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Old 10-24-2009, 09:58 AM   #136
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No matter how hard I try, I can't stop re-reading the below books:

The Magus by John Fowles
The Collector by John Fowles
The World According to Garp by John Irving
She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb
Smart Women by Judy Blume
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Old 10-25-2009, 12:05 PM   #137
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As per my signature, I am pretty much constantly reading Bertrand Russell's "History of Western Philosophy".

I know it sounds a bit dry, but it's great, with real humour in it. Unfortunately, I have yet to find it as an e-book
Biblo1967 - I found a copy on the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/weste...osoph035502mbp
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Old 10-25-2009, 08:10 PM   #138
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Biblo1967 - I found a copy on the Internet Archive:
http://www.archive.org/details/weste...osoph035502mbp
Sounds great, but I wonder how many typos it has?

I just viewed the text file. The author's name is BBRTRAND RU8SBLL.
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Old 10-25-2009, 08:13 PM   #139
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Sounds great, but I wonder how many typos it has?

I just viewed the text file. The author's name is BBRTRAND RU8SBLL.
A lot of typos...a real lot [he says, only 3/4 of the way through letting OpenOffice spellcheck it, yet alone starting on the real spell-checking]
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Old 10-25-2009, 08:16 PM   #140
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A lot of typos...a real lot [he says, only 3/4 of the way through letting OpenOffice spellcheck it, yet alone starting on the real spell-checking]
I just looked at the PDF file. At least the author's name is correct. It may have fewer typos.
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Old 10-25-2009, 08:30 PM   #141
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I just looked at the PDF file. At least the author's name is correct. It may have fewer typos.
During my progress thus far, I think there are other...problems. Stamps, tears, possible page disorder (missing?)...so I'm wanting to get it into a text rather than image form, so that I can begin getting it into a workable and corrected form. This has probably already been done, and so the small, optimistic part of me is telling myself that it'll be a good learning exercise in ebook-creation.

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Old 10-26-2009, 10:50 PM   #142
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During my progress thus far, I think there are other...problems. Stamps, tears, possible page disorder (missing?)...so I'm wanting to get it into a text rather than image form, so that I can begin getting it into a workable and corrected form. This has probably already been done, and so the small, optimistic part of me is telling myself that it'll be a good learning exercise in ebook-creation.

Cheers,
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Can't help you out with the proof-reading. My son stored all my books in boxes one day in a cleaning frenzy. It may be years before I see my paper copy of Russell's History again!
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Can't help you out with the proof-reading. My son stored all my books in boxes one day in a cleaning frenzy. It may be years before I see my paper copy of Russell's History again!
'S okay. Through specific phrase searches at Google Books and other places I'm finding pretty much everything. I might end up buying the pbook anyway...it's the kind of thing I'd want sitting on the shelves.

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Old 10-27-2009, 10:57 AM   #144
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Huckleberry Finn

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Anything by Wodehouse
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Old 10-27-2009, 06:16 PM   #145
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I have always enjoyed the Belgariad and mallorean books by David Eddings which really sparked my Fantasy addiction. I read them about once every year
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Old 10-28-2009, 11:34 AM   #146
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For Boys own novels.. The Count of Monte Cristo or The Three Muskateers by A.Dumas

For Beauty.. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

For Humour..The Ascent of Rum Doodle by W.E.Bowman

For Sci Fi.. Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury

For Short Stories... Father Brown by G.K.Chesterton
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Old 10-29-2009, 08:21 AM   #147
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Pride and Prejudice...I first read it six years ago in Year 11 English class and completely fell in love, and now I read it all the way through at least twice a year. It's the first ebook that will be going on my ereader. I can find new levels and nuances every time I read it and I must be getting up to fifteen or sixteen reads by now.
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Old 10-29-2009, 09:57 AM   #148
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Reach For The Sky by Paul Brickhill (a biography of Douglas Bader). I've re-read this so many times my copy is literally disintegrating!

I can count the number of biographies I've read on the fingers of one hand and yet this is one book I keep coming back to.
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The Bethrothen, by Alessandro Manzoni. The first time I read it, at the age of 10, it was just an old love story... I reread it every now and then, the last time in a 1871 fine printed edition...

The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri. I definitely belong to Inferno...

Iliad, by Homer (the poem, not the ebook reader, I mean...)

The Odyssey, by Homer, where most of western literature comes from.

The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R.Tolkien (yes, I also read something outside of PD)

The funny thing is that I've never read one of them electronically...
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The Man who was Thursday by G K Chesterton
The Story of the Amulet by E Nesbit
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