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Alex Scarrow
Ape
993 Posts |
 Posted - 01 June 2006 : 3:44:05 PM
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Amazon ranking today for 1000 Suns was 871!!!!!
bloody hell.
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John Prigent
Homosapien
United Kingdom
8794 Posts |
Posted - 01 June 2006 : 3:46:53 PM
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Well done, Alex! But I'm sure it will go higher still, the book is so good.
Cheers
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Parmenion
Homosapien
United Kingdom
14676 Posts |
Posted - 01 June 2006 : 3:56:50 PM
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WOW!! thats great im really happy for you mate!!
Its just shows that your hard work can pay off in the end!!
Fingers crossed you can make the top 100 next!!
LASCIATE OGNE SPERANZA, VOI CH'INTRATE
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Ankhsy
Homosapien
United Kingdom
7861 Posts |
Posted - 01 June 2006 : 4:08:03 PM
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"It's hard to work in a group when you're omniscient."
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Alex Scarrow
Ape
993 Posts |
Posted - 01 June 2006 : 4:13:50 PM
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| cheers guys. Onwards and upwards :-) |
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Ankhsy
Homosapien
United Kingdom
7861 Posts |
Posted - 01 June 2006 : 4:47:14 PM
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It's now 689!
"It's hard to work in a group when you're omniscient."
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Parmenion
Homosapien
United Kingdom
14676 Posts |
Posted - 01 June 2006 : 4:50:32 PM
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wow that was quick...Alex did you just pop on and buy a few hundred copies?? {grin}
LASCIATE OGNE SPERANZA, VOI CH'INTRATE
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AndyCanty
Homosapien
United Kingdom
6782 Posts |
Posted - 01 June 2006 : 5:07:01 PM
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nice one!!!!
least we can all be happy that we were right!!!! only can get better!
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If all the worlds a stage?
Where's my script???
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mjv
Invertebrate
122 Posts |
Posted - 01 June 2006 : 10:05:02 PM
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Well done it's a bloody good read. Fingers crossed EQ will be up there soon!
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AndyCanty
Homosapien
United Kingdom
6782 Posts |
Posted - 01 June 2006 : 10:16:06 PM
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bummer, down to about 1100, but to put it into perspective, Young Bloods is only at 3735... hehe 
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If all the worlds a stage?
Where's my script???
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Alex Scarrow
Ape
993 Posts |
Posted - 02 June 2006 : 08:27:42 AM
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To be fair Amazon ratings are terribly suseptible (sp?) to fluctuations based on tiny numbers of sales. Arguably my rating jump could be equally affected by other books ranked above me NOT selling, as it is by the number of books I've sold.
It's encouraging...but not that reliable. Probably a more scientific record, would be how many people per hundred I spot reading the trade paperback on the beach this Summer ;-) |
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Parmenion
Homosapien
United Kingdom
14676 Posts |
Posted - 02 June 2006 : 08:55:39 AM
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has it been put in the airport shops??...thats an amazing place to make sales, every year i see loads of people in there buying books!!
LASCIATE OGNE SPERANZA, VOI CH'INTRATE
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Alex Scarrow
Ape
993 Posts |
Posted - 02 June 2006 : 09:04:33 AM
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| Yes. WH SMiths Travel have an exclusive run of the trade paperback format in their airport shops. So I'm hoping that's doing a nice trade. And with the totally crap weather we're having, it'll probably mean more peeps heading abroad (as indeed I will in August) for a week or two of sun. |
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Parmenion
Homosapien
United Kingdom
14676 Posts |
Posted - 02 June 2006 : 09:51:46 AM
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do you mind me asking where your off too??
i shall stand in the airport and talk loudly about the book when im due to fly out in july!! {grin}
also can you tell me...how to you check the ranking? i can never find it?
LASCIATE OGNE SPERANZA, VOI CH'INTRATE
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Alex Scarrow
Ape
993 Posts |
Posted - 02 June 2006 : 10:05:24 AM
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Nowhere special...cheapy holiday to Majorca.
As for Amazon, the ranking is found in the Product Details section, just below the 'Average customer review' stars |
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Parmenion
Homosapien
United Kingdom
14676 Posts |
Posted - 02 June 2006 : 10:32:47 AM
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cheers,
majorca is nice but the watar dunt taste like what it outa!!
LASCIATE OGNE SPERANZA, VOI CH'INTRATE
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AndyCanty
Homosapien
United Kingdom
6782 Posts |
Posted - 02 June 2006 : 11:03:21 AM
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very drool....hehe
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If all the worlds a stage?
Where's my script???
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Viriatus
Ape
Netherlands
860 Posts |
Posted - 02 June 2006 : 12:57:33 PM
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Yeah, Cape Verde is the place  (I'll be there first half July), but water is also terrible (bottle solution eh)
“How bright is the light if there’s no one else to see it?”
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Ankhsy
Homosapien
United Kingdom
7861 Posts |
Posted - 02 June 2006 : 2:49:12 PM
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I avoid Mallorca between June - September. Too many foreigners. 
Alex, if you are in Palma, check out Gran Cafe Cappuccino on Calle San Miguel (the main shopping street off the Plaza Mayor nearer the Calle Olmos (Oms in Mallorquin) end) if you haven't already been there. It's a super cafe in a 18th century small palace; great for people watching & my favourite place.
And for the best hot chocolate (the thich Spanish style) , check out the oldest chocolateria in Mallorca (dates to 1700), C'an Joan de Saigo. Tourists never find it as its in a back street (Calle Can Sanc) in the old town very near the Plaza Mayor.
"It's hard to work in a group when you're omniscient."
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WarrenH
Homosapien
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04 June 2006 : 4:54:42 PM
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WHS in Oldham has copies, but Ottakars has not got it in yet. {Ottakars has just been bought out by HMV - bang goes another good book shop!}
"May peace be with you allways" |
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Stomachus Grossus
Homosapien
United Kingdom
1949 Posts |
Posted - 08 June 2006 : 5:46:43 PM
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Time to go out and buy this me thinks
Urino -are!!!!
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Mark_Warren
Dinosaur
United Kingdom
226 Posts |
Posted - 08 June 2006 : 6:22:53 PM
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Not getting much time to visit here of late, or read for that matter, but I finished A Thousand Suns. Great book Alex, deserves to sell really well :)
"Give me the sense to wonder. To wonder if I'm free
Give me a sense of wonder. To know I can be me"
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Alex Scarrow
Ape
993 Posts |
Posted - 08 June 2006 : 6:47:34 PM
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Mark,
thanks. If you can...please throw a review up on Amazon, if you can find the time. It really does make a difference to sales when enough genuine reviews (as opposed to author-faked bogus reviews) build up.
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Mark_Warren
Dinosaur
United Kingdom
226 Posts |
Posted - 08 June 2006 : 7:32:28 PM
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Sure thing Alex, I'll try to do it tomorrow morning over my wake up coffee as I try to avoid starting work ;)
"Give me the sense to wonder. To wonder if I'm free
Give me a sense of wonder. To know I can be me"
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Mark_Warren
Dinosaur
United Kingdom
226 Posts |
Posted - 09 June 2006 : 08:13:22 AM
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Alex, managed to put a quick review up. Hopefully it should appear in a day or two.
"A Thousand Suns is a real page turner. The flow of the book is very smooth as it switches between the modern day and the last days of the thrid Reich. The author breathes life into the characters from both era's (those that really lived and those he invented) as well as giving you a real sense of history from the German perspective. A growing curiosity and immersion in the book kept me hooked to the very last page and never disappointed. I could say a lot more about what I really liked about this book but I don't want to spoil the ride for those yet to read it. Pick it up, you won't regret it." |
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Alex Scarrow
Ape
993 Posts |
Posted - 09 June 2006 : 08:20:23 AM
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nice. thanks.
nb: you work from home Mark? |
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Mark_Warren
Dinosaur
United Kingdom
226 Posts |
Posted - 09 June 2006 : 08:35:37 AM
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Unfortunately not. I get into the office around 7.30am most mornings to beat the traffic.
The only time I really work from home is when my boiler leaks thruogh the ceiling like it did on Monday <g>. |
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Parmenion
Homosapien
United Kingdom
14676 Posts |
Posted - 09 June 2006 : 09:24:20 AM
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know how you feel mate, I wanted a laptop from work when they replace my PC but it got shot down by procurement!! most annoyed i was looking forward to working inthe garden in the summer!!
LASCIATE OGNE SPERANZA, VOI CH'INTRATE
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Mark_Warren
Dinosaur
United Kingdom
226 Posts |
Posted - 09 June 2006 : 11:03:25 AM
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| Aye companies can be a real pain about laptops. I've got one but I have to set a good example to my staff, otherwise they'd all be working from home for one reason or another ;) |
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Parmenion
Homosapien
United Kingdom
14676 Posts |
Posted - 09 June 2006 : 11:10:56 AM
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not that i would have worked form home to watch the whole of the world cup...well actually i would...i have a small hand held TV for the japan world cup and watched it with headphone at work, saw every game!! {grin}
LASCIATE OGNE SPERANZA, VOI CH'INTRATE
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Viriatus
Ape
Netherlands
860 Posts |
Posted - 09 June 2006 : 11:45:16 PM
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The good thing is that at first game time I’m home already.
The bad is that by then I’m alone with the two younger ones and is dinner time to them, one at the time…
Half hour later things are better, but not to the beginning of the game.
“How bright is the light if there’s no one else to see it?”
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BLIMEY!!!
