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Giancarlo (Giancarlo)
Username: Giancarlo

Registered: 11-2008
Posted From: 85.116.228.5
Posted on Monday, September 20, 2010 - 07:22 am:   

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!
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Giancarlo (Giancarlo)
Username: Giancarlo

Registered: 11-2008
Posted From: 85.116.228.5
Posted on Monday, September 20, 2010 - 08:05 am:   

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...
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Giancarlo (Giancarlo)
Username: Giancarlo

Registered: 11-2008
Posted From: 85.116.228.5
Posted on Monday, September 20, 2010 - 08:37 am:   

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.
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Giancarlo (Giancarlo)
Username: Giancarlo

Registered: 11-2008
Posted From: 85.116.228.5
Posted on Monday, September 20, 2010 - 09:28 am:   

Or, as I was in bed, was I dreaming of reading?
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Giancarlo (Giancarlo)
Username: Giancarlo

Registered: 11-2008
Posted From: 85.116.228.5
Posted on Monday, September 20, 2010 - 09:59 am:   

OK, probably my English, whether reading or writing, is not so very good...
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Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey)
Username: Ramsey

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.93.21.68
Posted on Monday, September 20, 2010 - 04:01 pm:   

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.
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Giancarlo (Giancarlo)
Username: Giancarlo

Registered: 11-2008
Posted From: 85.116.228.5
Posted on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - 06:56 am:   

So my perplexity was wrong.
Thanks, Ramsey!
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.171.129.69
Posted on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - 03:44 pm:   

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.
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John Forth (John)
Username: John

Registered: 05-2008
Posted From: 82.24.1.217
Posted on Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - 09:07 pm:   

I've seen copies in the London Forbidden Planet (which will, of course, be no use to you if you're not near London...)
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Giancarlo (Giancarlo)
Username: Giancarlo

Registered: 11-2008
Posted From: 85.116.228.5
Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 07:32 am:   

Mark,
you could order through your local international bookshop or buy online at

www.dorchesterpub.com

I hope it helps.
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.171.129.68
Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 11:39 am:   

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.
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John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert)
Username: John_l_probert

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 213.253.174.81
Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 12:46 pm:   

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
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.171.129.69
Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 02:11 pm:   

Ah. Excellent, Lord P! I'll investiagte!
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.31.31.223
Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 02:15 pm:   

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.
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.171.129.69
Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 03:10 pm:   

We saw the slipcased edition, Gary.
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Gary Fry (Gary_fry)
Username: Gary_fry

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 86.31.31.223
Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 03:18 pm:   

Ah.
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Zed (Gary_mc)
Username: Gary_mc

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 195.166.117.210
Posted on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 - 03:19 pm:   

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.
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Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch)
Username: Mark_lynch

Registered: 03-2008
Posted From: 217.171.129.68
Posted on Thursday, September 23, 2010 - 10:50 am:   

Oh bugger.

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