This may be an odd request, but does anyone have a scanned photograph of what Mr. Carroll's signature looks like? I ask because I purchased a copy of "After...
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Neal Copperman
neal@...
Dec 1, 2000 6:36 pm
For what it's worth, it seems like most used bookstores really don't care about signed copies of books, unless they are first editions by famous authors. I've...
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seamusemer@...
Dec 1, 2000 6:41 pm
anyone else think the "heidelberg cylinder" was just a really bad short story that he couldn't sell so expanded and conned us into buying a really substandard...
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Partain, Michelle
michelle.partain@...
Dec 1, 2000 6:50 pm
no. ... From: seamusemer@... [mailto:seamusemer@...] Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 10:40 AM To: rondua@egroups.com Subject: Re: [rondua] JC's...
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Steven Miale
miale@...
Dec 1, 2000 6:56 pm
... OK. This was just his name on the title page. Interesting. I never bought the Heidelberg Cylinder, but I'm still lucky enough to have JC's and Dave...
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Loz
l.pycock@...
Dec 1, 2000 7:07 pm
... No, though I do feel that, unlike the sudden endings of most of his other books, the ending here was because he wasn't sure where to take the story. If you...
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AntiUtopia@...
Dec 1, 2000 8:10 pm
Don't know about anyone else, but I thought it was great... :) I have different expectations for a novella or a short story, though -- I don't expect as much...
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Maarten van Dantzich
mvd@...
Dec 1, 2000 8:28 pm
... I wouldn't have put it that way, but have to admit that reading the HC didn't have the same charm for me that JC's other books did. I really enjoy JC's...
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AntiUtopia@...
Dec 1, 2000 9:51 pm
Yeah, see, I think the main problem is just with the form, not with the writing. I don't expect that kind of detail in a short story or novella... It's really...
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Michael Hockinson
hocktock@...
Dec 1, 2000 10:16 pm
Neal, Hold on, partner. That generalization about used book stores just doesn't fly with me. I've worked for the last eight years at Powell's Books in...
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Neal Copperman
neal@...
Dec 1, 2000 10:24 pm
Well, I don't disagree with that, but it certainly seems to depend on the store. I just recounted what I have seen. In the same way that I got my copy of...
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Maarten van Dantzich
mvd@...
Dec 2, 2000 2:40 am
... I must've phrased it carelessly. I didn't mean JC as an alternate source of beliefs about the afterlife (alternative to, say, religion); I meant that the...
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Nikita
krushev@...
Dec 2, 2000 6:28 pm
From: Neal Copperman <neal@...> ... No, it wasn't, Neal ---- little bits of observations like that is what fills in the cracks of the Collecting World...
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Michael Hockinson
hocktock@...
Dec 2, 2000 9:03 pm
Heads Up, Ronduans: A first U.S. hardcover of Outside The Dog Museum has just posted on eBay. There is an option to buy the book before bidding begins for a...
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Elzbieta Dudzinska
elzbietad@...
Dec 3, 2000 9:29 am
Carroll didn't put a gun to your head to make you buy The Heidelberg Cylinder so it's a little odd that you choose to use the word "conned." The novella has...
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seamusemer@...
Dec 3, 2000 6:25 pm
oh this is a frothing at the mouth fan site. I love Carroll's work. Just didn't know you couldn't offer any criticism. fanboy....
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AntiUtopia@...
Dec 3, 2000 6:52 pm
I'd love to hear your criticism...but I'd like to hear something more than "It was second rate." I'd like to hear Why you thought it was second rate :) Jim...
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seamusemer@...
Dec 3, 2000 7:52 pm
what was that faux twilight zone ending about? I know Carroll has a thing for cool twists at the end of his short stories and he pulled it off in his earlier...
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Elizabeth
thessaly@...
Dec 4, 2000 8:02 am
... A) this isn't a site, it's a list (which existed, iirc, before jc.com did) B) it's not cool to call other listmembers names. so behave and be nice. -- C)...
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Steve Savile
cinderellaman@...
Dec 4, 2000 9:07 am
Hey there folks - interesting thread at the moment on HC - just watch the spoiler notes for the rest of the gang who haven't read it. For me, being the sad...
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jillski2@...
Dec 4, 2000 2:46 pm
My 2 cents on the HC purchase question. Look, this was offered to us as fans and we knew going in that it was SHORT. But it was also a way to support a ...
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AntiUtopia@...
Dec 4, 2000 3:15 pm
Ok...spoilers below...spoilers... Response below the quoted text... << what was that faux twilight zone ending about? I know Carroll has a thing for cool...
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seamusemer@...
Dec 4, 2000 6:05 pm
In a message dated 12/04/2000 07:16:43 Pacific Standard Time, AntiUtopia@... writes: << In other words, at the beginning of the story he was making fun of...
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AntiUtopia@...
Dec 4, 2000 6:11 pm
In a message dated 12/04/2000 1:07:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, ... Ok, you got me, I laughed :) If you think HC was weird, you should try reading one of his...
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Dagmar Lipovics
dagmarlipovics@...
Dec 4, 2000 7:41 pm
Carroll has repeatedly said he is not getting any money from the sale of THE HEIDELBERG CYLINDER-- it is all going back into supporting the website and ...
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Michele McGarrie
MMcGarrie@...
Dec 4, 2000 8:52 pm
And I think Jim has hit on the key point: the rules are different for a novella than a novel. You won't get characters as flushed out, you won't get a story...
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Elizabeth
thessaly@...
Dec 4, 2000 10:28 pm
Keep your people straight. I don't even OWN the book, how could I have said anything about it being a money-raising project? Christ. Develop some netiquette,...
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Neal Copperman
neal@...
Dec 4, 2000 10:55 pm
... That may be true to some extent, but compensating for those issues is what distinguishes a fantastic short story writer from an ok one. I think it's ...
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seamusemer@...
Dec 4, 2000 11:19 pm
I know why I got such a vehement reaction to the word "con". No one ever likes to feel like they were conned. So, it's probably the wrong word. But remember...
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AntiUtopia@...
Dec 5, 2000 12:06 am
Response to a spoiler :) ... Well, see, I think Rae's love was "taken away" from the main character (Good lord I always forget names) when he "found out" about...
