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When Thunder Rolled Review
"Bill Silvey" wrote:
"Ed Rasimus" wrote in message A nice review in the Sunday Denver Post of When Thunder Rolled: http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,...493063,00.html 110 every year. One every *three days*?! My god. Actually, my tour covered May-Nov of '66. During that period, the appendix to the book lists 101 losses of F-105s. The footnote to the appendix notes that this was F-105s only and doesn't include the very significant losses of F-4s, A-4s, A-6s, RF-101s, A-1s etc, by both AF and USN. Ed Rasimus Fighter Pilot (ret) ***"When Thunder Rolled: *** An F-105 Pilot Over N. Vietnam" *** from Smithsonian Books ISBN: 1588341038 |
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Much-deserved praise for great job, Ed. Bravo Zulu!
Joe F |
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Much-deserved praise for great job, Ed. Bravo Zulu!
Joe F Next time you're at the bookstore, front a copy of it on a display. If it's facing the aisle, someone looking for another cut'n'paste job might chance upon a real book. |
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Next time you're at the bookstore, front a copy of it on a display. If it's facing the aisle, someone looking for another cut'n'paste job might chance upon a real book. I used to do this with a certain book every time I visited the National Air & Space Museum. One day when I was leaving the museum and happened to check the gift shop again, I found that some anal individual had returned the books to their previous position. all the best -- Dan Ford email: www.danford.net/letters.htm#9 see the Warbird's Forum at http://www.danford.net/index.htm Vietnam | Flying Tigers | Pacific War | Brewster Buffalo | Piper Cub |
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"Cub Driver" wrote in message
news Next time you're at the bookstore, front a copy of it on a display. If it's facing the aisle, someone looking for another cut'n'paste job might chance upon a real book. I used to do this with a certain book every time I visited the National Air & Space Museum. One day when I was leaving the museum and happened to check the gift shop again, I found that some anal individual had returned the books to their previous position. I can't speak for NASM, but you'll find that in most regualr bookstores, which books are shelved face-out is not just randomw or at the staff's discretion. Publishers pay the major chains for face-out shelving of specific boooks, and even more for end-cap placement. -- Tom Schoene Replace "invalid" with "net" to e-mail "If brave men and women never died, there would be nothing special about bravery." -- Andy Rooney (attributed) |
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Next time you're at the bookstore, front a copy of it on a display. Ed, the practice has now been validated by the Wall Street Journal. This appeared on the editorial page today: ************************************************** ************** Confessions of a Stockboy By JOSEPH EPSTEIN What is to be my 15th book, a collection of short stories, has just -- to use the unnecessarily masculine verb -- hit the bookstores, which means this is a difficult time for me. I can take (fairly well) insulting reviews. I can accept (barely) not being a huge bestseller. I can live (sadly) with close friends and family not always reading what I have written. But what I cannot bear -- and up to now, as you will discover, have not borne -- is seeing my books given a dismal display in bookshops. What of course every author wants is the Big Book Treatment: multiple copies in the window, posters and special displays, vast quantities of the sacred volume stocked at the counter, or point of purchase, as we pros like to call it, with perhaps a modest television commercial during halftime at the Super Bowl. What we usually find instead is one copy, shelved in the back under Sociology. So many rainy days in the Republic of Letters. Early in my career as an author, I became a secret stockboy for my own books. I would take that copy or two of my new books away from Sociology or Religion, and, oh so cleverly, slip them onto the bestseller table as I left the shop. If some of my newer books were, briefly, on the New and Current tables, I would gently see to it that they were positioned there more prominently. An acquaintance who works in a bookshop tells me that I am not alone as a nonunion stockboy for my own books. Lots of authors, apparently, go in for it. When they see it happen, bookshop clerks add to their knowledge of the pathos of human nature and, after the self-starting author has departed, quietly return his books to Sociology. I hope I myself haven't yet been caught at it. My last book actually turned out to be a bestseller, not one sufficient to free me from the financial wars, you understand, but sufficient for the banner National Bestseller to appear across the paperback version. Dream of dreams, I saw my book in respectable stacks on bestseller tables. I saw it, Lordy be, in airport bookshops. I had, you might think, arrived. Not quite. I still found myself surreptitiously moving my books to even more dramatic places in the shops in which I found them. I have already moved a couple of copies of this, my new book, to a position facing the entrance at Border's. I have also been watching people as they circle the New and Current table. One largish man, talking on a cellphone, picked up a copy of my book. I noted him reading the dustjacket without pausing in his phone conversation. He put it down and walked off. Poor fellow, he cannot possibly know what he is missing. I walked to Barnes & Noble and saw an attractive woman with my book in her hand. I sidled up to her and announced, "I wrote that book." She looked at me in mild disbelief, taking me, quite possibly, for a maniac. I attempted to establish my sanity by telling her, in too-quick speech, about an incident in which John O'Hara saw a beautiful woman on a train reading one of his books. This could only have confirmed her initial impression of my nuttiness. The truth is, I am nutty. Not all of the time, but just now, under the strain of having a new book in the world, I'm the mad stockboy, and, count on it, I am certain to strike again. ************************************** all the best -- Dan Ford email: www.danford.net/letters.htm#9 see the Warbird's Forum at http://www.danford.net/index.htm Vietnam | Flying Tigers | Pacific War | Brewster Buffalo | Piper Cub |
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