Category: Kindle Books
Joseph Conrad, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #16
Joseph Conrad is famous not only for his works adapted into well-known films such as Apocalypse Now and Sabotage; he also stands out as he was a Polish-born novelist who…
Arthur Conan Doyle, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #15
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL was a British author born to an English father of Irish descent and an Irish mother. Though having chosen the profession of a physician…
Haruki Murakami, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #14
Haruki Murakami began his writing career much later than most authors; he finished his first novel when he was 29. Since then, as if to catch up, he has proved…
Kindle DX starts shipping today.
Today Amazon starts shipping Kindle DX eBook readers. As of now the reader is still in stock and the if you order it within the next hour, Amazon promises that…
George Orwell, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #12
George Orwell is a pen name of English author Eric Arthur Blair; he is most known for his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four and the concepts like “thought police” and “doublethink” derived…
Aldous Huxley, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #11
Aldous Huxley’s books are often received with mixed emotions or even controversy. In 2006 Time magazine excluded Brave New World, Point Counter Point and Island from Best 100 novels list, which…
The Lord Of The Rings, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion by J.R.R.Tolkien!
When I last checked Kindle Store none of the J.R.R.Tolkien books were there. There were some books about Tolkien himself and his writings but that was that. Oh, well I…
Douglas Adams, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #10
Douglas Noel Adams is best known for the science fiction comedy Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Originally radio broadcast series, they later inspired “a trilogy in five parts” as well…
Herbert George Wells, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #9
Herbert George Wells, better known as H.G.Wells, is by right referred as “The Father of Science Fiction”, as he has greatly influenced much literature after him, especially popularizing such conceptions…
Frank Herbert, Good Kindle Books at a Glance #8
Frank Herbert, the author of epic Dune, influenced science fiction no less than the “Big Three” (Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein and Arthur Clarke), mentioned in the previous posts. Most notable…