Suggestions for my first Nook Book?

[NewJeffCT]

I got a Nook for Christmas and nothing has really inspired me to download it so far.

I normally go for Fantasy/Sci-Fi books.

I read a few free samples so far, and felt they were "meh" from the samples.
The free samples were:
"Day by Day Armageddon" by JL Bourne (got turned off when the main character said he only watched Fox News and one other channel)
"A Shadow in Summer" by Daniel Abraham (first book of the Long Price Quartet series)
"The Way of Kings" by Brandon Sanderson

I read the hard copy of "Plague of the Dead" a month ago and was thinking of the sequel, but the author died at 26 years old and never finished the third book, so I'm not sure I want to read a book series that does not have a conclusion.

I was hoping George R.R. Martin's "Dunk & Egg" series was available, but apparently not. (it's a prequel to A Song of Ice & Fire)

Any ideas?

Thanks

[taterguy]

1. Operation Drumbeat

First title I noticed when I glanced at my bookshelf.

Guess it's fate and it was meant to be.

[TuxedoKat]

2. Well...

I don't know that much current Fantasy/Sci-Fi, although I like that genre. The Game of Thrones is supposed to be a good series. I have a paperback of it and my niece was greatly enjoying it recently. Anyway, If you type in 0.00 in the search function while in the shop mode on your Nook, you will get the list of all the free books. You can even ask for free Sci/Fi Fantasy books. Also, if you like Nook on Facebook, every Friday is "Free Fridays" and there will be a new book announced that you can download for free. It's good to like Nook on FB because they announce Nook Books on sale occassionally too, for $2.99 or so. Cinder was a Sci Fi book Nook was recently promoting on FB that looked interesting to me, looks like a series too.

[NewJeffCT]

3. Good suggestions

I've read all the books that followed Game of Thrones so far (other than the prequel "Dunk & Egg" series)

[wyldwolf]

4. 11/22/63 Stephen King

Close to 700 pages, I blew through it in 4 days. Couldn't put it down!

[hobbit709]

5. Here's some free books you can download

Baen Books
http://www.baen.com/library/books.asp

and Project Gutenberg
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Science_Fiction_(Bookshelf)

[Sabriel]

6. The Caretaker of Lorne Field

It's quick, but more importantly, it's a fun read. Not sure it's worth $18.99, though. Ouch.

[Rob H.]

7. 'Storm Front,' Book 1 of the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher

It's like Harry Potter meets Sam Spade--Harry Dresden is a wizard working as a consultant to the Chicago PD. There are 13 books so far (with at least 7 more planned) and they just keep getting better and better.

[NewJeffCT]

8. thanks

sounds interesting.

[kaitcat]

9. Dean Baker's End of Loser Liberalism

Free download here.

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/publications/books/the-end-of-loser-liberalism

[pokerfan]

10. Rule 34 by Charles Stross

Liz is an Edinburgh police detective on the "Rule 34" squad; she works with a loose network of European cops to track down weird Internet memes before people start trying to imitate them in real life. It's a quirky, dead-end kind of job -- but then, Liz's policing career is both quirky and headed for a dead-end.

Until, that is, someone starts murdering spammers. All around the world, spammers begin to drop in the most disgusting, rococo ways; one died after having a murderous cocktail of badly-interacting drugs (including Viagra) slipped into his recreational enema machine, itself a Soviet relic once owned by Nicolae Ceausescu. The rest go in even less pleasant ways.

http://boingboing.net/2011/07/06/strosss-rule-34-perv.html

Halting State series:
* Halting State (2007)
* Rule 34 (2011)
* The Lambda Functionary (working title- planned for 2014)

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