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Great Company For Me To Be In
June 15, 2009 @ 10:49 AM
- by Brian Cronin
- in General
- 13 Comments
Reader David K. sent me a great photo taken at the Barnes and Noble in Roseville, Minnesota (click to enlarge).
There’s my book (which you can, of course, order here) right between Grant Morrison and Bob Dylan.
Hilarious.
Thanks to David for thinking of me with the photo, and thanks to Lewis of the Roseville, Minnesota branch of Barnes and Noble for the recommendation!







13 Comments
Richard J. Marcej
June 15, 2009 at 11:17 am
Congratulations Brian!!!
Da Fug
June 15, 2009 at 11:50 am
Did David arrange the recommendations personally that way? That’s pretty funny regardless of how it happened though.
Cass
June 15, 2009 at 11:55 am
The Kaku lay-science book is also pretty great, and I’m like 95% certain that Morrison has drawn from it for his comics writing (seriously). It’s just another thing to make this already bizarrely apt product arrangement more fitting. Dreams, apparently, do come true .
Teebore
June 15, 2009 at 11:55 am
I work at the same store with Lewis. For what it’s worth, I’d have recommended the book as well if Lewis hadn’t beat me to it.
Either way, the geeks in our store (and we have A LOT of geeks in our store) are all pimping your book.
And the arrangement of the book between ASS and Dylan was completely coincidental (or, at least, the work of Sue, who organizes the staff recs).
RAB
June 15, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Let’s see…I’ve met you, I’ve met Grant Morrison, and I’ve met Michio Kaku. Now I just have to meet Jonathan Cott to complete the set! And then on to Tana French.
Michael
June 15, 2009 at 1:04 pm
That’s awesome, Brian.
Jason Bowen
June 15, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Hyperspace is an amazing book. Absolutely stunning.
What a cool arrangement.
Bill Reed
June 15, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Bwah, and as they say, ha.
Chris Bloom
June 15, 2009 at 2:32 pm
Hmm … between an often incomprehensible writer and an often incomprehensible singer. Now I’m afraid I’m not smart enough to read your column anymore.
FunkyGreenJerusalem
June 15, 2009 at 4:41 pm
And from the look of it, your books had more copies taken!
Square!
Nitz the Bloody
June 15, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Congratulations!
Kris Bather
June 15, 2009 at 9:31 pm
Hah, classic! My copy of your book just arrived mere minutes ago, thanks to the fine folks at Amazon Brian. I’m looking forward to reading it.
David
June 16, 2009 at 9:01 am
RAB, You’ll have to do some traveling to meet Tana French, since she lives in Ireland. Her “In the Woods” merits being among such good company, though: it’s on the NY Times extended bestseller list next Sunday (at No. 23), six slots below her second book (“The Likeness,” at No. 17). Hope you’ve read the whole shelf!