Reddit mentions: The best sports fiction books
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1. The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Novel
- Columbia University Press
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Release date | March 2009 |
2. Once a Runner: A Novel
- Scribner Book Company
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Release date | April 2010 |
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3. The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
- Quantity: 200 Top loaders
- Keeps cards clean
- 3" X 4"
- Prevents damage
- Card size: 2-1/2 x 3-1/2
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Release date | May 1971 |
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4. Donnybrook
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Release date | March 2013 |
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5. Sports Illustrated: The Basketball Book
- Used Book in Good Condition
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Release date | October 2007 |
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6. The Art of Fielding: A Novel
Back Bay Books
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Release date | May 2012 |
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7. The Art of Fielding: A Novel
- Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding, hardcover
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Release date | September 2011 |
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8. Missing Links
- TITAN
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Release date | May 1997 |
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9. Damned Utd, The
- FABER FABER
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10. A Change In Tide (Northern Lights Book 1)
- The tactical shirt is a classic design which is widely used for soldiers training and outdoor activity. It is a great shirt for airsoft, paintball and hunting, keep you pretty comfortable all day long and durable for heavy duty work.
- Material: 65% polyester +35% Cotton; Sleeve & Shoulder made of Rip-stop fabric, Body is made of elastic cotton. Every shirt gets one USA flag patch for free. If you want to be looser fit, please go one size up.
- 1/4 front zip; Two arm pockets; Large patch on both arm for individuality patches; Long sleeve with Hook & loop adjustable cuffs; Two pockets for reinforced protected elbows pads
- Raglan cut sleeves for improved range of motion; Abrasion resistant forearms; Breathable and lightweight, Anti-static and soft; Stay comfortable under your tactical vest or plate carrier
- Good for spring, summer, autumn and winter. Great for outdoor sport, hunting, fishing, hiking, climbing, camping, travelling, cycling, paintball, airsoft shooting, army training and casual wear
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Release date | May 2017 |
11. Slum Online (Slum Online (Novel-Paperback))
- Stops bleeding fast
- Ideal for razor nicks & minor cuts
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Release date | April 2010 |
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13. Bang the Drum Slowly
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14. The Yellow Jersey
- Used Book in Good Condition
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15. Deal Breaker (Myron Bolitar)
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Release date | July 2006 |
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16. Rough & Tumble: A Novel
- 800-watt stand mixer housed in durable die-cast metal
- 12 speeds; 5-1/2-quart stainless-steel bowl; slow-start and gentle-fold functions
- 15-minute countdown timer; 3 power outlets; auto shutoff; tilt-back head
- Chef's whisk, flat mixing paddle, dough hook, and splashguard included
- Measures 15-1/2 by 10 by 12-1/2 inches; 3-year ; 5-year motor
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Release date | September 2008 |
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19. Once a Runner: A Novel
- Soda dispenser
- Easy push button operation
- Keeps the fizz, resulting in more soda to drink
- Saves time and money
- Screw it on, keep the fizz and stop pouring soda down the drain
- Saves time and money
- Easy push button operation
- Patented straw design
- Easy clean-up under running water
- Screw it on, keep the fizz and stop pouring soda down the drain
- Saves time and money
- Easy push button operation
- Patented straw design
- Easy clean-up under running water
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Release date | April 2009 |
20. Ride Around Shining: A Novel (P.S. (Paperback))
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Release date | June 2015 |
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Thanks so much for the kind words! It means a lot to me :)
And also thanks for the thoughtful feedback!
> I love how the day after free agency ends, and I review my roster to find out how player ratings changed, feels almost like opening presents on Christmas morning
I like that too! And it was really unintentional. My original thought was that it'd maybe be better to have ratings change continuously over time, but once per year was simpler. But this may be a case where simpler is actually better.
> Revising some of the team names.
Unlikely to happen, both because I love the team names (Blue Chips is my favorite) and because I hired an artist to make the logos so I can't easily change them on a whim.
Like I said in my other comment here, the change to the owners message was because of repetitiveness, not offensiveness.
I definitely understand why people might not like some of the off color humor, but part of the benefit of making your own video game is that you get to impose your tastes on everyone. Maybe some day a real company will buy BBGM and change them all to generic animal names :)
Also, it's not too hard to customize. Basically you just have to make a customized version of this file and then use it when you start a league. Let me know if you need any help doing something like that.
> Develop a "loyalty" factor that affects free agent signability.
Yeah, the player mood system is definitely in need of some work. The most fundamental problem is how opaque it is. You think everything's going great, and then boom your top 2 players refuse to re-sign. It feels both unfair and unrealistic. I need to make mood viewable throughout the season, so you can anticipate a player refusing to re-sign. And I need to make it clearer what goes into mood. If a player is leaving, why? Hopefully I'll do some of this stuff soon.
...that's a little tangential to your suggestion though. I like your loyalty idea. It could be a fun mechanic. But it'll be tricky to get it right. And even looking at the NBA, is there really any loyalty? Maybe a little, but not much right?
> Develop a quicklink library for user-generated rosters
I'm a little worried about making them seem "official" because I think it's a somewhat legally ambiguous situation for me to officially include real teams and players in the game.
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Also, I've recommended this to other people here, but since you come from the old days of sports sims, I especially recommend you read this book some time.
If you read a lot of non-fantasy, allow me plagiarize a comment I wrote a couple months back and make a recommendation:
> I'm going to take your "It doesn't have to be fantasy" statement and go very far abroad.
> I wholeheartedly endorse Chad Harbach's The Art of Fielding. It was my absolute favorite novel published last year, and the first piece of fiction I read after finishing A Dance With Dragons.
> It's nominally about a gifted baseball player and the people surrounding him at a small college in Wisconsin, but it's really about friend love and love love and mental illness and joy and heartbreak and uncertainty and discovery and Moby Dick and growing older and growing even older still. There are some stylistic similarities with ASOIAF, namely that the book utilizes different POV characters, and that there's a lot of time and thought given to the giant mish-mash of relationships between the characters. It starts pretty simply, and just gets deeper and deeper as the book goes on.
> I don't know what you do and don't like, but allow me to just end with this: you don't have to like baseball to love this book. Much in the same way that tons of football agnostics adore Friday Night Lights, Harbach uses baseball as a canvas for his characters' hopes and dreams and aspirations and anxieties. Please please please, give it a shot.
While You Were Sleeping used to be my fav movie, but as i age, it kinda sets me off more. But the dude stuck in the closet trying on her shoes still makes me laugh my ass off.
This week was mostly M/M, so if it ain't your thing, skip a few!
I've read Winter Spirit, which was kind of adorable. M/M novella set in Michigan with a paranormal element. Not normally a ghost story person, but this might've gotten me hooked. 4/5
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Love Roan Parrish but Natural Enemies was a little meh. M/M short with a strong botanical theme, which i luurrvve, but the characters didn't feel like they had real chemistry. 3/5
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Alexis Hall is my new best friend. His writing is just... ugh. Like a cup of hot cider on a cold day. Listened to the audio of both Glitterland and Waiting for the Flood. Beautiful books, fantastic narration. Darian's accent and slang cracked me up, but he was such a marshmallow i want to be his friend. Glitterland is: bipolar misanthropic educated asshole falls for a tanned, goofy model who is shallow on the outside but is genuine lovely human. Waiting for the Flood is a quiet short story with two shy lovely men in middle England finding love during a weather disaster.
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Currently reading A Change in Tide cause i'm 41 and kinda needed something in my age range. M/F set in Canada, heroine is dealing with PTSD and became a hermit, hero is retired hockey star with the tired 'former player' trope. So far the writing is ok, sexual tension is high, but i feel there's too much introspection and not enough action. Not sure if will finish.
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I tried it, you guys. I genuinely tried a shapeshifter novel. Nalini Singh's psy-changeling series. DNF. I know it's a popular series but it feels too misogynistic for me, anyone else?
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Tried Politically Incorrect also, DNF cause it felt like too much wish fulfillment. Also wound up reading the Goodreads reviews partway thru (does anyone else do that? sort of a "should i bother with this?" last ditch effort) and some freaking illiterate review that was NOT marked as a spoiler gave away a MAJOR spoiler which happens to be a hated trope, so i abandoned it. Boo, cause it seemed so promising.
My favorite item on your wishlist is definitely this! I would have them on my wishlist, but I am already digging my way through a bag right now!
My favorite item on my wishlist would definitely have to be this kindle ebook! My friends have been telling me how amazing of a book it is, and the fact that it's about running makes it so much more enticing to me!
I'd definitely say we have very similar tastes, seeing as we both love gummy bears! That's at least 1 thing! haha.
Thanks for doing this, buddy! :)
Outer Dark is really good, I would recommend that as well as Child of God. Both are some gritty dark tales in the south. If you are looking for a bit of a different McCarthy tale, check out Suttree when you get a chance - it has since become my favorite McCarthy novel or on par with Blood Meridian.
Other recommendations not McCarthy:
Those are all great as well and I was recommended those through Amazon after only reading MCarthy. If you ever need more, feel free to PM me, I pretty much only read this niche genre.
Seconded and Thirded.
Cool, I have a couple of books in mind, but pardon me if I suggest something thick too...Sometimes I forget that not all Japanese novels are "light novels" =).
Anyway, my first suggestion is Slum Online.
http://www.amazon.com/Slum-Online-Novel-Hiroshi-Sakurazaka/dp/1421534398
To Quote from Amazon:
"Reality bites for college freshman Etsuro Sakagami, but on the MMO Versus Town he's a karate master who can handle anything. Who will be his greatest opponent-the seemingly invisible Slasher Jack, or his would-be girlfriend Fumiko? Etsuro Sakagami is a college freshmen who feels uncomfortable in reality, but when he logs onto the combat MMO Versus Town, he assumes the personality of "Tetsuo," a karate champ on his way towards becoming the most powerful martial artist around. While his relationship with new classmate Fumiko goes nowhere, he spends his days and nights online in search of the invincible fighter Slasher Jack. Floating in between real and virutal, at last, Etsuro finds himself face to face with his most powerful opponent..."
I suggest we start a thread to discuss...say about week from now on Thursday/Friday? I'm not sure how fast everyone reads but we can use this first time as a gauge or postpone if necessary.
If you'd rather start with something else \ more popular, or need help finding a copy, let me know!
Oh geez, I don't know your interests so here's a variety pack:
Lamb, by Christopher Moore - A comedic look at the years not covered in the new testament. Moore in general is a good read as he provides a comedic take to some well traveled ground.
Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman - The funniest book about the apocalypse ever written. Pratchett primarily writes the Disc World novels, also a good read if you're into fantasy. They satire both fantasy as a genre and out world. Gaiman, on the otherhand, writes gritty urban fantasy with a philosophical twist.
She's Come Undone, by Wally Lamb - Lamb writes with emotion. If you're looking for a tear jerker this is it.
The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein - Told from the perspective of a dog, this is a book that will make your appreciate your furry friends even more. Also have tissues handy for this one.
If you took away my baseball, you might as well take away my air, water, and food. I live, breathe, and eat the game... so much so I work part time for one of the clubs!
A favorite non-fiction book is Crazy '08 about the 1908 season if you like the history of the game.
Also Summer of '49, The Boys of Summer, The Glory of Their Times, and Eight Men Out
For fiction... you MUST read Shoeless Joe. The Natural, For Love of the Game, and Bang the Drum Slowly aren't bad either... I'm sure you've seen all the movies too.
Since the Tour de France is going on currently, I think a shout out for The Yellow Jersey, by Ralph Hurne, would be appropriate. This book is as much about bicycle racing as The Natural is about baseball. This is a terrific book whose theme shares much in common with The Natural, but having read both I think The Yellow Jersey is far superior.
Don't be fooled by some of the reviews on Amazon. It's obvious some people are upset because they bought it thinking they were getting some kind of bike racing adventure, and what they got instead was a novel. It's a terrific book.
coffee table books are mainly for guests, to browse while you're doing something or as a conversation starter. I'd lean for something that has a lot of pictures in it & is easy to digest.
Based on your interests:
https://www.amazon.com/1000-Record-Covers-Michael-Ochs/dp/383655058X
My favorite novel of all time is To Kill a Mockingbird. It's just really well written. There are so many hidden gems; every time I read it there is something more that I take away from it. I also relate a lot to the main character, Scout.
I would love to have this book! I read one of the later books and fell in love with this character (Myron Bolitar), so eventually I'd love to own them all.
Hello thar! I'm Liz :) My favorite (e)book is The Art of Racing in Rain by Garth Stein. It's about a dogs point of view of his owners life. And if I remember correctly, the owers point of view of the dogs life in few parts. It goes through when they met (puppy times) to well... You know... But yeah. Im trying to describe it without giving it away. I think you get the gist though.... Awesome contest!!! Im crossing my fingers cause I really want a kindle of some type :3
THE BIG RED BUCKLE is the first in a series of hard-science fiction stories I've written which explore sport in the future. In this action packed science fiction adventure novelette humanity has survived environmental and atmospheric calamity and begun to move out into the stars. Sport still plays a vital role in our day-to-day affairs. THE BIG RED BUCKLE recounts an episode of a single-stage endurance race held between two shield volcanoes on a Mars that is slowly being terraformed. Participants must run and soar over 1,500 kilometers while the solar system watches.
DISPATCHES FROM THE FUTURE (B-LIST) is an ever expanding collection of short-fiction available on WattPadd. DISPATCHES FROM THE FUTURE (B-LIST) is a growing anthology of contemporary speculative fiction which touches on many topics. Even better, it's completely free. I add a new story to the collection about once a week. I believe short form fiction still has a place in modern fiction circles and I'm testing that hypothesis by dedicating time and effort in the development of a sizable collection.
The Art of Fielding is a great novel about a college baseball player. Incredible novel, not so much focusing on the baseball aspect, just a great story and writing.
Whispers is probably my favorite, The Bad Place and Shattered were in the running too though. I like both but I prefer Koontz to King simply because King gets way too into his descriptions. Sometimes it's a good thing but too often it feels like filler. In The Shining when Danny fell under the snow drift it was perfect but some if the descriptions of the hotel itself got old really quickly.
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This is excellent: Duncan Hamilton - Provided You Don't Kiss Me
Hamilton wrote for the Nottingham Evening Post when Clough managed Forest and it covers the whole tenure. It's a fascinating read.
There's also David Peace - The Damned United which was made into a film. It's written as a novel but provides a good insight into what happened with Clough at Leeds, as well as beforehand at Hartlepool, Derby and Brighton.
The Trial of Miles; Miles of Trials.
“What was the secret, they wanted to know; in a thousand different ways they wanted to know The Secret. And not one of them was prepared, truly prepared to believe that it had not so much to do with chemicals and zippy mental tricks as with that most unprofound and sometimes heart-rending process of removing, molecule by molecule, the very tough rubber that comprised the bottoms of his training shoes.”
“You don't become a runner by winning a morning workout. The only true way is to marshal the ferocity of your ambition over the course of many days, weeks, months, and (if you could finally come to accept it) years.”
[Once a Runner] (http://smile.amazon.com/Once-Runner-John-Parker-Jr/dp/1416597891/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1409045564&sr=8-1&keywords=once+a+runner)
I think those teams need to be looked at in a more nuanced way, and I'm hoping that will come to light with the Jailblazers documentary. Most of their transgressions were marijuana related, in particular Rasheed and Damon. On the other hand you have Qyntel Woods and Ruben Patterson fighting dogs and raping their nannies. Once you separate those two really bad apples, you're left with our Cheech and Chong co-captains, who aside from their affinity for fine herb, by all acounts are actually really great people. The problem was, that behavior although not morally wrong, was not professional for that place and time, and it led to the impressing of really bad habits onto younger rookies like Bonzi Wells, Zach Randolph, and Erick Barkley.
It was without a doubt an incredibly interesting sociological experiment at work. You have one of the whitest metropolitan cities in the US, with a predominantly black professional sports team that couldn't keep their names out of the police blotter. I think these teams for the most part have been unfairly maligned for issues that are either trivial or comical looking back with the hindsight of 17 years.
There's a really good novel that really hits on the topics of race and professional sports in Portland called "Ride Around Shining." I think it should be recommended reading for any Blazers fans, but also for any NBA fans who want better insight into the relationship between this city and our team.
https://www.amazon.com/Ride-Around-Shining-Novel-Paperback/dp/0062285084
Fiction: The Universal Baseball Association, J. Henry Waugh, Prop. by Robert Coover.
Non-Fiction: Moneyball, definitely, but that's too obvious. The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball by Tom Tango, et al., and Eight Men Out by Eliot Asinof are also excellent choices.
Recently finished: A visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan -- read it all in about two sittings, this book is amazing!
On now: The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach -- really enjoying it thus far, and it is not what I expected.
Next up: Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon -- Pynchon is my favourite author and I've been saving this one for a while because of how long it is.
Ideal for fans of the Cleveland Indians: The Curse of Rocky Colavito by Terry Pluto.
Because I'm a huge Strat-O-Matic baseball fan, I enjoyed The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. by Robert Coover, where protagonist Henry Waugh creates his own dice baseball league -- not without its dark passages, though.
I just read The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach, and I really enjoyed it. It's about a baseball team at a small midwestern college. A couple of the characters are gay, and all of the characters are fascinating.
If you just want a funny book about golf then you must read Missing Links by Rick Reilly, really really funny!
Cliche to people who have been around for a while, but...
> And too there were questions: What did he eat? Did he believe in isometrics? Isotonics? Ice and heat? How about aerobics, est, ESP, STP? What did he have to say about yoga, yogurt, Yogi Berra? What was his pulse rate, his blood pressure, his time for 100-yard dash? What was the secret, they wanted to know; in a thousand different ways they wanted to know The Secret. And not one of them was prepared, truly prepared to believe that it had not so much to do with chemicals and zippy mental tricks as with that most unprofound and sometimes heart-rending process of removing, molecule by molecule, the very tough rubber that comprised the bottoms of his training shoes. The Trial of Miles, Miles of Trials. How could they be expected to understand that?
Once a Runner by John Parker is an excellent book about a college miler and his training. By far my favorite book about running.
I've been wanting to read this book for quite awhile.
Why won't you move Mr. Bubbles?
Thanks for the contest! :)
Check out Donnybrook by Frank Bill. It has a full cast of degenerates and violence on nearly every page. I absolutely loved it. It's not quite the violence you were thinking about (there is one hitman in it though), but I still think you will enjoy.
http://www.amazon.com/Donnybrook-Novel-Frank-Bill/dp/0374532893/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1370232275&sr=1-1&keywords=donnybrook
When I was a little kid I had these massive Sports illustrated books about Baseball, Basketball, and Football, that went through the sport decade by decade, talking about the players and culture. I'm pretty sure it was this Sports Illustrated: The Basketball Book https://www.amazon.com/dp/1933821191/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_yyWXCb18HAVDJ
Two of my favorite gay-interest novels are Blind Fall by Christopher Rice and The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach.
Christopher Rice writes a ton of other gay-interest books, so check those out as well. Blind Fall is just my personal favorite.
If I think of any others, I'll let you know.
I loved both of those books. Donnybrook is another book about f*cked up white trash, that I highly suggest.
Football Ramble’s book is good:
The Football Ramble https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1780896344/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_yC8PAbHPVAFX4
And The Damned United. The film was very good, but the book is even better:
The Damned Utd https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0571224334/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_4D8PAb2RTMV73
If you like reading, here are a few other great books:
Missing Links by Rick Reilly
It's sports related though. It's a fun little book about some golf shenanigans.
Either The Damned United, as someone mentioned previously, or Barca: The Making of the Greatest Team in the World
The Art of Fielding -- http://www.amazon.com/The-Art-Fielding-A-Novel/dp/0316126675
Robert Coover, The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.
The Damned United.
It's darker than the film and worth reading even if you've seen the film.
The Damned United. About Brian Clough's 44 day reign of Leeds. Also if you haven't seen it watch the film. Michael Sheen absolutely nails Clough.
> If that really is one of your goals, you are bound to fail and to be frustrated.
If, for you, whether or not you succeed depends on whether or not you accomplish your goals, then probably. But I'm all about the process! It's a journey, man. One you need to be a part of to really get.
> And I want some of the stuff OAR is taking, cause he's trippiiiiiing...
OAR is a book. I abbreviated it because I made the fallacious assumption that everyone knows where that quote is from. You should read it. It is the only thing I've ever read that has adequately captured what it means to be a competitive runner.
Not sure I can meet your exact criteria, but here are a few "real" books I recommend.
"The Art of Fielding" by Chad Harbach.
"We, the Drowned" by Carsten Jensen.
"The Imperfectionists" by Tom Rachman.
Of those, "The Art of Fielding" is probably closest to what you're looking for. It's a baseball novel, but it's really about college age kids (like you) and their ambitions, uncertainty, relationships and whatnot. "We, the Drowned" is a historical epic focusing on a Danish harbor town. "The Imperfectionists" is a collection of related short stories about a fictional English language newspaper in Italy. The last one may be a bit depressing. I've never read an author better at writing unhappy, miserable people than Rachman.
That is NOT my experience in shopping for ebooks.
Chosen at random from my recommendations on amazon.com:
Breathless, same price as paperback
Full Dark, No Stars, Same price as paperback
Daniel X, -$1 from hardcover
The Art of Fielding: A Novel, +$1.88 over paperback
Killing Lincoln: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever. = to hardcover
The Heroes of Olympus, Book Two: The Son of Neptune, -$1.41 over hardcover
Hell House, -$0.18 over paperback
Fight Club, -$2.57 over paperback
Prices are only slightly lower, if at all over physical books. Obviously this is a small sample, but whenever I go looking it is typically what I find.
Your overhead arguments are mostly false as well:
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