Imminent

Johno Johno

Just as soon as I promised that I may soon return to optimal posting density (or "OPD, yeah you know me!"), I remember that tomorrow is the release day for The System of the World.

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I called today and had a copy held for me at my local bookstore. It's cheaper than Amazon, and I get to walk right out onto Massachusetts Avenue carrying that gold covered bricklike tome in all its prominent eggheadedness, as if to say to the world around me "that's right. Geek right here."

For those of you who have read and enjoyed the previous two instalments of Stephenson's trilogy, I highly recommend Davis Liss' The Coffee Trader, set in the same eighteenth-century Amsterdam that Stephenson reconstructed for Eliza, Countess de la Zeur.

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J (et al),
If you are ever in need...ever AGAIN in need... of hefty non-fiction that's kind of relevant to real life, peep Pollack's "Arabs at War".

GeekLethal GeekLethal

3

I have it! Today also saw the release of part seven of ing's Dark Tower series, so two aching needs were fulfilled for Buckethead this morning. A banner day. Several pounds of book.

Buckethead Buckethead

7

By comparison, it's shorter than the other ones in the trilogy. By any other standards, it's twice the length of any normal novel.

Johno Johno

8

I imagine that OPD will be unreachable for all of Peridy's ministers - I know that I will have mine soon after the Borders opens, though I will ask them to wrap it in plain brown paper.

Buckethead Buckethead

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