On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 11:48:41AM -0600, Joshua Kronengold <mneme at io.com> wrote: > The thing is...yeah, the Phoenix Guards books (all three of them, to > date) do move slower than the Vlad series. But they're -still- a lot > faster than their source material (certainly, Paths moves amazingly > faster than it's source -- Vicompte is OK, but I'm currently plodding > my way through 10 Years After [in the four book version], and it's got > some extended periods where nothing happens except for some very slow > intrigue. Wheras in Paths....well, I'm not going to talk about that, > but it's a lot faster. ARGH! I have bribed bookstore employees, bugged the storerooms, planted webcams with a view of the "New Releases" section, pestered the website support staff, debugged the B&N stock database, taught principles of search engine usage to centenarians, AND I STILL DO NOT HAVE THIS BOOK. This expression of frustration is dedicated to Tor, the publishers who keep us in loving agony. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt