Strike out

[maderr]

I'm having shit ass luck with books this week.

Usually I adore James Lear. The Back Passage was hilarious and awesome. He took something most people do stupidily and did it with humor and charm. So I bought The Palace of Varieties for to cheer myself up.

Ugh.

I'm so sick of reliable authors suddenly writing crap that is more toward the depressing. Knock it the fuck off.

If I ever decide to suddenly write something stupidly and pointlessly tragic, kill me.

I did buy a couple of ebooks I really like in hard copy. They're not zomg! wow amazing, but old reliable - The Broken H and The Tin Star by J.L. Langley.

Have two more to poke at, and some more coming in the mail tomorrow. We'll see.

On a positive note, in about two weeks Regency will be up on amazon.

Now to go find food. I've been feeling kind of headachey and dizzy since late afternoon. Hopefully food will fix this, though I did eat lunch. Hmm.

Comments

[theillusionist.livejournal.com]

The Palace of Varieties was published in 2003, three years before The Back Passage. Maybe that explains the quality difference?

(Also, hi! I was referred to you and your writing by a friend. :D)

[maderr.livejournal.com]

Huh. Must have looked at it wrong. Cause I know when I bough the BP way back, Palace wasn't available. Hell, Hot Valley had only just come out. Weird, but that certainly explains it.

[theillusionist.livejournal.com]

I think the '03 one went out of print because here, (http://www.amazon.com/Palace-Varieties-James-Lear/dp/1873741863) it says published in June 2003, and here (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Palace-Varieties-James-Lear/dp/157344314X) it says published in April 2008 by a different publisher. *has no idea*

[hel-cat69.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. Look at Harry Potter. Me and a friend where talking about the end and had to put in vague terms because a teacher nearby still hasn't finished reading it. We were comparing him as a high school drop-out who married his best friend's sister. How cliche is that?