Octopus Overlords

Smoove_B wrote:I find a $1.99 price point for eBooks irresistible, and having a gift card balance on Amazon works out quite nicely. I've purchased more books than games since January. Crazy talk.

Carpet_pissr wrote:Strike one!

Smoove_B wrote:I don't know if it's a promotion, but The Sword of Truth Book #2 (Stone of Tears) is $0.00 for Kindle. Or...at least for me.

Imagine being trapped aboard the doomed Titanic on an icy Atlantic. . . with the walking dead. This fast-paced thriller reimagines the historical events of the fateful Titanic voyage through the lens of zombie mayhem. Captain Edward Smith and his inner circle desperately try to contain a weaponized zombie virus smuggled on board with the 2,200 passengers sailing to New York. Faced with an exploding population of lumbering, flesh-hungry undead, Smith's team is forced into bloody hand-to-hand combat down the narrow halls of the huge steamer. In its few short days at sea, the majestic Titanic turns into a Victorian bloodbath, steaming at top speed toward a cold, blue iceberg. A creepy, tense page-turner, Deck Z will thrill zombie fans and Titanic buffs alike.

Zaxxon wrote:The whole Narnia set is on sale for Kindle today @ $1.99 ea. Any recommendations? I read the first book back in grade school but never the rest, and I don't know how they hold up for adults.

Zaxxon wrote:The whole Narnia set is on sale for Kindle today @ $1.99 ea. Any recommendations? I read the first book back in grade school but never the rest, and I don't know how they hold up for adults.

Isgrimnur wrote:Chronological order in the Universe is as follows:

6. The Magician's Nephew
1. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
5. The Horse and His Boy
2. Prince Caspian
3. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
4. The Silver Chair
7. The Last Battle

This is the story of mankind clawing for survival, of mankind on the edge. The world outside has grown unkind, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they profess to want: They are allowed outside.

El Guapo wrote: Also, the Da Vinci Code is free on Amazon right now:

http://www.amazon.com/The-Da-Vinci-Code ... ode+kindle" target="_blank

Kasey Chang wrote:FYI, to celebrate Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 40th anniversary, Amazon is selling the full 5 book bundle for $11.49 paperback hardcopy, or $12.99 Kindle edition.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/034545 ... adtmobs-20" target="_blank

Zarathud wrote:You should be able to find a copy for much less in a used bookstore -- maybe $5.

With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece, Neal Stephenson hacks into the secret histories of nations and the private obsessions of men, decrypting with dazzling virtuosity the forces that shaped this century.

In 1942, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse—mathematical genius and young Captain in the U.S. Navy—is assigned to detachment 2702. It is an outfit so secret that only a handful of people know it exists, and some of those people have names like Churchill and Roosevelt. The mission of Waterhouse and Detachment 2702—commanded by Marine Raider Bobby Shaftoe-is to keep the Nazis ignorant of the fact that Allied Intelligence has cracked the enemy's fabled Enigma code. It is a game, a cryptographic chess match between Waterhouse and his German counterpart, translated into action by the gung-ho Shaftoe and his forces.

Fast-forward to the present, where Waterhouse's crypto-hacker grandson, Randy, is attempting to create a "data haven" in Southeast Asia—a place where encrypted data can be stored and exchanged free of repression and scrutiny. As governments and multinationals attack the endeavor, Randy joins forces with Shaftoe's tough-as-nails granddaughter, Amy, to secretly salvage a sunken Nazi submarine that holds the key to keeping the dream of a data haven afloat. But soon their scheme brings to light a massive conspiracy with its roots in Detachment 2702 linked to an unbreakable Nazi code called Arethusa. And it will represent the path to unimaginable riches and a future of personal and digital liberty...or to universal totalitarianism reborn.

Carpet_pissr wrote:Long, yes, but any good?