Kindle Sale
Amazon is having a 99 cent - $2.99 sale on selected Kindle books. Here's a few that may be of particular interest:
Predators I Have Known
, by Alan Dean Foster. Yes, the Pip and Flinx guy. Based on the sample chapter, this is an awesomely and absurdly alliterative account of real-world predators he has known, as he happily traveled around the world to get a look at tigers, sharks, etc. I have a weakness for that sort of thing, and bought it. $1.99.
San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris's nonfiction book, Smart on Crime
. She has an interesting background - her family is Indian and Jamaican, and important politicians on the Indian side - and the sample chapter is well-written and thoughtful. Will probably be depressing, as she is in favor of prevention and the American system as a whole seems to have zero interest in that, but I got it anyway as she seems to have some ideas I haven't heard before. $2.99.
Grand Sophy
, by Georgette Heyer. For the love of God, skip the horrible anti-Semitic pawnbroker chapter. Otherwise, a really funny romantic comedy with great characterization. $1.99.
The Prince of Tides
, by Pat Conroy. I have an enormous, slightly guilty fondness for this lush, engrossing, often very funny, and utterly cracktastic Southern Gothic epic about a family whose eccentricity, dysfunctionality, and mental illness goes so far over the top that it reaches the stratosphere. The movie doesn't really do it justice. Contains some racist characters, rape, self-harm, and many other disturbing things. Also contains some really excellent food porn. $2.99. My main problem with it was that after the entire family is raped by an escaped convict, who is then eaten by a Bengal tiger, and then the remains not devoured by the tiger are buried and the mother forces the family to cover up the entire thing, there is really nothing that can top that, and so the lengthy sequence in which the older son holes up on an island and gets shot by the cops comes across as a tame and disappointing afterthought.
ETA: Those Who Hunt the Night
, by Barbara Hambly. Really excellent vampire novel for 99 cents... but comments say there are huge formatting problems. Caveat emptor. I'm mostly mentioning it to alert everyone that she wrote a third novel in the series, Blood Maidens
, which I did not know of till just now. Very exciting!
Crossposted to http://rachelmanija.dreamwidth.org/931735.html. Comment here or there.
Predators I Have Known
, by Alan Dean Foster. Yes, the Pip and Flinx guy. Based on the sample chapter, this is an awesomely and absurdly alliterative account of real-world predators he has known, as he happily traveled around the world to get a look at tigers, sharks, etc. I have a weakness for that sort of thing, and bought it. $1.99.
San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris's nonfiction book, Smart on Crime
. She has an interesting background - her family is Indian and Jamaican, and important politicians on the Indian side - and the sample chapter is well-written and thoughtful. Will probably be depressing, as she is in favor of prevention and the American system as a whole seems to have zero interest in that, but I got it anyway as she seems to have some ideas I haven't heard before. $2.99.
Grand Sophy
, by Georgette Heyer. For the love of God, skip the horrible anti-Semitic pawnbroker chapter. Otherwise, a really funny romantic comedy with great characterization. $1.99.
The Prince of Tides
, by Pat Conroy. I have an enormous, slightly guilty fondness for this lush, engrossing, often very funny, and utterly cracktastic Southern Gothic epic about a family whose eccentricity, dysfunctionality, and mental illness goes so far over the top that it reaches the stratosphere. The movie doesn't really do it justice. Contains some racist characters, rape, self-harm, and many other disturbing things. Also contains some really excellent food porn. $2.99. My main problem with it was that after the entire family is raped by an escaped convict, who is then eaten by a Bengal tiger, and then the remains not devoured by the tiger are buried and the mother forces the family to cover up the entire thing, there is really nothing that can top that, and so the lengthy sequence in which the older son holes up on an island and gets shot by the cops comes across as a tame and disappointing afterthought.
ETA: Those Who Hunt the Night
, by Barbara Hambly. Really excellent vampire novel for 99 cents... but comments say there are huge formatting problems. Caveat emptor. I'm mostly mentioning it to alert everyone that she wrote a third novel in the series, Blood Maidens
, which I did not know of till just now. Very exciting!
Crossposted to http://rachelmanija.dreamwidth.org/931735.html. Comment here or there.