Oh that explains everything. The page you linked for gifting Kindle books was the exact same on that I had visited and was wondering why on earth the "Give as gift" button seemed to be missing in action. Looking for the book on Amazon shows it only available in Kindle format and at Book Depository it ships from OZ. So as the author is an Australian, that makes sense. It's also on special discount here and is listed as reduced from a ridiculous DIGITAL list price of $27!!! Now that would be outright extortion since the costs of production and distribution are so much smaller than paper.
Strangely enough - the dead tree version in paperback was released in July 2016 and has a green cover with a picture of Stonehenge on it while the version with the Easter Island statues is in hardback and is not released until February 2017 and costs only a couple of dollars extra.
I did mention it a few times way back in June when I first heard stories about it on the radio.
Please do owl me your preferred amazon address. It's just so much easier than sending dead trees across the universe. The price and speed of postage and packaging is the real attraction.
That quote about certain sorts of Christians (Catholics are famous for their glorification of suffering) seems familiar. The Romans apparently considered the new Jewish splinter sect as a cannabalistic cult and of course any self respecting impartial Martian would also see it that way. Izzie also suspects that it was no accident that Lord Voldemort used a similar ritual to resurrect himself at a very special Black Mass at the Little Hangleton graveyard.
There's a lot to be said for growing up in a Catholic culture - they do bling, pomp, ceremony and ritual really well.
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Date: 2016-12-10 02:13 pm (UTC)Strangely enough - the dead tree version in paperback was released in July 2016 and has a green cover with a picture of Stonehenge on it while the version with the Easter Island statues is in hardback and is not released until February 2017 and costs only a couple of dollars extra.
I did mention it a few times way back in June when I first heard stories about it on the radio.
Please do owl me your preferred amazon address. It's just so much easier than sending dead trees across the universe. The price and speed of postage and packaging is the real attraction.
That quote about certain sorts of Christians (Catholics are famous for their glorification of suffering) seems familiar. The Romans apparently considered the new Jewish splinter sect as a cannabalistic cult and of course any self respecting impartial Martian would also see it that way.
Izzie also suspects that it was no accident that Lord Voldemort used a similar ritual to resurrect himself at a very special Black Mass at the Little Hangleton graveyard.
There's a lot to be said for growing up in a Catholic culture - they do bling, pomp, ceremony and ritual really well.