The Darksmith Legacy

[mtemplar_fic]

The website is open!

http://www.thedarksmithlegacy.com/#/homepage

Anyone else playing along yet? Sadly, my books won't arrive until next week. There's possibly (remote at best) some spoilers in here for the Easter Special (ie Mordane), but it's unclear right now how relevant this series is in relation to television canon.

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[garpu.livejournal.com]

*cry* The first book isn't available from book depository yet. :(

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

I like their free shipping, but I couldn't preorder from them either. *grumbles*

[garpu.livejournal.com]

Amazon is *insane* with their shipping to the US. Guess it's the downside to free shipping from the other place.

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

The only good thing is that the Pound is down vs the Dollar - that's about it, really.

[garpu.livejournal.com]

True. I should pick up the time-traveler's almanac. :)

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

Is it on Book Depository?

[garpu.livejournal.com]

Yup. I've seen it at the UW bookstore, but I'm not paying them way the hell more than it normally retails for.

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to get very envious of your bookstore.

[garpu.livejournal.com]

It's good...but better prices can be had elsewhere.

[garpu.livejournal.com]

*cries* 7 pounds and change at bookdepository, although it would be the same price, if a bit more, if I got them from amazon. Their prices usually drop after a few weeks.

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

Who - Amazon or BD?

[garpu.livejournal.com]

BD. Looks like prices are dropping, though. (5.60/5.63)

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

That was quick.

[garpu.livejournal.com]

Seems like once they get the books in (ship within 24 hours), their prices drop. Then again the pound is going up, so it might be a wash. how are the books?

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

Dunno - don't have yet. I'm guessing they'll be here toward the end of the week.

[platypus]

I've become quite the Book Depository convert. Got Monsters Within for $15, shipped. Yikes!

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

I'm getting that with an Amazon giftcard that I received for Christmas - strangely enough, you aren't able to use an Amazon giftcard on the Amazon UK site. Weirdness.

Otherwise, I love Book Depository. They are awesome.

[garpu.livejournal.com]

How is that one?

[platypus]

I'm fairly disappointed with it in relation to the Telos books analyzing the first three seasons. The other books either actually engaged a cross-section of fandom to write opinions/reviews, or at least quoted other perspectives broadly. (And, yeah, I know what happened with the Torchwood book, when they decided that quoting LJ broadly, without asking permission, was a good idea.) This book's skinny, and the episode analyses just a few pages each; you can just see them frantically snipping out blog and forum quotes. As a result, it's very much just Walker's perspective, and Walker is Wrong About Many Things. He starts whining every time Donna raises her voice, and he doesn't really pick up on a lot of interesting details in the episodes that I might've missed, either; it feels like he's phoning it in. Shaun Lyon was just better. Pity that he apparently became so disillusioned with the show.

But I'm a completist, and for $15 I can't say I didn't enjoy reading it. I just don't think I'll browse through it again and again like I do the others; there's so much less analysis of the season arc, the relationships, everything. Makes me wish About Time would do some books on the new series (preferably without Mad Larry, but I did think having multiple perspectives was A Good Thing).

[garpu.livejournal.com]

Hrm...might look for it used.

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

That's disappointing - considering Series 4 is arguably my favorite. What happened with Shaun Lyon?

[principia-coh.livejournal.com]

Where are you getting your books that you'll have them next week (without paying ungodly amounts for shipping)?

[mtemplar-fic.livejournal.com]

Nothing exotic - they shipped from Amazon UK a few days ago (they usu. average around 10 days for me, so I'm expecting them next Friday/Saturday), and yes, shipping was ghastly.

Currently trying to guess the words - I'm 2 for 4 right now.