Can't decide whether to buy this today when I walk into my local shopping centre (where Waterstone's has told me via email that they are sellin it for £9.49), or to wait for the PB. It isn't as if I haven't got enough to read - but MC is always, well, fab.
Well, Maxine, if you want my advice, you're a wise woman; but, if not, take it with a pain of fault (or something, since salt's banned from my diet):
I'd buy the hardcover first-edition and read it now! It *is* MC and it looks really interesting; then, you could see if the review does the book justice, too. You'd have a collectors' item plus, if MC ever came to the UK for a reading and you brought it to get it signed, he'd sign it much prettier if it were a hard-cover copy and the fact you're waffling on buying it now says you really wanna but can't find a good reason to do so; that's my job: I would really like to know if it lives up to its hype (which I suspect it does); and, the sooner I learn, the better (because it snows here by the end of October and then? I won't be able to get anywhere near a bookstore to buy it till it's out in pb :)). How's that for a convincing argument?
Okay, I'll take the low road: You KNOW you wanna :) . . . Go for it! I just hope my morning glorious silent-sunshine respite hasn't interfered with this momentous decision. Of all the days I decide to leave Rudolph off and not boot up, it would be the one where a friend needs justification for doing the write thing :). Anyway, let me know what you did or didn't. You could always go tomorrow, couldn't you? Hope so. (I'm bad, I admit it; I want you to read it NOW!)
Can't decide whether to buy this today when I walk into my local shopping centre (where Waterstone's has told me via email that they are sellin it for £9.49), or to wait for the PB. It isn't as if I haven't got enough to read - but MC is always, well, fab.
ReplyDeleteWell, Maxine, if you want my advice, you're a wise woman; but, if not, take it with a pain of fault (or something, since salt's banned from my diet):
ReplyDeleteI'd buy the hardcover first-edition and read it now! It *is* MC and it looks really interesting; then, you could see if the review does the book justice, too. You'd have a collectors' item plus, if MC ever came to the UK for a reading and you brought it to get it signed, he'd sign it much prettier if it were a hard-cover copy and the fact you're waffling on buying it now says you really wanna but can't find a good reason to do so; that's my job: I would really like to know if it lives up to its hype (which I suspect it does); and, the sooner I learn, the better (because it snows here by the end of October and then? I won't be able to get anywhere near a bookstore to buy it till it's out in pb :)). How's that for a convincing argument?
Okay, I'll take the low road: You KNOW you wanna :) . . . Go for it! I just hope my morning glorious silent-sunshine respite hasn't interfered with this momentous decision. Of all the days I decide to leave Rudolph off and not boot up, it would be the one where a friend needs justification for doing the write thing :). Anyway, let me know what you did or didn't. You could always go tomorrow, couldn't you? Hope so. (I'm bad, I admit it; I want you to read it NOW!)