Greetings from Amazon.co.uk, We've noticed that customers who have purchased or rated books by Richard Morgan have also purchased Sleepover Girls Go Dancing - Working Title (The Sleepover Club) by Harriet Castor... http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0007264925/ref=pe_3421_10440621_pe_snp_925 Given that Richard Morgan is hard SF / tech noir, I think they need to take a serious look at their pattern matching algorithm. On the Richard Morgan note - looks like his next book is *fantasy* FFS: http://www.richardkmorgan.com/news.htm -- Champ ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle To email me, neal at my domain should work.
Or sci-fi fans are just little girls. -- Veggie Dave UKRMHRC#2 BOTAFOF#08 IQ 18 FILMS http://www.iq18films.com POST PRODUCTION http://www.iq18films.co.uk Toxic Shock Syndrome Gets More Girls Than Me
Really? A deja search of "richard morgan amazon" doesn't throw find anything. -- Champ ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle To email me, neal at my domain should work.
"Look - it's like this: if you really, really love Tolkein with a firmly burning uncritical passion, then there's a good chance The Steel Remains is going to upset you. If you really, really love all those stories about simple, good-hearted farm-boys becoming princes or wizards, then there's a good chance The Steel Remains is going to upset you as well. And if you like your heroes masculine, muscular and morally upright, well, then you could be in serious trouble here. " Doesn't sound too bad, actually. I like Black Man, thought it was a good change from his Kovacs novels.
oh come on, you're being specious. The subject of this thread is "amazon loses plot" and you complain about their pattern matching. Which is what I posted about back in August last year.
Wow. I forwarded the email to Richard Morgan himself (via the address on his web site), with a comment that maybe someone was staging an elaborate joke, and he replied within 15 mins. He suspects that it is staged, perhaps down to offence taken at his article about SF&F genre squabbling (http://www.richardkmorgan.com/article_soundfury.htm) -- Champ ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle To email me, neal at my domain should work.
I complained last time they sent me some patently stupid recommendation. You can guess what it achieved though.
what does "patently stupid" mean? None of the dictionary definitions of "patently" seem to fit. Do you mean "blatantly stupid"?
err, yes. Look, I'm going to roll out the "under stress" excuse again. I'm being interviewed tomorrow to assess my "personal competency quotient"[1]. [1] HR's words, not mine.
You're fucked. -- Champ ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle To email me, neal at my domain should work.
heh. Indeed. One of the things I'll be tested on, apparently, is how well I function in an "environment of creative tension". What*ever*
<boggle> "In the exercise you'll have 15 minutes to produce a 3-tier architecture, object model and normalised database schema, while your colleagues fire paintballs at you" Do tell us how it goes. -- Champ ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle To email me, neal at my domain should work.
"I get out the baseball bat and restore order through threats, intimidation and physical violence". Would that do it? Phil.
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