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asato_muraki at 04:45pm on 12/04/2009
asato_muraki at 04:45pm on 12/04/2009Home from New Orleans. Made the trip there and back listening to Neil Gaiman reading The Graveyard Book. It was satisfying and utterly fabulous -- the man reads like a true performer, with voices and accents and everything. We had to rewind after the Big Reveal, with Big Boy saying, "Wait. What?" and Wee Boy shouting, "I knew it!" For my part, I neither expected it nor failed to process it because I was not expecting it to the degree that it didn't register the first time around. So, it struck me just right, hit the mental sweet spot squarely. Nothing but net.
I also finished The Privilege of the Sword, a book which I had been attempting to consume slowly because it was soo good I didn't want it to end. :)
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New Orleans was great, but for the stomach flu that laid me low mid week. I seem to be recovered now. Also, whilst we were away, a pipe burst in the floor. It's quite a mess, but we are hopeful that the much of the wood flooring can be saved. *sigh* It's been interesting. I hope to get all the downstairs furniture out of my kitchen by next weekend, but we'll see.
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Perhaps tomorrow I can post the last of the beginnings and do a poll.
I also finished The Privilege of the Sword, a book which I had been attempting to consume slowly because it was soo good I didn't want it to end. :)
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New Orleans was great, but for the stomach flu that laid me low mid week. I seem to be recovered now. Also, whilst we were away, a pipe burst in the floor. It's quite a mess, but we are hopeful that the much of the wood flooring can be saved. *sigh* It's been interesting. I hope to get all the downstairs furniture out of my kitchen by next weekend, but we'll see.
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Perhaps tomorrow I can post the last of the beginnings and do a poll.
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I'm glad New Orleans was cool - haven't been there in a long, LONG time.
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In other thoughts, did you hear about the Amazon thing? I was wondering if your short story book got its rankings yanked as well. *rolls eyes* I imagine they're scurrying like little rats this morning to get it all cleared up.
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Oh, and I'm sure the anthology got it's raking yanked. I didn't even look. From what I've heard of it (still no contributor copy!) I would not have been against somehow setting it apart with other explicit or adult materials, but it seems this Amazon thing has been rather broader than that. I mean, giving people fair warning of explicit material is one thing, but de-ranking children's books and biographies... *sigh* I hope it was a mistake, and I hope they fix it. I'm not really troubled by the idea of excluding explicit materials from searches -- maybe if people could opt to exclude erotica by choice? -- but sales rankings mean quite a lot to new writers and small presses, especially.
In any case, I'm over it. ;) Someone showed me this site:
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/WEBSITE/WWW/WEBPAGES/homepage.php
which has worldwide free shipping on most stuff, and competitive prices (especially when you realize the shipping is already added in).
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Yeah, I've always adored Amazon and I HOPE it was a mistake that they're fixing. I agree with what you said about maybe having the option to keep explicit materials out of your searches...but honestly? I haven't EVER run onto what I would term 'explicit' in my searches. Yanking random book ranks because they have gay/lesbian references isn't going to do anything but make them harder to find for people who actually want to find them. Not to mention the children's books and parenting books that got yanked. *rolls eyes again*
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