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Re: Amazon preview text is up.
Post by Alistair   » Wed Sep 30, 2015 2:25 am

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Spoiler!!!!




It seems the army of God is in for a hammering and will get stuck between a rock and a hard place.
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Re: Amazon preview text is up.
Post by Isilith   » Wed Sep 30, 2015 7:08 am

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ChaChaCharms wrote:I must agree that reading the bio of some of the characters is specifically quite grim....

Spoilers (HIGHLIGHT FOR SPOILER) <I finally figured that part out>

:twisted: Especially if you look in the G's and review Hektor's new role ..... interesting note: Merlin's character page was omitted, coincidence or not? :twisted:


The two you have in your spoiler, aren't even in the review... as in, their pages weren't included. Were you trolling us? 8-) 8-)
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Re: Amazon preview text is up.
Post by ChaChaCharms   » Wed Sep 30, 2015 9:37 am

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Isilith wrote:
The two you have in your spoiler, aren't even in the review... as in, their pages weren't included. Were you trolling us? 8-) 8-)


You need to look at the character section of the 'peak inside'

The information provided after the character name can be very interesting...

Spoiler (HIGHLIGHT)
Search for Earl Thirsk, but it will take you to Gardynr... sadly read some of the information after the list of his family (pg702); but before that read what our good boy Hektor is tasked with by viewing his character information (pg684)
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Re: Amazon preview text is up.
Post by ayg   » Wed Sep 30, 2015 9:46 am

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Actually, the Amazon preview pages are not the same for everyone. At least they weren't the last time. And sometimes they change from day to day. So if someone says they can't see a specific page it's likely to be Amazon's fault.

I got the impression it has to do with how good an Amazon customer you have been.
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Re: Amazon preview text is up.
Post by dobriennm   » Wed Sep 30, 2015 10:58 am

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Looking through the Character section in the back (well, searching for "HFQ"), I think the cover is explained. I made a new topic with a spoiler alert.
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Re: Amazon preview text is up.
Post by Louis R   » Wed Sep 30, 2015 3:29 pm

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They do vary, but the list of characters can be opened if you do a search on a name you know, and lets you read several neighbouring pages that include names you didn't know you needed to look for ;)

ayg wrote:Actually, the Amazon preview pages are not the same for everyone. At least they weren't the last time. And sometimes they change from day to day. So if someone says they can't see a specific page it's likely to be Amazon's fault.

I got the impression it has to do with how good an Amazon customer you have been.
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Re: Amazon preview text is up.
Post by thanatos   » Wed Sep 30, 2015 4:26 pm

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ayg wrote:Actually, the Amazon preview pages are not the same for everyone. At least they weren't the last time. And sometimes they change from day to day. So if someone says they can't see a specific page it's likely to be Amazon's fault.

I got the impression it has to do with how good an Amazon customer you have been.


Actually, I think it has to do more with whetting our appetites and getting us to buy the book in hardcover. I've managed to get to around a third of the book through this but have hit a brick wall where I only get random short stretches of the book after missing out on most of the last half. After all, wouldn't want you to read the entire book for free, right?

Incidentally, when will the maps become available and how does one access them?
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Re: Amazon preview text is up.
Post by Fubar   » Thu Oct 01, 2015 1:39 am

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Just an FYI....

The page the snippets ended at is 161
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Re: Amazon preview text is up.
Post by JimHacker   » Thu Oct 01, 2015 3:02 am

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Fubar wrote:Just an FYI....

The page the snippets ended at is 161


And for me, the preview finished at pg 47 and skipped right to the character glossary
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Happiness is not having what you want
Nor is happiness wanting what you have
Happiness is believing that tomorrow you shall have
what you want today

..//^ ^\\
(/(_•_)\)
.._/''*''\_
.(,,,)^(,,,)
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Re: Amazon preview text is up.
Post by Fubar   » Thu Oct 01, 2015 3:50 am

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I got that as well when I logged out and tried to do it without Amazon knowing it was my account. Seems you have to log into Amazon.com to see the additional pages.

Amazon.co.uk is not even putting up preview text yet. Have not tried other countries, suspect it's the same of up to page 47 at best.

Did notice there is over 100 pages of glossary/people at the end of the book. Would like more detailed maps (fold out maps!) but meh, it's still good stuff.



JimHacker wrote:
Fubar wrote:Just an FYI....

The page the snippets ended at is 161


And for me, the preview finished at pg 47 and skipped right to the character glossary
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