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Poor Things by Alisdair Gray is $2.99 at Amazon US and Kobo US.
It won the Whitbread Award and the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1992. Now a major motion picture!, as they say. https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/poor-things-3 https://www.amazon.com/Poor-Things-N.../dp/B0CJ9SBY4V |
12-18-2023, 07:53 AM | #1382 | |
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A brilliant writer of literary fiction. His masterpiece is Lanark. Highly recommended for readers who like to be challenged with sophisticated and mature prose. As William Boyd states in the Introduction to Lanark: "...its immense freight of reputation is impossible to ignore." Last edited by Dr. Drib; 12-18-2023 at 07:58 AM. |
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01-01-2024, 11:20 AM | #1383 |
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Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang (= R. F. Kuang) is £0.99 at Amazon UK and Kobo UK.
In the past couple of weeks this book has gone from £7.99 to £4.99 and now to £0.99. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Yellowface-...dp/B0B4BTBKB7/ https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/yellowface-1 |
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Re: Alasdair Gray (I just noticed that I spelled his first name wrong in my post above about Poor Things).
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https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/lanark-1 https://www.amazon.com/Lanark-Life-F...dp/B002VM7FWQ/ |
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01-16-2024, 11:47 AM | #1386 | |
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Still Life with Woodpecker by Tom Robbins is $2 at Amazon, B&N and Kobo US.
Highly recommended. I read it thirty years ago and still think about it. Time for a reread I guess. Quote:
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The Free Friday selection from Barnes & Noble is Landing by Moonlight by Ciji Ware. Looks interesting. WWII historical fiction inspired by true stories.
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East of Eden by John Steinbeck - $.99
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CKBGTG65 Great book, dirt cheap. |
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https://www.demarque.com/en But I admit that them having the rights to Steinbeck seems odd. |
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01-25-2024, 11:06 AM | #1393 | |
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As to why they are selling the book in the US though? Maybe they didn't think to filter out the books still in copyright in other countries. |
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Just travel to Canada, China, Hong Kong, Pakistan, New Zealand, or Japan and buy the Delphi Classic edition for $3.99 |
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I'm not an advocate for "traveling"; however, that said, if you're going to travel, why wouldn't someone travel to Faded Page and get it for free? That's no more gray than the paid alternatives. In any case, De Marque is not entitled to make money from selling Steinbeck through a US vendor and I'd never buy from them, even if getting it from Amazon puts a gloss of legitimacy on it.
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