This weekend I did something I never thought I would do. I bought a Nook. Originally when they came out I was so upset that I boycotted them immediately. How could there ever be a replacement for the smell of a bookstore? The feeling of good paper or the thought of the history in a book that was published in the 1920s. Its irreplacable and those IT freaks making e-readers will never understand the joy and inherent history in books.
Then one night I was reading a 600 page book, holding my cell phone as a light, and trying to keep a blanket over everything so as not to wake up my husband. Then I realized the having something small and portable might work a little better than what I was currently working with...
So I went to Barnes & Noble, spoke to a very nice sales lady and walked out with a version 1 Nook.
I have to say I am completely in love. The experience is so close to the real thing that I actually tried to turn the page. For the first time in a long time I turned off the tv, and spent an entire day curled up with a blanket, pomegranate tea, and my new Nook. I downloaded "The Girl who Kicked the Hornets Nest" by Steig Larsson, some short stories by Neil Gaiman, the first book in the Hunger Games series and a few other public domain works. So does this mean I have dashed my dreams of one day owning a library that has a ladder and takes up an entire room of my house? Of course not! I still plan on taking my favorite trips to Recycled Books in Denton, buying copies of classics and reccomendations and curling up with a book and not the nook. Just like e-mail has not eliminated my trips to the usps, I do not see the Nook eliminating the need of books. I will always love them just the same.
I do have to mention, on a related topic, that the Millenium series by Steig Larsson is by far the most frustrating thing I have ever read
. Once you get past the gruesome acts, 15 paragraphs of explaining a minute situation as opposed to the sentence that explains an entire quarter of the book... The story has a lot of potential to be really amazing. I just hope the ending makes all the work worthwhile.
I have had two reccomendations for the hunger games so I am really looking forward to beginning that series.
Any reccomendations on what to read next? And no worries A Song of Ice and Fire is being taken care of with books on tape. :)
The two series you've mentioned are 2 of my favorites (the song of ice and fire and the hunger games) and you've probably already read my suggestions which would be anything by Christopher Moore, anything by Tom Robbins, especially Still Life with Woodpecker and Another Roadside Attraction. And I can't really think of anything else off the top of my head.
ReplyDeleteI've got Kindle for Android on my phone - although you only see one paragraph at a time, I read all of The Paris Wife and enjoyed the convenience without having to stuff a book in my purse all of the time! And while I'm still in my nomad mode, I'm not keen on collecting a bunch of books that I rarely ever read again.
ReplyDeleteLarsson sounds like Ayn Rand... and Tolkein.
Song of Ice and Fire - listen slowly because Martin promised the next book about 4 years ago... many readers have gone insane waiting for it...