Lyorn?

In the meantime I can read Athyra and Dzur again to enhance my future second reading of Tiassa!

Bought it on the 26th from my bookstore. Great payoff! Almost made me cry. And I’m a big tough dude. ;-)

You seem unhappy with a purchase you freely made for a book you really wanted at a price you were evidently willing to pay, in spite of the facts that you were:

* lucky enough to have bought the book well ahead of the official release date (you probably benefited from an overworked, minimum wage employee),

* lucky enough to have a book store to buy it from (half of the Borders stores are closing in my metropolitan area),

* lucky enough to have a book to buy (the written word is loosing its fair compensation),

* lucky enough to have an author in the first place, who put his hard work and creativity to this, on top of the hundred other things on his plate.

Here is a suggest to alleviate your pain. For the next book, you can (a) donate $15 yourself to Japan aid, (b) donate $15 dollars directly to the author – which will probably be $14 dollars more that he earned from your last purchase, and (c) invest in making a friend good enough to loan you their copy when they are done. Everyone is better off this way.

If you do not wish to incur the friend penalty, then you can always wait the extra year for the paperback version. If you do not wish to incur the price penalty, then you can always wait the extra three years for a used version, assuming that any of Steve’s fans are willing to let go of their copy.

And Evrett, I’d like to point out, as many have before, that a closed mouth gathers no foot.