because it merely intrigued me. It wasn't like when I first opened Kushiel's Dart and got pulled headfirst into the characters' world from the get-go. And really, of all the pleasures in reading, for me nothing beats being caught up in the characters' lives and swept along by their stories.
Whereas one of my problems with Kushiel is that I never all the way believed her. Also I'm drawn into fiction by world building*, and I find the banewreaker world more intriguing than Kushiels. A difference in tastes rather than in judgement.
- I maintain that all storytellers engage in worldbuilding.
I now have Get Fuzzy on my newspaper comics page! (and the creator is pretty.)
And pearls before swine and... I've forgotten a few. Hope I didn't lose Non Sequitur.
So, Amazon supposedly sent me several books via SuperSaver Shipping. Turns out, they think they were delivered on Dec 2nd. I never saw this package of books. Will Amazon send me new ones, or am I super extra bitter and out $25?
I would absolutely complain.
You know, and see what happens.
So far, I've had good luck with complaining - but I haven't had an entire lost order.
amazon sent me a replacement order no questions asked when I didn't receive one once. Then later the original order *did* arrive, so being a good boy I wrote and told them and they said "ah, keep 'em both". Which was nice.
Amazon sent me a new book when I reported that the post office had done unspeakable things to the package, and Amazon didn't want the smashed book back.
I emailed them to let them know someone in their packing department had put a book I didn't order into my package. I wouldn't ordinarily have bothered, but this was a $40 coffee table picture book. They sent out a mailer for me to ship it back, and thanked me profusely. No discounts or bennies, but the karma made me feel pretty good.
Hope I didn't lose Non Sequitur.
Love this. Danae may have replaced Bucky from Get Fuzzy as my favorite ill-tempered comic strip character.
Non Sequiter is great. Don't get the Get Fuzzy love.
How can you not love Satchel?
I'm reading Bill Bryson's The Lost Continent: Notes from Small-Town America, and ... I'm not loving it. It's often entertaining, but he's got a nasty wit that he uses on, well, small-town America. Not everyone in rural America is fat, stupid, ignorant, small-minded, or racist. I dunno. I loved "Made in America" and "A Walk in the Woods", but this one? Not as much.
