Dan on Free Book for Kindle with a Tagline That Screamed DOWNLOAD ME!
I am a huge fan of my Kindle App. So much so I am wanting to buy a Kindle for myself. I check all the time to see what free books they have offered. Lately there are a great many debut novels in series fiction which I love. This week is a sci/fi book called. “Weapons of Coice (Axis of Time Book 1) by John Birmingham”
The first snippet from the synopsis had me laughing aloud and I clicked “send to my ipod” really fast. Seriously… tell me this does not make you laugh.
”... a United Nations battle group, clustered around the U.S.S. Hillary Clinton (named after “the most uncompromising wartime president in the history of the United States”), is tasked in the year 2021 with stopping ethnic cleansing by an Islamist regime in Indonesia.”
11 Responses so far
May 29th, 2009
8:32 pm
OK – I give up. What exactly is a Kindle App?
May 30th, 2009
8:14 am
Amazon makes an E-Reader called Kindle. They also produced an ipod touch/iphone application. I have the app on my touch and i LOVE IT.
May 30th, 2009
8:39 am
My husband adores his Kindle. I have been thinking of getting one, too.
May 30th, 2009
9:13 am
Ma’am, all men adore their “Kindle.”
How appropriate, my Captcha says, “to plug.”
May 30th, 2009
9:30 am
Love my kindle. Don’t leave home without it!!!!!
June 2nd, 2009
4:05 am
Making people smile, and sometimes snort their cereal milk out through their noses, that’s what I’m all about.
June 3rd, 2009
6:02 pm
That author should probably stop putting the psilocybin on the mushroom salad. The USS Hillary Clinton? That’s beyond Azimov or Zelazny.
June 6th, 2009
2:21 pm
That series (3 books, I don’t think more are planned) is pretty cool. It has that 21st century task force transported back in time to the Battle of Midway and get all caught up in WWII. It explicitly mentions “President Clinton” being in office by 2009 but that she was killed at some point (it also mentions a black female Vice President at some point between now and 2021, presumably Condi). Fun action, even if the ‘future history’ is already obsolete; plus, it kinda paints all the 21st century folks as being cynical, unstoppable killing machines and all the Greatest Generation folks as being knuckle-dragging racist misogynists.
June 6th, 2009
8:56 pm
It is in my kindle i will get to it. I like that sort of book anyway, i just found the USS Hillary Clinton funny :)
June 7th, 2009
2:31 pm
Downloaded to my kindle and being read now. So far not so bad. Like the idea of the USS Hillary Clinton, no one ever doubted her toughness!! just ask Bill.
Love my kindle!!!!
January 26th, 2010
5:32 am
I love this book!
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