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« Reply #840 on: February 24, 2010, 05:32:46 PM » |
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Sounds like a good book to post and discuss on American History. Oh, and by the way, Amazon has the same book new for $8 less: http://www.amazon.com/Freeing-Charles-Struggle-Slave-Studies/dp/0252076885
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« Reply #841 on: February 24, 2010, 05:59:24 PM » |
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Isn't that usually when Amazon makes an offer to deal a lower price when you buy another recommended book with it? I thought that was their policy, to move books more quickly before they have to pay the tax on inventory in stock.
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« Reply #842 on: February 24, 2010, 06:26:48 PM » |
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Not been my experience with Amazon at all. I may buy one book at a time, or several. Sometimes I buy the recommendations, sometimes not. It is the price plus Amazon 3.99 shipping on any book. What I also like on Amazon are the used books. If a book is old enough to have used versions for sale, the used are usually in excellent condition, and the price can go as low as one cent, plus the 3.99 shipping that never varies no matter where the used book is coming from. Maybe you should give Amazon another look.
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« Reply #843 on: February 24, 2010, 11:39:02 PM » |
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If you buy more than 15 books, cd's, dvd's a year, Amazon Premium. Costs $60. Free Second-Day delivery, $3.99 for next day...which has been a lifesaver for getting last minute music for students.
Sometimes you have to pay for delivery on used books from Amazon Marketplace, sometimes not. Amazon does notify them of premium orders so the service is always reliable.
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« Reply #844 on: February 25, 2010, 05:14:09 PM » |
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I usually try to deal with book dealers who are not too distant, unless I am ordering direct from an academic publisher, because I still have a link to another finder or locator who lists who happens to have the second-hand varieties of a particular work.
Can either of you tell me if there was a novel reviewed of the movie The Single Man, because I feel that I read the "book review" somewhere in passing?
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« Reply #845 on: February 25, 2010, 05:30:38 PM » |
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I've seen a review in The New York Review of Books. Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man, 1964.
Also in a UK paper, maybe the Guardian.
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« Reply #846 on: February 25, 2010, 06:58:24 PM » |
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That's right. That means that I read it.
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« Reply #847 on: May 25, 2010, 11:22:09 PM » |
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I just got a really good deal with the History Book Club. They no longer do automatic shipments, and they have a deal where you can get four books for a buck apiece and if you buy a fifth book at 50% off publisher's price you are not further obligated. So, I spent a total of about $30 for five new history books.
Right now I am reading a recently published book called George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm by Miranda Carter, about the British king, the last tsar, and the last Kaiser. It is a WONDERFUL biography of the three men and has helped me increase my understanding of the dynamics of late 19th century politics in Europe leading up to the first World War. It is a wonderful biography of the three men and Carter has a wonderful, ironic sense of humor.
Also reading Nothing to Envy about the lives of several North Koreans during the famine in the 90s. This book is a fascinating insight into the horrors of living in a true totalitarian society where even what you hang on the walls of your house is regulated.
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« Reply #848 on: May 26, 2010, 01:14:17 AM » |
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Desdemona,
"Right now I am reading a recently published book called George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm by Miranda Carter, about the British king, the last tsar, and the last Kaiser. It is a WONDERFUL biography of the three men and has helped me increase my understanding of the dynamics of late 19th century politics in Europe leading up to the first World War. It is a wonderful biography of the three men and Carter has a wonderful, ironic sense of humor"
A year or two ago this theme was done on PBS(I believe that was the channel) and made the same impression on me. It was a truly offbeat story indicating that the King was terribly haunted by his not having been able to do anything to save his cousin's family whom they had expected to arrive for "a vacation". I must look this book up although at the moment I am not on the verge of buying a group of books because I am trying to plan packing and came to the startling revelation of how many books that I do have around here. I've been at the, "need another bookcase", point -- for some time, which means some books are piled but I have begun putting some in boxes and must mark them for contents as I did before I moved here.
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« Reply #849 on: May 26, 2010, 01:51:58 AM » |
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Right now I am reading a recently published book called George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm by Miranda Carter, about the British king, the last tsar, and the last Kaiser. It is a WONDERFUL biography of the three men and has helped me increase my understanding of the dynamics of late 19th century politics in Europe leading up to the first World War. It is a wonderful biography of the three men and Carter has a wonderful, ironic sense of humor. I have this book and it looks like it will be a good read. I'm in the middle of another subject right now, and will probably not get to this until July. Maybe you will be posting comments? |
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« Reply #850 on: May 26, 2010, 03:49:41 PM » |
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Right now I am reading a recently published book called George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm by Miranda Carter, about the British king, the last tsar, and the last Kaiser. It is a WONDERFUL biography of the three men and has helped me increase my understanding of the dynamics of late 19th century politics in Europe leading up to the first World War. It is a wonderful biography of the three men and Carter has a wonderful, ironic sense of humor. I have this book and it looks like it will be a good read. I'm in the middle of another subject right now, and will probably not get to this until July. Maybe you will be posting comments? Well let's discuss it in July - I'm going to probably check it over again after finishing it. It is SO interesting, I'm not kidding. You are going to love it. Kaiser Wilhelm was SUCH a complete buffoon! And all three of them were perfect idiots. |
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« Reply #851 on: July 13, 2010, 04:32:23 PM » |
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It's July, folks, so why aren't you talking about that book?f I was so looking forward to lurking.
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« Reply #852 on: July 13, 2010, 07:14:39 PM » |
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Me,too.
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« Reply #853 on: July 13, 2010, 07:23:54 PM » |
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They have been talking about it the past two days but in non-fiction.
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« Reply #854 on: July 13, 2010, 09:33:27 PM » |
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Are any here reading it or have done?
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