Hey guys,

I'm having trouble finding a copy of Side Jobs from UK retailers available actually available on the release date.

Everywhere is only doing Paperback, and they won't release it till April 14th, I've tried Amazon, WSH Smiths, Play, Waterstones... Nowhere will sell it before then.

is the American release date 6 months before Europe's or are they just being incredibly frustrating? Anyone else found somewhere they can order copies from? Trying to avoid importanting one from America but if it comes to that I'll do it.

Thanks!

 

http://www.bookdepository.com/book/9780451463654/Side-Jobs


There you go a British website with free shipping world wide and at good value as well.

 

When is Side Jobs supposed to come out anyways?

 

£19? Jesus christ.. Importing it's cheaper than that... looks like that's what it's gonna result in, damnit.

Oh well, thanks anyway guys.

 

Try proxy servers. Depending on what nation my proxy was located in, I got a range of different prices from bookdepository.com £13.17, £13.62, £10.42, etc. You can use an Egyptian proxy, for example, and then just change the currency in the top right dropdown box.

Just don't use any payment method while using a public proxy. They're not safe.

If the site can't be fooled by saving a shopping basket via proxy and then logging in without the proxy, then you could just get someone in another country to buy it for you.

 

Or ebook.

4 hours until I'm reading my shiny new kindle version .

 

Huh? My kindle is saying the preorder is for a 26th of October delivery.

 

And the 26th is in 3 hours on the West Coast. It's already available on the East.

 

Oh fail... I thought it was the 24th. This is what 15 hour work days do to me, I guess.

edit: My kindle isn't delivering me the book and it's past 12... this isn't my day.

 

Got it. Read it. I haven't read the short story involving Harry, Murphy, and Love Spells before so that was a nice little story. And then new one, Aftermath, well, it was good. It was kind of disapointing, with almost no elaboration on the events at the end of changes, but it was a good story anyway.

 

Not reading the spoiler, but that sounds fucking depressing, I thought he was better then to jerk us around.

 

It's clear that he left the cliff hanger in Changes to sell this anthology, because either he or his publisher knew the damn thing wouldn't sell well unless there was an incentive for people to buy it beyond his normal shorts.

However I'm actually pretty satisfied with what they did explain. The short story comes off as something realistic from the view point of Murphy. She's not superwoman, and she doesn't have the ties that Dresden has. How is she supposed to find out what happened? I think this really wasn't that bad.

 

Personally, I would have bought the anthology either anyway, but that's just me. The shorts tend to fill in tiny details that get left out of the novels, and allow some development of the secondary characters, especially the Alphas.

That being said, no, Aftermath did not add much to the story of Harry post-Changes - but that really wasn't the intention. It was suppose to add to the world, the Dresdenverse itself, and in that, I think it succeeded.

Plus I like where he's headed with Andi. :awesome

 

Personally, I feel that the Marcone story, Even Hand, is much more revealing than Aftermath. In Even Hand it is revealed that

Spoiler

Marcone was coming up with a way to assassinate Harry Dresden. By the end of the story, he has proof it works. Magic Piercing Bullets.

 

Bought the book yesterday, had it on the passenger seat of my car, left it there overnight cause I got out of work late and thought I'd start it tomorrow (today) on my lunch break.

This morning, I got to my car and some crackwhore had smashed out my rear window. There was nothing of value in my car and given where I live it's fuckers literally breaking into cars to steal pocket change.

So long story short, someone from the housing projects broke into my car and stole my copy of Side Jobs.

/me rages.