Sunday eBook Review: With the Night Mail

 



Rudyard Kipling,  With the Night Mail From Project Gutenberg, the first producer of free ebooks. Available Formats Format Size Mirror Sites HTML 131 kB mirror sites EPUB (with images) 304 kB EPUB (no images) 66 kB Kindle (with images) 249 kB Kindle (no images) 103 kB Plucker 64 kB QiOO Mobile 104 kB Plain Text UTF-8 101 kB 1. Short review:      2. Long reviews: 2.1. What I liked:  On the line level, well written.      Roller coaster or walk in the park?  Walk in the park. 2.2. What I did not like:  There is no hero to identify with.  This is a 'Technology As Hero' story.  And the technology is airships. 2.3. Who I think is the audience:  Rudyard Kipling. 2.4. Is the book appropriate for children to read?  Yes. 2.5. On the basis of reading this book, will I buy the next book in the series?  The next 'book' in the series is 'As Easy as A.B.C.' and is a novella.  I read it before I read this.  'As Easy as A.B.C.' is a much better read. 2.6. Other:       Jerry Pournelle said, "You cannot predict the future, but you can invent it."  That's the problem with 'With the Night Mail'.  Kipling tried to predict the future -- and failed.      This book is from the Project Gutenberg collection:  http://www.gutenberg.org/ 2.7.  Links: 'As Easy as A.B.C.' is found in 'A Diversity of Creatures':  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13085 2.8.  Buy the book:  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29135