I am broke and have no car right now, so free books online will have to support my habit.

Any recommendations?

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1342

Thanks!

... books are formatted MUCH better than the wonderful gutenberg project (even kindle specific formats).

One of my favorites that is probably the first "Indiana Jones" type books ever written is "She" -- it is the book with the famous line: "She who must be obeyed".

I read it together with my wife and be both had a good laugh all the way though ... I must admit it even added a bit to our sexual repertoire a bit -- but I'll let you figure that out for yourself ;-)

weeder Wrote:
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> ... books are formatted MUCH better than the
> wonderful gutenberg project (even kindle specific
> formats).
>
> One of my favorites that is probably the first
> "Indiana Jones" type books ever written is "She"
> -- it is the book with the famous line: "She who
> must be obeyed".
>
> I read it together with my wife and be both had a
> good laugh all the way though ... I must admit it
> even added a bit to our sexual repertoire a bit --
> but I'll let you figure that out for yourself ;-)


I have read it and some of Haggard's other books. My mom bought books at auctions and flea markets so I was raised on literature from the Victorian period to the 1940s. Nothing like the Victorian tear jerker The Bird's Christmas Carol to get one thinking morbid thoughts--wonderful perfect little girl who brings joy to everyone and dies young--Very faith promoting if she had been a mormon! Another favorite was the Scarlet Pimpernel.

The mystery novelist Elizabeth Peters wrote The Last Camel Died at Noon as a tribute to Ridder Haggard. Her Amelia Peabody series are fun and educational, as they deal with egyptian archeology from the 1880s to the 1920s.

The Man Who was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton.

The Story of the Mormons, by Linn

Little Fuzzy by H Beam Piper
The Big Trip Up Yonder by Vonnegut

I second all of those, and add Alice in Wonderland and Alice through the Looking Glass -

But get them through the Kindle store.

They're free there.

Except Through the Looking Glass. Get that from Gutenberg.

I just downloaded an app that will let me view and read Amazon Kindle e-books on my computer, without a Kindle. It looks rather neat! I'm afraid I still like real books better, but this is a nice way to instantly get a book when you live in a town like mine, where there are no books to be found for fifty miles around! So I installed the Kindle for PC app on all three of my computers. I bought a couple books, and I've also found some free ones that look pretty good. My sweetie, darling that he is, told me he'd get me a Kindle for our anniversary next month if I wanted one, but I told him I wanted to wait and see and do some more research; I'm thinking I might not even need a Kindle if I can just use my netbook like one!

Is a Kindle the best? What about the other ones, like Nook and the Sony whatever?

Some Mistakes of Moses.

I prefer the Kindle store's versions of Tolstoy, Homer, Lewis Carroll, etc.

I did get a few at Gutenberg though. I think that's where I got Huck Finn, Dante's Comedy (both translations are good), Tale of a Tub by Swift, and a couple more.

As far as recommendations...what are you looking for?