First of all, we apologize for not posting this sooner. We at seriousdanger are both extremely busy and extremely lazy, which combination has been murder on our best intentions to return this book.
Over a year ago, we found a nearly brand-new copy of
The Quiet American, Graham Green's excellent novel about Vietnam, in the overhead luggage rack on a Chinatown bus to Boston. In it was this note:
[Name Censored] -
I think you will enjoy reading this book — it's a Hemmingway [sic] theme.
I love you, [Name Censored]
If this book belongs to you, please email us. You can prove it's yours by providing the names at the beginning and end of the above note.
If we don't hear from the book's rightful owner in... oh, say two weeks — we'll put it on eBay and try to get thirty-five cents for it. (We already owned a copy when we found this, see, and ours is better. It predates the movie, so it doesn't have Brendan Fraser on the cover.)
You know what would be even more excellent? If you were
both the rightful owner of this book
and the person who found the book
we lost on the other end of the same round trip (Daniel Jonah Goldhagen's
Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans & the Holocaust). In that very unlikely case, we'll trade you books and buy you a drink.