I've read Swarm and the others in that series. They are fun pulpy summer time military-adventure-scifi reads. Good page turners without a lot of depth or complexity. I felt a little guilty for enjoying them, but they must have some redeeming qualities as I just keep buying them as fast as they get published!

I think the B.V. Larson books are particularly interesting to programmers as the protagonist is a computer science lecturer who draws a lot of parallels between his challenges "programming" alien technology to meet his needs and programming computers before everything went upside down.

If "galactic tall tales" sounds like something you'd enjoy, Santiago would make the $3 minimum bid worthwhile.

It's not what I'd call high literature, but I found it very entertaining and have both Santiago and the sequel on paper.

Good question, and another one, is there a website focusing on reviews of ebooks ? And I'm not just talking about contents, but also evaluating the ebook presentations and formats available?

If not, it would be a good idea if someone made one :) There's a market need.