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Old 05-26-2011, 03:08 PM   #16
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Wow. I'll never get around to reading most of those, but I feel I must have them.
Does anyone know if any of those renditions are nicer/cleaner/prettier than another?
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Wow. I'll never get around to reading most of those, but I feel I must have them.
Does anyone know if any of those renditions are nicer/cleaner/prettier than another?
I would bet a week's wages that if it's on Mobileread it's going to be nicer/cleaner/prettier than anywhere else
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Wow. I'll never get around to reading most of those, but I feel I must have them.
Does anyone know if any of those renditions are nicer/cleaner/prettier than another?
Go with mobi on MobileRead. These are done very nicely.

Bartleby is online only, while some of the Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg versions are scans.
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Old 05-26-2011, 03:55 PM   #20
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Ooooh, Pilgrim's Progress. Been wanting to read that one again, now that I'm All Growed Up.

Thanks for the link.

(CONTROVERSIAL OPINION TIME: I love Wells, but I can't stand Verne. I liked the abridged stuff as a child, but I recently just read Journey to the Center of the Earth unabridged and it was AWFUL. I am the only one who thinks so? I couldn't stand all the author asides about NO REALLY THIS IS TOTALLY SCIENTIFIC and I nearly choked when they packed 2 months worth of food and 2 days worth of water on the assumption that they'd "find more water". Now that I'm a grown-up, that stuff really stands out at me, I'm afraid.)
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(CONTROVERSIAL OPINION TIME: I love Wells, but I can't stand Verne. I liked the abridged stuff as a child, but I recently just read Journey to the Center of the Earth unabridged and it was AWFUL. I am the only one who thinks so? I couldn't stand all the author asides about NO REALLY THIS IS TOTALLY SCIENTIFIC and I nearly choked when they packed 2 months worth of food and 2 days worth of water on the assumption that they'd "find more water". Now that I'm a grown-up, that stuff really stands out at me, I'm afraid.)
...you just dissed my most favorite author of all-time

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Tempting, but I think I'll go with the free ebooks. Thanks again. I think these should give me a nice start. Perhaps I'll do an "every other book" type thing.

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I love Wells, but I can't stand Verne.
Probably not the best forum in which to admit this, but for both Wells and Verne stories, I prefer the movies...

With the possible exception of 'The Time Machine'...

...although 'Time After Time' was probably my favorite thing involving Wells and a time machine....
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The analects of Confucius
The Art of War

US P.D. in the original German - Ostwald Spengler, The Decline of the West (both volumes) but the English translation is not.

Not e-book and not PD - but highly recommended - The Rational Individual, John Davidson and Lord Rees-Moog

The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain.
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Oooh! TubeMonkey, I can't bear the site of that sad little guy. I feel awful now.

It's okay... there, there... Verne is okay... I was only fooling. Don't be sad...
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Oooh! TubeMonkey, I can't bear the site of that sad little guy. I feel awful now.
Yes, that is truly a sad and pathetic looking little monkey.
I'll have to use that on the cover of "I'm sorry" cards.
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Yes, that is truly a sad and pathetic looking little monkey.
I'll have to use that on the cover of "I'm sorry" cards.
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Oooh! TubeMonkey, I can't bear the site of that sad little guy. I feel awful now.

It's okay... there, there... Verne is okay... I was only fooling. Don't be sad...
Ever read the Monkey's Paw?

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