READING BOOKS online

JANE AUSTEN'S PRIDE & PREJUDICE ON YOUTUBE

I just went looking for books to read online, and I quickly found ReadCentral.com. I wasn't looking for Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Agatha Christie, H.G. Wells, Leo Tolstoy and Mark Twain, but they were great, and they're all there. They have a bunch of poems and quotes as well.

I found Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes books here. I'm a big fan.

I also found The Wind in the Willows, the 1908 children's novel by Kenneth Grahame. It's on Gutenberg.com.

I'm just starting Lost Horizon on Gutenburg.net.au; the James Hilton book is just as I remember it, of course.

I checked out Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, and, yes, it's available online.

Here's a link to a bunch of Agatha Christie novels.

Finally, I've just started an Agatha Christie book, The Secret Adversary, on Pagebypagebooks.com. It's Christie's first Tommy and Tuppence book.

Beware, though; some "free" sites still ask you for a credit card to get started.

Enough for now. More later. I think I'll read a bit more Lost Horizon.

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If you like to read about Sherlock Holmes (and I do), check out this web site. You should be able to read most of the books and stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, including his Holmes and Professor Challenger series.

I also found several short Holmes audio books on YouTube. Enjoy.

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You might check out a web site I found called The Best of Sherlock. It led me to the Holmes short stories before going to the novels.

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I was excited recently when I was watching Jeremy Brett's version of Sherlock Holmes, since Sherlock's brother, Mycroft, was going to appear. I recognized the Mycroft actor, Charles Gray, as the same guy who played Blofeld on the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice.

It turns out that Mycroft was featured in two of Brett's Holmes shows, especially in The Mazarin Stone. Brett died the next year, 1995, at age 61, and Gray died in 2000, at age 71.

The Holmes/Brett shows were better, by the way, when Mycroft/Gray was in them.

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I just watched Pursuit to Algiers, a movie featuring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. For years, I've been looking for the Holmes movie in which Bruce did a lovely version of Loch Lomond. When I learned that a young woman in the movie was a singer and pianist, I knew this was the one.

And it was. Nigel Bruce's voice was as good as I remembered.

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More blog entries by Tom Gillispie

• Resume for a writer and editor

• An editor's views on powerful writing

• Advice for be and would-be novelists

• Links to TG's stories online

• Favorite quotes

• What I do when I'm editing

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• Wipeout at Death Valley

• Days with rainbows

• A desperate writer working in the dark

• Yer outta there!

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• You really DO need an editor

• Reminders for would-be novelists

• What I do when I'm editing

• What I charge (it's a deal) and what I edit

• Slogging through the Internet

• J-school: More eyes on your stories

• J-school: Go out and learn

• Rookie mistakes for magazine writers

Entries from The Dog Blog

• Katie cried

• Growl and pull

• 13-plus years with my dog Lady

• ... said the spider to ...

• The Dog Diary (2014)

• YIP! YIP! The stereo-sound huskies

• What Lady and Michael Jackson had in common

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• Angel in Black: Remembering Dale Earnhardt Sr.

(a book of great stories about the Intimidator)

• Then Junior Said to Jeff...

(the book of great NASCAR stories)

• My best day as a sports writer

• Jeff Gordon's milk toast to Dale Earnhardt

• Wayne Auton: A life in racing