Thread: New Book "Sharp Practice"

Well, I would be number 10 even if everyone who sent an email posted here.

Doubt I got it in time.

The disadvantage of living in another time zone is that you miss a lot!

Lynn's mail was posted at 4 a.m. European time when I was asleep.

Unfortunately bought this book a few of days ago. Here's a review for you, though as a newbie not sure how much I can really comment:

Its very good, full of short asides about the author's own experiences, and an informative history of shaving from the stone age to modern day, though the bit on Sweeny Tod is a bit disconcerting as the story it self is.

The chapters cover the main principles well as far as I can tell, though for the purists there's some information on electric razors but I don't think this detracts too much.

The main thing I took form it for now, until I get a Straight I guess is in the aftershave chapter, the author used talc instead of anything more exotic. Having tried this I can see why, gives a lovely feel to the face.

I got about 30 emails and will pick the first 10 to send to Anders. Thanks for the interest guys.

Lynn

I suppose that you aren't going to let us know who the ten were are you Lynn.

Thanks,
Chris

Originally Posted by aikicougar

I suppose that you aren't going to let us know who the ten were are you Lynn.

Thanks,
Chris

...what he said.


-whatever

-Lou

Just wanted to log in to say thanks to Lynn for posting the details on the book. Also thanks to the members out there for advice received in the past - I used to log in a fair bit to the old site - the new one still seems a little unfamiliar to me.
For those of you who are interested in a free copy of the book, what I'm planning on doing is ordering them on amazon.co.uk and putting in your delivery addresses. That's probably the fastest way of getting the books to the USA, since it's not published over there yet. But let me know if this isn't ok with you and I'll try to come up with something else.
thanks again - anders

Thank You Anders!!

I have sent you the addresses of the first 10 people to email me. I had almost 30 emails. Looks like alot of interest in your book.

The winners were:

Steven Ringeling
Tim Wild
John Wenham
Chris Utzat
Ray Champine
Anthony Chekas
Bruce Green
Jason Lee
Alexander Tomlin
Ilija Milicevic

There ya go guys. Hope you enjoy the book as much as I did.

Lynn

My thanks to Lynn for giving us the heads up on this book and being the goto guy.

Thanks especially to Anders for his generous offer.

I'm looking forward to reading this book.

Thanks to Anders for writing and offering this and Lynn for putting it together. I can't wait to check it out.

Anthony