Why not, everyone is doing it -

[kyburg]

I finished OOP on Saturday. Yes, I did. I got the book Friday. The UK version. unclejimbo had gotten his hands on the American version and didn't let it out of his hands or out of his sight until he finished it himself.

Two bookmarks do not make one book into two - sorry.

However, I have the following weirdness to report:

Saturday night, NASA was also trying to launch a Mars probe.
I was also very fatigued due to suckage and laying on the couch reading, fell asleep while NASA's radio chatter was going on and I was reading Harry Potter's adventures with the Beast That Walks Upright -

So what happened?

I'm dreaming I'm at Fanime again, on radio.

Only I'm at Hogwarts, on base in McGonagall's office. The usual suspects were also on radio, silverkun. Og at Hogwarts. Think about it. Think about Hogwarts overrun with anime fans.

I woke quite vexed. NASA scrubbed their launch, y'see.

Don't ask how that translated. Just...don't.

Comments

[absolutedestiny.livejournal.com]

"The UK version."

Is there a difference, or was it a purely cosmetic thing?

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Big difference. Monstrous, huge, incredible difference.

The difference

[ceolyn.livejournal.com]

In order to appeal to an American audience the reading level of the book was dumbed down at least one full grade level. The story is the same but the intricacies of the language and foreshadowing are all but lost in the Americanized edition. In England, they expect children to know what a Philosopher's Stone is. To date I've read books 1-4 in both the UK version and the American version. The UK version is by far my version of choice. It's why I'm waiting for my copy to arrive from www.amazon.co.uk rather than tearing in to silverkun's American copy that he got for his birthday. I will now cut short my rant about publisher dumbing the book down to get better American sales. Suffice to say I read CS Lewis in grade school and they didn't provide an Americanized translation for that.

-C

[absolutedestiny.livejournal.com]

There's finally a series of books that people who dont read will actually pick up and they remove the chance of increasing someone's reading level.

I'm surprised there hasn't been a backlash of people not wanting to be patronised. It's fairly pitiful.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

Well, there is. We buy UK versions of the book.

Damn us liberal terrorist types. *winks*