Getting a life, sort of
Mar. 22nd, 2009 12:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dolorosa_12I think I might just throw up my hands, admit defeat, and buy Sandman. And possibly some other Neil Gaiman books. I really have no self-control. On the plus side, however, it would mean going for a nice walk in the sunshine to the mini Forbidden Planet (because I support specialist book shops rather than the big chain stores which sell coffee table books, airport novels, and a pathetic selection of 'genre fiction, subsidised by mediocre coffee chain stores). Since all I've been doing since Skyping with Mum this morning has been hitting refresh on my email inbox and my LJ friends' page for Watchmen-related posts, I think it's time to get out of the house.
EDIT: When I start listening to '90s hi nrg music non-ironically, it's REALLY time to get out of the house.
EDIT: When I start listening to '90s hi nrg music non-ironically, it's REALLY time to get out of the house.
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Date: 2009-03-22 01:17 pm (UTC)I wanted to get those as well but the price's astronomical.
Lucky you for living near independent bookshops, our bookshops that sell books in English are selling them for way more than their retail price and I can't afford that, so I depend on the Internet for my purchases I'm afraid :(
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Date: 2009-03-22 01:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-22 05:01 pm (UTC)I suppose it's difficult getting foreign-language books anywhere. In Sydney there was one main foreign-language bookshop, but I have no idea where I'd go to get foreign-language books in Cambridge. I imagine you're well-served for independent French-language bookshops.
(Also, I knew it was you. I know your LJ username.)
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Date: 2009-03-22 05:07 pm (UTC)We are, although I don't use them because a) I don't buy that many books in French, only one Proust so far this year and b) I always end up adding the French books to the basket full of books in English to avoid shipping fees. I'm bad :( In my defence, I'm a poor student.
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Date: 2009-03-22 02:50 pm (UTC)I saw Neil Gaiman read at the ComicCon last year. He's kind of awesome, in person. Have you read 'The Graveyard Book'? Excellent, and quite creepy.
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Date: 2009-03-22 05:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-22 09:27 pm (UTC)Overall, I prefer his comics/children's books/short stories to the adult novels. And his blog is great.
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Date: 2009-03-23 09:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-22 03:54 pm (UTC)Be aware that the series doesn't really get going until late in volume one when Dream's sister Death turns up.
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Date: 2009-03-22 05:06 pm (UTC)