Where is my book?
Nov. 10th, 2006 11:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyofastolatWhere. Is. My. Book?
I ordered book 2 and book 4 of the Lymond Chronicles 9 days ago, from a UK bookseller. (The library has the other four titles in the series.) They acknowledged receipt of my order, though annoyingly, they said that I should allow 5 - 7 days for delivery. 7 days later, I got book 4, but still no book 2. I eked out book one as long as I possibly could, but stopping in the last 150 pages is humanly impossible, so I finished it yesterday. Today I have a day off, and hours in which I could be reading... so where is my book?
What's this "allow 7 days for delivery" affair, anyway? Is sounds like an excuse for sitting on my order for a few days, not bothering to do anything about it. The book I received on Wednesday was posted five days after they received my order. And can't they guess that someone ordering book two of a series is probably half way through book one at the time of ordering, and desperate for it? Are they trying to torture me deliberately, or something?
Or maybe this is my punishment for saying I'd rather give up books than the internet.
I am posting this because experience has shown that the best way to cause a late person to arrive is to say, "that's it. We'll send out a search party." This post is my search party. So, book, you jolly well better turn up within the next half hour, or I will... I will... *snarls in a threatening and incoherent fashion.*
I ordered book 2 and book 4 of the Lymond Chronicles 9 days ago, from a UK bookseller. (The library has the other four titles in the series.) They acknowledged receipt of my order, though annoyingly, they said that I should allow 5 - 7 days for delivery. 7 days later, I got book 4, but still no book 2. I eked out book one as long as I possibly could, but stopping in the last 150 pages is humanly impossible, so I finished it yesterday. Today I have a day off, and hours in which I could be reading... so where is my book?
What's this "allow 7 days for delivery" affair, anyway? Is sounds like an excuse for sitting on my order for a few days, not bothering to do anything about it. The book I received on Wednesday was posted five days after they received my order. And can't they guess that someone ordering book two of a series is probably half way through book one at the time of ordering, and desperate for it? Are they trying to torture me deliberately, or something?
Or maybe this is my punishment for saying I'd rather give up books than the internet.
I am posting this because experience has shown that the best way to cause a late person to arrive is to say, "that's it. We'll send out a search party." This post is my search party. So, book, you jolly well better turn up within the next half hour, or I will... I will... *snarls in a threatening and incoherent fashion.*
