Mercury and Me difficult to find

SergeantPepperDG wrote:

Woohoo! I found one for £5.99 (appx. $23 with shipping) on amazon.co.uk and I bought it! The shipping actually cost more than the book itself.

How did you pay for it? I only have a US credit card. Will amazon automatically convert the price to US dollars and charge the correct amount. The cheapest I could find, with shipping was about 22 pounds. I used a currency converter online (got from Google, so I don't know how accurate it is) and that came out to about $40. Still a lot...but I am curious as to how they handle different currencies.

I think they automatically convert it.

Your card can be from any country, that doesn't matter. The conversion is handled automatically. The rate changes all of the time so you won't know the exact amount until the charge shows up with your bank.

My Freddie box at Amazon UK was 87.33 GBP and my card was actually charged $156.75. Yet at today's rate it would be $156.37 (not much different) so it can vary a bit day by day.

Here's a simple currency converter: http://www.xe.com/ucc/ or at Yahoo: http://finance.yahoo.com/currency

My friend found it on ebay for really cheap and got it for me for christmas. Best gift ever.

I'm looking for one too! It will be really amusing to watch us 'fighing over it' when a reasonably priced one finally does come up on ebay.

While on the subject of books....
(1) Has anyone read the book "Innuendoes"? I'm reading it now and was wondering what other people's opinions on it are?

(2)What is your faveorite Queen-related book? or all fairly bad?

Mwahaha! I got a copy!

After I had bought one (hard cover though) from Amazon for $53(including shipping), I found one on ebay for $10. Oh dear!

I suppose it can be a little pricier to find one in perfect shape for collecting. Personally I just wanted to read it :)

Hmm, it seems I've got a guardian angel. I just wanted to ask some questions about Jim's book and was just thinking whether to put them in the Personal section or in this one, when this topic came along. So I'll just slip my questions in here and wait for a response...
1)Is there any way to download Jim's book from the Web? Or, if not, is there any site featuring fragments of it? Before trying to buy one on eBay, I'd really like to take a glance at what's written in it and how it's written (though I read an online article by Jim and I loved it. OK, the guy is not a writer and there were some silly things in there, e.g. the price he had to pay for some freesias, but I do like the love story).

2) A month or so ago, somebody asked where does Jim live, in order to drop him a line and Fatty told him to contact the editor of the book. As I don't have the book, could anyone please write down for me that adress? After reading, I just had the feeling I'd like to write anything to him...

Here's a good sized, 3 part excerpt: http://queen.peoples.ru/html/archive/stati/fred_jim.htm

Or perhaps condensed version is a better way to describe it rather than 'excerpt' :)

I`ve read only "Zycie Prawdziwe" however I can`t recall the English name for it (word by word it would be Real Life but I guess it isn`t)

Since we're talking about the book, take a look at this interview with Jim:

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dungeon/5490/interviews/jh.html

I've just run across it and maybe you'll be interested in.

I bought Mercury and Me from E-Bay last year, for a couple of pounds. I was not very impressed with it though.

I'm desperate to read Innuendos, I've heard it is extremely good!

Yea Innuendoes is really interesting!!! I can hardly put it down, which has led to problems related to shirking responsibilities to read it (lol, i'm hopeless)

If you're looking for it, I bought it from powellbooks.com a few weeks ago for less than $30

I will keep that in mind, but I'm not looking to buy it just now, as I have no money to spare!
I'm saving my pennies up to buy the new DVD first!