tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8397186280973403909.post1066273450992145606..comments2024-02-08T10:40:56.376-06:00Comments on Big Fat Delicious: I got my Nook - the first book I bought? I Beat The Odds by Michael Ohervesta44http://www.blogger.com/profile/15480692717585745934noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8397186280973403909.post-73075984775575095152011-03-31T10:19:13.909-05:002011-03-31T10:19:13.909-05:00Alexfromphilly - Damn, another author to add to my...Alexfromphilly - Damn, another author to add to my long list of authors........lolvesta44https://www.blogger.com/profile/15480692717585745934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8397186280973403909.post-10246781631375824762011-03-31T10:17:38.611-05:002011-03-31T10:17:38.611-05:00@Vesta if you love supernatural stories, I highly...@Vesta if you love supernatural stories, I highly recommend Dan Simmons' Summer Of Night. He's phenomenal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8397186280973403909.post-5080407800486371862011-03-30T13:56:53.199-05:002011-03-30T13:56:53.199-05:00Alexfromphilly - I just went to google books and d...Alexfromphilly - I just went to google books and downloaded 41 free ebooks - everything from Sherlock Holmes to Edgar Allen Poe to Robinson Crusoe, Ivanhoe, The Man in the Iron Mask, and books by Albert Payson Terhune and Thornton W Burgess (most of those are books I read when I was in grade school/jr high/high school). I read a lot of science fiction/fantasy - anything from Piers Anthony to Roger Zelazny, horror by Stephen King, Dean Koontz, John Saul, stuff by James Patterson, and then there's the supernatural stuff by various authors (Christine Feehan, Lyndsay Sands, Laurell Hamilton, the Mercy Thompson series, the Sookie Stackhouse series, etc). Right now, I'm reading <em>A Modern Legionary</em> by John Patrick Le Poer, about an Irish lad who lies about his age and joins the French Foreign Legion at 16 (he runs away from school/home in Ireland to France).<br />I tend to check out the first chapter or first few lines of a book and if it draws me in, then I'll read it, no matter what it's about. I've ended up reading a lot of books that I thought were good but other people didn't care much for (but then, I'm a bookworm and have a bad habit of being interested in just about everything).vesta44https://www.blogger.com/profile/15480692717585745934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8397186280973403909.post-20550681453509216402011-03-30T11:41:37.488-05:002011-03-30T11:41:37.488-05:00What other books/authors are you into?What other books/authors are you into?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8397186280973403909.post-31982407522040858292011-03-06T10:09:14.612-06:002011-03-06T10:09:14.612-06:00Well, I Beat the Odds was cheaper as an e-book tha...Well, <em>I Beat the Odds</em> was cheaper as an e-book than it was in hardback, even in hardback at Wal-Mart, which is usually cheaper on books than anywhere else. And Barnes & Noble has free e-books every Friday. Granted, they aren't always books I'm interested in reading, but I've been looking at the e-book titles and there are a lot of books I'd like to have that are less than $3. Can't buy a new paperback for that, and can't even buy a used one for that on amazon.com when you add in shipping. And our library system loans e-books on the Nook, which is another plus for having one.vesta44https://www.blogger.com/profile/15480692717585745934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8397186280973403909.post-48938011309653585322011-03-06T08:46:11.494-06:002011-03-06T08:46:11.494-06:00I keep going back and forth on buying an eReader. ...I keep going back and forth on buying an eReader. I really love having an actual book, but I'm sure that's at least part just liking what I know. I also like buying books cheaply and eBooks are sometimes a little spendy. But then there are deals. (See what I do? Talk myself in, then talk myself out!)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com