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- Madeleine
- Bibliomaniac
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- Currently reading: "The Sicilian Method" by Andrea Camilleri
- Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
- Location: Essex/London
That name does sound weird - maybe it's a mis-print or the person who did the blurb read it wrong? And I also wondered how he managed to buy a silver mine with "little money", perhaps they were going cheap in those days!
At least the mystery of the rocks is solved though.
At least the mystery of the rocks is solved though.
Currently reading: "The Sicilian Method" by Andrea Camilleri
[quote=""Madeleine""]That name does sound weird - maybe it's a mis-print or the person who did the blurb read it wrong? And I also wondered how he managed to buy a silver mine with "little money", perhaps they were going cheap in those days!
At least the mystery of the rocks is solved though.[/quote]
I doubt they'd be going cheap by 1899. From reading the reviews, it sounds like there's some serious editing errors.
I told you guys it looked like Garden of the Gods! Beautiful place to visit.
At least the mystery of the rocks is solved though.[/quote]
I doubt they'd be going cheap by 1899. From reading the reviews, it sounds like there's some serious editing errors.
I told you guys it looked like Garden of the Gods! Beautiful place to visit.
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be
...is the only place I want to be
[quote=""LadyB""]I would avoid, Misfit, after reading the blurb. It's not exactly polished sounding. And Hannish MacGreagor? Neither of those names are Scottish! Why not just call him Hamish MacGregor?[/quote]
That is off.
That is off.
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be
...is the only place I want to be
- DianeL
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[quote=""MLE (Emily Cotton)""]Ditto. And the font doesn't help.
Have you ever seen some graphics on a vehicle going down the road and not for the life of you been able to read whatever it was trying to say?
I think about how much money whoever spent to get their message across, and wonder what they were thinking, using that hard-to-read font.[/quote]
I have that problem with BILLBOARDS, even! Then again, I tried to read my own sentence that you quoted, and nearly passed out. That was an eye-crossing piece of work!
As to the Duke, I can believe a poor noble - shoot, there have been poor enough kings, why not a Duke. But I have issues with the fact that it's necessary to research the story to understand the cover - and that photoshop job is still the pits.
Have you ever seen some graphics on a vehicle going down the road and not for the life of you been able to read whatever it was trying to say?
I think about how much money whoever spent to get their message across, and wonder what they were thinking, using that hard-to-read font.[/quote]
I have that problem with BILLBOARDS, even! Then again, I tried to read my own sentence that you quoted, and nearly passed out. That was an eye-crossing piece of work!
As to the Duke, I can believe a poor noble - shoot, there have been poor enough kings, why not a Duke. But I have issues with the fact that it's necessary to research the story to understand the cover - and that photoshop job is still the pits.
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- MLE (Emily Cotton)
- Bibliomaniac
- Posts: 3565
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- Interest in HF: started in childhood with the classics, which, IMHO are HF even if they were contemporary when written.
- Favourite HF book: Prince of Foxes, by Samuel Shellabarger
- Preferred HF: Currently prefer 1600 and earlier, but I'll read anything that keeps me turning the page.
- Location: California Bay Area
[html]A Duke by inheritance, Hannish MacGreagor
soon learned the title came with very little wealth,
so he bought a silver mine in Idaho, left his wife of
two weeks in Scotland, and sailed to America. Later,
he sold the mine, became one of the wealthiest men
in Colorado and built Marblestone Mansion on a bluff
overlooking Colorado Springs. His hopes were high
when he sent for his wife, but something was amiss -
his wife was not what she pretended to be. [/html]Then I get where the plot is drawn from. I attended a speaker's conference at Glen Eyrie, the tudor-style castle built next to Garden of the Gods by some mining magnate. Crammed with ceilings and fireplaces imported from the real thing in Europe. Wonderful hiking. Castle is great. No comment on the book.

soon learned the title came with very little wealth,
so he bought a silver mine in Idaho, left his wife of
two weeks in Scotland, and sailed to America. Later,
he sold the mine, became one of the wealthiest men
in Colorado and built Marblestone Mansion on a bluff
overlooking Colorado Springs. His hopes were high
when he sent for his wife, but something was amiss -
his wife was not what she pretended to be. [/html]Then I get where the plot is drawn from. I attended a speaker's conference at Glen Eyrie, the tudor-style castle built next to Garden of the Gods by some mining magnate. Crammed with ceilings and fireplaces imported from the real thing in Europe. Wonderful hiking. Castle is great. No comment on the book.

Last edited by MLE (Emily Cotton) on Thu December 18th, 2014, 12:50 am, edited 1 time in total.
I don't know how I missed touring that place when I visited CO Springs nuts. I definitely highly recommend the fog railway to the top of Pike's Peak. That was so cool.
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be
...is the only place I want to be
Perhaps it's just me, but I don't care for the silhouette style at all.
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be
...is the only place I want to be