ARC Prices

[Carvill John]

>I continue to disagree, in a friendly way I hope,

Definitely continuing to disagree, absolutely in a friendly way.

I dunno about much of a 'spike' on the ARC thing, I know it was mentioned 
here and there online but nowhere near as much as the blurb, as far as I've 
seen.

Agree about treasuring (and mentioning in reviews) the personalisations, and 
that you'd have to be hard-hearted indeed to rip that page out and sell the 
thing on ebay or whatever. I'd be highly intrigued to see a list of ARC 
recipients, I'd bet some go to reviewers at big name publications who aren't 
that enamoured of Pynchon, I do dimly recall some fairly unappreciative 
reviews of M&D, particularly focusing of the archaic grammar and so on. How 
anyone could not be won over by the rhythm and beauty of that opening 
sentence is beyond me.

Now, roll on all the reviews....