30 Days of Kindle Meme: Day Eight

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Day 08 – Kindle title you didn’t think you would enjoy as much as you did

King Solomon's Mines and Allan Quartermain by H. Rider Haggard - neither one is really what you would call my thing, normally.  I could not put them down.  They're pretty chockful of "white man's burden" but they were entertaining, and the characterizations were good.

After all, as Mr Mackenzie said, it was odd that three men, each of whom possessed many of those things that are supposed to make life worth living -- health, sufficient means, and position, etc. -- should from their own pleasure start out upon a wild-goose chase, from which the chances were they never would return. But then that is what Englishmen are, adventurers to the backbone; and all our magnificent muster-roll of colonies, each of which will in time become a great nation, testify to the extraordinary value of the spirit of adventure which at first sight looks like a mild form of lunacy. 'Adventurer' -- he that goes out to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another, and, speaking for myself, I am proud of the title, because it implies a brave heart and a trust in Providence. Besides, when many and many a noted Croesus, at whose feet the people worship, and many and many a time-serving and word-coining politician are forgotten, the names of those grand-hearted old adventurers who have made England what she is, will be remembered and taught with love and pride to little children whose unshaped spirits yet slumber in the womb of centuries to be. Not that we three can expect to be numbered with such as these, yet have we done something -- enough, perhaps, to throw a garment over the nakedness of our folly.

DV

Day 09 – Kindle title you probably would not have bought in “real book” form (not counting the vast amount of free stuff)
Day 10 – Favorite classic book on your Kindle
Day 11 – Favorite author on your Kindle
Day 12 – Favorite Kindle title that is also on your bookshelf
Day 13 – Kindle title you wish you had never bought or downloaded
Day 13 – Favorite “genre” fiction title on your Kindle (SF/F, romance, Westerns, etc)
Day 14 – Tell us about one of your favorite romantic couples inhabiting your Kindle (not necessarily IN a romance novel)
Day 15 - Favorite male character (on your Kindle)

Day 16 – Favorite female character (on your Kindle)
Day 17 – Favorite family on your Kindle
Day 18 – Do you use the My Clippings feature on the Kindle?  If so, share one with us.
Day 19 – Favorite book turned into a movie (on your Kindle)
Day 20 – Favorite children’s book (on your Kindle)
Day 21 – Favorite cooking or food related book on your Kindle
Day 22 – Title on your Kindle you most frequently recommend to people
Day 23 –Kindle title you can’t believe was actually published
Day 24 – A Kindle title you have wanted to read for a long time but still haven’t
Day 25 – A Kindle title that you wish more people would read
Day 26 – Favorite non-fiction title on your Kindle
Day 27 – A Kindle title that changed your opinion about something
Day 28 – Favorite title (of a book on your Kindle)
Day 29 – Book you read on your Kindle so no one can see you reading it
Day 30 – Your most favorite Kindle title