"Even the people who love me hate me."

[greygirlbeast]

Yesterday was the sort of day that is endured, and that is about the best that can be said for yesterday. Well, no, it got much better after sunset. Byron came by, and we watched the entire first season of Simon Pegg's Spaced. I pretty much stopped watching TV comedy back in the early nineties, because I just didn't "get it" anymore. The characters

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[kambriel]

I hope the world will forgive me for being just a little bitter that it isn't one of my "real" novels getting this sort of distribution.

Who knows, perhaps it will lead to that in the future with the increased "name recognition". I can understand the emotional perplexity of the situation though. Still, here's hoping only good things shall come from it.

Are you going to pick up a copy in the other languages just to see how odd and/or elegant the text reads? I always enjoyed reading interviews in foreign languages, because it makes you sound perfectly fluent ;)

[greygirlbeast]

Are you going to pick up a copy in the other languages just to see how odd and/or elegant the text reads?

I'm going to try to. I especially want the Japanese and Korean editions.

[greygirlbeast]

The world understands and I'm sure it will forgive you.

I hope you are right.

[sovay]

I remember how much it shocked me when I saw Doug Winter's introduction to Tales of Pain and Wonder, and there was Ian Curtis in the first sentence of the first paragraph, though I had intentionally avoided Joy Division references in the stories. Somehow, it came through.

I came late to certain kinds of music; that introduction is why I went out and listened to Joy Division.

[girfan]

The Mist is probably one of my top 5 Stephen King writings ever.

[robyn_ma]

Apropos of nothing, if you go to www.subcin.com and scroll down till you see 'Cinema Illumina,' there's a guy who's hosting virtual movie screenings in Second Life. Dunno if that's a common feature there - I sort of fell out of Second Life.