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The Trilogy is completely self-contained. Beginning and end. The Heroes and Best Served Cold have characters from that trilogy, but the trilogy isn't required reading before. I would read the trilogy first though because it's amazing.

The inspiration for Stephen King's THE STAND and countless other post-apocalyptic stories, Earth Abides is the $1.99 Kindle Sci-Fi deal for today.

Smoove_B wrote:The inspiration for Stephen King's THE STAND and countless other post-apocalyptic stories, Earth Abides is the $1.99 Kindle Sci-Fi deal for today.

Thanks, friend.

Done bought.

Zaxxon wrote:Done bought.

Also.

For those that enjoyed the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams is the $1.99 deal of the day.

There is a long tradition of Great Detectives, and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time traveler, AND the devastating secret of humankind! Detective Gently's bill for saving the human race from extinction: NO CHARGE.

I don't know how you could have missed it if you're a fan of the Hitchhikers trilogy (all five books), but it's worth mentioning.

Sold.

Dear Smoove_B,

Please cease posting irresistable Kindle deals.

Sincerely,

Zaxxon's wallet

Not a daily deal, but they do have a bunch of DC graphic novels on sale for 50%+ off (now $5.99). I'd imagine if you are going to be trapped with family and away from your PC or laptop, these might make for some good distractions while you're trying to maintain your sanity.

There are some seriously good titles in there for $6.

Oh, for the love of...THAT'S HALF MY GRAPHIC NOVEL WISH LIST RIGHT THERE! And since they're on my wishlist, I can't buy any of them because someone else might have bought them for me. Goddamit.

Well, as a neutral 3rd party, you could provide me with the email addresses of everyone that knows about your wishlist and I'll contact them all to share the sale information?

But yeah, it's a ridiculous spread of graphic novels.

Or you could hit the 'spoil my surprise' button and verify which ones are still unpurchased.

Tempting, but I still haven't read past the first section of the Sandman volume I got a while back when I first got my iPad.

Will I cave in the next 9-10 hours? <suspense...>

Ahh..but things like the League of Extraordinary Gentleman Vol 1, The Watchmen and Killing Joke are all self-contained stories in a single graphic novel.

Smoove_B wrote:Not a daily deal, but they do have a bunch of DC graphic novels on sale for 50%+ off (now $5.99). I'd imagine if you are going to be trapped with family and away from your PC or laptop, these might make for some good distractions while you're trying to maintain your sanity.

There are some seriously good titles in there for $6.

You just cost me like $50, you bastard.

Smoove_B wrote:Ahh..but things like the League of Extraordinary Gentleman Vol 1, The Watchmen and Killing Joke are all self-contained stories in a single graphic novel.

I do have Watchmen in analog, so my virtual wallet is safe there. And I have read (and maybe even have) Killing Joke. But still, so many other tempting preshussess...

Picked up V for Vendetta. Considering the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but my backlog is probably too long for that.

Did you finish Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency yet? Because today for $1.99, you can get the follow up book, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.

I can only hope this means Salmon of a Doubt will also be on sale soon. It was put together after he died from notes he had left. While not a complete book about Dirk, it was a great read as well.

Also, apologies to your collective wallets.

Sold.

Nice, will grab it tonight.

Smoove_B wrote:Did you finish Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency yet? Because today for $1.99, you can get the follow up book, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.

I can only hope this means Salmon of a Doubt will also be on sale soon. It was put together after he died from notes he had left. While not a complete book about Dirk, it was a great read as well.

Also, apologies to your collective wallets.

I liked this one even better than the first (when I read them back in the day), FWIW.

Sorry I'm late -- one of today's deals is The Essential Calvin and Hobbes Treasury for $2.99 -- quite a deal.

Beginning with the day Hobbes sprang into Calvin's tuna fish trap, the first two Calvin and Hobbes collections, Calvin and Hobbes and Something Under The Bed Is Drooling, are brought together in this treasury. Including black-and-white dailies and color Sundays, The Essential Calvin and Hobbes also features an original full-color 16-page story.

NOTE:

Now available for the first time as an e-book!

The cartoons in this e-book have been specially formatted for optimal viewing. The e-book will only work on color tablets and is not intended for viewing on desktop apps or black and white tablets.

Thanks! Of course, this also led to my discovering that my beloved Bloom County is also available in the kindle store. My wallet hates you.

I fully admit I am not wallet-friendly.

Not set up for PC viewers, and me only having a phone means I'm out on C&H.

I suppose I could always just go read my Complete Box Set again...

There are a number of thrillers / mysteries on sale today, but one that we haven't see discounted before is NOS4A2 by Joe Hill. I really enjoyed Horns and to a lesser degree Heart Shaped Box (which is also on sale today for ($1.99), so it's back to abusing the wallet...

I just finished NOS4A2 in audiobook, and I really liked it. The funny part for me living in the NH/northern MA area that the book is set in was that the audiobook narrator obviously isn't from here. One of the characters grew up in a town named Haverhill. If you live here, you know that's pronounced "Hayver-ill", but she spends the whole time calling it "Haver-hill". It made me lol.

Reminds me of an episode of CSI where an actor calls the town of Tonopah, To-NO-pə instead of the TO-nə-pa, as it's pronounced in the area.

I was sad I missed the Calvin & Hobbes, then I looked over and saw the hardback on the shelf, so, yeah.

Smoove_B wrote:There are a number of thrillers / mysteries on sale today, but one that we haven't see discounted before is NOS4A2 by Joe Hill. I really enjoyed Horns and to a lesser degree Heart Shaped Box (which is also on sale today for ($1.99), so it's back to abusing the wallet...

Same here. I grabbed NOS4A2 after enjoying the other two titles, and it is waiting for whenever I am back in a horror-ish mood. He's a very engaging writer. His books and American Horror Story are making me rethink my "I'm not really into horror" stance.

The Golem and the Jinni is one of today's deals. I haven't read it yet, but it's gotten great buzz this year.

The Golem and the Jinni is one of today's deals. I haven't read it yet, but it's gotten great buzz this year.

I just finished it this weekend. Definitely worth picking up.

Whole bunch of books on sale today as part of "Books that inspired our passion for reading":

American Gods 10th Anniversary Edition by Neil Gaiman @ 1.99

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 25th Anniversary Edition by Robert Pirsig @ $1.99

Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson @$1.99

Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder @2.99

Bradbury Stories 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales by Ray Bradbury @$1.99

You wouldn't think it, but Sophie's World is a really good book, assuming you haven't received formal education in philosophy (I hadn't when I read it) as I would imagine this might be too simplistic. Or maybe not. There are more books in the promotion, but those are the ones that jumped out at me.

David Benioff's City of Thieves is a deal today. I haven't read it yet, but it's on my list after having heard many good things. (Benioff is one of the showrunners of HBO's Game of Thrones adaptation.)

Zaxxon wrote:David Benioff's City of Thieves is a deal today. I haven't read it yet, but it's on my list after having heard many good things. (Benioff is one of the showrunners of HBO's Game of Thrones adaptation.)

Thanks for the recommendation. I'm currently listening to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History Podcast Ghosts of the Ostfront, so this is very timely.

Another mystery/thriller sale with $1.99 books. Looks like most of them are various series - I'm not actually familiar with most of these authors but the reviews look promising.

gilraen wrote:Another mystery/thriller sale with $1.99 books. Looks like most of them are various series - I'm not actually familiar with most of these authors but the reviews look promising.

The cheapo reviews ALWAYS look promising. It usually takes a bit of fishing, and I'm suspicious when the number of reviews are below 100. I usually get a lot more out of the negative reviews and find it worth looking for well written 3 and lower star reviews to get an accurate picture.

Today they have Solaris for $0.99.

Saw that The Shining was just $1.99 courtesy of qt3

Qt3 has that kind of pull to get a discount? I'm impressed.