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I
joined another Bangkok meet-up Book group, a new one that I won’t be able to
attend much in person. But the October
book pick was The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) by Oscar
Wilde. I downloaded it to my Kindle and
thoroughly enjoyed it.
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To
stay in the holiday spirit of Halloween and all things ghastly, I immediately
downloaded and read Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus
(1818) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Wonderful!
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Next
I downloaded that masterpiece, Dracula (1897) by Bram Stoker. It was longer than I remembered, and I’m now
sure that I had never finished reading the entire book all those decades
ago. It is definitely a classic of
horror that I couldn’t put down.
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One beautiful thing about the Kindle is that it is well suited for older books that are out of copyright, hence they are free. Another thing is that Kindle has a dictionary where you can highlight a word and a definition pops up -- this being especially helpful when reading old books with unfamiliar archaic English usages, as in the three books above from the 19th Century.
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-Zenwind.
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