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General Earwa / Re: A Close Reading of TSA (First Post)
« on: October 28, 2015, 06:49:40 pm »
Thanks for the warm welcome guys!
I first bought the Orbit TDTCB as it was the one in the bookshop. I managed to get the Penguin editions second-hand in like-new conditions with the Rankine covers after that. I really like those ones. My TAE editions are Penguin as well, those covers are pretty cool too. I can't help but feel that Orbit's covers are ruined by the big face. Would look great with just the mosaic design.
I have one Overlook edition of TTT for loaning out. The covers all curled up really bad soon after I got it, and the pages are difficult to open, like the binding goes right up to the margin. Never bought an Overlook copy since but will be getting their hardcover of The Great Ordeal if it's the first available. The small paperback format is my favorite.
Sorry, to clarify: US= Overlook Canada = Penguin and UK = Orbit
It's the Orbit edition that doesn't use the word sranc and doesn't have the language stuff. You can see it on the amazon.co.uk preview.
The Sakarpus thing was the other big one that was bugging me, I was convinced I was just imagining it moving until I sat the maps side by side.
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I hear ya, especially the bold. I've been hunting matching covers for Malazan since I started, somewhat unsuccessfully.
As for unmatching Bakker, there are a few sets that are consistent all the way through.
There is the set with faces that starts at TDTCB. I believe they are available in large edition softcover as well as hardcover
Rankine's original PoN covers are a favorite of mine, though that design doesn't carry though to the last series.
I first bought the Orbit TDTCB as it was the one in the bookshop. I managed to get the Penguin editions second-hand in like-new conditions with the Rankine covers after that. I really like those ones. My TAE editions are Penguin as well, those covers are pretty cool too. I can't help but feel that Orbit's covers are ruined by the big face. Would look great with just the mosaic design.
I have one Overlook edition of TTT for loaning out. The covers all curled up really bad soon after I got it, and the pages are difficult to open, like the binding goes right up to the margin. Never bought an Overlook copy since but will be getting their hardcover of The Great Ordeal if it's the first available. The small paperback format is my favorite.
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Going to have to ask you to be more specific with "canadian" and "US and UK". Every edition of TDTCB I've got, regardless of edition, print, or hc/sc reads "But no army of inhuman Sranc had scaled its ramparts." ... and I've got 5+ different ones, though they are all Overlook published. (btw, I'm not a fan of Overlook).
Also potentially noteworthy, are any of those referenced from Kindle versions? Turns out that Bakker's books, including TSA and Neuropath, have had some noteable omissions in the kindle version, with whole pages or sections missing. Did I mention Overlook is terrible? Anyway, again, in all the version of TDTCB that I've got, the language/dialect reference stuff is in the back.
Sorry, to clarify: US= Overlook Canada = Penguin and UK = Orbit
It's the Orbit edition that doesn't use the word sranc and doesn't have the language stuff. You can see it on the amazon.co.uk preview.
The Sakarpus thing was the other big one that was bugging me, I was convinced I was just imagining it moving until I sat the maps side by side.