Why is such a pain in the ass to find ebooks online? Is there no free ebook edition of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich? Why is it not on Project Gutenberg? Why are there so many fucking parasites on google trying to collect my email in return for some shady download of something that use ebooks in their name?

MtlGuitarist97

United States1539 Posts

April 08 2014 23:40 GMT

#403

On April 09 2014 08:36 IgnE wrote:
Why is such a pain in the ass to find ebooks online? Is there no free ebook edition of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich? Why is it not on Project Gutenberg? Why are there so many fucking parasites on google trying to collect my email in return for some shady download of something that use ebooks in their name?

Acquire a Kindle, bypass shady scams, profit

Or I'm sure you at least have a device that can use the Kindle app. It's actually really good in comparison to most other ebook sources.

IgnE

United States7681 Posts

April 08 2014 23:52 GMT

#404

How does that help me with actually obtaining the free ebooks?

MtlGuitarist97

United States1539 Posts

April 09 2014 00:17 GMT

#405

On April 09 2014 08:52 IgnE wrote:
How does that help me with actually obtaining the free ebooks?

They have a lot of free ebooks on the Kindle, but usually it's only classics D:

IgnE

United States7681 Posts

April 09 2014 00:21 GMT

#406

Solzhenitsyn isn't a classic??

dmnum

Brazil6910 Posts

April 09 2014 00:25 GMT

#407

On April 09 2014 08:36 IgnE wrote:
Why is such a pain in the ass to find ebooks online?

It's not. Look at your private messages.

Edit: Also gutenberg is only going to give you books on which the patent has expired, and it's not the case of Ivan Denisovich.

Edit 2: Thanks for the reply below, I wasn't familiar with the differences between patent and copyright.

IgnE

United States7681 Posts

April 09 2014 00:33 GMT

#408

bookwyrm

United States722 Posts

April 09 2014 00:48 GMT

#409

Remember that _One Day_ wasn't published until 1962, any English translations would obviously be later and not in the public domain.

MtlGuitarist97

United States1539 Posts

April 09 2014 00:53 GMT

#410

On April 09 2014 09:21 IgnE wrote:
Solzhenitsyn isn't a classic??

By classics I meant books that the author has been dead for at least a hundred+ years (for instance you can get Frankenstein and The Republic for free).

ThomasjServo

15244 Posts

April 09 2014 02:06 GMT

#411

On April 09 2014 09:53 MtlGuitarist97 wrote:

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By classics I meant books that the author has been dead for at least a hundred+ years (for instance you can get Frankenstein and The Republic for free).

Public domain is what you mean.

Surth

Germany456 Posts

April 10 2014 14:35 GMT

#412

Friedrich Nietzsche: Morgenröte (The Dawn) and Die Fröhliche Wissenschaft (The Gay Science)
Gilles Deleuze: Cinema 2 - Time-Image
Hans Albert: Traktat über Kritische Vernunft (Treatise on Critical Reason)

+ David Reynolds: America: Empire of Liberty.

lungic

Sweden123 Posts

April 10 2014 18:28 GMT

#413

Just finished "Excession" by Iain M Banks.

I really like his style of writing Sci-Fi and this was one of the better one he's written, even though one of the subplots were a bit so so good.

Anyone ever read any of his non Sci-Fi books?

xarchaosx

United States89 Posts

April 12 2014 20:01 GMT

#414

On April 10 2014 23:35 Surth wrote:
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What did you think of the Deleuze? I read that earlier this year but haven't ever really stumbled upon anyone else that has read Cinema 2 prior to seeing this.

pedrlz

Brazil5234 Posts

April 12 2014 22:20 GMT

#415

Trying reading As I Lay Dying from Faulker in English, can't understand shit. I think it is the first book that I dropped because I couldn't read a sentence without understanding it properly (I mean, LITERALLY). The others Faulkner's work are easier to read?

farvacola

United States18843 Posts

April 12 2014 22:36 GMT

#416

I'm sad to read that; As I Lay Dying is one of my favorite novels. Can't say I'm surprised however; Faulkner's claim to fame is his attempt at matching difficult to describe situations/perspectives with language that does its best to "get at the truth of things", which basically leads to a fair amount of prose that teeters dangerously close towards gibberish. I'm going to go out on a limb here and recommend that you avoid Faulkner until you feel extremely comfortable with your grasp of complex English, both written and spoken. You could give his most famous work, The Sound and the Fury, a try, but considering that a major part of the book deals with the mind of a mentally handicapped man, I wouldn't get your hopes up.

corumjhaelen

France6884 Posts

April 12 2014 23:00 GMT

#417

I bought One hundred years of solitude and read the first chapter to get a bit of relief from my long books, but my gf borrowed it to me

The beginning was really excellent.

{CC}StealthBlue

United States41117 Posts

April 13 2014 00:01 GMT

#418

123Gurke

France154 Posts

April 13 2014 09:59 GMT

#419

On April 13 2014 08:00 corumjhaelen wrote:
I bought One hundred years of solitude and read the first chapter to get a bit of relief from my long books, but my gf borrowed it to me

The beginning was really excellent.

Well, it is not only the beginning that is excellen

bookwyrm

United States722 Posts

April 13 2014 19:34 GMT

#420

On April 13 2014 08:00 corumjhaelen wrote:
I bought One hundred years of solitude and read the first chapter to get a bit of relief from my long books, but my gf borrowed it to me

The beginning was really excellent.

Tell her to give it back or else you will leave her in solitude for... one hundred years!!!

I started reading this. Pretty good so far.

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