Any good ebooks to read

[thecrecarc]

ok, im bored, and i want to read some books. unfortunatly, im too lazy to go to my library, and i hate those late fees. i also want to keep this LEGAL.

so my choices are http://www.gutenberg.org/ and http://www.archive.org/details/texts

unfortuantly, i cant find any good books. so, i ask you this ATOT, what good books are there to read?

i already read most of the sherlock holmes collection, and now im stumped

 

[Blazin Trav]

Any particular genre?

 

[thecrecarc]

Originally posted by: Blazin Trav
Any particular genre?

hm.. dunno. i liked the sherlock holmes series. i also like "god's debris" alot. and micheal cricton works. n stuff. i dunno

 

[Ika]

# Moby Dick, or, the whale by Herman Melville (64)
# Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (63)
# Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (63)
# Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (62)
The Time Machine by H. G. Wells (55)
Anna Karenina by Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy (52)
# The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer (50)
# Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (55)

Those are all pretty good.

 

[loup garou]

Check to see if your library lends eBooks. Mine does.

 

[thecrecarc]

hm... this is pretty funny http://ia300233.us.archive.org/3/texts/fldct10/fldct10.txt

Originally posted by: loup garou
Check to see if your library lends eBooks. Mine does.

sadly, no

 

[Ika]

While this isn't exactly on-topic, whatever happened to those e-ink book things (like the one Sony unveiled/maybe-released)? I've been interested in those, but the price was too prohibitive for my uses. Haven't heard anything about them for a while...

 

[DaveSimmons]

Mark Twain is usually a good read, try Puddinhead Wilson

Free SF & fantasy ebooks at www.Baen.com by David Drake, David Weber, etc.

 

[quackagator]

The Rabbit Factory by Marshall Karp (oops not online)

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: Aflac
# Moby Dick, or, the whale by Herman Melville (64)
....
Those are all pretty good.

My dad decided to read Moby Dick a year or two ago after skipping it in college and using CliffNotes. He had the book with contemporary and modern critics, and he mostly agreed with the contemporary critics. He felt the book could have cut out 200 pages and not missed a beat.

 

[anxi80]

the count of monte cristo

 

[thecrecarc]

any more ideas?

 

[SarcasticDwarf]

http://www.baen.com has a significant amount of free sci-fi/fantasy.