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Mar. 18th, 2011 04:12 pmHabitation of the Blessed, Catherine M. Valente
I borrowed this off fivemack. It's an interesting book with a slightly unusual structure (the framing story is of an individual copying from three texts, so there are three different styles of writing, four if you count the framing story) about Prester John who is an interesting Mediaeval legend of whom I had previously not heard :-)
Everything Vorkosigan, Louis McMaster Bujold
Is almost all available free from http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/24-CryoburnCD/CryoburnCD/index.htm but that's missing Memory which Baen will sell you an ebook copy of for $6 which I feel is very reasonable. This has entertained me for nearly 3 months :-) I'm not sure it does anything especially new or clever, but what it does it does well. "What it does" is a bit hard to pin down though as it goes from a rollicking space adventure to a mystery to a drawing room farce and back at great speed; I do rather like it all though. The characters are very compelling (to me anyway), and the settings interesting.
BeBook Club eBook reader (not a book...)
I mentioned this already but I have now read all of Vorkosigan evar on it. I find it has a very short battery life but other than that it is very useful and does what it says on the tin (displays books). It doesn't do anything else fancy (like taking notes, or buying books off the internet) but it's competent at what it does. Much smaller and lighter than most of the physical books I read, and definately a lot easier to store (house space being a commodity in short supply).
I borrowed this off fivemack. It's an interesting book with a slightly unusual structure (the framing story is of an individual copying from three texts, so there are three different styles of writing, four if you count the framing story) about Prester John who is an interesting Mediaeval legend of whom I had previously not heard :-)
Everything Vorkosigan, Louis McMaster Bujold
Is almost all available free from http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/24-CryoburnCD/CryoburnCD/index.htm but that's missing Memory which Baen will sell you an ebook copy of for $6 which I feel is very reasonable. This has entertained me for nearly 3 months :-) I'm not sure it does anything especially new or clever, but what it does it does well. "What it does" is a bit hard to pin down though as it goes from a rollicking space adventure to a mystery to a drawing room farce and back at great speed; I do rather like it all though. The characters are very compelling (to me anyway), and the settings interesting.
BeBook Club eBook reader (not a book...)
I mentioned this already but I have now read all of Vorkosigan evar on it. I find it has a very short battery life but other than that it is very useful and does what it says on the tin (displays books). It doesn't do anything else fancy (like taking notes, or buying books off the internet) but it's competent at what it does. Much smaller and lighter than most of the physical books I read, and definately a lot easier to store (house space being a commodity in short supply).