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I nominate Post Office by Charles Bukowski
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09-20-2017, 05:38 PM | #17 |
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Yes, it is a series. And yes, it is best to read in order. I have read some of the Kate Shugak books and yes, it is a series. To say it's not a series is just plain wrong.
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09-20-2017, 06:10 PM | #19 |
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Please read more carefully, Jon. I said that the Calvin Trillin books were not a series. Certainly the Kate Shugak books are. And yet, each one stands alone and can be read on its own. Certainly, Breakup can be.
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09-20-2017, 06:25 PM | #20 |
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The Trillin "Tummy Trilogy" isn't a series. The books are essays that can be read in any order. I think my much reread, tattered paperbacks are lurking here somewhere, but I did pick up the ebook Alice, Let's Eat at some point, too. Seconded. Aside from being hilarious, Trillin comes across as a thoroughly nice guy. If you don't "know" him, he's well worth meeting.
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Sorry for getting things incorrect. But one thing I stand on is that the Kate Shugak series is a series and it is a series to be read in order.
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Well, I had a dandy, but the Kindle edition was so obviously a bootleg copy (it's PD in Canada) that I gave up on it.
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Well, for those of us who live in Canada, what was the book? (And if it's on Kobo, and legit, we can certainly go with that and folks can convert. Assuming, of course, that it is selected.)
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I know Amazon bootlegs aren't my problem, but I don't like to see pirates profit from their larceny. We don't have a rule requiring an ebook edition, much less a US ebook edition (and have had a selection that didn't, one of my favorite choices in fact), but I figure it's not in the spirit of the club to nominate something that's legal in my home market only in pbook. Which doesn't mean a loyal Canadian couldn't nominate it! ETA: Legal in Life + 70 as well as Life + 50 Last edited by issybird; 09-22-2017 at 09:47 AM. |
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The FadedPages ePub for England, Their England is not good. There are a number of gaps that are not in the HTML. It's best to start with the HTML and work from there.
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I'm off to get myself a copy. I might just nominate it, especially since it's PD in the UK and EU as well as here. ETA: By looking the book up on the UK site, I was able to identify what appears to be a legitimate Kindle version sold by a UK publisher. It's $6.99, not $2.99, and I would, of course, choose the FadedPage version for my own reading, but if others agree that this is a legal copy, I'll nominate it. Last edited by CRussel; 09-22-2017 at 11:12 AM. Reason: Added non-bootleg version! |
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