It's Kind of a Funny Story [German] [Hardcover or Paperback]
06/01/2007
Published by Rockbuch Verlag. Winner of the Golden Lufti!
Be More Chill - UK (Paperback)
July 5, 2004
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The UK version of Be More Chill was published by HarperCollins UK. It came with its own Flash movie, which was cool. (Unfortunately all that remains is this screenshot.)
I traveled throughout England 6/28/04-7/3/04 to promote the book and got to see the Firth of Forth, one of my favorite bridges when I was a boy, among other sights. Here are the pictures on flickr:
England Trip Summer 2004
Do you have the UK edition of the book? Email me.
Be More Chill - Germany (Hardcover)
June 1, 2004
In Germany, Be More Chill was published Bertelsmann Jugenbuch Verlag (or "Random House" to you).
The German version of Be More Chill is called "Cool: Und was ist mit Liebe"? (According to my brother, that means "Cool: And what's with Love"?)
The copies has a vellum jacket with all the text; when removed, the jacket reveals the wraparound faces of, uh, a very Germanic Jeremy and Christine:
Also, the translator of the German edition had some hilarious questions about words I used:
Hi, Ned Vizzini,
you wrote a great book! I translate it into German and there are some questions I would like you to answer as fast as possible as they gave me a terrible short deadline…
Here we go:
p.25 Who is Rick James?
47 dur
64 phillies
70 pimpin’
85 seeing eye dogs
87 poonanti
107 hairy necessaries
118 GLAAD
126 palsy, palsy-ish
214 For a guy, there’s something dangling in front of your face or something sticking out your ass.
It would be most helpful, if you could interpret or circumscribe these expressions, so I can see if I am on the right track or not.
Do you have the German edition of the book? Email me.
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