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Fantasy » alt.fan.pratchett » Pratchett book club
| Pratchett book club [message #251890] |
Di, 11 April 2006 19:13 |
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I've just found this book club that offers 4 Pratchett books (hardback too)
for £4.99
http://tinyurl.com/k9za3
I know everyone will probably have all of them anyway, but there may be
some new fans here.
James
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| Re: Pratchett book club [message #251906 ] |
Di, 11 April 2006 20:20 |
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In a speech called RsR_f.61024$zI1.44912 [at] fe2.news.blueyonder.co.uk,
Pratchett Fan uttered thus:
> I've just found this book club that offers 4 Pratchett books
> (hardback too) for £4.99
> http://tinyurl.com/k9za3
>
> I know everyone will probably have all of them anyway, but there
> may be some new fans here.
>
> James
<deadpan>
Ooh, wow, WorldBooks special introductory offer - again.
</deadpan>
Any four books from 99p each, get a free bookmark. Then you have to
buy at least one crappy book from the catalogue we send you each month
for at least a year, at above-retail prices (they /say/ there's a
discount, but not with 2.95 p&p on each order), and if you don't order
anything, we send you the ludicrously overpriced, and
even-crapper-than-the-other-crap-we-stock Editor's Choice.
--
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http://www.livejournal.com/users/sabremeister/
Use b dot wakeling at virgin dot net to reply
Literary threat #19:
They say the pen is mightier than the sword -
and I'm pretty handy with both, you know...
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| Re: Pratchett book club [message #251911 ] |
Di, 11 April 2006 20:30 |
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Pratchett Fan <james1218 [at] hotmail.com> wrote:
> I've just found this book club that offers 4 Pratchett books
> (hardback too) for £4.99
> http://tinyurl.com/k9za3
>
> I know everyone will probably have all of them anyway, but there may
> be some new fans here.
1: Considering that you have to buy a minimum of four more books from them,
pljus go through the hassle of unsubscribing, it's not a good deal.
2: It's also an UK only club that's not open to most of the afpeople.
3: This smells of referral spam, and checking with the site, it does indeed
appear that the referrer gets GBP 5 for each new member signing up.
4: When doing referral spamming, at the VERY least make sure you refer to
the correct books.
*PLONK*
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*Art
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| Re: Pratchett book club [message #251913 ] |
Di, 11 April 2006 20:42 |
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Brian Wakeling wrote:
>
> Any four books from 99p each, get a free bookmark. Then you have to
> buy at least one crappy book from the catalogue we send you each month
> for at least a year, at above-retail prices (they /say/ there's a
> discount, but not with 2.95 p&p on each order), and if you don't order
> anything, we send you the ludicrously overpriced, and
> even-crapper-than-the-other-crap-we-stock Editor's Choice.
The amusing thing, of course, is that "Editor's Choice" usually means
"the rubbish left at the back of the warehouse that we couldn't shift".
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| Re: Pratchett book club [message #251934 ] |
Di, 11 April 2006 22:04 |
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In article <4a2aatFq486oU1 [at] individual.net>,
"Brian Wakeling" <bpwakeling [at] hotmail.com> wrote:
><deadpan>
>Ooh, wow, WorldBooks special introductory offer - again.
></deadpan>
>
>Any four books from 99p each, get a free bookmark. Then you have to
>buy at least one crappy book from the catalogue we send you each month
>for at least a year, at above-retail prices (they /say/ there's a
>discount, but not with 2.95 p&p on each order), and if you don't order
>anything, we send you the ludicrously overpriced, and
>even-crapper-than-the-other-crap-we-stock Editor's Choice.
Although I wouldn't recommend World Books to anyone, I do consider my
membership to have been worthwhile if only because I got the Complete
Oxford Dictionary for a ludicrously low price.
Now that they've started doing 'phone spam, I'll probably unsubscribe very
soon...
Salesdroid: "As someone who has ordered Thrillers and Mystery titles
before, can we interest you in Agatha Christie's Miss Marple series, which
we will send you one a month..."
Me: "I've got them."
Salesdroid: [Pause... apparently that response isn't on his checklist] "All
of them?"
Me: "Yes, and the Poirot's as well." [*]
Salesdroid: "Oh."
[*] Not quite true, My mum *had* them all, gave a load of them away to
charity, and I'm filling up the gaps again.
Cat.
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Jazz-Loving Soul Mate and Tolerable Frog to CCA
Can I have a widdle please Bob?
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| Re: Pratchett book club [message #251990 ] |
Mi, 12 April 2006 01:33 |
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Torak wrote:
> The amusing thing, of course, is that "Editor's Choice" usually means
> "the rubbish left at the back of the warehouse that we couldn't shift".
>
Come on, if you were the "editor" at such an outfit, what would *you*
choose to thrust upon your readers?
Michael
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| Re: Pratchett book club [message #252000 ] |
Mi, 12 April 2006 02:05 |
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Michael J. Schülke said:
> Torak wrote:
>
>> The amusing thing, of course, is that "Editor's Choice" usually means
>> "the rubbish left at the back of the warehouse that we couldn't shift".
>>
> Come on, if you were the "editor" at such an outfit, what would *you*
> choose to thrust upon your readers?
The Colour of Magic
The Light Fantastic
Equal Rites
Mort
Sourcery
Wyrd Sisters
Pyramids
Guards! Guards!
Faust^WEric
Moving Pictures
Reaper Man
Witches Abroad
Small Gods
Lords and Ladies
Men at Arms
Soul Music
Interesting Times
Maskerade
Feet of Clay
Hogfather
Jingo
The Last Continent
Carpe Jugulum
The Fifth Elephant
The Truth
Thief of Time
Night Watch
The Science of Discworld
Anything else by TP
Anything by Charles Dickens, J R R Tolkien, C S Lewis, Martin Gardner, Ian
Stewart, Jack Cohen, Anne McCaffrey, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Arthur
C Clarke, Donald Knuth, Niklaus Wirth, Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie,
Eric Raymond, W Richard Stevens, or Rob Pike
Any of Tom Clancy's "Jack Ryan" novels
The Belgariad, by David Eddings
The Malloreon, also by David Eddings
The Little Grey Men, by "B.B."
Mister God, this is Anna, by Fynn
The Bible
The Complete Works of Shakespeare
The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins
1066 and All That, by Sellars and Yeatman
The Yes, Minister Diaries, by Lynn and Jay
The Yes, Prime Minister Diaries, by Lynn and Jay
.... yadayadayada ...
--
Richard Heathfield
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999
http://www.cpax.org.uk
email: rjh at above domain (but drop the www, obviously)
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| Re: [I] Pratchett book club [message #252121 ] |
Mi, 12 April 2006 16:44 |
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Richard Heathfield wrote:
> The Colour of Magic
> The Light Fantastic
> Equal Rites
> Mort
> Sourcery
> Wyrd Sisters
> Pyramids
> Guards! Guards!
> Faust^WEric
Read those
> Moving Pictures
Not read
> Reaper Man
Read those
> Witches Abroad
Read - but so long ago it doesn't really count
> Small Gods
> Lords and Ladies
> Men at Arms
> Soul Music
> Interesting Times
> Maskerade
> Feet of Clay
> Hogfather
> Jingo
> The Last Continent
> Carpe Jugulum
> The Fifth Elephant
> The Truth
> Thief of Time
> Night Watch
> The Science of Discworld
Read those
> Anything by Charles Dickens, J R R Tolkien, C S Lewis, Martin Gardner, Ian
> Stewart, Jack Cohen, Anne McCaffrey, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Arthur
> C Clarke, Donald Knuth, Niklaus Wirth, Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie,
> Eric Raymond, W Richard Stevens, or Rob Pike
Read more than 1/3 of those authors
> Any of Tom Clancy's "Jack Ryan" novels
> The Belgariad, by David Eddings
> The Malloreon, also by David Eddings
> The Little Grey Men, by "B.B."
Not read
> Mister God, this is Anna, by Fynn
Read that - and the Black Knight too - I would have liked to have seen
Anna's take on chaos theory.
> The Bible
Not all of it
> The Complete Works of Shakespeare
> The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins
> 1066 and All That, by Sellars and Yeatman
> The Yes, Minister Diaries, by Lynn and Jay
Not read
> The Yes, Prime Minister Diaries, by Lynn and Jay
I've got something similar, by the same authors, only it's entitled
"The Complete Yes Prime Minister". And yes, I've read it.
> ... yadayadayada ...
That's on my wishlist.
Adrian.
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| Re: [I] Pratchett book club [message #252122 ] |
Mi, 12 April 2006 16:59 |
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8'FED said:
> Richard Heathfield wrote:
>
>> Moving Pictures
>
> Not read
Then you haven't lived. Really. Buy it, beg it, borrow it, or steESC8Xi.
And then read it. It's superb. It's amazing. And it explains what happens
when you build a better mousetrap.
With a thousand elephants! Set against the background of a worlde gonne
madde!
>> Mister God, this is Anna, by Fynn
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> Read that
I'm astounded. I didn't think anyone else would even have heard of it.
> - and the Black Knight too - I would have liked to have seen
> Anna's take on chaos theory.
Yes. She had her own special brand of chaos, Written Down Big.
--
Richard Heathfield
"Usenet is a strange place" - dmr 29/7/1999
http://www.cpax.org.uk
email: rjh at above domain (but drop the www, obviously)
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| Re: Pratchett book club [message #252525 ] |
Fr, 14 April 2006 04:08 |
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In article <C061CA6E966829759C [at] 192.168.0.2>, The Stainless Steel Cat
<steelcat [at] atuin.demon.co.uk> writes
>In article <4a2aatFq486oU1 [at] individual.net>,
>"Brian Wakeling" <bpwakeling [at] hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>><deadpan>
>>Ooh, wow, WorldBooks special introductory offer - again.
>></deadpan>
>>
>>Any four books from 99p each, get a free bookmark. Then you have to
>>buy at least one crappy book from the catalogue we send you each month
>>for at least a year, at above-retail prices (they /say/ there's a
>>discount, but not with 2.95 p&p on each order), and if you don't order
>>anything, we send you the ludicrously overpriced, and
>>even-crapper-than-the-other-crap-we-stock Editor's Choice.
>
>Although I wouldn't recommend World Books to anyone, I do consider my
>membership to have been worthwhile if only because I got the Complete
>Oxford Dictionary for a ludicrously low price.
You are me and I claim my five pounds.
There were some other useful books that I got dead cheap as well, but
the money I saved on the OED more than made up for having to send back
the monthly postcard within 5 minutes of receiving it to avoid the
Editor's Choice. They did manage to send me one Editor's Choice because
I wasn't fast enough, but other than that I managed to buy books that I
would have bought anyway, for the four month minimum membership or
whatever it was. Cost over and above what I'd have spent anyway on books
purchased as part of monthly quota, around 20 quid. Money saved on OED,
around 100 quid, plus real savings of about 20 or 30 quid on the other
Special Introductory Offer books that were already on my drool list.
But I waited until the Special Introductory Offer had the OED and a
couple of other books I had my eye on (two of the RHS encyclopaedias,
plus something else I've now forgotten). And I unsubscribed as soon as
the minimum term was up. They sent me snail mail spam for all their
other book clubs for *ages* afterwards...
The Folio Society, on the other hand, only lost me as a member when I
moved to the US. Annual catalogue, you choose a minimum of four books to
rejoin, and nothing you have to pay for ever gets sent without you
having explicitly ordered it first. *Expensive* books, but if you like
physically beautiful, well made books there are worse ways to waste
money.
--
Julia Jones
Spindrift -- EPPIE 2006 finalist, 5 stars from JERR
Richard finds the truth in legend, when he finds a silkie bereft of
his skin and in need of a home... http://www.loose-id.net/detail.aspx?ID=138
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| Re: Pratchett book club [message #252567 ] |
Fr, 14 April 2006 08:44 |
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In article <ErqclVeIQwPEFwRN [at] jajones.demon.co.uk>,
Julia Jones <julia.jones [at] gmail.com> wrote:
>In article <C061CA6E966829759C [at] 192.168.0.2>, The Stainless Steel Cat
><steelcat [at] atuin.demon.co.uk> writes
>>
>>Although I wouldn't recommend World Books to anyone, I do consider my
>>membership to have been worthwhile if only because I got the Complete
>>Oxford Dictionary for a ludicrously low price.
>
>You are me and I claim my five pounds.
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It's the kind of natural stupidity no amount of training could ever hope to
match.
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