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Gary wrote: "Walmart is giving a $10 credit for first time use of their online eBook and audiobook book stores."Almost as much they pay their employees per hour :-(
Even in the highly unlikely event they'd sell (or even be allowed to sell) to Aussies, I'd never support a business that looks after their bottom line, more than their employees.
To Veronica's question about oldest books we've read.Slan is the 2nd oldest book we've read: (Age listed is age of book when read by S&L)
Frankenstein was 200 years old.
Slan is 78 years old
and The Hobbit was 75 years old
The Hobbit was published 3 years before Slan in 1937.
There is also the problem of problematic authors. I can get past dated concepts in novels, but I don't want to read books by monsters or people with racist or homophobic views that are our of place in our more accepting modern society.I wouldn't, personally, ever read Orson Scott Card or Marion Zimmer Bradley again.
Another free eBook from Tor.The Black Company by Glen Cook
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https://ebookclub.tor.com/
Click on either US or Canada even if you aren't from there. No-one checks ;-)
Ctgt wrote: "I'm a big fan of Bone, Vol, 1: Out from Boneville"Bone is a great choice. It starts out as charming middle grade fantasy in the early volumes and gets slightly darker and more YA in the later volumes.
Winner of the Retro-Hugo for 1941.At 78 years old this is the 2nd oldest book we've read. Only Frankenstein was older.
Dara wrote: "Mods can move this to the appropriate folder."
Done :-)
There are 2 you must read.As mentioned by Trike.
Saga. It is up to 54 issues or 9 Volumes (Vol 9 comes out next month)
Saga is an epic space opera/fantasy comic book series written by Brian K. Vaughan and illustrated by Fiona Staples, published monthly by the American company Image Comics. The series is heavily influenced by Star Wars and is based on ideas Vaughan conceived both as a child and as a parent. It depicts a husband and wife, Alana and Marko, from long-warring extraterrestrial races, fleeing authorities from both sides of a galactic war as they struggle to care for their daughter, Hazel, who is born in the beginning of the series and who occasionally narrates the series as an unseen adult.
and "Locke and Key". This is a completed series of 37 issues (or 6 Volumes). There are also 4 stand-alone issues in the same world.
Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them.... and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all...!
Trike wrote: "“Everyone: Australia.”😂
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That's one I'm glad we got. They are wonderful creatures.
Ruth wrote: "(and there are no dogs in this book) "There are no dogs "on screen", but there are dogs.
One of Shae's neighbours has "a tiny dog with the size and charm of an overfed rat".
Dogs are mentioned in other parts as well.
Pre-90s is going to be a popular time period for writers.Everyone carrying mobile phones makes a lot of scenarios harder.
There were several situations in Jade City that could have been avoided with better communication.
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Good is subjective.I really like Lan, Shae and Anden. The same way I liked Walter White, Tony Soprano, Vic Mackey and Saul Goodman.
Just because a character does bad things doesn't, necessarily, make them evil.
Hilo, even if he wasn't a Kaul, would still be a thug.
Make it so
Trike wrote: "Dara wrote: "Only 404 adults were surveyed so take of this what you will."“Statistical correlation not found.”"
He shoots, he scores ;-)
:-)
Jen wrote: "I’m three pages in. Oh my god, the names! So many names!"I posted a link to a handy list of characters, to keep track of who's who, on the Jade City announcement thread. It's from Fonda Lee's website and is spoiler free
http://fondalee.com/wp-content/upload...
David wrote: "There's a short story in Kevin Hearne's Besieged & part of Scourged (in his Iron Druid Chronicles) that takes place in Tasmania, but it's mainly a brief scene about healing Tasmanian devils of their face cancer."I'm happy to be proven wrong :-)
"The Iron Druid Chronicles" is a series I have thought about reading, but the sheer bulk of books available has scared me off starting.
For me it is essential for those minor characters.I added the list as a Note at the very start of the book (On iPad Kindle App). It is just a button press away while I'm reading.
Unfortunately nothing in SFF has ever been written about my part of Oz :-(Though it is a great idea for my next trip away, to take a book based in that area. I usually find I don't read while I'm away.
For non-fiction, I have read The Peaks of Lyell several times (including onsite) which is about the mine my family has been involved in since 1899 (and I worked at for 30 years).
I am loving the book so far. But it's hard keeping track of all the characters with similar sounding names, especially given the family name first format.
I found this list of principal characters on Fonda Lee's website helpful.
http://fondalee.com/wp-content/upload...
Also for those doing the audiobook, here is a page of maps and a chart showing the Hierarchy of a Green Bone clan.
http://fondalee.com/books/jade-city/j...
None of this content is spoilery.
It is a nice coincidence that the iPad Kindle app added a green theme just as we are about to start "Jade City" Synchronicity :-)
Iain wrote: "Teen (full of rubbish)"My god-daughter and I, when she was a teen, would go into the teens section and laugh about the rubbish that was available there for her age group.
It was especially funny when she would hand me a book listen to me make fun of the cover, the blurb and the premise and then tell that that was the book she was buying ;-)
