Shipping and handling

[raven]

The problem with the $30 Amazon.com gift certificate is the fact that half of it will undoubtably go on postage and packing, or as the Americans call it, shipping and handling.
If I keep in mind books are usually more expensive when counting in dollars, that leaves me with two books, max. Slightly irritating, but I went to the American website to find out whether they carried both of the ones I wanted. Yes for both, which I was pleased about, and there's another nifty little feature on the American site that amazon.co.uk has yet to adopt, and that's sample pages. Tales of Earthsea didn't have any samples, but the M*A*S*H book did (its actual title is so long I'm not going to bother typing it all out). So, I read the pages, keeping in mind the weirdness of the book being written by a Republican, and was pleasantly surprised. The sample pages go on long enough for a few characters to be introduced, and Hawkeye's first piece of dialogue, apart from his name, is, "Jesus, I need a drink."
It was about then I decided I was going to like this book.