Monday, February 23, 2009
Chapter 324, in which I super-pathetically feel competitive with the Dalai Lama
Amazon.com is a dangerous thing, at least for authors. People obsess over how their banks rank on Amazon (out of the 6 million titles listed), and it can either make or break your day. People warned me about this, so I don't look very often.
The deal is that Amazon updates the lists every hour for better-selling titles, and divides them up by narrow categories. Because of this, sale of a relatively small number of books can push a book up or down pretty quickly. The results are a snapshot that can be pretty darn artificial.
Still, it's good stuff for the occasional morale bump, illusory as it is. On Sunday night, I let myself look. Even though my book was being outsold by over 10,000 other books, in my narrow little category it was a little ahead of the Dalai Lama's, and way above Mike Huckabee's. And, of course, way behind a book about Christian sex.
1. The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (Newly Expanded Paperback Edition) by Simon Wiesenthal (Author)
2. Intended for Pleasure: Sex Technique and Sexual Fulfillment in Christian Marriage, Third Edition
by Ed Wheat (Author), Gaye Wheat (Author)
3. The Problem of Pain by C. S. Lewis (Author)
4. Handbook of Christian Apologetics: Hundreds of Answers to Crucial Questions by Peter Kreeft (Author), Ronald K. Tacelli (Author)
5. Jesus on Death Row: The Trial of Jesus and American Capital Punishment by Mark Osler (Author)
6. Feathers from My Nest: A Mother's Reflections by Beth Moore
7. Ethics for the New Millennium by Dalai Lama (Author)
8. Love God, Heal Earth: 21 Leading Religious Voices Speak Out on Our Sacred Duty to Protect the Environment by The Rev Canon Sally G Bingham (Author)
9. Overcoming Sin and Temptation by John Owen (Author), Kelly M. Kapic (Author), Justin Taylor (Author), John Piper (Foreword)
10. The Beautiful Fight: Surrendering to the Transforming Presence of God Every Day of Your Life by Gary L. Thomas (Author)
11. Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace by Miroslav Volf (Author)
12. Child, Victim, Soldier Child, Victim, Soldier: The Loss of Innocence in Uganda
by Donald H. Dunson (Author)
13. Simpler Living, Compassionate Life: A Christian Perspective by Michael Schut (Author)
14. The Ten Commandments: The Significance of God's Laws in Everyday Life
by Laura Schlessinger (Author), Stewart Vogel (Author)
15. Where Angels Fall: The Great and Terrible, Vol. 2 by Chris Stewart (Author)
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Keep kicking Dr. Laura's bottom (can't bring myself to say "ass" when talking about religious banks, i mean books)
You are in good company with CS Lewis, Simon Weisenthal and the others.
By the way, I am enjoying the book. It makes sense to a non-religious and non-legal reader and is easy to follow. My husband is waiting for me to finish it so he can read it. He studied religous history at a seminary in Beverley, Mass back before I knew him.
By the way, I am enjoying the book. It makes sense to a non-religious and non-legal reader and is easy to follow. My husband is waiting for me to finish it so he can read it. He studied religous history at a seminary in Beverley, Mass back before I knew him.
Well, I guess it means the death penalty is almost as sexy a topic as . . . Christian sex! Whatever that means . . .
Yes, you are definitely in good company up there at the top.
Yes, you are definitely in good company up there at the top.
# posted by 
: 10:13 AM
: 10:13 AM
Hey Christine,
Tell your husband to buy his own copy! He needs to pony up and help drive the Prof's numbers higher.
Tell your husband to buy his own copy! He needs to pony up and help drive the Prof's numbers higher.
# posted by : 11:48 AM
: 11:48 AM
IPLawguy -
As we never get rid of books one copy in the house is enough. I will buy one to gift to some Pres. Minister friends who will find it very interesting.
As we never get rid of books one copy in the house is enough. I will buy one to gift to some Pres. Minister friends who will find it very interesting.
Osler You did not write the Bank for money, though. You wrote the bank to fund your PAC to lobby congress to sponsor a bill that would allow pandas to carry concealed flame throwers. A man committed to such an altruistic idea would never be concerned about something so crass as money or book sales.
PS I know about sex in a Christian marriage. I know this because on the night we got married, after the wedding, Bill's Dad, a Presbyterian minister, handed Bill and I a little booklet complete with diagrams and an accompanying cassette tape. We were both 33 years old.
Wow. I still have nightmares.
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Wow. I still have nightmares.
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