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     Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.5 |
I've just finished reading the US Leisure edition of Ramsey's "CREATURES OF THE POOL". I also have the UK PS edition of the book but I found the US edition less stout so I could read it more easily in bed. In reading the book synopsis on the PS Publishing website, I have the impression something is missing from the US version. There is reference I appear not to have found any trace of in the US edition, so I am suspecting the latter to be a compressed edition of the original work. Can anyone, please, confirm? Maybe, only Ramsey could say! Should my suspicion be well grounded, I am positively meaning to go back and read the original UK PS edition of the novel. Thanks for shedding any light on the issue! | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.5 |
More precisely, some lacunas seem to center around the interventions of radio listeners about the strange stories regarding the tunnels. There are some, mentioned in the PS site synopsis, I cannot find anywhere in the US edition... | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.5 |
For instance, where is said "the postmen are loath to use the tunnel that links the office to Lime Street Station"? or "the lights in the tunnel sometimes fail, unless they are switched off as a prank..."? or "the ticket collector ringing to talk about the underground railway"? I can't read about any of these in the Leisure edition, so I suppose it's all in the original PS text. | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.5 |
Or, as I was in bed, was I dreaming of reading? | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.5 |
OK, probably my English, whether reading or writing, is not so very good... | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.68 |
The passage begins on page 54 of the Leisure edition, Giancarlo - the paragraph starting "They're all about tunnels". The PS and Leisure texts are exactly the same, I believe. | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.5 |
So my perplexity was wrong. Thanks, Ramsey! | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.69 |
Giancarlo, where did you get the Leisure edition from? I've been holding out hoping Amazon UK would stock the book, but they don't seem to be doing (except as secondhand or used dealer editions, which I don't wanna get cos it's no help to Ramsey's sales). My finances are dictating paperbacks right now. | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
I've seen copies in the London Forbidden Planet (which will, of course, be no use to you if you're not near London...) | ||
| Giancarlo (Giancarlo) Username: Giancarlo Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 85.116.228.5 |
Mark, you could order through your local international bookshop or buy online at www.dorchesterpub.com I hope it helps. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.68 |
Cheers, guys. Ordering it internationally would probably rack up the costs, so I'll see what else the UK has to offer. I'm very surprised Amazon still don't have original, new copies in. Actually, there's a Forbidden Planet in Leeds, but it doesn't stock much in the way of original non-gaming tv fiction. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
Mark - the Bristol branch of Forbidden Planet used to get books sent up for me from their London branch if I ordered them, at no extra cost, so it might be worth inquiring | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.69 |
Ah. Excellent, Lord P! I'll investiagte! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.31.223 |
Didn't you and I see Creatures' in Waterstones Leeds, Mark? Not literally, of course. Unless you count those two guys from Bradford in the cafe. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.69 |
We saw the slipcased edition, Gary. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.31.223 |
Ah. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
I think current Leisure titles are proving a bit hard to find outside the US because of changes at Dorchester publishing. I've heard all kinds of rumours I'm not going to repeat here, but it does seem unlikely that the Leisure horror line will not continue for long in the same form. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.68 |
Oh bugger. |