Give Away Some Books!

[Chinahand]

This seems to be an interesting idea!

 

They've selected 25 books - the list includes The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Cloud Atlas, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Life of Pi, The Reluctant Fundamentalist and others!

 

The idea is for you to write in explaining why you like one of these books and then you may be choosen to give 48 copies of it away.

 

20,000 people will do this resulting in 960,000 books being donated!

 

With 20,000 people thats one volunteer for every 3,000 people - so if they did it in proportion to the population you'd get 20 or so people giving books away on the Island.

 

It would make a good school project, and is an interesting way to try to increase reading.

 

So which book would you like to hand out to friends, colleagues, and strangers in the street?

 

Here's the complete list:

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

A Life Like Other People’s by Alan Bennett

Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

Beloved by Toni Morrison

Case Histories by Kate Atkinson

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

Dissolution by C.J. Sansom

Fingersmith by Sarah Waters

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Killing Floor by Lee Child

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

New Selected Poems by Seamus Heaney

Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

One Day by David Nicholls

Rachel’s Holiday by Marian Keyes

Stuart by Alexander Masters

The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid

The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carré

The World’s Wife by Carol Ann Duffy

Toast by Nigel Slater

[Declan]

Rather ironic that a website dedicated to encouraging people to read is so badly written. It's a rare occasion that one turns to Chinahand for a concise summary.

[thebees]

I left a book in a pub in Camden a couple of weeks ago, I hated it. Classic my arse, Charlotte Bronte is a clown head waster. If I was giving a great read away it would be "Rebecca" by Daphne De Maurier it is a beautiful book, does all the stuff a book is supposed to, grips your attention with mystery in the first few paragraphs, paints a vivid mental image of the scene/setting/period/people, oh yes my favourite book by far.

[dennichristianthegreate]

Of course Google is going to give this to Apple for free if it appears on the iPhone. Do they make you pay for Google Maps? Do they make you pay for Google Street View?

 

Google makes it money from adverts on searches. Apple sets Google as the default search engine on its Macs and the iPhone allowing Google to make a lot of money off these devices. Google giving a bit back to Apple is only reasonable to be honest.