11-14-2008, 11:21 AM | #1 |
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Free Book Recommendations
As a variation on the recent recommendation game thread, what 10 free ebooks would you recommend?
(I'm still thinking about my list, so I'll post it soon! ) /JB |
11-14-2008, 11:25 AM | #2 |
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Series by Peter Watts:
Starfish Maelstrom Behemoth Blind Sight Mistborn Farthing Time Cavern From MR Uploads Old Testament New Testament All of Steve Jordan's books |
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11-14-2008, 12:40 PM | #3 |
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Just Ten?
1 Pride and Prejudice https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=21430 2 Complete Sherlock Holmes https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=12677 3 David Balfour (Kidnapped and Catriona) https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24381 4 The Canterville Ghost https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=27657 5 On Basilisk Station http://www.webscription.net/p-304-on...k-station.aspx 6 1632 http://www.webscription.net/p-379-1632.aspx 7 Sheepfarmer's Daughter http://www.webscription.net/p-587-sh...-daughter.aspx 8 This Scepter'd Isle http://www.webscription.net/p-414-th...terd-isle.aspx 9 There Will be Dragons http://www.webscription.net/p-412-th...e-dragons.aspx 10 An Oblique Approach http://www.webscription.net/p-300-an...-approach.aspx |
11-14-2008, 01:04 PM | #4 |
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In no particular order...
Overclocked by Corey Doctorow Agent to the Stars by John Scalzi Animal Farm by George Orwell A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark Twain Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 1984 by George Orwell |
11-14-2008, 01:58 PM | #5 |
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In no particular order:
Sunzi, B.C., The Art of War Wilde, Oscar, The Picture of Dorian Grey Cervantes, Miguel De, Don Quixote Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe Dumas, Alexandre, The Three Musketeers Poe, Edgar Allan, Works I-V Joyce, James, Ulysses Stoker, Bram, Dracula Shelly, Mary, Frankenstein Tolstoy, Leo, War and Peace May I add 10 free books for those who´d like to read German authors or read in German? Büchner, Georg, Dantons Tod (Danton´s Death) Bürger, Gottfried August, Münchhausen (Munchhausen) Kafka, Franz, Der Prozess (The Trial) Mann, Thomas, Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain) May, Karl, Winnetou Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, Also sprach Zarathustra (Thus spake Zarathustra) Schiller, Friedrich, Wilhelm Tell Storm, Theodor, Der Schimmelreiter (The Dykemaster) Gebr. Grimm, Märchen (Fairy Tales) Thoma, Ludwig, Der Münchner im Himmel (famous Bavarian humour, no translation in other languages) |
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11-15-2008, 02:19 AM | #6 |
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In no particular order:
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas Sherlock Holmes Omnibus by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Mr J.G. Reeder Omnibus by Edgar Wallace The Four Just Men by Edgar Wallace Around The World In 80 Days by Jules Verne 1632 by Eric Flint Ring of Fire by Eric Flint On Basilisk Station by David Weber Oath of Swords by David Weber My Own Kind Of Freedom by Steven Brust |
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