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I am now reading Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog.

I bought it because with a title like that, it had to be awesome. And I was absolutely right. :D

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I am now reading Flora Segunda: Being the Magickal Mishaps of a Girl of Spirit, Her Glass-Gazing Sidekick, Two Ominous Butlers (One Blue), a House with Eleven Thousand Rooms, and a Red Dog.

Damn, I looked at your sig before entering this thread and figured you were up to your old game of reading 8 books at once.

Heck, I read her post in here and thought she was reading 8 books at once. XD

So I tweeted the other day that I picked up an e-book reader for when I go downrange and also to kill time in the motorpool.  I've already amassed a good collection of the standard classics (Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Doyle, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert E. Howard, Milton, Wells, Wilde, Stoker, Shelley, Stevenson; even Lovecraft and da Vinci) but I (as always) want more. I'm trying to lay hands on a RotTK ebook (all the sites that seem to offer one in an epub/pdf/lrt or html format seem to be down) and honestly I've come to a mental block on what else to search for.

Anything newer than around 1950 is probably off limits unless its REALLY good to warrant buying, or there's a legal free version out there.  Even though ebooks aren't as expensive as a normal book they still aren't exactly cheap and there isn't any 'bargain bin' available.

That said, if its in html, txt or pdf form its usable too so bring on all those interesting documents too!

Actually I somehow managed to glaze over most of those authors simply because of a brain cramp (and I'm not too big of a fan of Twain sadly. As a perrson he was awesome but I generally don't enjoy most of his books).

As for RotTK, the link you gave is the one version I could find but the chapters are in individual files which makes it a pain for my reader to handle. An epub or pdf would be better if anybody knows of one.

An ebook I picked up aand have been loving all over again is 'John Dies at the End'.  You can read the whole thing off of the website, buy a copy at borders or watch the soon to be made movie.

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the things C.S. Lewis wrote other than Narnia, P.G. Wodehouse, all the books of Oz.

What's wrong with Narnia? D:

And second on Oz. All the Oz books are fantabulous.

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No no no, there's nothing at all wrong with Narnia, it's just that everybody tends to forgot he wrote other things that are quite awesome, like 'Til We Have Faces and The Screwtape Letters. Just like a lot of people don't realize there's a whole series of Oz books, not just The Wizard of Oz.

Mistborn, by Brandon Sanderson. His name is quite fun to say, oh and the book thus far has been really good too.

How she does it is a conundrum wrapped in an enigma-stuffed mystery. Or, y'know, a mystendrum.

Dragon Bones by Patricia Briggs. Surprisingly good! I say surprisingly since all I know of the author's other work is paranormal romance, which is code for "vampire porn". I am glad recommended it to me, I would not have tried it otherwise.

As many of you already know, I am reading Twilight, since a coworker offered it to me, and reading the book myself makes it so much easier to mock. I'm on page 264, just past midway. I am withholding my considered opinion until I finish it, though, because I don't think I've seen the worst it has to offer yet.

I have finished Twilight.

It isn't really any worse than any other teenage paranormal romance out there. I am disappointed. I expected that with all the ire it raises, it must be superlatively bad, but no, it's only bad in the ordinary everyday sense of your usual romance novel with idiotic characters, no plot, and weak writing -- and frankly I'd forgive the last two if there were any interesting characters whatsoever, but there are none. The only thing that stands out as magnificently ridiculous is the sparkling vampires bullshit.

I hear the other books are far worse, so I guess I'll have to try those and see if they can't meet expectations. I know, at the least, the last book will be astoundingly horrible, so I have that to look forward to.

Which other teenage paranormal romance novel has outsold Harry freakin' Potter? How many other vampire novel authors have never read nor seen Bram Stoker's Dracula or Interview with the Vampire?

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How she does it is a conundrum wrapped in an enigma-stuffed mystery. Or, y'know, a mystendrum.