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Post by cwm on May 9, 2009 10:05:45 GMT -5
I was in a second-hand bookshop not far from where I live today, and I saw a The Trouble Begins boxset with TMM in it as well as TBB-TWW.
It was £10 so I didn't buy it, but it looked very new and it was definitely genuine - has anyone heard about this before?
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Post by Dante on May 9, 2009 10:19:43 GMT -5
In the U.K., the three-book box sets never existed; the only official box set contained TBB through TMM, although there have also been retailer-specific promotions like TBB/TBlankBook, and TBB through TSS. So I'm pretty sure that's what you encountered; it's how I got TBB-TMM myself.
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Post by cwm on May 9, 2009 13:12:37 GMT -5
Ah. I was confused because every description of TTB I ever found only said it had TBB-TWW.
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Post by Dante on May 9, 2009 15:42:43 GMT -5
It probably wasn't even technically TTB, and for that matter I doubt you'd have seen any descriptions of this particular box set outside the U.K. Online retailers might even have used the wrong flavour text as a placeholder - you see that sometimes. Because it's such a minor issue, nobody's very interested in taking note of it. Hm, now that I think about it, I remember MikeT showing off scans of an omnibus edition containing TMM through TEE - you can never keep track of items like that. There are surely many more we've never heard of, but the thing is, none of them will be very interesting.
What was the art on the cover like? Do you remember where it was recycled from?
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Post by cwm on May 10, 2009 3:44:42 GMT -5
No, it definitely said The Trouble Begins on the front.
The front was the TBB artwork; on the top was a silhoutte version of the illustration for TAA chapter nine. On the back was a new 'dear reader' letter that didn't really read like one Snicket had written; it stated that the reader should only buy the books to stop other people reading them and Snicket would one day come to reclaim them. I don't really think there was any new content on the entire thing apart from that.
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Post by Dante on May 10, 2009 7:46:15 GMT -5
Now if only I knew what I'd done with my box, so I could compare! I'll see what I can find on Egmont's site, though. Haha, nothing, of course. Trying some online retailers... worse than useless, oh dear god I'm wasting my life
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Post by Hermes on May 10, 2009 12:32:17 GMT -5
When I saw the title of this thread, I thought it meant something completely different.
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Post by cwm on May 11, 2009 9:32:20 GMT -5
You thought it was another TMM bashing thread?
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Post by Dante on May 11, 2009 11:30:19 GMT -5
Or perhaps he jumped to the same conclusion I did - that the title was a punny way of suggesting that TMM was the point where the amount of danger and tension in the series really escalated. Instead it was a box set question. I think I prefer it this way.
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Post by Hermes on May 11, 2009 11:48:08 GMT -5
You thought it was another TMM bashing thread? Sort of - only most TMM bashers think it gets better after that, while this seemed to suggest it gets worse.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2009 13:50:37 GMT -5
that the title was a punny way of suggesting that TMM was the point where the amount of danger and tension in the series really escalated. My thoughts exactly when I first saw the thread. xD Wow, you guys are lucky to be able to find the box sets... I haven't seen many of those here, even in big bookshops.
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Post by Dante on May 11, 2009 16:45:54 GMT -5
I haven't seen too many box sets myself. Granted, the U.K. doesn't have many compared to the U.S., so I'm probably not getting an accurate picture.
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Post by liquidladylemony on May 17, 2009 16:41:24 GMT -5
I had a bday party and I got a boxset of 789th books. So I don't know what you're talking about.
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Post by cwm on May 22, 2009 8:54:46 GMT -5
That'd be because we're discussing books 1-4, I think.
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Post by Christmas Chief on May 26, 2009 15:05:27 GMT -5
Shouldn't Snicket books from the U.K say the same thing as the U.S?
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