Daniel Sevitt (DANIELSE@Amdocs.com)
Sun, 17 Oct 1999 10:57:08 +0200
On a recent trip to England I laid down five pounds and 99
new pence for a new copy of Get Carter (Jack's Return Home)
published in 1998 by Allison & Busby. I added it to my
to-be-read pile and got to it this weekend. I was enjoying it
thoroughly until I reached page 48 which was immediately
followed by page 129. The book then continues until page 176
which leads neatly into page 97 which then continues to the
end of the book on page 224 including the pages 129-176 that
appeared earlier. I am incredibly frustrated. I have emailed
both the vendor and the publisher but I figure my chances of
getting satisfaction from here in Israel are slim. I keep
getting the nagging feeling that this would never have
happened if I had found a second hand copy of the book
somewhere. Does anyone have any similar tales of woe from
Allison & Busby? I remember that they fumbled the ball
terribly by failing to release a new copy of The Hunter/Point
Blank or any of the other Stark books when Payback was
released. On another topic I finally finished the Lloyd
Hopkins trilogy with Suicide Hill this weekend. I thought it
was one of Ellroy's strongest and was really impressed at how
Hopkins' character had developed across the three
books.
Daniel Sevitt danielse@amdocs.com
-- # To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # To unsubscribe, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to majordomo@icomm.ca. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.0b3 on Sun 17 Oct 1999 - 04:57:51 EDT