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[framlingem]

Ethical conundrum:

I have finished my book. I am in a frantic, feverish state of "omg must know what happens in the next one must have MOAR OMG (author) YOU GENIUS MADMAN".

I am housesitting for my folks' house. The next book is in my apartment.

I do not want to shovel out the car and drive for an hour (round trip) to my apartment when I will be dropping by it tomorrow, but I really want to know what happens next. I do own the book and have paid for it. I'm aware there are copies available for free on the internet.

*gnaws on things and does not pirate the book and wishes wholeheartedly that when you buy a book you got the license for the ebook as well*


EDIT: Agony relieved! Tor (the publisher) has two novellettes in the same series available for free on its website! I shall bubble over with happiness (or, given the stories in question, anxiety, bated breath, horror, glee, and suspense) until I am finished reading them.

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[zleetle.livejournal.com]

What book, if you don't mind me asking?

[framlingem.livejournal.com]

I'm reading my way through Charles Stross's Bob Howard books (aka The Laundry Files). They start with The Atrocity Archives and move on to The Jennifer Morgue (which I've just finished). They're... spy stories about a computational demonologist, each in a slightly different genre. For instance, TJM is a sendup of James Bond, and the next one, The Fuller Memorandum is apparently Lovecraftian horror. They're both rivetingly exciting and very, very funny.