What Are You Reading?

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kingricefan

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Finishing up Gaiman's Trigger Warning, then I'm at a loss. Maybe one of the McCammons I haven't hit yet? I started something on my kindle (I completely forget about it most of the time--lol) at the pool today, but... meh.

That reminds me: is there a way to remove books from a kindle?

On my Kindle, you can hold your finger on the book "cover" and a toolbar will come up with several options. Click "Remove", then "From device."
I have the Kindle Fire.
So what happens to those books that get removed? Do they go to the Kindle used bookstore? :lol:
 

danie

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I don't, but I have keys that might work the same way :)
Here's how:
Delete books from Kindle
(Tips: The model with a 5-way controller and 4 buttons at the bottom)
To free up space on your Kindle, you can archive items by selecting the item’s name on the Home screen and pressing the Left Arrow on the 5-way controller. Select remove from device, and press the center of the 5-way controller.
 

muskrat

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This Melmoth The Wanderer (1820) is a rousing, blood-n-thunder dark gothic hoot, and I'm diggin thoroughly. Pretty complex--multiple POV tales, crumbling manuscripts--madhouses, shipwrecks; shadowy Melmoth himself, always showing up when those suffering are at their weakest, more inclined to temptation; flashes of lightning and claustrophobic dread...and I'm still on part one! Reminds me of Dracula, in terms of mood and style. Good stuff so far.
 

The Nameless

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Happy to say I appear to be over a recent readers block, I was struggling to find motivation to read salems lot, then I came across the little "day in the life" vignettes about the lots town folk - I really don't like that style, it took me about 6 - 8 weeks to get to about page 80. But in the last 2 or 3 days I have gotten into it and read the next 50 pages.
 

fljoe0

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It was all right. He's been one of my favorites for years, but the books since The Fourth Hand have been hit or miss. Until I Find You was abysmal, but the last two have been a better. Still not as good as pre-The Fourth Hand, but better.

I'm getting close to the end of In One Person and I like it. It's not one of my favorite Irving novels but it's good (and graphic ;-D). I had no idea what it was about before I started it and it turned out reading this now was good timing to go along with many of the events of the past few weeks. There are some stretches of this book that are kind of dull, however and slowed me down a bit.
 

EMARX

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But don't you have books that you've bought but haven't read yet? I have 100s of real books and about 20 books I've downloaded that I haven't read yet!!!!
Between my shelves and e-reader, there are hundreds of possibilities from which to choose. In the past I would know ahead of time what was next, but now my choices are determined by a more organic approach, almost as if the books are choosing me. If that makes any sense.
 

AchtungBaby

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Happy to say I appear to be over a recent readers block, I was struggling to find motivation to read salems lot, then I came across the little "day in the life" vignettes about the lots town folk - I really don't like that style, it took me about 6 - 8 weeks to get to about page 80. But in the last 2 or 3 days I have gotten into it and read the next 50 pages.
I'm in a reader's block now. It sucks.
 

ghost19

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Finished a pretty predictable crime novel called The One That Got Away.
Had rewatched the movie No Country for Old Men, and read the book this weekend. The book was kind of dry, like reading the movie script really... Here's one case where I liked the movie much better than the book.
Am now reading The Misremembered Man...the Irish dialogue and phrasing are great!

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I've always thought Cormac McCarthy's writing style was a bit weird. It's not bad, not by any means, but it's just...I don't know, different? He doesn't waste a lot of time with any type of prose or descriptive type narrative. "The Road" was one of the bleakest novels I've ever read, probably my favorite of his.
 

carrie's younger brother

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I just finished Michael McDowell's Cold Moon Over Babylon which was good (It's easy to tell this was an early book of his), but not nearly as good as the Blackwater series, The Elementals or Katie (my favorite of his so far). I just downloaded Gilded Needles last night (which finally became available for Kindle recently) and I'm very much looking forward to it. It takes place in 1880s NYC and if his description and attention to detail is anything like it was in Katie (which took place roughly around the same time in NYC) this should be a treat!
 

kingricefan

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I just finished Michael McDowell's Cold Moon Over Babylon which was good (It's easy to tell this was an early book of his), but not nearly as good as the Blackwater series, The Elementals or Katie (my favorite of his so far). I just downloaded Gilded Needles last night (which finally became available for Kindle recently) and I'm very much looking forward to it. It takes place in 1880s NYC and if his description and attention to detail is anything like it was in Katie (which took place roughly around the same time in NYC) this should be a treat!
I still have that list of his non-de-plumes, just sayin'........;-D
 
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