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Post by Dante on Sept 2, 2014 15:44:13 GMT -5
However, the UA didn't come out in the UK (according to Wikipedia) until 2007 - after TE. It's a UK website but they can still take the phrase from the UA. Wikipedia didn't say anything about a TSS date in the UK, so I assumed it was published at the same time as in America (September 2003): where do you get May 2004 from? And while we're on the subject, which books were and weren't published simultaneously in the UK and US? The U.A. actually came out years before 2007 in the U.K., though there was a reissue with a completely different cover in 2007, which subsequently became the standard edition, and I imagine that that's what misled you. As far as release date parity went in general, I think TGG was the first book to have a release date that was actually very close between the two countries, and only TPP and The End had simultaneous releases. (TBL was a mess; the U.K. was meant to get it two days early, but Egmont held it back at HarperCollins's request and so it ended up being several days late instead.) I get the U.K. release dates partly from memory and partly from looking up the original Egmont editions on Amazon.co.uk - but the original Egmont edition of the U.A. does appear to be extremely elusive, and I'm having trouble finding listings for it. Ah, here it is - August 2002, which I think was only a few months after the American release.
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Post by gliquey on Sept 3, 2014 1:28:30 GMT -5
The U.A. actually came out years before 2007 in the U.K., though there was a reissue with a completely different cover in 2007, which subsequently became the standard edition, and I imagine that that's what misled you. Ah, okay. It still confuses me sometimes how early (the US) TUA came out - the series was barely halfway through, and we'd hardly had any of the interesting/confusing/mysterious stuff by then. Two days early in the UK - I can't imagine the reasoning behind that. Several days late is mildly unfair but more normal. Okay, so the competition can definitely use "the world is quiet here" - not that they were necessarily limited to UK-available sources of information anyway.
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Post by Dante on Sept 3, 2014 2:37:13 GMT -5
Two days early in the UK - I can't imagine the reasoning behind that. Several days late is mildly unfair but more normal. Unless an effort is being made for a simultaneous release, I think the U.K. and U.S. typically release books on different days of the week, and I think that's what happened here - a release date had been set for the same week, but Egmont and HC had chosen days suited to them within that week. And then, quite late in the day, HC decided that they weren't happy about it, and the actual arrival of the book on store shelves in the U.K. I recall being pretty chaotic. It wasn't a fun time for fans.
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Post by Edwin on Nov 5, 2014 19:59:18 GMT -5
I don't really remember much of the toil of being a British fan. I have the original version of TUA stashed somewhere with its two half-covers. I think, being a young child, I was probably happy to enter a bookshop and discover that there was a new Lemony Snicket book to ask my parents for. I think I have a vague recollection of the competition and I definitely remember playing the games.
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Post by flushbribe on Sept 9, 2015 4:00:53 GMT -5
Crikey, showing my age slightly as I was an UnfortunateEvents.com forum member / website user way back when (I think I joined in 2002/3?) waiting for the new games to be loaded on (in my head it feels like one came out with every book though I know that can't be right), and I'm pretty sure I've a notebook somewhere with collected clues from the games, though I could never get to the end of TWIQH. I came on to this sub-forum hoping someone might have an answer to what the ending of the 'game' actually was, but I'm unsure how much I remember...
One thing I remember about the website was there was a picture of all 13 books on a shelf, but the editions that hadn't been released were greyed out. I remember trying to interpret what colour the book might end up as by examining how deep the shade of grey was... all probably fruitless, as I remember the shades of the published books didn't quite match up with their colour in the image.
And being so young at the time, had no real recollection of the perils of being a UK fan. I do remember stumbling upon TUA in a bookshop without knowing it even existed, which was pretty terrifying with the back cover announcing that Lemony was died. I took it quite literally at first and thought there'd be no more books until my parents pointed out the 'post-it note' saying the obituary wasn't real... I also remember begging my parents to buy me the THH audio book as we found it in Cambridge what feels like over a month before it was to be published, but they never did and I can't quite say I've forgiven them...
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Post by Dante on Sept 9, 2015 6:53:12 GMT -5
Yes, I remember the bookshelf, which also included the U.A... not sure about TBL. It was neat having all the spines lined up like that, though; very nice device.
I think the "answer" to the game was to go to a particular place in the middle of the sea? It was a very long time ago.
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Post by B. on Sept 9, 2015 8:18:11 GMT -5
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Sept 9, 2015 9:11:33 GMT -5
I joined their forum for a short while as well. UE.com was fun, but even more fun was the Nameless Novel website for TPP. Good times.
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Post by Dante on Sept 9, 2015 10:01:58 GMT -5
Oh, you were a member of UE.com? I used to look at their forum now and again, and I regret that they aren't around any more even though at times we had a bit of a silly rivalry.
The Nameless Novel probably won't ever be equalled as web promotion for a book. I'm not even mad that a lot of what it shared or implied was just a shoal of red herrings.
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Post by Poe's Coats Host Toast on Sept 9, 2015 11:51:00 GMT -5
Well, I was there short enough that I didn't even know about this rivalry. I made two or three threads and frequented the forum for a few weeks, that's it. I think I knew about 667 back then, but the other one seemed more official : P And yes, definitely agree on the TNN website.
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