On Tuesday, November 19, 2002, at 07:33 PM, Matthew Hunter wrote: > 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 > > The release date is 12/01..relax ;-) --- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true." -- James Branch Cabell