In September a boxed set of all 7 books is coming out. The box looks wonderful! Since I don't currently own the books I thought I might get a boxed set of all books.
But...
What I really want is the British versions of the books. So I've been checking Amazon.co.uk and I see that in October a boxed set is also coming out, but they don't as yet have any pictures.
Does anyone know what the differences are between the adult versions and the children's versions? I didn't see any references to those differences on the HP Lexicon so I was wondering if they just had different cover art.
The cover art is different that's all.
ReplyDeleteI was so disappointed when I found that out - I thought maybe they would be scarier, or have more info.
I guess someone out there expects adults reading the books to be ashamed of 'kid covers' and so the Adult version.
Thanks so much Treesh I just preordered two of the British sets. When we were in Ireland last month DS2 but a couple of volumes but not the whole set.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to get some of the audiobooks as read by Stephen Fry in the UK versions. HUbby and I are Fry Fans. I expect he does a great job. I think Jim Dale, the guy who reads the American books, is good, (We've been giving them to my mother as they are released.)but I really want to hear Stephen Fry reading them. I can't decide whether to get the first as read by him or one of my favorites. Hmm....
ReplyDeleteI wish they would just make UK and American editions the same. It makes me feel like one of us is missing out on something.
I know we're a bit different, but we can take words like "jumper" and "snogging" and figure it out.
I don't quite understand why they bothered with different covers - as anybody who can read can quite easily read the title?? and will most likely know what the book is about:) the audio books read by Fry are super, after listening to the first six I am still amazed how he manages to speak the different persons the same for every book! I recognize them immediately and the only reason why I bother to buy the book instead of the audio - is that I am too curious to wait for the latter:)
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