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About me and the site | Twenty-something male who likes text. Obsessed with things such as books, reality, communication, and one or two tv-shows.
Archives | Things written here since... well, 2001. Some of it is good, some is utter shait.
Books | Books read, not books written. So far I've struggled to maintain unpublished.
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e-mail | J. Nicklas Andersson
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2001-09-06
It arrived a couple of days ago. No, not the Flash Girls cds, but thanks for pushing me back into the gutter. What arrived is related to one of the duos members though. The Orb-imprint edition of Emma Bull’s War for the Oaks.
To put it like this: it is gorgeous. No it’s better than that, it’s perfect. I don’t know what they are doing at Tor that other don’t, but I can’t really complain. They’re the best at trade paperbacks, bar none.
For instance, if I saw it in the store instead of mail order, I’d buy it in a heartbeat. Now, this is not that uncommon, I buy books like other people recycle air. But I dare say that even some of my friends would buy it. Especially if they opened it and saw with their own eyes how it looked inside the covers.
I wish every book would be like this, but as usual we — in general terms — have to live with the drawbacks of reality.
If compared to other new-bought books, it is clear that Tor is at the top of the field. Chuck Palahniuk’s Choke (Jonathan Cape-edition) is nicely designed while Edward Savio’s Idiots In the Machine is less so. Idiots is too compactly designed, the line height is far to small and the outer margin is remarkably uneven.
(I will not comment upon Homunculus by James P Blaylock. Ah, hell. The print is not top of the line quality, but it is a small press and it brings back works that has gone out of print, so I will not complain. Much. They’ll bring back more of Blaylock’s books so look for them in the future.)
