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That or the sucker born every minute rule. You can get a brand new edition of the hardcover 1988 Dutton edition for $21.95 at Amazon.com through the marketplace. Or you can spend $80.00 for the imported 1989 UK edition.Murrin wrote:Amazon Marketplace on amazon.co.uk has 7 copies listed. The six from the UK are priced £0.29-£3.50, and the one from the US is priced £76.23. Supply and demand, eh?
Local Goodwill still has my donated copy sitting for a buck last time I was in to drop off more bleh.
On a happier note.
Currently resting on my shelves?
Kushiel's Justice by Jacqueline Carey (ARC)
Thirteen by Ricahrd K. Morgan (ARC)
Hunter's Moon by David Devereux (ARC)
I also received my signed hardcover copy of Ysabel
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I may have been mistaken. Double checking tells me that Goldsboro still do not have the books in stock, that I had definately ordered to the correct address, and that they've not charged me.
I remembered today, though, that the Book of All Hours website had a thing saying the first hundred to sign up would receive the book. I wasn't informed that I was one of those, but it's the only reason I can think that the book has shown up. I'll have to cancel my order, then.
I remembered today, though, that the Book of All Hours website had a thing saying the first hundred to sign up would receive the book. I wasn't informed that I was one of those, but it's the only reason I can think that the book has shown up. I'll have to cancel my order, then.
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Just bought and read "Blindsight" by Peter Watts. A hard sci-fi story of first contact with an alien intelligence that turns out to be much, much different than humanity could have imagined.
Also just bought Vandermeer's "Shriek: An Afterword".
Also just bought Vandermeer's "Shriek: An Afterword".
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill
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Aha! Someone here has read Hal Duncan.Murrin wrote:I phoned home today for the first time in a couple of weeks, and got a surprise: my copy of Hal Duncan's Ink has been delivered there. I was unaware it had dispatched (the website claimed they were waiting for the copies to be signed) and I had ordered it to deliver to this address, not home.
My wife bought <i>Vellum</i> for me earlier today. I'm 100 pages in and so far I'm diggin' it...though I gotta admit I have a hard time following it here and there. Let us know what you think of <i>Ink</i>, I've noticed people either loved or hated these books, doesn't seem to be an in between opinion on them.
Brian: Who cured you?
Ex-Leper: Jesus did, sir. I was hopping along, minding my own business, all of a sudden, up he comes, cures me! One minute I'm a leper with a trade, next minute my livelihood's gone. Not so much as a by-your-leave! "You're cured, mate." Bloody do-gooder.
Brian: Well, why don't you go and tell him you want to be a leper again?
Ex-Leper: Uh, I could do that sir, yeah. Yeah, I could do that I suppose. What I was thinking was I was going to ask him if he could make me a bit lame in one leg during the middle of the week. You know, something beggable, but not leprosy, which is a pain in the @$$ to be blunt and excuse my French, sir.
Ex-Leper: Jesus did, sir. I was hopping along, minding my own business, all of a sudden, up he comes, cures me! One minute I'm a leper with a trade, next minute my livelihood's gone. Not so much as a by-your-leave! "You're cured, mate." Bloody do-gooder.
Brian: Well, why don't you go and tell him you want to be a leper again?
Ex-Leper: Uh, I could do that sir, yeah. Yeah, I could do that I suppose. What I was thinking was I was going to ask him if he could make me a bit lame in one leg during the middle of the week. You know, something beggable, but not leprosy, which is a pain in the @$$ to be blunt and excuse my French, sir.
Heh! This book sat on my self for over a year after my roommate gave it to me, so I passed it on to a friend, who liked it and has recommended it to me. Looks like it'll be coming back home again.danlo wrote:Outlander-Diana Gabaldon.
Just picked up: Atlas of the Land by Karen Fonstad for $7.50 (hardcover), and Fellowship. . . and Return. . . paperbacks from Tolkien. Both are 1969 versions, and I paid $2 each for them. A good haul, if I say so myself!
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