Comments on: Kindle Schmindle http://www.elifbatuman.net/2010/02/20/kindle-schmindle/ "Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay." Flannery O'Connor Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:22:40 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Len Edgerly http://www.elifbatuman.net/2010/02/20/kindle-schmindle/comment-page-1/#comment-1220 Len Edgerly Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:58:47 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/?p=774#comment-1220 Elif, I just left a five-star review at Amazon expressing my thoughts on the Kindle issues around your book. I'm hoping you might be available to do a 15-minute phone interview on Monday 3/8 for my weekly Kindle Chronicles audio podcast. The show notes page is http://TheKindleChronicles.com . I look forward to reading Possessed! Elif, I just left a five-star review at Amazon expressing my thoughts on the Kindle issues around your book. I’m hoping you might be available to do a 15-minute phone interview on Monday 3/8 for my weekly Kindle Chronicles audio podcast. The show notes page is http://TheKindleChronicles.com . I look forward to reading Possessed!

]]> By: Abraham http://www.elifbatuman.net/2010/02/20/kindle-schmindle/comment-page-1/#comment-1197 Abraham Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:22:48 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/?p=774#comment-1197 double scoundrel! gah. i have a german class to go to. you're just so tricky. (thank you...; ) ) double scoundrel!

gah. i have a german class to go to.

you’re just so tricky.

(thank you…; ) )

]]> By: Abraham http://www.elifbatuman.net/2010/02/20/kindle-schmindle/comment-page-1/#comment-1196 Abraham Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:15:56 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/?p=774#comment-1196 omg. (ok, now now, please don't post this one!!!! you scoundrel!) thank you! writers, even ones on FSG (Lydia Davis! Donald Barthelme! can you believe your company!?) are people too. sigh. a celebratory moment. best wishes, abe ps so when is this enigma article coming out then? Am I gonna look like a total idiot for assuming it was that whatever novel i said it was? is it a fragrance? "people should also buy enigma.....?" is this the enigma, now? was it a trap and bait? you, waiting for some sucker like me to wander in and instigate a remarkably one-sided debate so that you could feel better about putting off writing it, meanwhile forcing much more loyal subscribers of your blog to sit around and eat their socks? i don't know however, those are all rhetorical questions. i'm just going to wait. my sock is in already. omg.

(ok, now now, please don’t post this one!!!! you scoundrel!)

thank you! writers, even ones on FSG (Lydia Davis! Donald Barthelme! can you believe your company!?) are people too. sigh.

a celebratory moment.
best wishes,
abe

ps

so when is this enigma article coming out then? Am I gonna look like a total idiot for assuming it was that whatever novel i said it was? is it a fragrance? “people should also buy enigma…..?” is this the enigma, now? was it a trap and bait? you, waiting for some sucker like me to wander in and instigate a remarkably one-sided debate so that you could feel better about putting off writing it, meanwhile forcing much more loyal subscribers of your blog to sit around and eat their socks? i don’t know

however, those are all rhetorical questions. i’m just going to wait. my sock is in already.

]]> By: abraham http://www.elifbatuman.net/2010/02/20/kindle-schmindle/comment-page-1/#comment-1195 abraham Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:09:51 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/?p=774#comment-1195 i'm sorry for my comment, but i really loved the book. i read it in a fever about a week ago. so many passages resonated with me. i studied russian for a year, curled up in the stacks during the long, cold winter of rochester, ny. it's the closest to siberia i've ever been. of course, the university of rochester was not where i wanted to be, so (lalala) i went to art school, but i have a love-shelf full of russian novels (which seem to be the only ones that continue to escape the half-price purgings) i used to memorize pushkin verses because i thought they sounded beautiful, especially because i knew it would take me years to ever really understand what i was saying in my head, while at the same time recited them to my professor just for the brownie points. i was still a freshman, you know. You're the first writer i've devoured whose blog i've stumbled upon (you know? alive, technologically competent) - blame it on the season, and it seemed like a fun lark to try to interact with you; somebody who seems very inspiring to me. you write with such clarity. I would have been supremely satisfied, well no, considering you deleted those two posts so eagerly while letting this last one, Deborah - 8:01 am, go through, i'll have to rest knowing that that was interaction enough. It's clear that either you intend for this website to remain always a full throat-ed advertisement for your product, or that it is run by people who do. glad to hear your book is selling so well. thanks, and yes, i will be reading the next book, too. i probably just went and picked the wrong forum for all this. abe i’m sorry for my comment, but i really loved the book. i read it in a fever about a week ago. so many passages resonated with me. i studied russian for a year, curled up in the stacks during the long, cold winter of rochester, ny. it’s the closest to siberia i’ve ever been. of course, the university of rochester was not where i wanted to be, so (lalala) i went to art school, but i have a love-shelf full of russian novels (which seem to be the only ones that continue to escape the half-price purgings) i used to memorize pushkin verses because i thought they sounded beautiful, especially because i knew it would take me years to ever really understand what i was saying in my head, while at the same time recited them to my professor just for the brownie points. i was still a freshman, you know.
You’re the first writer i’ve devoured whose blog i’ve stumbled upon (you know? alive, technologically competent) – blame it on the season, and it seemed like a fun lark to try to interact with you; somebody who seems very inspiring to me. you write with such clarity. I would have been supremely satisfied, well no, considering you deleted those two posts so eagerly while letting this last one, Deborah – 8:01 am, go through, i’ll have to rest knowing that that was interaction enough. It’s clear that either you intend for this website to remain always a full throat-ed advertisement for your product, or that it is run by people who do. glad to hear your book is selling so well.

thanks, and yes, i will be reading the next book, too.
i probably just went and picked the wrong forum for all this.

abe

]]> By: IdealBlack http://www.elifbatuman.net/2010/02/20/kindle-schmindle/comment-page-1/#comment-1194 IdealBlack Thu, 25 Feb 2010 01:27:33 +0000 http://www.elifbatuman.net/?p=774#comment-1194 Dear Elif, I always re-read what I love. And I only buy books that I know I will be willing to tend and dust and cart around for years to come. I went to a Barnes and Noble (which I usually avoid) and voluntarily and knowingly paid full price for your book (technically my boss did, since the $15 was on a gift card from him - but if he had not given it to me I would still have paid full price by going to a different bookstore up the street, even though I suspected that Amazon was selling it for 10 cents) and today I missed one subway stop and a bus because I was reading (actually I was re-reading, because I have already read the parts published elsewhere, several times). For you I may even put a review onto Amazon, though the idea makes my head hurt. Dear Elif, I always re-read what I love. And I only buy books that I know I will be willing to tend and dust and cart around for years to come. I went to a Barnes and Noble (which I usually avoid) and voluntarily and knowingly paid full price for your book (technically my boss did, since the $15 was on a gift card from him – but if he had not given it to me I would still have paid full price by going to a different bookstore up the street, even though I suspected that Amazon was selling it for 10 cents) and today I missed one subway stop and a bus because I was reading (actually I was re-reading, because I have already read the parts published elsewhere, several times). For you I may even put a review onto Amazon, though the idea makes my head hurt.

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