quite nicely.

[Nuke]

ive read most of the dune books out there. im starting to loose intrest though, thanks to the drivel mill qualities of the newer books. il just stick to the original 6 and pretend the others didnt exist. tan said i probably haven't read a book in about a year.

I find that this review (penny-arcade.com) covers most of the issues I have with the new Dune books quite nicely.

gonna have to agree here. first annoyance is all the ****ing recap. stop telling people what happened in the previous books in the series, frank herbert never had to do any of that. his writing was somewhat memerable and you didnt need no ****ing recap. you read through and smack, recap, there goes several pages which could have contained actual story.

second thing, they need to stop filling in non-existant holes in herberts books. prequals were ok in that they were set outside of the timeline established in the original 6 books. and the 2 part conclusion that tried (poorly) to complete the unfinished story arcs. but when they started filling in the small gaps between the original 6 books they crossed the line with me. there are plenty of gaps to fill in around god emperor (which pretty much stands by itself in the timeline with multi-thousand year gaps on either side of it).

fixing these 2 things would make the books far more tolerable to read. they would still be raping franks corpse, but at least they would be using a condom.