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Old Jun 1, 2012 | 6:32 am
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Thriller or MR Guide?
After downloading and running several pieces of anti-spyware software, I purchased last-minute tickets to Geneva at a public internet terminal at the Boston Public Library at Copley Place. I selected a deliberately circuitous route starting in Providence, Rhode Island, and passing through Detroit and Amsterdam.
The above quote, from Sakura Blue, a thriller novel, might make the uninitiated reader believe that the hero was trying to avoid being trailed. FTers, however, know better. He was simply trying to get as many SkyMiles as possible out of his Providence-Geneva itinerary.

The way I see it, he took Delta metal PVD-DTW-AMS and then got on a KLM flight to GVA. The book mentions that he flew in Biz Class, giving him 8022 MQMs in each direction. Two such trips in one year would give him Delta Silver Medallion and enough rollover MQMs (7088) to get him a good head start on qualifying the following year.

Of course, I might be wrong. It may develop later in the book that he did not fly back the same way. He may have flown even a longer route, shooting for Gold Medallion.

If you want to know, you can either read the book yourself, Sakura Blue, available on your Kindle for only $4.99, or else ask the author -- none other than our very own hoyateach.
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Old Jun 1, 2012 | 2:47 pm
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Dovster, I don't care what everyone else says about you. *I* think you're a nice guy.

Thank you, my friend.
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Old Jun 1, 2012 | 2:53 pm
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Originally Posted by hoyateach
Dovster, I don't care what everyone else says about you. *I* think you're a nice guy.

Thank you, my friend.
I hope you realize that with this post you have committed social suicide on Omni/PR.
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Old Jun 1, 2012 | 3:28 pm
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I forgot to add well-groomed and pleasant-smelling.

Originally Posted by Dovster
It may develop later in the book that he did not fly back the same way. He may have flown even a longer route, shooting for Gold Medallion.
Spoiler alert: my hero flies carriers on multiple alliances and, because he's a but of a privacy nut, doesn't bother maintaining a frequent flier account.
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Old Jun 1, 2012 | 3:32 pm
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Originally Posted by hoyateach
Spoiler alert: my hero flies carriers on multiple alliances and, because he's a but of a privacy nut, doesn't bother maintaining a frequent flier account.
He is even more of a privacy nut than you know. Not only is he a SkyMiles Medallion member, but he has gone to extremes to hide that fact from you!
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Old Jun 1, 2012 | 10:51 pm
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Will the book be available in physical edition at any time? I don't have a Kindle, and as much as I've tried, I can't get used to reading books on my iPhone.

Besides, I need a paper copy that I can have the author autograph at an FT do.
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Old Jun 2, 2012 | 3:14 pm
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Originally Posted by jackal


Will the book be available in physical edition at any time? I don't have a Kindle, and as much as I've tried, I can't get used to reading books on my iPhone.

Besides, I need a paper copy that I can have the author autograph at an FT do.
Alas, no. Not yet, anyway. If that changes, I'll post it right here.

Thank you for your kind words!^
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Old Jun 2, 2012 | 8:38 pm
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Thanks Dov for the thread!!!
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Old Jun 2, 2012 | 8:44 pm
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Great thread. ^

I will check it out.
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Old Jun 2, 2012 | 10:13 pm
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I love you all.

Alas, I'm only 90 pages into Book 2 but I'm working on it as quickly as I can!
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Old Jun 2, 2012 | 11:40 pm
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Warning -- some of the vocabulary on the first few pages will have you scratching your head and wondering what the heck it means.

Of course, the same is true with A Clockwork Orange and, in both cases, the reader quickly catches on.
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Old Jun 3, 2012 | 1:07 pm
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Purchased, now in the Kindle queue.
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Old Jun 3, 2012 | 9:02 pm
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Originally Posted by Travlynn
Purchased, now in the Kindle queue.
Thank you!

Originally Posted by Dovster
Warning -- some of the vocabulary on the first few pages will have you scratching your head and wondering what the heck it means.

Of course, the same is true with A Clockwork Orange and, in both cases, the reader quickly catches on.
Don't forget about that scorching man-on-sheep scene. Or as Dovster thinks of it, a quiet Tuesday.
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Old Jun 3, 2012 | 10:21 pm
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Originally Posted by hoyateach
Thank you!



Don't forget about that scorching man-on-sheep scene. Or as Dovster thinks of it, a quiet Tuesday.
Mel Brooks would be so proud...
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Old Jun 6, 2012 | 8:14 am
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Originally Posted by BOB W
Mel Brooks would be so proud...
It's good to be the king.
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