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Post by Dante on Apr 23, 2020 2:52:34 GMT -5
That is rather disappointing, although, in the interests of absolute fairness, something like this is indicated in the vinyl's listing on HarperCollins's website: "Features a transparent sea foam green record and full-length digital download of the A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Bad Beginning audiobook." One could argue that the inclusion of only a single record alongside a specifically full-length digital download should have set alarm bells ringing sooner; and I think there is very much a case that they don't actually 'fess up to the record comprising only a quarter of the story. As I suggested above in 2018, one suspects that the publishers lack confidence in their product, or perhaps their purchasing base; but there are nonetheless grounds for complaint that they attempt to disguise an incomplete product.
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Post by Mr. Dent on Apr 23, 2020 11:24:21 GMT -5
It is beautiful, really, it's just a shame that there's really no conceivable reason I can picture myself listening to it.
I guess that's a very Snicket sentiment though.
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Apr 23, 2020 17:15:56 GMT -5
When I said get right on it, I meant apparently, a couple of months later. When I heard about this, I was very excited and more than a little impressed, but when it actually arrived a couple of alarms started going off. TBB isn't a very long book, but there was only a single record... I began to wonder how abridged this would be, to only need a single record. It isn't abridged at all, though. It just stops. Not even halfway through the book, I think. Side A lasts until they head to Olaf's, and Side B ends when they visit Strauss' library. Then you're meant to go online and type in a little code to listen to the rest of the book. More of a demo or a trial for the audiobook than any way to enjoy the story. I don't regret owning it, it's beautiful and a great ASOUE novelty. But I'd be lying if I said I weren't disappointed. It would have been more expensive, sure, but I'd be willing to pay to have the whole story on vinyl. I'm sorry that the record turned out to be a dud Mr. Dent. The way publishers have treated Snicket merchandise has always been so cut rate, and I'm not really sure why, since it does appear to sell. I'm still waiting for the TBB: Library Edition, the penny dreadful versions of TMM/TAA, and The Reptile Room dramatization.
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Post by Reba on Apr 23, 2020 18:32:33 GMT -5
i think you'd have to be a bit mental to actually want to listen to a whole audiobook on vinyl. this was obviously just an excuse to make a cool-looking vinyl with an asoue theme. and it does look cool, and that's the reason to buy it.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Apr 23, 2020 21:16:46 GMT -5
I would buy it even though I don't have a record player or being able to understand what is being said, simply because it is green and is an ASOUE product.
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Post by Mr. Dent on Apr 24, 2020 10:58:28 GMT -5
I don't think TBB is long enough to where it would be impossible to do on vinyl- I feel it could fit on three records, and I've bought albums on three records before.
I suppose I'm just spoiled by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy putting out the entire series on vinyl.
But yes, it is a cool ASOUE vinyl and it does look great.
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Post by Dante on Apr 25, 2020 12:05:41 GMT -5
The way publishers have treated Snicket merchandise has always been so cut rate, and I'm not really sure why, since it does appear to sell. I'm still waiting for the TBB: Library Edition, the penny dreadful versions of TMM/TAA, and The Reptile Room dramatization. For what it's worth, my understanding is that it actually doesn't sell as well as you'd think. Certainly not outside of the core books. I still remember the story about how they halved the print run of The Complete Wreck and still only sold half of those. Similarly, there's probably a reason why books like the U.A. and TBL were for the most part never translated. And of course, we all know about ATWQ's rapidly diminishing print runs... The Bad Beginning: Private Library Edition was going to be an "extra-fancy" edition of TBB (as described to me by someone in a position to know), and while I don't know why it never came to pass, I suspect it's because they'd already tried it with the Rare Edition (Egmont also had two different expensive TBB special editions which I think you could only order from their website). The penny dreadfuls apparently straight-up didn't sell, which probably had to do with the fact that the iconic paper-over-board editions were still on the shelves, competing with the oddball editions that looked and advertised themselves as being cheap. I couldn't say about a TRR multi-voice recording, but you would expect it to be based on sales for the TBB multi-voice.
Snicket's audience was mostly casual, not cult. The main series sold fantastically well but the number of real hardcore fanatics was always comparatively slim.
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Post by Mr. Dent on Apr 26, 2020 2:20:32 GMT -5
Ah, you know, that's entirely true. I adored the series with all my heart through childhood and that devotion never faded, and, you know, given the Harry Potter fanaticism, I figured most folks who loved it were the same.
But then adulthood hit. I found that every single boy I've ever dated had read the entire book series, most of them still owning it, almost none of them remembering it very well at all or having read it in ages. ...certainly not impressed with my ASOUE vinyl.
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Post by gothicarchiesfan on Apr 26, 2020 7:44:25 GMT -5
Ah, you know, that's entirely true. I adored the series with all my heart through childhood and that devotion never faded, and, you know, given the Harry Potter fanaticism, I figured most folks who loved it were the same. But then adulthood hit. I found that every single boy I've ever dated had read the entire book series, most of them still owning it, almost none of them remembering it very well at all or having read it in ages. ...certainly not impressed with my ASOUE vinyl. Tbh I'm just impressed you found that many people who had read the original series. In my experience most people (pre-Netflix) seem to remember the movie just as much if not more so than the books. That's honestly one of the main reasons why I appreciate it so much despite its flaws; I genuinely think it probably did more to help keep the Snicket name alive than any other related property.
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Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Apr 26, 2020 7:49:16 GMT -5
And because it's green
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