I had an exciting package arrive in the mail recently. I ordered a couple R.L. Stine books that seem to be particularly difficult to find. One of them, The Witness, was delivered yesterday, and I was pumped, because that means I now have all the Point Horror books written by R.L. Stine! Yay!!
So I was adding it to Goodreads, and I flipped through it, to check the number of pages. (I'm a Goodreads Librarian, and I like to make sure the info on all my books is right.) That's when I noticed that at the top of each page, where you'd expect to see the title (or a chapter title, or something), it said "I Saw You That Night!". That's odd, I thought to myself. Isn't that the name of another R.L. Stine book I have?
Why yes, yes it is. And a quick glance and the back cover and the first page told me that they are in fact the same book! I Saw You That Night! was republished as The Witness. This is apparently not well-known. They were separate books on Goodreads (I combined them). And everywhere I saw a list of this series, they were both listed. I feel like I've made a big discovery! Haha.
So, I already had all the Point Horror books. Probably the reason why The Witness was so hard to find was because (I think) it's the UK edition. Live and learn, I guess!
I really hate when that happens. I feel like there should be some kind of warning or something.
ReplyDeleteI know! I'm really surprised that of all those lists on the internet, none of them bothered to mention that two books are actually the same!
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