The Republic of Heaven

hey, lyras oxford is to expensive, its a tenner, you can buy the amber spyglass for £7!

So don't buy it, cus! No one's making you.

Yeah sure you don't have to buy it but it is overpriced.

This was one of the general moans when it was released. Of course it isn't just a standard mass market paperback. They have put effort into giving it the 'feel', and with all the accompanying ephemera it costs more to make than a paperback. But yes I do agree that it is still overpriced.

They gave it5 a price tht they new people would pay plus im sure those engravings aren't cheap

In France, English books are more expensive than £10...

i agree, it has got a lot more depth and feel,(like the map and postcard) its almost like having a peice of PP's worlds there with you. It would be briliant if TBOD is like it, with pull-outs and stuff.

Personally, I think all books are excellent value when compared with other media, and so this one is reasonably priced (while, for example, TAS at £7 is ludicrously cheap - think about the enjoyment per pound compared with the average CD or game you buy).

I never thought like that, thanks !! although music and games are enjoyable to a point books will always be much better, especialy the ones that enspire and please so many other people, HDM, LOTR ect.

I initially thought that the book was hideously over priced as well, but it is just a beautifully put together piece. If it was just a flimsy paperback book, with none of the pull-outs I'm sure it could have been sold for under a fiver, but as it is, I think a tenner is spot on.

I bought Lyra's Oxford it in Waterstones at Trafalgar Square when I visited London.
In France, it costs 12.5€ (about £7.00)
Strange fact, HDM is in store in my (french) town, in english version. The price for the english book (with the whole trilogy inside) is 24€ (£16) and that cheaper that in UK where this book is sold for £25. I don't understand why it's cheaper.
But I find books are incredibly expensive in UK. This summer as I said, I visited London and oxford (taking pictures of every HDM places...) and I was looking for books. And there are 50% more expensive than in France.

Everything is more expensive in the UK, which is why we buy a year's supply of everything whenever we go to any other country. Especially cheese and wine in France .

Lalura wrote:Everything is more expensive in the UK, which is why we buy a year's supply of everything whenever we go to any other country. Especially cheese and wine in France .

Vodka in Poland (GBP 3.50 a litre there, GBP 20+ here!)
CDs and Shoes in the US.

I think lyra's oxford is more than a story I think it's a tourguide and perhaps even something that hints at pullmans inspiration for the books
being originally from oxford I can trace the steps from town to jericho in my head. I walk with the book one day to confirm my suspicions

Old topic mate. But never mind.

Is the layout correct then? I did wonder...

milton wrote:I think it's a tourguide

I know it's not exactly the theme of the topic, but I agree.
I went to Oxford this summer and the Lyra's Oxford map was very useful to me, to find place of HDM, and places in the city !!!!

Oh! Haku, did you go from Turl to Juxon? I did, just curious. Makepeace's house in our world is pretty uh...dreary. But indeed, with the LO map I was much more successful at finding things than I had been with...nothing.

The map got Shoe Lane wrong. In our world it goes from New Inn Hall Street to the back of the Clarendon Centre (a horrible shopping mall). There is no Clarendon Centre in Lyra's Oxford, so Shoe Lane should run all the way from New Inn Street to Cornmarket Street. But the map shows Shoe Lane as a cul-de-sac, as it is here.

Ceres Wunderkind wrote:The map got Shoe Lane wrong. In our world it goes from New Inn Hall Street to the back of the Clarendon Centre (a horrible shopping mall). There is no Clarendon Centre in Lyra's Oxford, so Shoe Lane should run all the way from New Inn Street to Cornmarket Street. But the map shows Shoe Lane as a cul-de-sac, as it is here.

I've seen a 1950s map and Shoe Lane was always a cul-de-sac.

Touché!

What I want to know is, why does every street named on the L-Oxford map bear the same name it does on the A to Z of our Oxford, except that our New Inn Hall Street is their New Inn Street. Is this another teaser, like 31 April?

Enitharmon wrote:

Ceres Wunderkind wrote:The map got Shoe Lane wrong. In our world it goes from New Inn Hall Street to the back of the Clarendon Centre (a horrible shopping mall). There is no Clarendon Centre in Lyra's Oxford, so Shoe Lane should run all the way from New Inn Street to Cornmarket Street. But the map shows Shoe Lane as a cul-de-sac, as it is here.

I've seen a 1950s map and Shoe Lane was always a cul-de-sac.

Touché!

Not if you go far enough back:



Original here.

A hit! A palpable hit

What I want to know is, why does every street named on the L-Oxford map bear the same name it does on the A to Z of our Oxford, except that our New Inn Hall Street is their New Inn Street. Is this another teaser, like 31 April?

Or has Mr Pullman crossed the fine line...