Posted on 05/29/2009 6:35:47 PM PDT by Travis McGee
I am enjoying reading this right now. Very interesting trilogy, and this one seems the best. My wife is pushing me to get through it.
I am looking forward to the last two books. I have been moving for the last two months and almost have everything put away. Although it is just to the house next door, about 1/4 mile, I have lost 30 pounds doing the move which is a good thing.
It will probably still be a month or so but I definitely am going to order both. It is rare that I come across something with which I agree so much and these definitely are just that.
That review makes me want to read them that much more.
Which book and edition did that?
How far into it are you?
FE, 2nd printing, 2007.
Now I live in Phoenix and this is not entirely unheard of for paperbacks if you take them in the car with you during the day. I’ve had it happen before, but it’s still not the norm. I’d say maybe one paperback in 50 do this.
Not far - real close to Tennessee. A long ways to go so I should buy my wife another copy, except that I have the whole weekend mostly free. I am looking forward to a good read - it’s been one thus far. Here you’re a fiction author writing about topics that just crowd my thinking these days, and you also quote my favorite economist, Von Mises, on Free Republic posts.
Thank God for the internet.
Except that Amazon is still quoting “two to four weeks delivery”.
Ordering direct from the author is quicker.
My copy has arrived! Now, to TD this well and get home and read it! (I’m looking forward to it.)
Was it hyperextended at all? If they are just spontaneously falling out, now that’s bad. The AZ heat inside a car is another factor I have not considered.
I often cringe when I see people pick up my books and literally crack the spine in the first minute by smashing it open 180* flat on a table, or wrapping the front cover and pages all the way around the back cover. “Perfect bound” books have a lot of advantages (mainly cost), but the spines are suseptible to being cracked. A lot of folks who are used to hardbacks want a perfect bound book to “lay open” like a hard back, so they force them apart and split their spines. Hardbacks have a totally different and more complicated multi-part construction that allows them to lay flat-—of course, they also cost $10 more per copy to produce.
Cool!
After all the folks I have crossed swords with over the last few months here, it is gratifying to see that someone else actually believes this.
It has been a while since we exchanged quips, partly because I am so depressed that the economy has gone exactly where economies always do when you build them on rent seeking behavior, and are able to export your inflation around the world, until you can't.
I am amazed that so-called conservatives cannot keep their firearms aimed at a real enemy, but rather, Cheney like, blast away at friends, and then go looking through their dirty linnnen baskets to see if they can find something that smells.
0 ain't my man. Bush-Cheney are not exactly the hight of constitutional conservatism towards which we want to aspire.
I don't know what the future holds, but I pray fervently that it is none of the above.
Not really sure. I would never wrap it around all the way like a magazine, but a book of that size and weight, say if I'm reading it with a meal, I will lay it flat on a table. Not sure if I did that with this particular one or not. As far as the heat is concerned, I am aware of the issue, and if I do read a book while still warm from the car, am careful not to open it more than about 90 degrees till it's had a chance to cool down.
As far as the cost of hardcovers is concerned, can you get them for $10 more even in small lots? If so, I'd happily pay $10 more than I paid to get a hardcover, and I think at least a percentage of your other readers would feel the same. These are all books I'd read at least 3-5 times. And then I'd donate them to the used book store at the library if I didn't think the library volunteers, probably all liberals, would trash them instead of giving someone else the chance to read them.
And since Amazon’s getting a cut, either you’re going to get it cheaper or Travis is going to get more for it, or some combination of the two.
Just caught a glimpse. Will chk back soon. Looks very good.
I put the money in an envelope last week and forgot to mail it. You can bet I am sending in Monday.
I do want to keep things simple though. For example, my warehouse/fulfillment company in Michigan charges monthly by the space a pallet takes. More versions of 3 books means double the pallets and more cost. They charge you for a pallet space until those boxes on it are gone.
I hope that millions of Americans still believe it, and a majority can be educated to believe it. Otherwise we are fated to become the USSA. The USSR had a beautiful constitution—on paper. It’s just that everybody “understood” that it was only for show, and if you made yourself a nuisance demanding the govt follow it, you could lose your job or just disappear.
I hope that we’re not too far down that road to turn back.
Hope you like it!
Why not warehouse and ship them yourself? How many do you print at a crack, a few thousand? Are you sailing for long periods of time?
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