From the Bookshelf: Magic in a Box 4: The Spectacular Slovak Set

No new episode this week BUT, here's an oldie but goodie all about one of favorite box sets - the 20th Anniversary Edition Slovak Box Set, illustrated by the super talented Adrian Macho!

Thanks for Listening to Season 2,  Episode 24 of Dialogue Alley! In this episode, Erik, Carly, and Melanie discuss:

News: Erik got a new Box Set! New Vera Bradley Pattern. Exclusive Ollivander Funko!
Main Topic: Fourth episode of a 5 part series that examines amazing box sets. This episode features the 20th Anniversary Set of Slovak books!
Translation of the Show: Filipino

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, Carly, here one of your Dialogue Alli podcast hosts.
While we don't have a new episode this week, we
do have an episode from our bookshelves. In it, we
discussed the lovely twentieth Anniversary Slovak books, illustrated by Adrian Macho.
This particular episode is fourth in a series called the
Magic in a Box Series, and these books really are

(00:22):
quite magical.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Enjoy three up, two across, Tap that play button three
times and walk through the archway into Dialogue Alli. Hello,
and welcome to the podcast Dialogue Ali's a show all
about Harry Potter books, book translations and all other things magical.
I am Melanie from the Harry Potter Collection, and with

(00:46):
me today is Eric from Nocturn Eric Hello, and Carly
from All the Pretty Books.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
Hello, and hello.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
To you guys. If you're a new to our podcast, welcome.
We are three Harry Potter book translation collectors talking about
Harry Potter books because we love them and we want
you to love them too. And hopefully that's why you're here,
is because you love them and you want to hear
more things about them.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yep, yeah, because I mean I want to say, like,
what is there to be said that hasn't been said
about Harry Potter. Well, let me tell you listeners a
lot actually, because we're like, what almost sixty episodes in
and oh wow, we're still going. But no, we're talking
about stuff that no one else has talked about on
a podcast.

Speaker 4 (01:38):
So I know.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
How about them apples. I know the apples because.

Speaker 3 (01:46):
We were playing board games yesterday with my five year
old and she pulled out apples to Apples and she's like,
I want to put the Apple Game and I was like,
I don't think we're ready for the Apple game.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Oops. One day, one day, little one.

Speaker 3 (02:00):
Someday, that day is That day is not today. And Melanie,
I'm kind of disappointed that you don't have nicknames prepared
for us this episode.

Speaker 1 (02:08):
I I'm so sorry.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
My head is like fogged up because I've been watching
so much Bluey lately, like it's all I can really
think about. And I have to like really switch gears
to get back onto the Harry Potter game, because I mean,
this should be news, but it's not Harry Potter news.
But the new season of Bluey is out on Disney
Plus and I'm about it.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
Well, and I am disappointed and jealous because I said
it to my kids this morning, like super excited, like, hey, kids,
new Bluey's are out, and they're like, I want to
watch Spidey. I was like, we're on the same one
season of Spidey. We watched each of these like fifty times,
like there's new Bluey, It's more for me.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
Oh, it's so good.

Speaker 2 (02:54):
There were definitely a few that I was laughing out
loud and I was watching it before and my dad
was in the room and he's like, I'm pretty sure
this show, this show is more for you than it
is for her. I'm like, but you know what's better
than Bluie what? It's Harry Potter books. And I think
we should get into our news so we can talk

(03:14):
about some Harry Potter books that have just arrived at
the transition.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Thanks.

Speaker 3 (03:22):
All right, Well, we have some exciting news. I think
I teased in the last episode that I might have
some books coming and guess what come? They did all
the way from Thailand. And I think we've talked about
this many times on previous episodes about shipping from other countries,
and DHL gets an a plus in my in my

(03:45):
Shipping scorecard because every time i've had anything sent to
me DHL, it's always come fast, it's always come on time.
There always this condition has always been great. Yeah. So
when I was emailing the publisher about this tie set
that we've talked about before that I just had to buy.
You convinced me to buy it. Yeah, I know, I

(04:06):
did it.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
I told you so I have.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
I have a little funny story. I'll tell you about
it in a second. But when this book came and
the publishers like, okay, we have dispatched your order via DHL,
I was like, yes, DHL.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
That means it'll get here.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
It'll get here. It came four days before the expected
estimation arrival time or whatever, so that was great. Everything
was in great condition, it was packed beautifully. There was
bubble wrapper on everything. There was styrofoam that my kids
loved to play with that I had to vacuum up
off the carpet. Anyway, I got I got the new
tie box set and it was It's spectacular. It's really

(04:42):
really awesome. And I don't know if you two have
the bonus cards that came with it, but I had
a set of bonus cards on top of the already
bonus cards that that comes with it.

Speaker 1 (04:55):
They're amazing.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
I have. I mean I have two sets of cards
that came with it. So, oh, you got two sets
of cards. I got two sets of cards.

Speaker 1 (05:02):
Yeah, of the same cards.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
No, they're different. There's like the cover art cards and
then there's like some quidditch people cards.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Oh I might have that, so I don't know.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
It was like it wasn't even part of things. It
wasn't even part of the set. Like when I when
I unboxed this package, like the bonus cards were on
top of the styrofoam that covered the box set. So
that was kind of cool. But I will say, if
you want to get the set, you definitely still can

(05:35):
and you can email the publisher, which is on Non
May Books and a n M E and they have
a contact email on their website and they will ship
it to you. I will say, the cost of shipping
is about the cost of the books.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
So yeah, yeah, you.

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Know, that's kind of alarming for some However, to us
that collect translations from other countries and have been doing
so for quite some time, that's just kind of part
of the cost.

Speaker 1 (05:59):
And honestly, for because that set weighs a bit because
it's hardcover, so it.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
Does pretty large box. Yeah and yeah, so.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
Such a beautiful I told you you'd love it.

Speaker 3 (06:11):
I know you both told me. Yeah, you both told me.
So I got that. It's great. I put it on
my shelf. My daughter opened it up and she thought
it was super great. We got boxed together. That was
so so exciting.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Isn't it like a dollhouse. It's like it's a cute
little like hogwartsy dollhouse.

Speaker 3 (06:27):
It's so cool it is. I almost didn't want to
like open all the stuff so that she'd be like, oh,
I want to play with that again, Like I'm going
to put this on the show.

Speaker 1 (06:35):
No, it's boring. It's just books.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
Books. But because you have to do all this corresponding
with the publisher via email and I live in the
United States, which is almost exactly twelve hours difference than Thailand,
it was like a four or five day process to
email to get this like transaction completed. It was like, hey,
do you have these books available? Yes, we do, great,

(07:00):
I'd like to buy them. Okay, here is the link
to buy them. Okay, I have bought them via the link.
Thank you. What is your phone number? Here is my
phone number. Great, I will ship them to you. Thank you.
Like that was like a week of correspondence because it
was you know, I'd wake up and I'd have an
email waiting, so I'd respond, and then whoever was on

(07:21):
the other end would get that email when when they
would get to work the next day. So it was
it was a long process, but it was not difficult.
It just took took a few days.

Speaker 1 (07:31):
And the box set is phenomenal.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
It is worth every penny. If you like Harry Potter
books in the slightest and you want to kind of
add something with some definite pizazz to your shelf, I
highly recommend the Tie twentieth Anniversary box set. You will
not be disappointed. Both of you convinced me to get
it just by talking about it for forty minutes. So
tadah there it is good good. And guys, I know

(08:00):
you stoked to hear. But there's a new ververa Bradley
pattern on the horizon.

Speaker 2 (08:05):
I literally just added that for your wife because I
knew she'd be excited to hear about it.

Speaker 3 (08:10):
Is it the is it the one on the apron?

Speaker 1 (08:13):
Wait, it is on an apron.

Speaker 3 (08:15):
I saw someone post the picture of their apron.

Speaker 2 (08:18):
Here's the thing is, like, right before we started recording,
I was on the Vera Bradley website like trying to
look at all of the things to decide what I wanted,
and the site is like down, so I can't like.

Speaker 1 (08:29):
See anything, and it's making me sad. But it's this.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
I think this is my favorite. It might be my
second favorite, or it might be my favorite pattern of
like the five Vera Bradley patterns that have come out.

Speaker 3 (08:43):
Please describe this pattern to those that have not seen it.

Speaker 2 (08:47):
Well, it is very it's a black background and it's
very colorful. If you're like a Vera Bradley, like classic
Vera Bradley nerd like I am. It goes kind of
back to some of the more iconic coloring that Vera
would do, such as like rainbow ee, bold colors, more

(09:11):
Paisley's are like kind of throughout it, but it has
like these little little really cute versions of like creatures
and Harry Potter characters and things that you would know
and artifacts that you would know, like are just designed
really adorably throughout. Like there's Fluffy sleeping next to harp.

(09:32):
There are some pixies like flying Away just really really adorable.
It's so cute.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
I need it. You love those stuff.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
I do.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
I have at least one thing from every Vera Bradley
series that's.

Speaker 1 (09:51):
Come out, except the Luna Love Good one.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
I didn't get it because the one bag that I
really liked was like the most expensive one, and I'm like, nah,
I'm not gonna do it. But this pattern, being my
favorite one, I'm probably gonna get something.

Speaker 3 (10:07):
Well. And I appreciate that you included this from my
wife because she's gonna be listening and being like, oh,
you gotta get it, No, you gotta get it.

Speaker 1 (10:14):
It's so good, necessary, very necessary.

Speaker 3 (10:17):
Maybe maybe when this episode comes out, I'll be back
at work teaching and then she won't be able to
say that, but then she'll text me be like, oh
here Bradley new one.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
Well necessary, it's so cute.

Speaker 3 (11:32):
Necessary. But if you were not already like super thrilled
about the new Vera Bradley pattern, well, let me tell
you there is now an exclusive Olivander Funko Pop that
is coming out. Hey, oh, I have.

Speaker 1 (11:46):
To get LeVander Funko Pop.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
Cold. I don't have to get you. Guys got to
talk about this I don't know anything about.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
I have to get up Olivander because it was my
dog for fifteen years.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
I know, I knew you were gonna knew you were
going to need an Olivander. But it's an exclusive one
to fund Con. Fun Con is doing it, and it's
going to be a Funko Shop exclusive. And it's because
you know last episode where we talked about how they
did the whole Hogsmead, like the buildings with the character

(12:22):
to kind of replicate what they did with the diagon
Ali ones with the last Wave. So now that's why
the Olivander's I guess going to be the exclusive. So
it's Olivander with Olivanders in the background.

Speaker 3 (12:33):
That's fun.

Speaker 1 (12:34):
It's so cool.

Speaker 2 (12:35):
I did think originally that this you were only going
to be able to buy in store, but they will
be available online. I am not gonna actually by the
I can say where it's going to be because by
the time this episode comes out, this will have already happened.
But there's like a link for there's a link for

(12:57):
it where you can get it.

Speaker 1 (12:58):
You just type it into Google.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
I just I just posted it. Yeah, I just posted
it in our discord mainly for myself. As a reminder
of where to find the link, I posted it in
our Discord in the we Don't talk about Funko Pops
little sub section.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
I love that section. I never go there though.

Speaker 1 (13:20):
We don't talk about Funko Pops.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
I think I started that section actually just so that
you guys could stop talking about it on the other
Discord channels that we have.

Speaker 1 (13:30):
Well, I needed a place I get sick.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
Of hearing them. I know everyone needs a place to
talk about them, which is why if you like anything
about Harry Potter, you will find something to talk about
on our discord page.

Speaker 1 (13:44):
Fun Facts.

Speaker 3 (13:48):
Our discord puts the fun in fun code. Finally, pretty
cool news because we just had an episode about audio
books not too long ago with our friend Harrison, and

(14:08):
the Chinese audio books are out for the first time ever.
There's an official Chinese audiobook that you can get and
they have a pretty cool art that we've seen, and
it's just cool that, you know, we talked about how
a lot of these languages don't have an official audiobook
and some that you may you know, not think some

(14:30):
that you would think would have one, like Chinese, but
apparently not so. Chinese is out now and you can
get it if you speak Chinese, you can get an audiobook.
Pretty exciting, very awesome.

Speaker 1 (14:41):
The artwork for it is also really cool. Sorry, there
was like a little bit I was going to ask
about a little bit of that I have the time.
It's is it originals?

Speaker 2 (14:51):
Yeah, actually I'd love to see it on books, but
but then we find it by them.

Speaker 1 (15:00):
Yeah, I know.

Speaker 2 (15:03):
So many books, but it is original artwork, and it's
it really is very beautiful, like kind of almost like
an anime, kind of fish style.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Oh, very cool. It's very colorful, very colorful, beautiful, very beautiful.

Speaker 3 (15:19):
Very vibrant coverage. Yeah. Absolutely, if it was on a book,
i'd buy it. I don't know if i'd buy a
digital copy, no want. I know that people do collect
audiobooks though, and I think more people than ever are
now starting to collect audiobooks. Am I right?

Speaker 1 (15:36):
Maybe I would like to see it going that way.
It's very cool.

Speaker 3 (15:42):
Well, I think they're they're pretty easy to collect, you know,
if they're out, you can just get them, well like new.

Speaker 1 (15:50):
Like new ones, new ones, just like regular ones. Otherwise
they're hard to find, just like ours.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
I'm very impressed that the Chinese books have come out
with a lot of unique art in the past few iterations.

Speaker 1 (16:03):
Honestly they have, and they're really lovely.

Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yeah, with like those comic book style ones that have occurred.

Speaker 1 (16:11):
I know, I still have to finish that set dittoh
and then through.

Speaker 2 (16:14):
They're actually uh, they're actually like very readily available.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
On American eat Amazon.

Speaker 2 (16:23):
Yes, yes, but they're cheaper on book Depository. I was
like really like goofing. Yeah, I was goofing around on
there the other day and I saw.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Not all of them. I think repository for those, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
Because I think I need volumes like eleven through twenty,
because it's twenty volumes total. Yeah, because I have the
first four books whatever it is, there's there's twenty twenty volumes.
But they're so they're beautiful, beautiful covers.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
Yep, so didn't Japanese also come out with new covers
about the same time as the Chinese.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah, and they're they're little ones. They're almost I guess
they're the same size as like the teeny pobe editions. Yeah,
they're very very tiny. They're very tiny, but there the
artwork on.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
Those are so good.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, I only have book one. I don't know if
more than Book one is out. This is why I
wish we were recording live so Sean could tell me, Hey,
just so you know, I just have the book one
of those as well, but I because I don't know
of the others.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
To be honest, I'm going to ask our discord right now.
Good call.

Speaker 3 (17:25):
You could, and while we're talking about them, I can
say that getting another box set, which is not what
I collect, the tie one that just arrived. Like, my shelves,
which I thought had more space than I would ever need,
are starting to kind of fill up a little bit,
like not in a bad way. I still have stuff
that I can move around. I have those kind of

(17:45):
I have two of my shelves. I have Billy shelves
for my key. I think we all can agree that
Billy's are a nice option.

Speaker 1 (17:52):
Billy's are great.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
Oh yeah, But two of my shelves have this cool
I don't know what you'd call it. It's like a
metal l and it kind of sits in the shelf
so that you don't put books in there. Typically you
just kind of lay them flat and you can see
the cover of them.

Speaker 1 (18:09):
M yeah, I like that too, Like the I know
what option you're talking about it's really neat.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yeah, and it's discontinued. Actually, Jenny in our discord was
I know me too, she's going to Ikena, and she
asked what those were called, and I, you know, I
was looking around, and by the time I got back
to her, she said they were already she found what
they were called, and they were They've been discontinued for
about a year.

Speaker 1 (18:34):
So it makes me sad.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
That's kind of disappointing. So, I mean, I feel like
getting all of those Chinese comic book style books would
be too much of a space issue.

Speaker 1 (18:47):
They're so er, they're so small, they're so small.

Speaker 2 (18:50):
If you were to get any if you were to
get any Japanese set, this is the one to get because.

Speaker 3 (18:57):
No, I mean the Chinese ones, oh well.

Speaker 1 (18:59):
They're great.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
Oh I was gonna say, just don't even worry about
the Chinese ones. Then just get the Japanese ones, which
are tiny. They're so small, they take up so much,
so little room. So I am seeing actually via MuggleNet
that they had like a link to where you could
buy these new editions, and it looks like one through
three are out. Okay, of the Japanese itty bitty new cover.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
I love those. I love them.

Speaker 2 (19:31):
Yeah, I see one, one through three. They're they're so good.

Speaker 3 (19:35):
Do you know if one through three came out at
the same time or is it being released by book.

Speaker 2 (19:42):
I I feel like they're being released by book.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
I don't think they're all just like dropping. I don't
think they're dropping the whole set. I think you have
to like wait a little bit. But they're on Amazon Japan.
You can get them on Amazon.

Speaker 3 (19:54):
Oh, I love love amag on Amazon, Amazon, Amazon, Amazon Japan.
Making up words there Eric Amazon.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
It's a h we like that.

Speaker 3 (20:09):
We like that. Yeah, that's it for news. I don't
have any other news. That was a lot of news.
Actually it was good news. I am too because it's amazing.
It might be another opportunity for me to spend some money.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
Yeah. Actually, I fully expect you to buy this while
we're on.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
While we're on today, this is the Best Man segment.

Speaker 1 (20:44):
I'm so excited for it.

Speaker 2 (21:16):
Well, now that you've started with that, the expectations are
really high.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
Let me go get let me go get my credit
card from the other room.

Speaker 1 (21:23):
Yeah, you should, actually.

Speaker 3 (21:27):
And why should I Melanie tell tell me why?

Speaker 1 (21:30):
All right? Here's why.

Speaker 2 (21:31):
Because we are today continuing with our five box sets
that we love and you will love them too. We're
continuing with our our little like mini series with that
because we have to talked about this box set very lovely.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
You had the silent accent and the because.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
Oh, because because because because because, Okay, this is is
out of all the box sets that we've talked about
on this podcast ever, this is my number one favorite
box set.

Speaker 1 (22:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (22:07):
Yeah, Like if we were to do a top scale
on just this box set, which is essentially what we're
doing by having this box set being discussed as the
main segment, it's an outstanding straight across.

Speaker 1 (22:19):
The board everything everything else.

Speaker 2 (22:23):
So obviously if and that's like a spoiler alert, I
feel like.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
This is a spoiler, but I will say, if you
were to tell me, it's like someone that doesn't have
all the box sets, the best box set to get
for Harry Potter books is the box set in this language,
I would say, are you kidding? Like, no, no way,
like they would come out with the like that in
that language, Like that's crazy to me because not many

(22:51):
people speak that language, which is crazy. So no, continue
that that's just my like.

Speaker 1 (22:57):
Oh, but it's amazing.

Speaker 3 (22:58):
You're like, number of is for this box set is
far less than you would you would think, I know
a set of this amazingness, but I know now I
stand corrected here.

Speaker 2 (23:11):
It is so if it's a box set that I
would give an outstanding on every segment of our top scale. Obviously,
the box set that we're talking about today is the
twentieth anniversary Slovok.

Speaker 1 (23:24):
It just I got.

Speaker 2 (23:25):
Goosebumps just saying it, because it's like so stupid to
be like this passionate about books.

Speaker 3 (23:30):
But that's because my basement's really it's beautiful.

Speaker 1 (23:34):
Like I honestly, I remember when I bought it. I
was so excited and then when it came in the mail,
I swooned for like I think people pictures and pictures
don't do justice.

Speaker 2 (23:49):
It's just no, it doesn't, because there's so many features
of the set that you would completely miss out on
if you didn't get the and you didn't feel them
with your hands, and you didn't experience what it was
like to open the box. And and I know I joke,
but in all seriousness, the smell of these books is

(24:12):
even when you just open the package to reveal this
box set it is there. They just smell unbelievable and
it's just such a comforting smell at the end of
the day, Like I I wish that I could read
this language, just because I feel like it would just
bring me to a Hogwarts library, Like this is exactly

(24:34):
what I could imagine it smelling.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
Like.

Speaker 1 (24:36):
These are the best smelling books in my whole collection,
all seven of them. They actually so the first time
that I opened the box and I was wrapping the
plastic and I took book one out and I loved it.
I remember thinking it smelled like kind of a white
yellowy cake batter is what I associate it with. I
always have, and I know that sounds really weird, but

(24:59):
it has it really wonderful smell.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
It's just like for me, it's like it's like a
moretensha I guess because it's not, but it's like really right,
oh my god, wait a Harry Potter reference.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
Oh my god, no show, Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (25:18):
But for me, it's like it's woodsy. It's a deep,
like not like a metallic scent, but like the scent
of the ink is just so rich in these books
that it's just but absolutely unbelievable. Yeah, that's why it's
like woodsy and earthy, and it's just I mean, the

(25:39):
smell of the books alone, I feel like make it
into and it's an outstanding feature of the set. But
in general, like what makes this set worth getting the
cover art is brand new, unique cover art that you
will only get in the entire world with this set
of books and the twentieth anniversary Slovak.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
That's it. What did you think, Melanie when you opened
up your box set and you saw the moments they picked?
They're not you usual moments.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
No, Honestly I got emotional like I did to the
picture that they chose for Book three in particular, stands
out to me because that's what I tell people about
Harry and Hermioney. It's Harry and Hermione in the pumpkin patch,
like about to save buck beak. So Buckbeak's on the cover,
but it's not the classic like oh them flying on

(26:31):
book beak, La la la, let's go save serious. It's
them about to save buck beak, which is that's it's
and it's so cute and it's so colorful and beautiful,
like that's an absolutely stunning moment. Goblet of Fires moment.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
Okay, so I set so I'm looking at all the
pictures here because we know that this segment of the show,
this special five part series is really subtitled books that
we're trying to convince Eric to buy, because he's bought
all of them so far, so maybe he'll buy this
one too. Will like Book one, Quidditch Yeah, Book two,

(27:09):
Flying Car Yeah, Book three, Bookbeak Yeah, Book four, under
the water, second task like get out. No one's ever
put that.

Speaker 1 (27:19):
On that That's what I was gonna Danish.

Speaker 3 (27:22):
Book four awesome, They're so cool and.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
Yes, yes, yes, I know, but but not done beautiful.

Speaker 3 (27:29):
No, not in this way at all. And like Book five,
I love that one.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
I love Book five.

Speaker 4 (27:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
I love how the illustrated chose mostly different moments than
what we typically see on the covers. And what is
so cool is that these are typically moments that we
associate with these books, so nothing is unusual here, but
there are not typical moments that are shown on the covers.
I mean the book one and Book two, okay, but

(27:55):
Book three onward very different moments, and I love his
depicttion of all of them.

Speaker 3 (28:02):
I mean Book six I'm looking at it. It's like
the Across the Lake with Dumbledore to get the holl
Crooks that wasn't really a Hall Crooks like that's been
done in a few books, like Danish in particular stands out.
But Book seven, and this is what what makes me
very excited about this is that Book seven is the

(28:23):
Room of Requirement with the fiend fire kind of going
all over the place, and that was done. I believe
in the German cover that they didn't end up using.
Am I Am I right about that? Or am I
wrong about that?

Speaker 1 (28:38):
I think you're right actually, but I could be wrong.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
I just I know that that that Book seven alternate
German cover was.

Speaker 1 (28:45):
No, it is it is fire. I see it.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
Yes, yes, yes, sorry, I was like listening but also
half listening because I'm like looking up some more information.

Speaker 1 (28:54):
So I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
I did fine.

Speaker 1 (28:56):
I did know that.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
And that Book seven German cover that didn't end up
making the final print run to me was so cool
because I'm a big orange person. It's my favorite color
and I just love it, Okay, I love I love
the fiery well craziness.

Speaker 2 (29:14):
All the more reason why you need the set, Because
I do feel like there are a lot of orange
e undertones.

Speaker 1 (29:21):
It's a very aarm set.

Speaker 3 (29:24):
The thing that, like me, you've convinced me like at
this point we're on the at like what makes the
set worth getting? Right of the like six things are
going to talk about, I'm already in.

Speaker 1 (29:32):
I just got to find it, I know.

Speaker 2 (29:34):
I mean that's the thing is like these the covers
are all different. But because it's a box set, and
this is something that we talk about all the time,
is when it's a box set that's done after the
fact that the series is done, they're able to make
the set more cohesive.

Speaker 1 (29:48):
That's why all of our.

Speaker 3 (29:49):
Books are like absolutely.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
If you look at all of the US editions, they're
all a bit different. The British editions they have all
different cover artists, you know, but this it's all the
same cover artists, and they're all done stylistically in the
exact same way, where it's like an antiquey almost font.
It's an antique style. It's amazing. I just everything about it.

(30:12):
But it has like a very antique border around the
image on the front and everything is just this most warm,
inviting shade of brown.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
I know what I'm gonna say, right, got the juxtaposition
of colors between like Charlie, that's a Harley word. Especially
it's very commonent if you look at book three and
Book six, especially in book six, right, oh hea, the

(30:46):
illustrator plays with light and dark very very well, and
the images pop, especially in person.

Speaker 3 (30:52):
Eric, Well, yeah, I know you've convinced me, but you guys,
I just you know, I'm going to Disneyland next week
buying a deck. I just bought this tie box that
I don't necessarily need.

Speaker 5 (31:06):
But I if you were to ask, I want to
buy you should have this awesome artiste.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Yeah, you made you made a mistake, because well, here's
the thing, and I'm going to say this as like
part of the bonus content is if you got this
set when the books were like almost initially released, and
I don't know if this is an option now to
get it through his website, but you would get it
through the illustrator's website if I'm not mistaken, and you'd

(31:36):
get a box set where each copy was signed. Mine
is exactly mine. Every single book is signed. And also
there's like a little dude.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
He doodled.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
I'm pretty sure all of them are signed, but I
think just the first one has a doodle.

Speaker 1 (31:56):
Yeah, so you're.

Speaker 3 (31:57):
Saying if I buy a non signed set, we can
swap the book four. No, I have at least one.
That's no. Never, Ah, Okay, this is worth a try.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Never, especially because these are some of my favorite cover
arts in the world. Like, it's not just the smell
of the book, it's not just the juxtaposition it is.
The cover art is so whimsical and childlike and lovely
and different. Different, it's different enough, Like I feel very

(33:33):
similar about like the Johnny Duddle cover art where that
is very like youthful because that was supposed to be
like the new Children's edition of the Harry Potter books,
the British Harry Potter books. I feel like this is
youthful enough. But the way that the covers are styled,
it just makes it so it just appeals to everybody. Yeah,

(33:55):
Harry ages beautifully throughout the entire series, and and he's featured,
like his images featured quite large on book five. And
the juxtaposition between Harry and Book one and Book five
is it'sctically.

Speaker 3 (34:14):
Is that car talking there?

Speaker 1 (34:17):
Oh no, that was Melanie, But it's like she's not
wrong like in book one, we see you, Harry is
front and center. But in Book five, like the artist
captures the emotions very well in the cover. You can't
look at that book and not know that there's some
somber moments in it.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
And can I also just say that some of my
favorite images that he did are not even the front covers.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
It's the back covers.

Speaker 2 (34:46):
Because his Hagrid that he has on book one is
probably my favorite Hagrid in the world.

Speaker 1 (34:52):
I agree.

Speaker 3 (34:53):
You're not going to hear me say this often on
this podcast, but the Hagrid on the pack of book
one is probably the cutest Hagrid you've ever seen ever.
And he's a low baby Harry in his hand and
it's like the same size as his whole hand. And
he's got this nice round face with this nice round
beard and his big old nose and these kind of sad,

(35:16):
soft eyes. You just like he's it is just great.

Speaker 2 (35:21):
He is just like the sad, little puppy Hagrid that
like I'm obsessed with.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
Yep. I love how the illustrator plays with the light here.
He nails it. Like look at Book three. Look at
the cover of Book three, right, don't you want to
go into Haggard's hud. I mean, but not even just
because it's Hagrid, Like it's so inviting, right, like the
it's so warm, as Melanie said, it's so warm and

(35:48):
you just want to play rock cakes?

Speaker 3 (35:49):
Would you eat to go into Hagrid's hut.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
I'll eat all the rock cakes.

Speaker 3 (35:53):
Even if there's a talon in your rock cake.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
Yes, okay, I'll do just anything. Just Also, what's interesting
is the spines of the covers get gradually darker as
you go up on the book. On the books, I
just have to say that in I think it's really
the attention is that Eric, you should buy it.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
I've already told you.

Speaker 1 (36:16):
I'm going to once that finds it, Once he finds it.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
I'm believing for Disneyland in two days when I come
back from Disneyland after spending all my money there.

Speaker 1 (36:26):
So in the next couple of days I will find
link to buy, is what and Melanie will do.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
I will find on to buy.

Speaker 1 (36:33):
We'll find it, We'll find it.

Speaker 3 (36:34):
Okay, but did we even mention the name of the
artist yet?

Speaker 1 (36:38):
Adrian Macho, Adrian perfect, fabulous, fabulous.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
Individual is as much credit as possible because man and
the last thing I will say about the cover art,
because I'm looking at all the covers in order here,
like the difference between Book six and Book seven in
terms of the juxtaposition and of color. It's awesome because

(37:03):
Book six is so dark and kind of mysterious. They're
in the little boat and the water is so green
and dark, and then Book seven is just so bright
and yellow and it's still dangerous.

Speaker 1 (37:15):
It's still dangerous.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
It's still dangerous. There's there's danger in both covers, but
like Book six, they're just kind of sitting there idly.
There's a lot of like mystery Book seven. There is
something going on. Right. If you haven't read these books yet,
you're like, oh man, when do we get to the
part where there's fire all around all the characters we
like and things are burning to the ground and we

(37:38):
are hoping they make it out alive. Like that to
me when we talked about the Grand Prey cover art
for Book seven, Melanie, when you and I talked about that, yes, yes,
there was so much to be desired just looking at
that Book seven that Grand Prey did because it's just
Harry standing there right like, like, oh wow, there's Harry.

(38:01):
If I was to see this book for my first time,
like reading Book seven, or before I was going to
read Book seven, I'd be like, wow, I can't wait
till I get to this part of the book to
figure out what's going on here, versus like, oh, there's
Harry standing in a field.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
Well, you know what I thought, actually when I saw
Grand Praise Book seven, and I'm very slow, as you'll know,
with certain things, and I thought he was at the
Coliseum in Rome for a bit.

Speaker 3 (38:27):
Melanie and I both said that on the episode, it
looks like he's at the Colisseum.

Speaker 1 (38:30):
That's what I thought he was at. Like it took
me a good solid four years after the book was
published to figure out that he was indeed not in
the Coliseum in Rome, and that he was at Hawkwarts.
I know, I know, but it looks like it might
have been.

Speaker 3 (38:46):
More exciting if he was at the Colosseum. I said,
it might have been more exciting if he was at
the Colisseum.

Speaker 1 (38:53):
Quite possibly. Actually, I don't know that book. I love
Grand Praise artwork, but Book seven for me fall flat.
But that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about
other things.

Speaker 3 (39:01):
No, no, it's not. But and IL say, because they're both orange,
this is the more exciting orange cover, very far.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
A lot, and you're gonna love it when you get
in your hands.

Speaker 2 (39:13):
Because let's talk about the quality of the box just
on its own. Like, first of all, it's a very
well made box. It's very sturdy. It is made of
it's it's like a cardboard, but it's super thick and durable.
It's not like what you would find with a German
box set. But the best thing about it, besides the
fact that it has its own original artwork on the

(39:35):
box itself, is it's the same super buttery beautiful texture
that the books are. Like we talk all the time
about like books that have that buttery texture. We'll say, oh,
it's a matte finish but not quite the buttery texture,
or it's a glossy finish. I prefer the buttery texture.
This is but we're talking. This is what we're talking about,

(39:57):
is this type.

Speaker 1 (39:58):
Of textured book.

Speaker 2 (39:59):
So, I mean, it just feels the books on their
own just feel so spectacular.

Speaker 3 (40:07):
And.

Speaker 2 (40:09):
You know, it's like I would just carry around this
whole set with me because it's just it's just amazing.
It's absolutely amazing. It's a work of art and its
own right, all of it.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
Yeah, Like, even if you're not into Harry Potter, the
art in itself, the box art, the books, all of
it are wonderful. It's just it's just absolutely gorgeous.

Speaker 2 (40:31):
And what else is cool about it is it's not
that huge of a set like it's I would say
that was what I.

Speaker 3 (40:39):
Was going to ask next, is like, what because I
just got the tie set, how would you compare to
the Tie set?

Speaker 1 (40:45):
It's not as not as big, it's not as tall.
It might be like as wide as the Tie set.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
The shorter I feel like the books are. Yeah, they're shorter,
but like, no, I think I think would be okay.
I think it's just like an average sized.

Speaker 1 (41:03):
Yeah, smaller than than a typical German box set. Mm hmm,
yeah those are.

Speaker 3 (41:08):
Yeah. I'm looking at that, looking at that German Rainbow
set here, and I'm like, whoa.

Speaker 1 (41:12):
It's smaller than that for sure.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
Definitely definitely smaller than that.

Speaker 3 (41:16):
So you're pay extra for that bag on your flight?

Speaker 1 (41:20):
Oh boy? But yeah, you would be just you'd be
just fine with these. It fits on the shelf very well. Yeah,
they're they're just They're perfect. They really are. Everything about
them is absolutely perfect.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
The cover art, the texture of the book, the size
of these books, just everything about them is awesome.

Speaker 3 (41:42):
I get I get vibes of the German Anniversary books
when I look at Yes, I know they're not the same,
but just in terms of the intricacy of the design
around the actual art, and like, that's the last thing
I want to say about this is it's every inch
of these books, it seems, has so much detail put
into it that you could really look at all of it,

(42:05):
like you look at the front, look at the spine,
look at the back. They're just great books. It's it's
not like they just put a picture on the front
and said, hey, here's a new image. They really thought
about the whole presentation of every single book in this
series and they put them together in one set. So yeah,
I mean, I said it again, I'm buying. I'm buying

(42:27):
this set.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
Yeah, we got to we gotta find it for you.

Speaker 3 (42:29):
We gotta find you one. But man, like this is
just this is just quality. In terms of Harry Potter art,
I haven't seen like unique cover art like this since
the original books came out. Really in terms of the
scenes they chose and and such. So yeah, wow, just

(42:52):
really really spectacular. So again QBC episode, I will be
buying this set. I hope we convinced someone else out
here to buy too, because if you if you like
Harry Potter, even if you don't collect translations, check this out.
It's really outstanding.

Speaker 2 (43:10):
It's like I said, it's my number one favorite box
set out of everything on my shelves. And the last
box set that we talked about is one of my
absolute favorites. I love the Brian Seals box sets so
much and it's so like I have such sentimental attachment
to that box set. But this has everything that I
could ever want in a Harry Potter book, except for

(43:31):
the fact that it's not in English.

Speaker 1 (43:33):
And I can't read it.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
Oh wait, I can tell you the one downside. The
chapter art inside is not done by the same illustrator.
It's Mary grand Prey. Yeah, that's the only thing that like,
I would have loved to have seen his chapter art,
but honestly, his work might have been like two.

Speaker 1 (44:52):
Intricate for chapter art possibly, And I agree with Melanie,
this is my favorite box set we've talked at. Yeah,
I'm obsessed.

Speaker 3 (45:01):
With it. Well, that's good news, because like I just
got the tie one and I think that's my favorite
box set I know.

Speaker 1 (45:07):
But then this one'll come and it'll be your new
favorite box set I know.

Speaker 3 (45:10):
So it'll be my favorite for like what a month
and a half and then get this other one in
the mail. But no, I think the French one is
still my favorite one. I think it's so cool just
because it's so small, and I really I really like
the art on it. I think it's just personal preference,
total subjectivity of the art. I really like the French one.

Speaker 2 (45:32):
Well, I will say, we have another book that we
have to talk about. It doesn't come a box in
a box set, and it is our translation of the show.

Speaker 1 (45:46):
All right, you guys, I'm so excited for the translation
of the show. It is the Filipino edition of Harry
Potter and the Philosopher's Stone or Sorcerer's Stone as we
should say. And the title of the book book is
very telling. It is Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone,
the Filipino Edition. Aren't we shocked? I love that we

(46:11):
are jumping ahead.

Speaker 3 (46:15):
I have to jumping ahead, right. This is what cover
art and interpretation in the todscale. When I got this
book in the mail after buying it and it was
it was not cheap, right, I was like, wait a second,
this is just the English version because I looked at
the spine. The spine is just Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer's No way, are you kidding? And looked at the

(46:40):
front in very tiny under Sorcerer's Stone, under the archway
in white font is in the Filipino edition. It's just
like kind of snuck in there, like, oh, by the way,
this is like obviously if you open it up, it's
in Filipinos.

Speaker 1 (46:57):
There's no title change. It is literally Harry Potter and
the Sorcerer's Stone the Filipino edition.

Speaker 3 (47:03):
Yep, it's all the English, not even on the spine,
just on the front in very very small, fun smaller
than anything else except for the name of the translator,
Becky Bravo, who's on the bottom there. It's if you
held this book, I don't know, ten feet away, you
wouldn't even know that it was the Filipino edition.

Speaker 1 (47:22):
No, you wouldn't know. And it is published by Lampara Books.
And so we'll talk about this a lot later, but
it was not the best translation. Are we surprised anyway?
It couldn't even translate the title?

Speaker 3 (47:39):
Yeah, I know, what should we call it? I don't
know the Filipino edition.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
Yeah, you know, you know, I don't know how to
say sorcerer. Let's just say Filipino exactly. Oh goodness, exactly
how Melanie said it? Oh, becky. So general information on
the language. Filipino is an Austronesian language. It is the
national language of the Philippines and one of the two

(48:07):
official languages of the country, alongside English. It is a
standardized variety of Tagalog based on the native dialect, written
and spoken in Metro Manila, the national capital region, and
other urban centers of the archipelago.

Speaker 2 (48:23):
Wow, archipelago that I thought was interesting. Archipelago did you say?
Is that just a southern thing that you say archipelago?

Speaker 3 (48:31):
Yeah, archipelago, that's what I say.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
Archipelago. Oh god, is this another vovosla thing?

Speaker 3 (48:39):
I think you could do both. Actually, archipelago, arpelago. It's archipelago,
archipelagaga the Caribbean, Caribbean. I think it can be both both.

Speaker 1 (48:53):
I think one of the three of us is wrong
and it's not mean.

Speaker 3 (48:57):
Or Eric, I've so I've heard archipela, though I have, I.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
Have two Gozillavola, I say, thank you, Carly. I've always
called it vavoozola and everyone's like, no, it's vuzelazlavzela.

Speaker 3 (49:18):
But I distinctly watched a lot of that twenty ten
I pulled.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
I pulled so many people. I pulled everybody I knew
at work about. I said, how do you how do
you pronounce the name of the horn that it would
typically be played at like a sporting event, you know,
the big plastic horn.

Speaker 1 (49:40):
What would you call? And everyone said voozella And I'm like,
oh my god, is this the rikala horn. No, it's
like a horn that you blow. It's a big horn.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
It goes, It's like a giant kazoo. It is twenty
ten in South Africa because that is when my friend
Jeff got me the Prisoner of Azkaban translation in Africa,
which is cool. That was the weirdest, most random text
I ever got from you, Melanie. It was like, hey,
by the way, Eric, what do you call those plastic

(50:08):
things that they blew in South Africa? The World Cup?
It was like the vouzi and you're like, and You're like,
please respond with a voice message. I was like, okay,
I know.

Speaker 2 (50:19):
And I think I also wrote urgent, urgent.

Speaker 3 (50:23):
I need to know now.

Speaker 1 (50:26):
So I was talking with Eric before the show about
how the Philippines kind of reminds me of Greenlandic and
it does because of how thick it is and it
has you know, it looks similar like with the Flat
like they did nothing special with it. But you know,
it's also getting kind of hard to find. What do
you guys think?

Speaker 3 (50:48):
Absolutely?

Speaker 1 (50:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (50:49):
I've had a lot of people say, hey, where'd you
get your Philippines book, and I'm like, oh, I got
it an eBay, there aren't any.

Speaker 2 (50:56):
Yeah, I had gotten mine. And it's funny. Mine actually
came with a postcard from the individual that got it
for me and get it.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
As a gift out of Manila, because mine came with
a postcard from a friend in Manila who found it
as a like here you go and sent it to me.

Speaker 2 (51:11):
Oh, maybe maybe we got it from the same person,
because mine, yeah, it came from a Manila It has
a Manila little postcard. Yeah, and it dated October October
twenty fifteen, and it says here's your Filipino Harry Potter
and the Sorcerer's Stone.

Speaker 1 (51:27):
I think we got ours from the same guy in
Manila because he found it in the shop and he
was like, I want you to have the book shipping
his twenty five dollars. Pay that and I'll send it
to you. So I paid twenty five dollars for the book,
which was just to get it here. Yeah. Very, I'm
pretty sure the same.

Speaker 3 (51:43):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (51:43):
I love I loved that. The comment.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
The comment on the postcard said, would have been cool
if they also translated the title. But oh well, smiley face.

Speaker 3 (51:52):
Or the last page in the book about the author page,
it's in English.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
Oh well, we just learned that of the fifty percent
of the country, it's English, like they speak in English
or the other it's the other official language is English.

Speaker 3 (52:08):
Yeah, also true, yep, So you know which is I
think why they didn't do any more books in Filipino.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
Yeah, that the translation wasn't that great, but it is.
I would say it's a see it by it book.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
Yeah, rarity. I would say it probably is like a four,
like a three plus.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
Oh yeah, I would say.

Speaker 3 (52:28):
I would go full out four on this.

Speaker 1 (52:30):
I'd go full out four plus here because I haven't
had anybody knowingly find one and at least a year.

Speaker 2 (52:37):
I mean, I also feel like I don't know too
many people that have been trying to find one.

Speaker 1 (52:43):
I've had a few actually message me on Instagram asking
where they can find one and so on, and that
they haven't had any luck in the Philippines. So I
would say, it's definitely see it by a book, Yeah,
for sure. Absolutely, Do either of you know, like, do
they still print the No, they haven't printed it in
a while. The translation was pulled off of the bookshelves
and Tait returned with the publisher for I think it

(53:06):
was too bad. That was my understanding. Oh wow, so
this is probably not the best translation. Interesting, So value,
I don't know. I don't have a good handle on
the value of the book because I haven't seen one
for sale in the open market for a while, so
I can't give it a value. I would not be
surprised though, if it were set to sell around three

(53:26):
fifty to four.

Speaker 3 (53:28):
You could say any number and I would say okay,
because I well, if it's.

Speaker 1 (53:32):
The only one in the market, there's eight people who
need it, it could honestly go as high as anybody
wants to pay.

Speaker 3 (53:39):
Well exactly, And like we've talked about a bunch of times,
shipping is a huge factor in the book cost for
transition collectors. So I think I spent about one hundred
dollars on this on eBay four years ago, five years
ago even, Yeah, and shipping was a big, big part
of that cost. And you know, I just figured out, Okay,

(54:00):
well let's do it. And I'm glad I did, because.

Speaker 1 (54:03):
I don't know that there's been one, I mean.

Speaker 3 (54:04):
Seen a bunch of these since.

Speaker 1 (54:06):
No, they're not super common, and they're not common in Manila.
It's not like you can go to the Philippines and
find them in bookstores. They're just not there either because
they were pulled from the shelves for not being good.
It's been what I've been told by several people anyway, Right, So.

Speaker 3 (54:20):
I would say, like, and I think we should do
an episode about this pretty soon in the future. Books
that you know, we have the big six rare translations,
but I mean, I think that list can.

Speaker 6 (54:31):
Be I think it could be expanded almost at this
at this point because of the amount of books that
are really hard to get, especially because we've had a
lot of Oh go ahead.

Speaker 1 (54:42):
The big six are still there, but I think more
are going to be added. I would not be surprised
to see Filipino on there. Had Bosnian not reprinted, Bosnian
would have definitely been on there for sure. And I
wouldn't be surprised to see Valencian going the way of
that either, and Galician.

Speaker 3 (54:58):
For that metaphors or to right, they just aren't in
print anymore, Yeah, especially because we keep getting more and
more translation collectors joining this, you know, hunt for books,
and you know, hearing feedback from people in twenty twenty
two versus even like twenty eighteen about finding certain translations

(55:20):
like Filipino, Like that was kind of news to me,
Like someone's like, man, I just cannot find the Filipino book, right, Like, oh,
I just typed it in an eBay and bought it
in like twenty eighteen.

Speaker 2 (55:31):
I mean, we were we were bound to hit this
point at some point, you know, like of course we
all we all started collecting, Like I know Carly started
collecting like a bit before me, but we were on
kind of the same timeline when in our collecting journey,
which you know, collecting just the first book of Book

(55:51):
one we ended that years ago at this point, and
now there are people that are like, oh, I always
wanted to collect Harry Potter books and different languages, and
they're just starting out. And even in just starting out,
they might have half of the books that we talk about,
but trying to get just that other half is so hard,
whereas for us it was like just trying to get

(56:12):
the last ten was hard. Now it's like there's still
that list of difficult and endangered books are so difficult
to find.

Speaker 1 (56:24):
Yep.

Speaker 3 (56:24):
Right, Well, and you two are both probably two years
maybe ahead of me, maybe a year and a half,
I don't know. And like you and you guys and
Peter were kind of on the same timeline too, but
even like a year and a half to two years
from when you finished your books to when I was
trying to finish the books, there was a huge you know,
supply and demand issue there also, and that was years ago.

(56:48):
So yeah, you know, now I guess it's even even Yeah,
So like Filipino, like Carly just said, see it by
a book if you can find one, I wouldn't tell
you a good price or a bad price, just buy it.
Just buy it one.

Speaker 1 (57:04):
Yeah, So what do we think of the smell of
the book.

Speaker 3 (57:11):
All right, Oh, I love the smell.

Speaker 1 (57:14):
Mm hmm. Mine just smelled like acceptable. It was okay,
I get.

Speaker 2 (57:20):
Like a different This is so funny. I get like
a different smell, like if I stick my nose in it,
versus if like I waft the pages, like if I
if I do this ready, listen, that probably sounded really
good in my mind.

Speaker 3 (57:33):
But are you doing the approved eighth grade chemistry waft?
You know?

Speaker 2 (57:37):
No, No, it's not that one. I mean like if
you take the book and you like have all of
the pages, like the pages all at once. Yeah, I
feel like that gives you a different smell in the
actual smell of the book.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
I don't know. I would still get I would just
give it an accept Mine smells like olden peak store.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
Yeah, it's like it's just nothing, nothing super Yeah to
write it's unacceptable for me.

Speaker 1 (58:00):
M hmm.

Speaker 3 (58:01):
I really like mine. I'm giving it an e fabulous.

Speaker 1 (58:05):
Well, I really do that, don't. You're entitled to your opinion.

Speaker 3 (58:09):
I'm doing it. I am. Thank you, thank you, ma'am.

Speaker 1 (58:13):
You're so welcome. Size and proportions. For me, this book
reminds me a lot of Greenlandic in size and proportions,
and that bothered me a little. Actually, it bothered me
because I had Filipino before I had Greenlandic, and I
would look at my shelves longingly because I'd seen Greenlandic
in person already, and I'd look at my shelves long

(58:34):
and and wish it were a Greenlandic and it just wasn't. No, no,
but it's thick and I'm all and it's very similar
in proportions to Greenlandic. For those who don't know, Yeah,
I would say I don't know.

Speaker 2 (58:48):
I would give it like I probably just leaned toward
and acceptable for like nothing really stands out. I feel
like it's just a.

Speaker 1 (58:56):
You know, it's good to accept.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
It definitely is like it's like poor, which is kind
of nice.

Speaker 1 (59:01):
No, no, no, it's not exceeds expectations, So I just
say a nomle.

Speaker 3 (59:07):
Man. I was really toying with the poor, but I
guess I'm going.

Speaker 1 (59:11):
To be acceptable fear pressure.

Speaker 3 (59:13):
It's it's very fine.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
It's very fine, exactly, very fine.

Speaker 1 (59:19):
And how does the book feel in your hands?

Speaker 3 (59:23):
I mean not amazing for me.

Speaker 1 (59:26):
It's weighty, but it doesn't open easily to read right,
it's found very tightly. It doesn't. I mean, if you're
going to open it at all, you're going to crack
the spine or the cover crease something and that. I
like books that are easier to read and more like approachable.
So for me, again, this is just an acceptable Yeah.

Speaker 2 (59:50):
Yeah, I'm like between an acceptable and exceeds expectations. You
know what it is is I agree with everything. I'm
going to say acceptable because I agree with everything that
you said about like how it flops open. If I
were to act actually read this book, I don't think
I would enjoy the experience too much, and I feel
like I would cause a lot of damage to the
book just trying to read it. But like if I'm
just standing here like holding the book into my hand,
yeah it's funny, bad, Like it's fine. Yeah, I'll say acceptable.

Speaker 1 (01:00:13):
Acceptable, Yeah, I think that's acceptable.

Speaker 3 (01:00:17):
I'm going I'm going poor.

Speaker 1 (01:00:21):
Can you just not like it at all?

Speaker 3 (01:00:22):
I feel like I am the dissenting opinion of this edition.
If like I'm just thinking, like if someone handed this
to me and it was the like English version and said, hey,
read this book, I'd be like, oh, like this book really,
it's Mine's very very slippery. It's very shiny. Same same,

(01:00:44):
it's it's very stiff. My spine is already creased. Oh son,
like the way that the way that cover flops open,
like the spine is flat, but the cover kind of
folds over on the foot. Want so, like it really
doesn't kind of hold well well, like when you're reading it.

(01:01:06):
The covers are different kind of spacing the actual pages.

(01:02:10):
So I don't know, I don't. I just don't like
it as well. I don't think it's one or two read.
So I'm giving it a poor But that's that's my opinion.

Speaker 1 (01:02:19):
So which again you're entitled to.

Speaker 3 (01:02:22):
I am entitled to because I am a host on
the show a lot, so I am entitled to my
opinion and.

Speaker 1 (01:02:29):
Cover art interpretation. I have to say, I'm not wowed
by it everything. The quality. We didn't talk about the quality.
I thought we kind of did. The quality was poor. No,
we have to give we have to. Okay, well, our
opinions also matter.

Speaker 3 (01:02:43):
I'm but let's talk about it.

Speaker 1 (01:02:47):
Actually, I'm like, Johnny has a graph. We have to
tell him all the letters.

Speaker 3 (01:02:51):
Have a spreadsheet. We have to fill it out.

Speaker 1 (01:02:56):
So the quality of the book actually really going into it.
I I don't mind it so much. The cover itself
is a nice, thick, you know, soft cover. The paper
doesn't yellow because it's been around a while, and my
paper at least is not yellow, and it doesn't. It
doesn't like if you're decrease the pages. I don't feel

(01:03:17):
like the page creases would fall off, so it's not
exceedingly dry, and the ink has not faded. So I
feel like the quality for a soft cover isn't too bad.
I don't have pages falling out of the glue. I
don't have any kind of spine lean, I don't have
any kind of decay, So I don't have an issue
with actually the quality of the book. But I'm not
going to say exceeds of expectations. I'm just going to

(01:03:39):
say acceptable.

Speaker 3 (01:03:42):
I have a big crease in one of the corners
of my cover, and that is only because the cover
is so stiff that if you actually do bend it,
you get a creaselines it's going to crez. It's going
to crease. So again, if you are just handing me
this book and say, hey, what do you think, I
wouldn't think very highly of it. So unfortunately, I'm also
giving the overall quality of poor. Yeah, just because I

(01:04:07):
I feel like we have this spectrum of a scale
and something has to fall in the less than acceptable range.
And when I compare this to the other books in
the collection, I don't think it's as good as a
lot of the other ones that we've given an A
or an E two. So I have to give it
a P for quality P.

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
For me, I totally agree with everything that you just
said about how we read the books and how I
feel about this book.

Speaker 1 (01:04:33):
I also would give it a PE for poor. Okay,
and I was an A And now we're on to
cover art and interpretation of cover art. For me, it
doesn't do anything special. It's just migrand prey, so poor,
like between an A and a P like P B.

Speaker 5 (01:04:53):
It's not translated, so it's literally the same cover except
and not even not even because it's like it's shiny,
but they didn't even bother to like raise it or
make it foilly or anything like that.

Speaker 1 (01:05:05):
Exactly, it's just yellow.

Speaker 3 (01:05:07):
You know, it's not as good as my paperback Philosopher's
Stone from a few years ago that someone gave me
with the raised gold letters of shiny that says the
extraordinary national best seller. Like it's not even as good
as that. So man, I'm giving it a poor also,

(01:05:27):
it's just I wish they would have done a little
bit more.

Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
I agree poor. So I will say, along with everything else,
will say, probably inacceptable. It does what it's supposed to.
It's mere grand pay art. But beyond that, it's a
bold special. It's acceptably poor. There you go, Yeah, I
like it.

Speaker 3 (01:05:48):
I don't think this means that we think the Grand
Prayer art is poor.

Speaker 1 (01:05:51):
No, we love grand prey and we love grand pay art.

Speaker 3 (01:05:54):
We love grand prayer art. It just, boy, I wish
we could do something a little bit more.

Speaker 1 (01:05:59):
With Well, it's not flashy. They didn't do anything. It's
just grand praise art.

Speaker 3 (01:06:04):
So yeah, that's Filipino.

Speaker 1 (01:06:07):
I think we did it. I think we did it,
you guys Filipino.

Speaker 3 (01:06:11):
So later the quality. We are glad that we all
have this book, because oh.

Speaker 1 (01:06:15):
Gosh, I wouldn't want to find it again. I have
to tell you I'm glad I own it. Oh seriously,
I agree to the person who gave it to me.
I'm not knocking the gift. Like, I appreciate you tremendously
when you get this book, right, I'm so happy to
have this.

Speaker 3 (01:06:31):
I think by this point any listener that has listened
to our show so now is that even though we
don't think a book is particularly made well, doesn't mean
we don't appreciate every single square inch of this book exactly.

Speaker 1 (01:06:44):
And I just had to point that out because it
was so kind, every every everything, appreciate exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:06:56):
Every millimeter of this book.

Speaker 2 (01:06:59):
There, my goodness, Although all that appreciation is gonna go
right back into how much we appreciate everyone that listens
to our podcast, because with all of that, that's all
we have time for today. If you want to get
in touch with us, you can find us on Instagram.

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You can find Carly at All the Pretty Books. You
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I'm Melanie, Melanie. You can find her me at the
Harry Potter Collection. And you can also find this podcast
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(01:08:29):
we don't have an answer to something, someone on our
discord typically does.

Speaker 3 (01:08:35):
I think my favorite thing is that people post pictures
of a book and they're like, hey, what's this And
there are some things that I'm like, I don't know,
I've seen that before and that's amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:08:46):
Or you could post something that says urgent requests, please
send an audio recording of how you pronounce archipelago because
or need now, because it's important things that you need
to know. Something else that I'm just gonna leave right
here in this little announcement section is like a little

(01:09:12):
secret teaser announcement that you know, one thing we're going
to say is that we're starting to wrap up season
two of this podcast because today is season two, episode
twenty four, which is pretty wild.

Speaker 1 (01:09:34):
But we're wrapping up.

Speaker 2 (01:09:35):
This season because we've got some really special, really awesome,
amazing news that's coming your way.

Speaker 1 (01:09:44):
And I think that that's all I'm gonna say about it.
What do you think? Do you guys have anything else
to say about it?

Speaker 3 (01:09:50):
I think that's fair. I think we'll probably let the
people in the Discord know the special news before everyone else,
but we'll definitely post an update with some special news.

Speaker 2 (01:10:05):
Yeah. It's something that we are so incredibly stoked about
and we just we just can't wait to we can't
wait to share it with everyone.

Speaker 1 (01:10:20):
That's it. Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 3 (01:10:23):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (01:10:24):
Yeah, Okay, I will accept guesses in the form of
Discord posts. I don't know, but we're we're so excited
to just bring you content that we're super passionate about
and keep doing so.

Speaker 3 (01:10:39):
I will say, also, we have bonus episodes. If you
like this and you're like, I just want more and
I want more about Melanie's visit to the New York
Harry Potters store, well we can fulfill that need because
we have bonus episodes available if you subscribe to our

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Patreon at a certain tier, so we have bonus episodes
for you. And I think Carly has got a bonus
episode coming out in a few weeks, maybe a week
or two.

Speaker 1 (01:11:09):
Carly, I am yeah, working on it right now.

Speaker 3 (01:11:13):
Yeah. Yeah, so that'll be exciting too. And we do
regularly post bonus episodes for our dis court members.

Speaker 1 (01:11:20):
Two hold hold up, hold up. You just said regularly.

Speaker 3 (01:11:25):
Yeah, that's wrong. I know that's wrong. That's very wrong.

Speaker 1 (01:11:30):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (01:11:31):
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if you guys like what we're I feel like what
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the feedback. But as for this episode, it is now
time to walk back through the archway and into your
daily lives and we will catch you next time. Bye

(01:12:16):
bye see yah