But.
I've had a bit of a blank with my reading recently. I've started a few books, but couldn't be bothered to get into them. Let alone finish them. I don't know what it was about the books. Nothing really, probably just my mood. I have to be in the mood for a certain book before I can get into it.
That's until I found out about the Tor/Forge Books Website and a promotion they've got at the moment. sign up for their News letter and they'll send you Free E-books. I've finished the first one, Old Man's War by John Scalzi and what a cracking read it was. A sort of cross between Heinlein's 'Starship Troopers' (You might have watched the film) and Joe Haldeman's 'The Forever War'. Both books I like. So I enjoyed 'Old Man's War'
The Next freebie was 'Spin' by Robert Charles Wilson which I'm also enjoying and have nearly finished.
The third freebie has arrived, I can't remember the name, but I'll load it onto my phone in a bit for when I finish 'Spin'.
Obviously 'There aint' no such thing as a free lunch' (TANSTAAFL) 'Old Man's War' is part of a trilogy, it works as a book in it's own right though. At the end of 'Spin' they give you a taste of the second book. Just to get you hooked good and proper. So it looks like I'll be keeping an eye out for the second and third parts of the Trilogy.
The freebie have also put John Scalzi's and Robert Charles Wilson's names in my head. If I see a book by them I'm more likely to check them out in the future, rather than wondering if they're any good as an author and is it worth throwing some money at them. I might even pop into a book shop and ask for them by name.
The best thing, about the books Tor are giving away is that they're not DRM'd. This means I can use them like a 'real' copy of the book. The other week when I went for a curry I was waxing lyrical about this great E-book I was reading and my pal asked me to beam it across to him to see if he'd like it as well. This is just like the 'olden days'
"Hey I've read this great book, do you want to borrow it?"
Only now I beam the file over. This is exactly how I found out which authors I enjoyed and bought more of their books.
