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oh, I LOVED Kay's Phantom-moreso than Leroux at some points.
and shakespere *sigh* gotta love the classics. also love Victor hugo's work (les mis),
and of course, who can forget JKR? 
You have to love Leroux because he started it all, but I agree with you on Kay. I LOVED Kay's interpretation.
What's the name of Kay's interpretation? I have only read the Leroux version (which I loved) so I'd be interested in seeing an alternate or another version of the story.
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What's the name of Kay's interpretation?
Phantom. 
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Don't know why it's so expensive - version I have was a standard $6-7 book...
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Thank you. 
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Don't know why it's so expensive - version I have was a standard $6-7 book...
It`s expensive and shipping of it takes a lot time... No idea why, but I waited for my copy more than 3 monts...
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Okay, so at my job I can listen to books on tape while I work. I just want Mad and Leda to know that I have HH's Guide to the Galaxy and a couple of the "Discworld" books waiting for me at the library! Obviously I have a lot of time on my hands to listen, so if your book is available on tape and you listed it here, I will be listening to it at some point. I am soooo excited! I'll you gals know my thoughts when I'm done!
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I just want Mad and Leda to know that I have HH's Guide to the Galaxy and a couple of the "Discworld" books waiting for me at the library!
Cool! 
Curiosity Query - is that an audiobook of H2G2 (shorthand for Hitchhiker's, and the name of a website inspired by it and created by Douglas Adams), or is it the BBC Radio version?
Either would be great - just be aware that there are differences between the radio play and the book. and the video game. and the movie. and the BBC miniseries...
There's a quote from Douglas Adams about this phenomenon, something about every version of Hitchhiker's being completely different from every other version. He was an odd man, lord love 'im.
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What's the name of Kay's interpretation?
Phantom.
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Don't know why it's so expensive - version I have was a standard $6-7 book...
The book, before the 2004 ALW's Phantom of the Opera came out could be picked up for about $5 at any used bookstore, or even online (unless it was a 1st edition hardback) Then the movie hit. Prices for used paperback editions skyrocketed--I saw them go for $300-$400 on Ebay. The book was out of print, and everyone wanted to read it. So, Llumina Press (which is basically a self-publishing company) comes along and finally, last year, before the hurricanes hit, made a deal with Susan Kay to reprint 4K copies of it or so. The new paperback is a larger print version of a regular paperback. They also have a hardback version
(hard-back link ). This is kind of neat because they had a contest for phans to send in artwork and then they'd have a contest and pick the best cover. The guy who won, goes by the name of Raphael, someone I've known in the phantom community for years, sent something he had drawn up months before based on Kay's story. Since he was the winning artist, and I've loved his Phantom artwork for years, I just had to buy that version.
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Ah. Thanks for the info, Sultana. See, I'm of a school of thought that thinks no book should ever be "out of print" and am continually bemused when I can't find something, only to learn it has joined the OOP graveyard. *sigh* As always, economics dictate.
This could very well lead me into a rant about a favorite author, Katharine Kerr, and her recent difficulties with her American publisher, but I'll restrain myself and simply say it was stupid for said publisher to drop her when her books are still popular enough that the first volume of a so-far 12 book series is still in print some 20 years after it was first published...
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Sultana wrote:
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ButMadNNW wrote:
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LadyVendetta wrote:
What's the name of Kay's interpretation?
Phantom.
Amazon.com Listing
Don't know why it's so expensive - version I have was a standard $6-7 book...
The book, before the 2004 ALW's Phantom of the Opera came out could be picked up for about $5 at any used bookstore, or even online (unless it was a 1st edition hardback) Then the movie hit. Prices for used paperback editions skyrocketed--I saw them go for $300-$400 on Ebay. The book was out of print, and everyone wanted to read it. So, Llumina Press (which is basically a self-publishing company) comes along and finally, last year, before the hurricanes hit, made a deal with Susan Kay to reprint 4K copies of it or so. The new paperback is a larger print version of a regular paperback. They also have a hardback version
(hard-back link ). This is kind of neat because they had a contest for phans to send in artwork and then they'd have a contest and pick the best cover. The guy who won, goes by the name of Raphael, someone I've known in the phantom community for years, sent something he had drawn up months before based on Kay's story. Since he was the winning artist, and I've loved his Phantom artwork for years, I just had to buy that version.
I entered the contest, but now I'm glad that Raphael won. I've always loved his work and this cover looks great. I first bought the paperback because my original copy was falling apart, but now I think I want to get the hardback.
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Re: Favorite Book
JAD, I too love Lafferty. Ringing changes, Nine Hundred Grandmothers-- best of all, Past Master
Other favorites, and pardon lack of proper italics etc
World of Wonders and related books, Robertson Davies, though I don't admit the metaphysics of Jung, yet these are great novels
The novels of the extended Biography of Manuel: Jurgen, Cream of the Jest, The High Place- James Branch Cabell
The King of Elfland's Daughter, Don Rodriguez, etc- the novels of Dunsany
there is a row of unicorn's heads on my shelf...
Dumas: CMC, the D'Artagnon novels, Joseph Balsamo etc
My dear namesake and other works of Rostand
Don Juan and Beppo; Byron's narratives
Lud-in-the-Mist
LOTR, [the old paperback I bought back in about 1969] the Silmarillion and Farmer Giles
The Last Unicorn and the Innkeepers Song, though Beagle's others are orders of magnitude less
the mysteries of Martha Grimes and PD James
Laurie King's Holmes pastiche series of mysteries and her modern Bay Area mysteries.
Did you vixens love the bedroom Evey wakes in? books to the ceiling and brown silk. neat, no junk; probably no cat around [one could therefore be brought..] I felt that about one in ten in the theater breathed '... yes...' and the rest went 'WTF?'
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