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Author Topic: Alex Rider # 8 - Crocodile Tears (three merged topics)  (Read 73457 times)
arrowsong
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« Reply #510 on: November 26, 2009, 10:15:16 AM »
Wow, that's weird.. maybe its something to do with being so incy and pathetic, but we only get the paperback versions here. Of, like, everything. Ive never seen an AR book in hardback. Except the compilation of the first 4 (it's like, Alex Rider: The Missions or something silly) which I own, which is hardcover... Never seen the twilight books hardcover either... oh, we have HP in hardback!! Thats actually the only thing I can think of that came out in hardback, and then later was released soft cover....

Im pretty much glad though - I mean if the paperbacks are this expensive!!!!! - I dont even want to KNOW what the hardback would be like!! O.O *hates NZ book pricings*

But you're right AR:A..... BOT....
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« Reply #511 on: November 26, 2009, 01:18:36 PM »
At first we could get them in Hardcover but later we can get them all in paperback. But the time between it is so long, that I can't wait for the cheaper books. But the German cover don't look so good as the British.
So I have bought Crocodile Tears with a hardcover and later I will buy it in German paperback.  grin
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« Reply #512 on: November 26, 2009, 03:40:32 PM »
yeah, why is that? seriously the books that i had to order from the UK had way better covers than the american versions that came out like a year later.
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« Reply #513 on: November 27, 2009, 07:39:18 AM »
@arrowsong: How much are paperbacks for you?

@Kerry: Could you post a link to the Germen cover. I'm interested to see it.
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« Reply #514 on: November 27, 2009, 01:40:52 PM »
@ Double-O-Nothing

Okay. But now we can't buy most of the books with hardcover, so I post the links to the new and the old paperback covers.

Stormbreaker (paperback)
http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/images/3473582239/sr=8-15/qid=1259327627/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=299956&s=books&qid=1259327627&sr=8-15
(old cover)

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/images/3473582891/sr=8-4/qid=1259327627/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=299956&s=books&qid=1259327627&sr=8-4
(new cover)

Point Blanc/Gemini Projekt (paperback)
http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/images/3473582247/sr=8-2/qid=1259328157/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=299956&s=books&qid=1259328157&sr=8-2
(old cover)

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/images/3473582905/sr=8-2/qid=1259327627/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=299956&s=books&qid=1259327627&sr=8-2
(new cover)

Skeleton Key (paperback)
http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/images/3473582352/sr=1-2/qid=1259328257/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=299956&s=books&qid=1259328257&sr=1-2
(old cover)

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/images/3473582913/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=299956&s=books
(new cover)

Eagle Strike (paperback)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21DK11ZGG1L._SL500_AA180_.jpg
(old cover)

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/images/3473582921/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=299956&s=books
(new cover)

Scorpia (hardcover and paperback have got the same cover)
http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/images/3473352705/sr=1-2/qid=1259328719/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=299956&s=books&qid=1259328719&sr=1-2

Ark Angel  (hardcover and paperback have got the same cover)
http://www.amazon.de/gp/reader/3473352748/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link

Snakehead (hardcover and paperback have got the same cover)
http://www.amazon.de/gp/reader/3473583448/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link

At the moment there isn't a German cover of Crocodile Tears.
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« Reply #515 on: November 27, 2009, 05:17:53 PM »
Hah! Wow!
Sorry, I get excited about stuff German. 'Tis a cool language...
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« Reply #516 on: November 27, 2009, 05:22:00 PM »
ya I've seen many different versions of the covers, my personal favorite being this kind:

http://www.kidsreads.com/art/covers/140w/9780142412121.jpg

I've also seen these:

http://img1.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/c1/c8553.jpg


But to stay on topic, I hope CT comes out in paperback soon with the classic AR cover Smiley

also, to those who have CT, is the spine the same as the others? cause I want it to fit in with my other AR books hahah xD
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« Reply #517 on: November 27, 2009, 11:49:52 PM »
@ MadCatta
German might be a cool language, but it also isn't easy to learn.
I think English is a very interesting language, because it is the world language. In school the first other language we began to learn was English.

What language have you got to learn in school?
Kerry
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« Reply #518 on: November 28, 2009, 03:46:57 PM »
I know! I'm getting a B in it so far... :-S
Up until 2 years ago, both French and German. Now I've kept them both on for 'fun' xD.
But that's off topic...
BOT! (Back on Topic)
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« Reply #519 on: November 29, 2009, 04:20:49 AM »
the second lot Jule posted are the ones i read first. I always thought the other covers - the ones with the one colour, and a symbol or something on the front - were so bleh! but the Snakehead one is AWESOME and I LURVE the CT one too. And Scorpia and Ark Angel are good... and I have the first 4 in one book, and it's got a different cover. So I dont mind.

*coughs* BOT...

Oh, one more thing - no, Jule, the spine isnt really the same! - the part that's usually silver (the strip at the top) is the same green as the cover. Peds was complaining because it doesnt fit with the others O.o

Now REALLY BOT... Cheesy
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« Reply #520 on: November 30, 2009, 02:48:34 PM »
details give me more i want to know what's going on okay and u can facebook me guys on what to talk about it's thomas augustine
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« Reply #521 on: December 01, 2009, 09:37:56 PM »
What do you mean? You want to be told about the book? undecided that's spoilers!! And muchly frowned upon! Unless you REALLY cant get it for AGES. But even then...

And if you have read it and want to talk about it, there's a section for it now... on the AR books list...

Im confused about what you're so desperate to discuss!!
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« Reply #522 on: December 02, 2009, 02:20:48 AM »
YES!

FINALLY Crocodile Tears comes in the mail lol, it took a week!

but now I have my hands on it, and I have to say, I actually kinda like the cover.
It is cooler in real life.

However, I still had to take it off cause it kept slipping and sliding, and I still prefer paperback haha.
But anyway, what's important is the book itself!

I just read the first chapter and I LOVE it already. AH really knows how to start a book Smiley
well, im gonna go finish it and then move to the other CT forum with the spoilers and talk about it there lol ^_^
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« Reply #523 on: December 02, 2009, 04:56:30 AM »
yeah the waiting for shipping books long distance is terrible its like ; i could have flown there and bought it, read it on the way back, but the books still hasnt come through the mail. (course flying there would be insanely expensive.)
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« Reply #524 on: December 02, 2009, 11:37:32 AM »
WHOO JULE!!!!! it is cooler than the pictures ay!! Me like. I have paperback too mwa ha ha. Cheesy

Quote from: Double-O-Nothing on November 27, 2009, 07:39:18 AM
@arrowsong: How much are paperbacks for you?

Just noticed that!!!

Right now, $20 (how much CT cost me - fortunately it's a children's paperback, and so much less than a teen or adult book - an adult paperback would be $30 or $35) is equal to...

$15.70 AUD (Australia)
?8.75 GBP (England - pounds)
$14.50 USD (USA)
 9.60 euro

but that is REALLY reasonable for a book here. Normally they're (as I said) $30 or $35 (Eclipse and BD were $35 each. That hurt! =/)
Which is...
$27.40 AUD
?15.30 pounds
$25.45 USD

A hardback or a really thick/particularly literary paperback will be upwards of $40/$45.

How much are books for you guys? if you want, the currency converter I was having fun with is at http://www.xe.com/ucc/
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