[RBW] Novels???

2015-09-16 Thread mike gasparino
Hi folks, Anyone have any good short novels they'd like to recommend? Thanks! Michael -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to

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2015-09-16 Thread Allingham II, Thomas J
] On Behalf Of mike gasparino Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2015 11:52 PM To: RBW Owners Bunch Subject: [RBW] Novels??? Hi folks, Anyone have any good short novels they'd like to recommend? Thanks! Michael -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch&q

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2015-09-16 Thread mike gasparino
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2015-09-16 Thread Patrick Moore
Kindle has dozens if not hundreds of free or sub $3 books in the public domain. Do you like Kipling? "Can't say; I've never kipled." But no more of that. You can get Rudyard on Kindle; Kim is good. I just downloaded Plutarch and Tennyson, and I've got all of Willa Cather and Chesterton. Not free

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2015-09-16 Thread Patrick Moore
Oh, and for Walter Mitty-type male fantasy small size compensation purposes, nothing at all, I say *nuthin *at all beats the endlessly serialized Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. The niche is semi-demi-hemi-literate escapist-brutal-doogooder-kill-all-the-bad-guys in horrible ways fantasy. The

[RBW] Novels???

2015-09-16 Thread islaysteve
For short, try "Veronica" by Nicholas Christopher. If you like it, try his "A Trip to the Stars". One of my all time Favorites is "Wonder Boys" by Michael Chabon, then anything else by him. Have been reading aloud a lot with my wife; all these are books that we have read recently. We

Re: [RBW] Novels???

2015-09-16 Thread Steve Palincsar
On 09/16/2015 11:51 AM, Patrick Moore wrote: Kindle has dozens if not hundreds of free or sub $3 books in the public domain. Do you like Kipling? I'm puzzled: why would you pay three bucks for a free book in the public domain, when you could get it free? -- You received this message

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2015-09-16 Thread Steve Palincsar
On 09/16/2015 07:57 PM, Deacon Patrick wrote: Steve, it's the difference between playing tennis in a wild, lumpy, unmarked meadow with occasional fire ant hills and on a beautiful grass court with net and court markings. Or in bike parlance between a fee set of rusty, wobbly dinged wheels

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2015-09-16 Thread Steve Palincsar
I have no clue. What's not to like about Project Gutenberg? On 09/16/2015 07:47 PM, Patrick Moore wrote: You figure it out. I'll give you three guesses. On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Steve Palincsar > wrote: On 09/16/2015 11:51 AM, Patrick

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2015-09-16 Thread Patrick Moore
You figure it out. I'll give you three guesses. On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Steve Palincsar wrote: > > On 09/16/2015 11:51 AM, Patrick Moore wrote: > >> Kindle has dozens if not hundreds of free or sub $3 books in the public >> domain. Do you like Kipling? >> > > I'm

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2015-09-16 Thread Aaron Young
Keeping this Riv-centric (books I bought from Riv) I liked *The All of It* because the the story is great and the writing enjoyable, but I stopped reading *Bel Canto* because it was just so dull; just didn't like the writing style or the characters. Also, I really liked *The Song of Hiawatha.*

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2015-09-16 Thread Deacon Patrick
Steve, it's the difference between playing tennis in a wild, lumpy, unmarked meadow with occasional fire ant hills and on a beautiful grass court with net and court markings. Or in bike parlance between a fee set of rusty, wobbly dinged wheels and a new set of Rich wheels. Does that aid your