This book is up for grabs if anyone is interested.

Some of the characters you will love; some you will absolutely hate, but you will get a great feel for the era. Mr. Follett states in the introduction that he had done a lot of research for this book and it shows. His knowledge of cathedral construction is phenomenal. If you are looking for a good read for a winter day, The Pillars of the Earth is a good choice.

Sorry, I will not be giving this book away, it is going back on my shelf to wait for a 3rd read at some point in the future!

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This will also allow you to convert any books you bought to be converted to new readers that you may decide to switch to.

I still look at the readers. Recently, Amazon introduced the Kindle reader. This has wireless capability to download books (after purchase of course). So it also falls short of my needs. If you want to get free ebooks for your computer, pda or ipod there are many choices.

• Manybooks.net - There are 19,282 eBooks available in all types of genres
• Memoware.com - Some are free but seem to be from project Guttenburg , mostly a front for their store.
• Fictionwise.com - This is how ebook stores should be. If you want to buy it is the place to go, but there are also some free books available.

From Publishers Weekly
Hosseini’s stunning debut novel starts as an eloquent Afghan version of the American immigrant experience in the late 20th century, but betrayal and redemption come to the forefront when the narrator, a writer, returns to his ravaged homeland to rescue the son of his childhood friend after the boy’s parents are shot during the Taliban takeover in the mid ’90s. Amir, the son of a well-to-do Kabul merchant, is the first-person narrator, who marries, moves to California and becomes a successful novelist. But he remains haunted by a childhood incident in which he betrayed the trust of his best friend, a Hazara boy named Hassan, who receives a brutal beating from some local bullies. After establishing himself in America, Amir learns that the Taliban have murdered Hassan and his wife, raising questions about the fate of his son, Sohrab. Spurred on by childhood guilt, Amir makes the difficult journey to Kabul, only to learn the boy has been enslaved by a former childhood bully who has become a prominent Taliban official. The price Amir must pay to recover the boy is just one of several brilliant, startling plot twists that make this book memorable both as a political chronicle and a deeply personal tale about how childhood choices affect our adult lives. The character studies alone would make this a noteworthy debut, from the portrait of the sensitive, insecure Amir to the multilayered development of his father, Baba, whose sacrifices and scandalous behavior are fully revealed only when Amir returns to Afghanistan and learns the true nature of his relationship to Hassan. Add an incisive, perceptive examination of recent Afghan history and its ramifications in both America and the Middle East, and the result is a complete work of literature that succeeds in exploring the culture of a previously obscure nation that has become a pivot point in the global politics of the new millennium.

Khaled Hosseini’s website can be found at http://www.khaledhosseini.com/

I am finished with this book and would like to pass it along.

The New York Times Book Review, Paula Friedman
Set in mid-19th-century California, Cecelia Holland’s 23rd historical novel winds in and around the Southern Pacific Railroad’s plan to use Los Angeles as its southern terminus. Holland’s renditions of the desolately beautiful landscapes of the region, with its dusty frontier towns and vast stretches of dry wilderness, bring a sharply haunting physicality to her story. But while the railroad’s schemes may be integral to the novel’s plot, they are upstaged by the relationships that develop among a small band of outlaws whose members are hoping to make their own profit from the conquest of the West.

I am done with this book and will send it to the first person who registers and posts a reply to this posting. See the About page for more details. If this book has been given away, you can always buy a copy at Amazon.