Antipope the second

I previously had a bit of a grumble about The Antipope by Robert Rankin. Mr Rankin was decent enough to follow up with me on Amazon and Twitter, and to my shame he’d already pushed out a corrected version of his book by the time I figured out how to get hold of all the notes I made.

It turns out that if you go to kindle.amazon.com and log in, you can get all sorts of useful content out. You’d think that would be linked from your account, for example under “Manage Your Kindle“, wouldn’t you? But no…

So anyway, I dug out the notes I made, and attempted to paste them in a reply to R. F. Rankin’s post on my review. Sadly, Amazon clearly has it in for me today, for I received the following missive:

Your reply to R. F. Rankin’s post:

Who knows what arcane rules I broke? And who can be bothered to wade through the guidelines, when a quick blog post and link will work around Amazon’s objections?

Herein, then, for no other reason than to communicate with @therobertrankin, is a list of the hiccups in The Antipope. And a solid round of applause for responsive authors who care about their audience. I shall now edit my review to be a little less harsh…

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