What's the last ebook you purchased?

[Idoine]

Black Horses for the King, Anne McCaffrey.

[texasnightowl]

Bought: Promises in Death by J.D. Robb last night...haven't read yet. It's like number 32 or so in the series.

[JAdams]

The Stand - Stephen King
But I want to finish some of my 'little' books before I start this one.

[Gideon]

I really enjoyed "Ur"

But the last thing I picked up was "Man In the Dark: A Novel" by Paul Auster.

[CCDMan]

Mine is Terminal Freeze by Lincoln Child

Hey! Me too. I have a K1 and my wife's new K2 is due tomorrow and we both like both Preston and Child.

Don't buy books.

You don't believe in supporting authors? How many books do you think there would be if the only books sold were sold to librarys?

[pshrynk]

Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell

[pdurrant]

I don't know - I haven't got to it yet. I bought it after I liked the first one.

The second one was, of course, not as good as the first - very few sequels are, but I did still enjoy it. Perhaps it was a little too obvious.

I'm just on the third, which seems to be on a par with the second.

In short, in the subsequent novels, I think the romance is coming more to the fore that the fantasy, in that the fantasy doesn't feel as solid as in the first. I think perhaps it's that too many of the characters know about "The Tradition", when in the first it seemed rarer knowledge.

So - a fun, light read.

Originally Posted by lilac_jive

How was that? I was pretty disappointed with the second one.

[Dr. Drib]

You probably mean the "latest ebook purchased," and not the "last ebook purchased," as I'm still buying ebooks!

My LATEST purchase was "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao," by Junot Diaz, this year's current Pulitzer Prize for Best Novel.


Don

[pilotbob]

Originally Posted by Dr. Drib

You probably mean the "latest ebook purchased," and not the "last ebook purchased," as I'm still buying ebooks!

Don

I think last is just as correct. Last doesn't mean you can't purchase another one.

BOb

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by pilotbob

I think last is just as correct. Last doesn't mean you can't purchase another one.

BOb

I sit corrected on that one, although I like to think "least."

Here's something for my edification (and anyone else who might want to check):

# last(a): immediately past; "last Thursday"; "the last chapter we read"
# stopping point: the temporal end; the concluding time; "the stopping point of each round was signaled by a bell"; "the market was up at the finish"; "they were playing better at the close of the season"
# coming after all others in time or space or degree or being the only one remaining; "the last time I saw Paris"; "the last day of the month"; "had the last word"; "waited until the last minute"; "he raised his voice in a last supreme call"; "the last game of the season"; "down to his last nickel"
# the last or lowest in an ordering or series; "he was the last to leave"; "he finished an inglorious last"
# concluding: occurring at or forming an end or termination; "his concluding words came as a surprise"; "the final chapter"; "the last days of the dinosaurs"; "terminal leave"
# a person's dying act; the final thing a person can do; "he breathed his last"
# most unlikely or unsuitable; "the last person we would have suspected"; "the last man they would have chosen for the job"
# death: the time at which life ends; continuing until dead; "she stayed until his death"; "a struggle to the last"
# a unit of weight equal to 4,000 pounds
# final: conclusive in a process or progression; "the final answer"; "a last resort"; "the net result"
# a unit of capacity for grain equal to 80 bushels
# highest in extent or degree; "to the last measure of human endurance"; "whether they were accomplices in the last degree or a lesser one was...to be determined individually"
# persist for a specified period of time; "The bad weather lasted for three days"
# most_recently; "I saw him last in London"
# end: the concluding parts of an event or occurrence; "the end was exciting"; "I had to miss the last of the movie"
# final: not to be altered or undone; "the judge's decision is final"; "the arbiter will have the last say"
# survive: continue to live through hardship or adversity; "We went without water and food for 3 days"; "These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America"; "The race car driver lived through several very serious accidents"; "how long can a person last without food and water?"
# the item at the end; "last, I'll discuss family values"
# holding device shaped like a human foot that is used to fashion or repair shoes
# lowest in rank or importance; "last prize"; "in last place"


Don

[Fledchen]

Cycler by Lauren McLaughlin

[Dragoro]

Mighty Hammer Down by david guyton

its 99 cents right now.

[HistoryWes]

"Gods Behaving Badly" by Marie Phillips. I just started it today and am LOVING it. It is a very witty take on the Olympian gods living among us today. VERY well written.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by texasnightowl

Bought: Promises in Death by J.D. Robb last night...haven't read yet. It's like number 32 or so in the series.

It's actually higher numbered then 32 is you include the short stories of which there are 4.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by JAdams

The Stand - Stephen King
But I want to finish some of my 'little' books before I start this one.

Compared to The Stand they are all little books.