Well, now, *that* was tasty
Feb. 21st, 2007 10:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
debgeislerEven though I was sitting there writing things down and making sure to manage the cash handling at the Mike Ford memorial auction, I felt no embarrassment in bidding on and taking home two Advance Reading Copies of books by people whose writing I very much like: $88 for Ken MacLeod's forthcoming (June) The Execution Channel, and John Scalzi's The Last Colony, which I got for $100, and which will be out in late April.
John very kindly personalized the ARC for me (it was pre-signed) when I stopped by his autographing line to introduce myself. :-) Nice man, he is.
And nice book, it was. Very, very tasty.
Mike, who read it first, grumbled about all the good stuff "starting after the book ends," but I found it completely satisfying. I like his characters, and I like the way they think.
And, if some people are nice to me, they can borrow it.
I'm saving the MacLeod for the weekend, probably. After all the papers are graded.
Okay, granted that was a lot of money for two as-yet-unreleased books, but I'd planned to donate money, anyway, so felt no remorse.
John very kindly personalized the ARC for me (it was pre-signed) when I stopped by his autographing line to introduce myself. :-) Nice man, he is.
And nice book, it was. Very, very tasty.
Mike, who read it first, grumbled about all the good stuff "starting after the book ends," but I found it completely satisfying. I like his characters, and I like the way they think.
And, if some people are nice to me, they can borrow it.
I'm saving the MacLeod for the weekend, probably. After all the papers are graded.
Okay, granted that was a lot of money for two as-yet-unreleased books, but I'd planned to donate money, anyway, so felt no remorse.