What are you currently reading?

[Karl Henning]

This is more bad luck than a single Amazon buyer should have to put up with!

All I can say is ... I  consider the book is worth all this hassle. (I just hope you agree!!!)

I am sure it will, Alan. I wonder if I should just get it on the Nook, instead, now!

[Bogey]

I do not know because I do not know your 13-year-old. 

I certainly dig it and I don't usually like novelizations. Does that count?

That was what I was getting at....superhero novelizations....not usually very good.  Sounds as if this has a shot.  Is it overly graphic with its violence?

[Ataraxia]

That was what I was getting at....superhero novelizations....not usually very good.  Sounds as if this has a shot.  Is it overly graphic with its violence?

I'm only 90 pages in or so but I think if he can read the DC comic, he can read this. However I accept no responsibility for the Joker's actions later in the book. 

[Bogey]

I'm only 90 pages in or so but I think if he can read the DC comic, he can read this. However I accept no responsibility for the Joker's actions later in the book. 

[Karl Henning]

Joker

[Ataraxia]

I'm still reading the Brahms bio as well because that's how I roll...

And the violence in the Brahms bio is excruciating.

[Karl Henning]

Dude, you are wicked: I've downloaded the Nook app for my Droid . . . .

[Ataraxia]

Dude, you are wicked: I've downloaded the Nook app for my Droid . . . .

You'll be reading Dickens in the outhouse.

[Karl Henning]

Now, if the Swafford Ives bio had been available for Nook . . . .

[Ataraxia]

Now, if the Swafford Ives bio had been available for Nook . . . .

Yeah, that one's on my radar even though I don't care much for Ives (yet?).

[Karl Henning]

Maybe it's a case of not yet; in all events, you'll find his bio a rattlin' good read, laddie.

[Ataraxia]

Maybe it's a case of not yet; in all events, you'll find his bio a rattlin' good read, laddie.

Yep, Swafford hasn't let me down yet. His classical volume is well-thumbed.

[Bogey]

http://www.amazon.com/Nights-Red-Moon-Milton-Burton/dp/0312648006/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1332295150&sr=1-1-catcorr#_

Worth a look, Dave.  This author seems to take a Texas/noir angle....at least based on his book reviews I looked at.

[Ataraxia]

Thanks. 

[Sergeant Rock]

Blackhorse Riders




Sarge

[Karl Henning]

This is more bad luck than a single Amazon buyer should have to put up with!

All I can say is ... I  consider the book is worth all this hassle. (I just hope you agree!!!)

I am sure it will, Alan. I wonder if I should just get it on the Nook, instead, now!

This is so entirely the right idea that, even though a parcel landed yesterday which I figure must be the proper book . . . I've not opened it, and I am inquiring into returning the hard copy.

Iron discipline, really, for I am intensely curious to read the book. Shouldn't take long to sort things out, and then a download of the e-book will be all but instantaneous.

[Elgarian]

This is so entirely the right idea that, even though a parcel landed yesterday which I figure must be the proper book . . . I've not opened it, and I am inquiring into returning the hard copy.

Iron discipline, really, for I am intensely curious to read the book. Shouldn't take long to sort things out, and then a download of the e-book will be all but instantaneous.

Well, I wouldn't know: I'm so emphatically a 'book in the hands' chap, that the notion of ebooks upsets my digestion. Particularly with Her Fearful Symmetry, where all the US hardback editions (illustrated with faded photos of Highgate Cemetery and artificially aged title pages) have such a physical presence that they actively contribute to the atmosphere of the book. In fact, I hope to proceed to post some photos of my newly acquired US Special signed edition (designed by the author) before long.

[Karl Henning]

I don't like to think of having interfered with your digestion, dear chap. Not at all what a hero is supposed to do, so far as I can tell.

[Elgarian]

I don't like to think of having interfered with your digestion, dear chap. Not at all what a hero is supposed to do, so far as I can tell.

Fortunately, it's only e-digestion. So it doesn't really count.

[Bulldog]

Well, I wouldn't know: I'm so emphatically a 'book in the hands' chap, that the notion of ebooks upsets my digestion. Particularly with Her Fearful Symmetry, where all the US hardback editions (illustrated with faded photos of Highgate Cemetery and artificially aged title pages) have such a physical presence that they actively contribute to the atmosphere of the book.

"Atmosphere" is a great word to use in this context and a quality that's non-existent with downloads.