Actually, it appears that the Vintage edition I have is out of print, and you can now get that translation from FSG. Sorry.
Greg at #9:
Any translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky is worth reading, according to the Russian speaking professor I had when I read the Brothers Karamazov. For myself, I can say that their translation was readable and enjoyable. Fortunately, it's also readily available since it's fashionable. It's the Vintage edition.
This post is very timely. After the last Trauma post, I moved "take first aid course" from the list of things I really should do to the list of things I'm actually going to do. The class is September 30th. I was starting to get cold feet, and thinking about cancelling. Why am I doing this, again?
Oh, yeah. I remember now. My feet are still cold, but I'm still in. Thanks!
I have a couple of books published by Paul Dry, which I believe is POD. They're of good quality, although none had copious internal illustrations.
On the other hand, I also have one or two of the "Library of Liberal Arts" editions Prentice Hall puts out (used to put out?). They're everything you've cited upthread.
Maybe it varies by printing source?
I second the warning about Vicks - not only does it open nasal passages, it's also bad for people with sensitive skin. I had a student appear once with a red welt all along her upper lip, where she'd put Vicks to block the smell of cadavers.
I'm sorry - it sucks when your sense of peaceful refuge is distroyed.
I'm sorry to say that removing the ads hasn't vanquished the disappearing links bug - I got it today, trying to get to this comment thread.
(Also using Safari, of course.)
Suddenly I'm sad to live in an apartment. Does anyone grow roses indoors? Or can the assembled wise ones recommend a good indoor flowering plant that will put up with mild-to-moderate neglect and a few cats?
Stevermer's College of Magics fits this thread in two ways - it's AU historical, and the Tom O'Bedlam song comes up. How's that for a tied together open thread?
(Now, if only her next book were out in paperback...)
Another unimportant bug: when I used the search function, the results came back with the heading in about 50000 pt font. (The searches work though, and that's more important.)
I'm with the liking it crowd.
Xopher, a very belated thank you for posting about your beliefs inside and outside the circle. I'd been thinking that a change of belief would require repudiating the original belief - seeing that it was false somehow. That would make it awfully hard to go back. But what you're describing seems more circumstance-dependent and less rigid.
A spirital toggle switch?
Yeah, I'd certainly like to know more about Book. But it kind of looks River-centric. A kick-ass River, though. And maybe the preacher thing is in the movie, but they had enough sense not to spoil the secrets in the trailer.
(or maybe that's wishful thinking.)
Xopher said:
Belief is mutable; in fact one thing I practice requires me changing the structure of my beliefs twice in each ritual: once when the circle is cast, and again when it's taken down.
That's very interesting. Would you be comfortable expanding on what you mean by that? Or can you refer me to a text of some kind?
Apparently, when you get tired of making books, you two have another career as purveyors of nifty merchandise.
I'm delighted the Romero comment is there! (although I wish it were on the really big coffee mug...)
Briefly, I wished that the nutbar shirts had dates on them, but then I realized my inner optimist was showing. I'm hoping those are only pertinent for a little while.
Pamela
So I read the articles by Jeff Kirvin (why yes, I should be working... what's your point?) and I'm not convinced. For one thing, I couldn't figure out where Kirvin is getting his information from, since nothing's cited and his bio link doesn't work. But the things he's saying sound a little like publishing's version of urban legends. You know, how back in the Golden Days, someone would have published his book.
I'm also still stuck on the Big Bookstores are Killing the Midlist argument. It's just not matching my current experience of book buying. Does anyone reading this thread work for B&N or Borders or Chapters/Indigo? Do you really do returns every six weeks? Seems unlikely.
It's true that the average turnaround time per book has to be pretty fast (just under three months for an independent store I used to work at, but we didn't pay rent), but that didn't mean that any book around for turnaround+1 day got returned. It's an *average*. Some books sold right out of the Ingram's box. Some books hung around for a while. We'd do massive returns about twice a year, and even then we'd keep some things on the strength of "but we like this".
Granted, that was an independent. So are things really that different in chain land? Did I just prove this guy's point? Or is he also making up stories about that once beautiful world called Publishing?
And if someone would please write the article that Christina suggests above, I for one would pay to read it.
Pamela
Fabulous comments (especially from Charlie Stross).
I was interested in her sidebar, which seemed to suggest that the coming of Amazon and B&N etc. hurt midlist authors. Now, I can see how those stores hurt small independent bookstores (as Lois Fundis points out above), but I don't see the connection to midlist authors.
At least in my own buying experience, big stores (chain or independent) come in very handy when I've just found a new midlist author, because they'll have the author's backlist. I would have thought that would serve to keep older books in print and earning royalties. And even if they're small per book, ten or fifteen books each earning a little have to be worth something, don't they?
Pamela
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