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[savetheworld42.livejournal.com]

All five chapters of CoK are up here

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[checkers65477.livejournal.com]

Still, it seems like a lot to put up before a book is published...

[cloudsoffools.livejournal.com]

Ikr? It is 60+ pages. COK has to be at least 300 pages because by the end, it still seemed like the very, very beginning. Awesome and amazing still though. I need this book!

[rosaleeluann.livejournal.com]

It also includes the first few pages of chapter six.

[keestone.livejournal.com]

And OMG mean place to end. Well, any place other than the end would be a mean place to end, but aaaaah!

[cloudsoffools.livejournal.com]

OMG, even a lurker like me has to post a huge THANK YOU and YEESSSSSSSSSSS!

[styromgalleries.livejournal.com]

I'm not even through the third chapter, and all I want is to huggle poor Sophos.

[thelasteddis.livejournal.com]

ARG ARG ARG FIVE WHOLE CHAPTERS?!?!?!? WANT WANT WANT..........

I might have to tie myself to a stake in the yard so I don't read these. If you don't hear from me, that's where I am.

[drashizu.livejournal.com]

This is horrid. I can't believe they'd let us see so much of it at one time. (even worse that I spent a while searching for the next phrase in the sentence so I could read on for a few pages...gah they have to take it down! I can't take it!)

[drashizu.livejournal.com]

Actually, why don't they just let us buy ARCs? They'd make money, AND most of us would probably also buy the real version when it came out, since, I don't know about you guys, but I have at least 3 copies of each of the books and it's never too late to start collecting for CofK. They could charge an extra 10 bucks online or whatever for the "preview reservation" and send us an ARC when we order and a finished version once it's been released... I'd totally do it.

No, that's a BAD idea. I should wait. Anticipation is half the good in the first place. (Well, in MWT's case, that might only hold if there's 150% good, total...)

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

Hah! I thought I was the only one with multiple copies of each book. And this is a great idea - hell, I'm ready to pay anything to be able to read the next chapters.

[magicsandwiches.livejournal.com]

Nope. A lot of us have at least two sets: One for loaning out, one for keeping close by (with lots of spoilery notes in the margins).

[tiegirl.livejournal.com]

I have at least three of every one. I'm working on (random number) 17 copies of each.;-D

[willow-41z.livejournal.com]

Here's some appropriate music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDJ_Mz8ftqI) for you young whipper-snappers.

[queenofattolia.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the link, and AUGGH I am so frustrated now. I'm dying to read the rest of the story.

I've always thought that all of Attolia books had a whiff of Mary Renault (particularly The Persian Boy) and Mary Stewart (particularly The Crystal Cave) but this particular novel reminds me strongly of both (so far). It goes without saying that MWT is in top form here, as usual.

And how cool is it that she dedicated CoK to Diana Wynne Jones? I'm dubious about the "leg up" part, though, for while I treasure most of DWJ's books, I think MWT has now surpassed her in terms of sheer artistry, subtlety and power.

Thanks again. Can't wait until March.

ETA: Did she mean a literal leg up? As in, DWJ encouraged her/facilitated publication of her books?

[peggy-2.livejournal.com]

Did she mean a literal leg up? As in, DWJ encouraged her/facilitated publication of her books?

yes

[elvenjaneite.livejournal.com]

ETA: Did she mean a literal leg up? As in, DWJ encouraged her/facilitated publication of her books?

DWJ recommended Our Dear Author to Greenwillow, which is how Instead of Three Wishes got published. So, yes.

[crowinator.livejournal.com]

That was awesome! Thank you for posting it - I would never have known. I stayed up past my bedtime to read all of it. But ARRRRRGH -- it ends in the middle of a sentence! And now I have to wait another month! I can't stand it!

[keestone.livejournal.com]

I stayed up way too late reading that last night, and I have so much work to do, and I don't care, I just want to read it again dagnabit!

[savetheworld42.livejournal.com]

I had to de-lurk to post this news! I know the original post didn't sound adequately exciting, but I was rushing off to swim practice. (Hence the lack of puctuation.)

Posting so much of a book is probably a good thing. Some people who aren't as devoted as Sounis members to MTW's works will get an introduction to her and be encouraged to buy the book. HarperCollins probably has a whole team of people studying the thought processes of readers!