Sometimes, iTunes gives away songs, TV shows, and audiobooks. Right now, you can get Brad Meltzer's
The Millionaires for free.
"What would you steal if you couldn't get caught? It started as the perfect crime. Then it took a turn for the worse. Charlie and Oliver Caruso are brothers who work at Green & Greene, a private bank so exclusive you need two million dollars just to be a client. But when the door of success slams in their faces, they're faced with an offer they can't refuse: three million dollars in an abandoned account. No one knows it exists, and even better, it doesn't belong to anyone. It's a foolproof crime. More important, for Charlie and Oliver, it's a way out of debt and the key to a new life. All they have to do is take the money. But when they do, they quickly discover they've got a lot more on their hands than the prize. Before they can blink, a friend is dead - and the bank, the Secret Service, and a female private investigator are suddenly closing in. Trapped in a breakneck race to stay alive, Charlie and Oliver are bout to discover a secret that will test their trust and forever change their lives."
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I dream of living a life free of conflict, but I can't imagine reading a novel without any. Why shouldn't we prefer to read books that might be written as we hope our lives might be lived? Or, it is true that we really don't want conflict in our lives?
And there's always trouble isn't there? I have a suspicion that something bad happens to Charley and Oliver in the book The Millionaires. Novels always use malefactors of one kind or another to reinforce a certain universal truth meant for everyone: no one can ever get any satisfaction. All is struggle, and if we try to break the rules (who could blame us?) we will be severly punished.
How is it even possible that we should live our lives in perpetual and irresolvable conflict except we have some vague idea that there is resolution? There is no resolution, I guess. There is no deux ex machina, only deux ex gun.
I haven't read the book, but I hope that Charlie and Oliver get away with it.
Can someone post it onto the Internet Archives or something similar please?
Alternatively, Cory, how do you subscribe to iTunes in Ubuntu ?
Thanks for posting this, I have been listening to the classic tales podcast, which is nice, but I was looking for something more substantial (for free too!)
There are a ton of other substantial fiction podcasts out there. Look up JC Hutchins, Scott Sigler, and Mur Lafferty for the stuff they've published in podcast form. Doctorow's put a lot of his stuff up too (I'm listening to Eastern Standard Tribe now).
I have clicked on a link. I wanted to see ... well hear ... what is all this fuss about. We all like to receive something for free.
I had to install a crappy and for me almost useless application with weird interface called iTunes. SEVENTY megabyte monster. Talk about windows bloatware. Phew. What is worse, the installer pushed an even crappier application on my computer - Quick Time player. I do not like, I do not need and I definitely do not want quicktime on this computer, but they have promised I will get something free, so I give up. I can uninstall anytime. (and i WILL uninstall all this ... aehm .. software in about 10 minutes)
So. I have iTunes I do not need, want or like.
I click on a link, iTunes get started and here it is ... "get book" button.
"Click."
They want me to register. Sigh ... I went so far, so why not register. I click that I agree to some nonsense, fill in my throw-away email address. Now they want my credit card! I do not have one! I try clicking on PayPal ... they want my credit card again.
They did not persuade me this time ...
Besides, I do not have an iPod and I do not plan to get one. An ordinary Samsung mp3 player is much better. Just plug it in to a computer, be it Apple, windows, Linux or FreeBSD and drag and drop files. Even ogg vorbis encoded ones. No need to install 70MB monster software.
It is not very Free is one has to install iTunes, that is not even available for every platform.
To reply to Musicman: this post is not by Cory.
To all above commenters:
Goddamn you guys love to look that gift horse in the mouth
Or alternatively all, quite rightly, loathe iTunes.
I've read it, it's horrible.