I went for the larger hardback as I prefer the cover.

which did you choose?

Hardback - but that was because neither WHS nor the independent bookshop had it in and I could only purchase at Ottakars after the staff had scrabbled looking for it!

Want a paperback to read in the bath.

I ordered both UK copies. I do hope they manage to come out with a trade paperback so I can complete my collection...and the fact I use my UK paperbacks as my hack around copies. I use them for reference.

**note: in rereading my post, I realized I am a big goober!**

What's a goober?

A dork. :)

I saw a paperback at the Leeds signing, but it turned out to be a UK proof copy.

Bought the hardback, but that was because that was all they'd got and I was really desperate to read it!



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yes, but *which* hardback? the little one with the colourful cover, or the larger one with the minotaur on?

As far as I know, there is no paperback, yet.

Little one with the colourful cover - like I said that's all they had.

Brand new here. Got Something Rotten yesterday after being introduced to the series by Carla a while back.

I got the hardback copy with the jacket with hamlet in the speedster on the front. I was torn over getting it because I'm not a fan of hardbacks and I also really wanted the other style cover to match the others but in the end a book token and a desire to find out what happened won me over.

Helo S-B! *waves*

Welcome, kittenesque.

I got both hardbacks, the large one to match the earlier books (especially if I ever get a shelf set up to put them on...) and the smaller one because I really preferred its design (and because its publication date was forecast as a few days earlier, so that I could get & read it before the London signing)...


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"Customers are advised that this product may
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The colourful one, sorry, because that was all they'd got.

And the lady at the till said 'Well that's a... colourful cover...' and I said 'Yes, it is.' And she gave me a very odd look.



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

Got the colourful cover. Nice but not really necessary since it's what's inside that interests me. Still, it brightens up my room which is a good thing!

I have been looking for the big book - not in local Ottakars. Nor in local WHS - but then they have always been hopeless.

So I went to Farnham yesterday (vist to dentist!) and tried larger Ottakars there. They had one copy of small book hidden on the Hardback Fiction shelves - they had taken it off the 'latest titles' shelves - and no big books.

So I tried the WHS - no big or small books at all - not even on their order sheet. I read something last week about the new Head of WHS saying that most of the people who entered their stores left without purchasing anything. Can quite believe it.

I'll have to try Waterstones in Winchester next week. I refuse to go to either Portsmouth or Southampton as both are horrid places and it's difficult to park!

The big orange one with the Minotaur in the speedboat on the cover.
But like a few people have already said, it's whats inside that counts ; )

does anyone know if they're *ever* going to release the minotaur cover in a paperback/trade edition ? amazon.uk has it listed as a 'collectors/library' edition which makes me wonder.

Think only the distressed cover's going to be released as a paperback. That may not be accurate though!



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If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.

At the leeds reading, Jasper said that the distressed cover was what he's been after as a cover since book 1, kind of a 50's pulp kind of look.

I still prefer the minotaur...

I ordered the colorful (pardon the spelling) one from Amazon.co.uk because I couldn't wait any longer for the US edition to come out, and I hate the US covers. Should be here this week (rubbing hands together in glee and chuckling softly to self)

Deb