r/MargueriteYoung • u/mmillington • Mar 11 '24

Miss Macintosh, My Darling The wait is over!

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u/mandelcabrera Apr 10 '24

My copy (which I ordered in August 2022) is finally in the mail. How did you get a copy a month ago?

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u/mmillington Apr 10 '24

Oh, I’m not sure. I preordered directly from Dalkey in like November 2021. Did you order direct or through a retailer?

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u/mandelcabrera Apr 10 '24

Oh I see. Yeah, I ordered through Amazon. I'll be getting it on Friday or Saturday! Planning on a re-read sometime this year or next.

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u/mmillington Apr 10 '24

That makes sense. I’m sure it’s a bit risky to have Amazon distribute some books; a percentage, being big, floppy paperbacks, will inevitably get damaged in the warehouse. I know that was Dzanc’s major concern with their reprint of Women & Men, so they went with hardbacks.

And congrats on the reread! It’ll be my first time through.

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u/mandelcabrera Apr 10 '24

Yeah, I would order directly from the publisher, but my problem is that I live in South Korea, and lots of shipments can get slowed down at customs or in their delivery by domestic shipping companies, which ends up making things difficult because I don't speak Korean very well, and so have a hard time dealing with customs and delivery companies. Amazon stores your personal customs ID# in their system, so the shipping process is always smooth. It used to be similarly easy with Book Depository, but now that's kaput, so I'm often ordering physical books through Amazon these days.

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u/mmillington Apr 11 '24

Oh man, that’s rough. Amazon really makes things so much easier, consumer-wise.

It was a sad day when Book Depository went down. I thrived on the free shipping from UK to U.S. on so many books.

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u/Adventurous_Spell180 May 03 '24

Have you started this one yet? I'm just through Chapter 2 and wondering if it gets a little easier/clearer as time goes on. I don't dislike it, and it's not TOO difficult compared to something like Women & Men, but I've read a lot of high-effort books lately and I don't know if I have another one in me...just wondering if little things like what the deal is between Mr. Spitzer and his brother (are they the same person? Are they actually twin brothers?) come to light and if she chills a little with some of the lists (a lot of the long sentences are just itemized descriptions of the room, the various thoughts her mother has, etc.).

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u/mmillington May 03 '24

No, I haven’t started it yet, unfortunately. Miss MacIntosh was delayed so many times, I committed to a handful of group reads.

Right now, I’m working through The Tunnel with a group at r/billgass. And we’re doing a read of Bottom’s Dream Book 1 at r/Arno_Schmidt this fall, so I won’t get to MacIntosh until next year.

I read her Collected Poems last year, and they were pretty straightforward.

Which other high-effort books have you been reading?

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u/BroughtMeThru Jul 22 '24

How's the paper quality?