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Great Kindle Book Deals

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I'm a ravenous consumer of books, a kindle-app iPad reader, and perpetual deal-seeker. In my constant trolling of Amazon for great books, I've come across fantastic deals for kindle app readers, many of which are the first books in great series. The prices are always subject to change, but I've read all these books and think they're well-worth the investment of time and money. The book covers are linked to Amazon, and every book on this list is very highly rated by many more readers than me. Enjoy! Under $6 $5.69 $5.69 $5.69 $5.69 Under $5 $4.99 $4.99 $5.00 Under $4 $3.99 $3.99 $3.99 $3.99 $3.99 Under $3 $2.99 $2.99 $2.99 Free

Review: Neverwhere

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It's no surprise to anyone who's ever read anything by Neil Gaiman that he's a master of words. Actually, he wields words like a sword or a feather, crafting a feeling about a thing that one never realized they should, could or might feel. "His skin felt clammy, and his eyes felt like they had been put in their sockets wrong, while his skull gave him the general impression that someone had removed it while he had slept and swapped it for another two or three sizes too small." And then there are the characters he... illuminates. Because reading his stories, one gets the feeling the characters actually exist - have always been there, just outside the average person's realm of "normal" - and it's only with Gaiman's introduction that we finally get to meet them. "The boy has the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys." That single sentence description introduces a very minor playe