The Spectral Link by Thomas Ligotti

Quote Originally Posted by beetlebox

Imagine my joy...I came into work to find a parcel on my desk, clearly my copy of The Spectral Link. It is all I can do not to tear open the package there and then, and to hell with whatever it is I'm paid to do. Imagine my horror...when I come to open the book and find it has been printed back to front and upside down? What kind of cruel hoax is this? The clock goes back to zero as I return the book and hope I can get another copy before I go insane.

I'd keep it; misbindings like that can (sometimes) be worth something, eventually.

[beetlebox]

Quote Originally Posted by Howarth

Quote Originally Posted by beetlebox Imagine my joy...I came into work to find a parcel on my desk, clearly my copy of The Spectral Link. It is all I can do not to tear open the package there and then, and to hell with whatever it is I'm paid to do. Imagine my horror...when I come to open the book and find it has been printed back to front and upside down? What kind of cruel hoax is this? The clock goes back to zero as I return the book and hope I can get another copy before I go insane. I'd keep it; misbindings like that can (sometimes) be worth something, eventually.

That's good to know. Actually the seller has been very good about it. I had to prove the misprint with some photos, and they are going to send me a new copy and said keep the misprinted one. So I sort of get a bonus copy - albeit a little quirky. It is readable though and I couldn't be patient enough for the new one to arrive, so have started reading from the back cover!

I have to say, when I first saw it I thought maybe it was intentionally printed like that to add to the unease of the reader ;)

[Nemonymous]

I have now read 'Metaphysica Morum', but not yet read 'The Small People'. I don't think it's any accident that Olan is an anagram of Loan, a loan being a two way 'deal', infecting and benefiting both ways, just as 'demoralise' is, in its modern sense, to make someone lose hope but, in its archaic sense, to strip someone of morals. This story is of the infinitesimal and the immeasurable, both ironic and non-ironic, about futility, where fighting in this literary way for futility is a purpose that outlasts and immortalises the fighter but also this fighter is fighting WITH futility thus landing him back in that bus station toilet where he began.
I am indeed "open to 'delightful possibilities and interpretations'" but also believing "nothing really meant anything", like Dr. O. The story has its own "magnificent symphony" as its 'all-new context' for a 'metaphysical mutant'. Borrow or lend, which comes first? A fascinating tantalisation. Am I 'uniquely defective' in thus interpreting this work?

[beakripped]

Amazon Canada shipped my copies of The Spectral Link and Born to Fear on Friday and it looks as if they've currently got copies in stock.

[Nemonymous]

Just received my copy of the book from Amazon UK!

[Coa]

I love this guy :

Thomas Ligotti: The Spectral Link - YouTube

[marioneta]

I read THE SPECTRAL LINK simultaneously with BORN TO FEAR. I felt as if my brain had been taken out and put back in back to front. Together with THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE HUMAN RACE, these books would make a rock go through a paradigm shift, if a rock could read. There is also a unique pleasure in re-reading them, as it is with any of Ligotti's work.

"Enough to be in a crowd, in order to feel that you side
with all the dead planets."
E.M. Cioran

[Knygathin]

Can "The Small People" (or the whole book) be downloaded from Amazon? I don't find a link there. I have an Amazon Kindle for PC, and I think it will only accept ebooks purchased directly from Amazon.

[ramonoski]

Quote Originally Posted by Knygathin

Can "The Small People" (or the whole book) be downloaded from Amazon? I don't find a link there. I have an Amazon Kindle for PC, and I think it will only accept ebooks purchased directly from Amazon.

It is my understanding that the ebooks can only be sold within the United States, so if you live elsewhere it won't show in your search results. Here's the link to the ebook:

Amazon.com: The Spectral Link eBook: Thomas Ligotti: Kindle Store

 

Amazon.com: The Spectral Link eBook: Thomas Ligotti: Kindle Store

If you see the "1-click purchase" button thing, you're good to go.

[Knygathin]

Ramonoski, a message says that The Spectral Link is currently not available for purchase. Other Ligotti ebook titles can be bought with the "1-click purchase".