STEWART COPELAND

luddite lady wrote:I got the July 8th edition in the mail today. Curious. Although I ordered it from a supposedly Canadian seller on amazon.ca, the book was shipped from London, England. I guess it really is only available in the UK.

From what I can see, there are very few changes from the hard cover book. There's a few corrections to the photo captions. Maracana Stadium is rightly identified where it had previously been mistaken for River Plate Stadium. I remember some eagle-eyed Nutter had pointed out that error. But Stewart still talks about being grumpy in Calgary instead of Edmonton. I haven't done an in-depth comma by comma comparison of punctuation. (My family still has the local asylum on speed dial just in case though.)

Being a paperback with smaller print, this edition has different pagination than the hard cover one. (Thank you for allowing me the geeky joy of using the word pagination.) The unfortunate thing about this is that nobody seemed to have thought about this when it came to the photo credits. They were copied verbatim from the original book, crediting people for pictures on pages with no image or the wrong image. I hope that'll be corrected in the September release.

LL-- as always, you are part of the story! I loved this "review", even the comments on the commas (did I use mine correctly?) And don't worry, because what happens on the sc.net stays on the sc.net (or at least among friends!) Maybe you should right your own STH. What would it be called? Hmmm. Thanks for my morning dose of Nutter!

I really like the new cover though. The title is easier to read, and the cover picture is cropped in such a way that Stewart no longer looks like a genie emerging from his snare. However, some of you will be horrified to learn that the serial comma has been dropped from the title. (Ooops, I mentioned commas. Don't tell my kids or they'll be reaching for the phone to get me "help".)

luddite lady wrote:Since you all know I'm obssessed, I'm not ashamed to admit that I was checking out on-line booksellers to see if there's any more news about the paper back edition to be released in September. The sites now have an image of the cover. It looks the same as the British edition released in July except there is once again a serial comma before "and Pygmies". This development has me grinning like an idiot. It's a little scary how much joy one can derive from a comma. For me, having a copy of the commaless edition of the book is akin to having one of the Fall Out singles with a rare variant label.

luddite lady wrote:The look on my Dad's face when he saw me pouring over two seemingly identical books: priceless

luddite lady wrote:I got the July 8th edition in the mail today. Curious. Although I ordered it from a supposedly Canadian seller on amazon.ca, the book was shipped from London, England. I guess it really is only available in the UK.