What Books Have You Recently Downloaded?

[Tressa]

I'm downloading Beowulf right now, and yesterday downloaded The Sandman by Hoffman and The Metamorphosis by Kafka. I'm in the middle of reading a horror book called Ivory that got good reviews.

[Guido]

The last one I downloaded was "The Devil's Company" by David Liss, an awesome book that I discovered by accident.

Currently I'm actually re-reading the paperback version of "Those Who Hunt The night" by Barbara Hambly. Because it is not available as eBook and because I could not find my original copy, I re-purchased it at Amazon as a used copy for 1 cent. LOL

[Tressa]

I just downloaded:

CHILDREN'S LIT
Aesop's Fables
Beauty and the Beast
Anne of Green Gables

SHORT STORIES
The Sand Man
Spring Heeled Jack
The Metamorphosis

POETRY
Beowulf
Helen of Troy
American Poetry
Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes

CLASSICS
The Age of Innocence
Adam Bede
Tess of the d'Urbevilles

HORROR
The Damned
The Garden of Survival
Hell House
I Am Legend
The Day Time Stopped

A penny? :-D

[Teawench]

Guido wrote: "The last one I downloaded was "The Devil's Company" by David Liss, an awesome book that I discovered by accident.

Currently I'm actually re-reading the paperback version of "Those Who Hunt The nig..."

I have a hardcoer of Those Who Hunt the Night. Is it any good? I read dreadful reviews somewhere so haven't yet picked it up. I might have even gotten rid of it...

[Guido]

It is definitely not for everyone. I like the story - a lot - but the prose is pretty bad in my opinion. Sentences run on for a third of a page, with not one or two modifiers but often three modifiers in a single sentence. Every noun has to have a least one adjective and sentences structure is weird at best.

So, it is not an easy read. Many times I had to re-read sentences over and over again just to figure out what Barbara Hambly tried to say. The story is so captivating, though, that I enjoy reading it despite its issues in prose. Clearly, though, everyone's mileage will vary on this book.

[Branden]

I took advantage of Borders eReader deal where you can download one eBook from a few different options yesterday. I ended up getting Dean Koontz's Prodigal Son (book one of the Frankenstein series). I probably won't be reading this on my iPhone so it will sit around until I get a real eReader.

[Elena]

I downloaded the audio book for The Gargoyle . I read the Kindle sample some time ago but couldn't take all the pain/burnt descriptions. Listening to it is easier.

I dowloaded and I am currently reading Four Past Midnight on Kindle. I also downloaded Darkfever for free.

[Dana *]

I got Dean Koontz Frankenstein

[Tressa]

I just downloaded Truck Stop ($.99) and Origin ($1.59), both by J.A. Konrath. Can't beat that!

[D4ngerousBeans]

Under the Dome$5.49
was testing the whispernet book buying power while out and about and found this down from $10 yesterday, so as soon as I finish Fool I can get started

[Tressa]

That's a good price.

[Branden]

D4ngerousBeans wrote: "Under the Dome$5.49
was testing the whispernet book buying power while out and about and found this down from $10 yesterday, so as soon as I finish Fool I can get sta..."

Was that from Amazon? I decided I wanted that in eBook form because it is so damn big. That's an excellent price compared to the $20 paperback.

Speaking of good prices, I saw that The Passage by Cronin was only $10 for the Kindle edition. Thinking of picking that up too.

[D4ngerousBeans]

yup amazon , ooh I might have to get the passage as well since its down to $10

[Kathy]

I can't download anything else until payday but the most recent purchase was The Passage by Cronin.

[Branden]

Dang, it looks like that may have been a one-day sale or something. Under the Dome is back up to 9.99 for the Kindle edition. :-\ Oh well.

[Tressa]

Kathy, have you looked at Kindle's free books? I must have downloaded about 20 free classics/books of poems/children's books one day. When I got home they were waiting for me on my Kindle. Took a while to categorize them into genres, but well worth it.

[Kathy]

Thanks! I will have to try that.

[D4ngerousBeans]

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_nos...

i`m still showing it at $5.71

[Branden]

Really? That's odd. Are you in the USA? I'm showing $9.99 even when I click your link. Anyone else showing the lower price?

Just clicked your profile and noticed you are in the UK. Maybe that explains the difference?

[Scott]

$9.99 here in the US.

[D4ngerousBeans]

that would be the first time anything is cheaper over here !!!! woohoooo were allways getting shafted over the price of things .

[Cathy]

Recent horror downloads for me:

Nightmares and Dreamscapes, Stephen King
The Vampire Tapestry, Suzy McKee Charnas -- I read it years ago, from the library, but it was so cheap I got my own digital copy
The Strain, Guillremo Del Toro
When Darkness Loves Us, Elizabeth Engstrom

[Tressa]

Ooh, enjoy When Darkness Loves Us. I loved both of the stories. What a great writer I've never heard of.

[Cathy]

I downloaded it because I'd just read your rave in another thread! So thanks!

I think it was also your recommendation that made me buy Audrey's Door, which I LOVED.

[Aloha]

I downloaded all the Hugo Award winners. Lots to read!

[Tressa]

Audrey's Door is good. I need to read her other books.

Told my hubby about that those Hugo Award winners, Thoa. He was excited.

[Aloha]

Tressa, don't bother downloading them. Hint, hint.

[Tressa]

Wink. Wink.

[Jason]

I really loved Audrey's Door, too. The weird thing about it is, I was looking at the reviews for this book, and a lot of people said that this was Langan's worst book. I thought it was her best. *shrugs*

[Tressa]

If AD is Langan's worst, then sign me up for the others. AD is one creepy read, and Audrey herself makes it creepier because she seems so vulnerable and alone while keeping her distance from her caring boyfriend and coming to terms with her past.

[Jason]

I totally agree, Tressa!

[Dee]

Just to let everyone know. Brian Keene's "Darkness on the Edge of Town" is FREE at Amazon for the Kindle today.

[Larry]

Too many to mention-but a lot of vintage SF and horror, namely Le Fanu's Carmilla and Lovecraft's The Shunned House

[Larry]

Dee wrote: "Just to let everyone know. Brian Keene's "Darkness on the Edge of Town" is FREE at Amazon for the Kindle today."

Can you get that if you dont have a Kindle and convert to the format you use?

[Dee]

Larry,
You can download Kindle for PC (or Mac or iPad or whatever)for free and then download the book to it. It has Amazon's DRM so converting to another format isn't possible.

[Larry]

Oh I int reading on a PC-I like it on a hand held device-I'm funny like that!

[Dee]

Larry, I agree. I much prefer reading on my Kindle rather than a PC.

[Aloha]

Thanks! I downloaded the book into my iPhone. I'm out and about.

[Jason]

Thanks for the heads up, Dee! I really enjoyed Darkness, but I borrowed it from a friend, so I went and got it.

[Dee]

Aloha and Jason,
You're very welcome.

[Fallon]

Recent horror downloads:

Day by Day Armageddon by J.L. Bourne
Infected by Scott Sigler
Hater by David Moody
The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro
13 Bullets by David Wellington

[Cathy]

I just stumbled on the Darkness on the Edge of Town free download, so got that.

Other recent downloads (mostly free):

Both volumes of Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, M.R. James
Some Sheridan LeFanu
People of the Dark and Other Horror Stories, Robert E. Howard
Can Such Things Be?, Ambrose Bierce
The Spinetinglers Anthology 2008 -- middling collection of Internet published stories. So far most of them are weak but a few have been good, and it was only $.99.

[Aloha]

Edward Lee's Inferno series, all 3. Richard Laymon's Flesh.

[Mark]

How man Lee's have you read so far, Aloha?

The last 2 ebooks I downloaded/bought were Keene's Darkness (free, thanks to a tip here on HA), and This is My Blood by David Niall Wilson. Still working on converting the Keene mobi file to epub - the converter's bein hateful.

[Aloha]

One. The Bighead. I have Black Train but have not started on it. I think I will start the Infernal series before I read Black Train. Between horror and fantasy, I'm inundated with books to read. Even with audios, I can't catch up quickly enough. And it takes forever to finish a fantasy book. They are so verbose!

[Mark]

I really like fantasy, the potential that's there, but I'm rarely able to read novel length w/o kicking and screaming and gnashing of teeth. :D There's just SO much said. Someone like Robert Howard, who was instrumental in creating the sword'n'sorcery genre, is ideal for my taste. He wrote mostly novella length and they had all the action and setting I felt I needed to appreciate the story. That said, I found this http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20... at the local bookstore a few months ago and have been working myself up to reading it.

[Aloha]

That looks good. When you do get yourself up to read it, give me a Clift Note on it. :o) I'll have to check out Robert Howard. He's not in my fantasy folder. I have like a zillion fantasy books to read. Yeah, like I'm really going to read it all. I'm just an eBook hoarder.

[Tressa]

This morning I bought The Summer I Died for about $3 at Amazon. I've got a hard copy but can sneak-read it when I'm waiting somewhere.

[Aloha]

I bought that too this week. I'm getting a nice stash of horror. It'd take a bit of growing to match fantasy and PNR, but it's growing. I'm in love with horror at the moment. I'm thinking of ditching fantasy for a while to focus on horror.

[Tressa]

It's good to have different genres to jump around to so one genre won't get stale.