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Mister Roboto posted:I read somewhere it's Pratchett himself who didn't like the way Hollywood tries to focus-group everything, which prevents anything major developing over here. Apologies if this was covered already, but holy poo poo!: http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/06/30/neil-gaiman-makes-it-sound-like-good-omens-is-back-in-terry-gilliams-hands-again/ I want that to be true so bad. Though I'm morbidly curious what the 2002 version would have been like - Robin Williams as Aziraphale might have worked, and Johnny Depp as Crowley is pretty perfect.
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That would be awesome, but please no Johnny Depp. I suspect he would ruin the film.
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Waltzing Along posted:That would be awesome, but please no Johnny Depp. I suspect he would ruin the film. Depp was slated for the 2002 version, I highly doubt he'd be even on the table, though since he has a history with Gilliam, I wouldn't rule it out completely.
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I think current British it man Benedict Cumberbatch would be good for it, but first he would have to stop being in every major release of 2014.
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Nov 4, 2013 23:15
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Depp's a decent actor when working with the right director, as long as Gilliam stops him from trying to pull a Crowley Sparrow he could do a good job.
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e: ^^^^ Not to go too far off topic but he was really great in The Rum Diaries.BananaNutkins posted:I think current British it man Benedict Cumberbatch would be good for it, but first he would have to stop being in every major release of 2014. He could actually be good as Crowley or Aziraphale, I think. Cast him as both!
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precision posted:e: ^^^^ Not to go too far off topic but he was really great in The Rum Diaries. Cumberbatch Aziraphale, Freeman Crowley. Ultimate stunt casting.
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the JJ posted:Cumberbatch Aziraphale, Freeman Crowley. Ultimate stunt casting. Tumblr would explode!
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I could totally see Stephen Fry as Aziraphale. Maybe Hugh Laurie as Crowley - I hear they work well together. I could also see Colin Firth Vs Clive Owen.
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the JJ posted:Cumberbatch Aziraphale, Freeman Crowley. Ultimate stunt casting. Nah. Cumberbatch Crowley, Gatiss Aziraphale. Perfect.
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Nov 4, 2013 23:43
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I think Depp is a great actor when he is not working with a horrible director like Tim Burton. I just don't see him as Crowley. I was thinking Cumberbatch could pull it off, but he doesn't seem right, either. Why does every role always have to be filled by a major star? E: Reposting my question that got ignored: Does anyone know why the US release of Raising Steam got pushed back till March? For the last ten or more years the books have been release concurrently in the US/UK. But the UK version comes out on Thursday, still. Anyone know?
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Waltzing Along posted:Does anyone know why the US release of Raising Steam got pushed back till March? For the last ten or more years the books have been release concurrently in the US/UK. But the UK version comes out on Thursday, still. Anyone know? I don't think anyone ignored it, I doubt anyone here KNOWS. These are the SA forums, not exactly the hub for literature talk. Try the official TP forums for that kind of info, someone there will know.
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Mister Roboto posted:I don't think anyone ignored it, I doubt anyone here KNOWS. These are the SA forums, not exactly the hub for literature talk. Oh..duh. I'm so used to the wealth of knowledge here I rarely go elsewhere. Kinda scary out there, you know. E: And ordered from the UK. Waltzing Along fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Nov 5, 2013 |
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Mister Roboto posted:I don't think anyone ignored it, I doubt anyone here KNOWS. These are the SA forums, not exactly the hub for literature talk. I'm playing guessing here, because I don't know. But did one of his recent Long Earth or Dodger books get delayed? Maybe they don't want to do too many releases at the same time? Maybe Terry has decided he wants to personally remove all the extra u's and put in the extra z's? Probably just printing volume or licensing poo poo.
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I wonder how many sales the US distributors will lose by not having a concurrent release.
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MikeJF posted:I wonder how many sales the US distributors will lose by not having a concurrent release. All of the hardcore fan sales. All of them. They will only get the sales from people who pick up the book in bookstores. Amazon.com will lose all kindle sales to amazon.co.uk, as well. Same company, but different departments.
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Welcome to the way buying books by US authors in the rest of the world has been for all time. Suck it up.
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Waltzing Along posted:All of the hardcore fan sales. All of them. They will only get the sales from people who pick up the book in bookstores. Amazon.com will lose all kindle sales to amazon.co.uk, as well. Same company, but different departments.
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Also, it appears Canada is getting it a week after the UK. See, this is why you don't lead a revolution to overthrow the British. They give you their cool stuff.
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FactsAreUseless posted:the other hundreds of thousands of casual readers I'm pretty sure that the majority of his book sales are by his fans. There are always going to be people who buy books on a lark or just pick them up when they see them, but I'd wager that they will lose at least 50% of their sales to people ordering from overseas (or Canada.)
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Waltzing Along posted:I'm pretty sure that the majority of his book sales are by his fans. There are always going to be people who buy books on a lark or just pick them up when they see them, but I'd wager that they will lose at least 50% of their sales to people ordering from overseas (or Canada.) Or simply pirating the British version of the eBook. It's not like it'll make or break the publisher and certainly not Terry but I can't see any way this doesn't result in lost sales. The casual people who just pick the book up on a lark will do that regardless of whether it comes out next week or in three months, you know?
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I know that in the 90s, as soon as I found out I could order from amazon.co.uk I got caught up. Before that I just got the books as they came out here. From that point I ordered them direct from the source until releases were concurrent. I'm not waiting for my discworld fix...even if Snuff was terrible.
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Waltzing Along posted:I'm pretty sure that the majority of his book sales are by his fans. There are always going to be people who buy books on a lark or just pick them up when they see them, but I'd wager that they will lose at least 50% of their sales to people ordering from overseas (or Canada.)
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So has anyone else finished reading Raising Steam yet? Its been sold for a few days now here and I just finished it.
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Natural Joe posted:So has anyone else finished reading Raising Steam yet? Its been sold for a few days now here and I just finished it. Where's "here"? Terry's facebook page says it was published today in the UK.
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AlphaDog posted:Where's "here"? Terry's facebook page says it was published today in the UK. Yeah. Brick and mortar stores will have had their stock in for a few days, but they will have been embargoed from selling it until today.
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A QBD (a book shop chain)in NSW, Australia. Its been advertised as on sale there since the 1st but I got a copy on the 5th. I thought it was a bit weird that no one else was talking about it. Natural Joe fucked around with this message at 14:23 on Nov 7, 2013 |
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My Kindle have been sorta strange with the 3G, so I've only just downloaded it.
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Just got it in the post this afternoon, about about 3/4 finished. I'm definitely enjoying it, but who doesn't enjoy steam engines?
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In case anyone didn't know: In the Kindle management settings on amazon.com, under "country settings", you can change your address to 10 Downing Street, order the ebook from amazon.co.uk, then change the address back to your previous address.
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I too got it today and I'm halfway through, so far it certainly is a fine book. With a very Pratchett like call back to Reaper Man in the beginning. Unless it goes terribly off the rails before the end I'd rank it with Thud and Going Postal.
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withak posted:In case anyone didn't know: In the Kindle management settings on amazon.com, under "country settings", you can change your address to 10 Downing Street, order the ebook from amazon.co.uk, then change the address back to your previous address. Oooh... I know what I'm doing tonight.
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Geokinesis posted:Finished and I found very enjoyable, certainly better paced/made than Snuff. Also just finished it, I find it an odd hybrid of his older style, by that I mean the pastiche and his newer darker1 style. Earlier I mentioned Thud, well if you imagine Thud meets something like Soul Music, lots of pop culture references of things about the railway and to do with the railway2 and I'm not too keen on the whole 'Capitalism makes everyone's lives better' but that seems to be a message that Pratchett keeps pushing in all of his books. But despite these slight misgivings it's absolutely a better book than both Unseen Academicals and Snuff. 1 Might not actually be darker per-say but more nuanced, not sure how to properly phrase it. What I mean is the change between like Men at Arms and Night Watch. 2 Although these seem very much more in your face than for instance 'They're Definitively Dwarves', although I might just have missed the more subtle ones.
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UnquietDream posted:Also just finished it, I find it an odd hybrid of his older style, by that I mean the pastiche and his newer darker1 style. Earlier I mentioned Thud, well if you imagine Thud meets something like Soul Music, lots of pop culture references of things about the railway and to do with the railway2 and I'm not too keen on the whole 'Capitalism makes everyone's lives better' but that seems to be a message that Pratchett keeps pushing in all of his books. But despite these slight misgivings it's absolutely a better book than both Unseen Academicals and Snuff. Yeah I get what you mean with style and agree that the capitalism/social mobility bit rubs me the wrong way but I love the The whole Northern thing with brassbands and flat caps it was reet good. Also the first train spotter showing the note that just said '1' on it.
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Havn't had time to go to town, last couple of books has been out about a week early here. I preordered on amazon anyhow half a year ago but its showing up as shipping on the 15th, when I add the book to a new order (which now costs more of course) it says shipped tommarow. 
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Preordering is often the worst thing. The amount of times I've preordered a book only to then stare jealously at it in bookstores while I wait a week or more for it to come in the mail... 
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Eh, I don't think it's pushing capitalism, though that was a part of the narrative. The book was more about acceptance, and trying to make change better for everyone. Also, will the next book be a mystery book on a train? I mean, we could see more of the __gnomes__ now too.
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SystemLogoff posted:Also, will the next book be a mystery book on a train? I just had the mental image of the Witches handling a murder mystery on a train. It was glorious.
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