Originally Posted By DAR <<DAR: Maybe you can explain something to me. We sell both the paperback and the hardback, and I keep wondering: Why would anybody buy the hardback when the paperback is available and it's cheaper?>> It's like dvd's do you want the main attraction or do you want the super deluxe special editions. I'm big on extras. I have the soft cover too but I can't find it so I decided to purchase the hardcover. It has a few sketches by Dave Gibbons and the original afterword by Alan Moore. Now if I really wanted to spend money I could have bought Absolute Watchmen for about $75, but I don't love it that much.
Originally Posted By alexbook >>It has a few sketches by Dave Gibbons and the original afterword by Alan Moore.<< Didn't realize that. The copies I see are all shrink-wrapped. (I suppose if I were really curious, one might have suffered a minor accident in shipping which resulted in the shrinkwrap being torn, if you know what I mean.)
Originally Posted By DAR I actually ripped the shrink wrap off of the copy I bought because I wanted to see if it was worth buying. The lady at the checkout told me they didn't care as long as I brought the bar code up.
Originally Posted By alexbook William Golding, "Lord of the Flies" I was supposed to read this in 10th grade, but never did. (I was a lousy student.)
Originally Posted By sarahwithbaloo Phew so on holiday finally finished gone with the wind. Loved it but hated all the characters and thought the end was not neat enough so why did I love it hmmm do'nt know just did. Going back to Diane Galbaldon this time with Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade.
Originally Posted By alexbook Just finished the Imagineering Field Guide to Disneyland. Some interesting info, but an annoyingly self-satisfied tone. Just starting a re-read of Agatha Christie's "Lord Edgware Dies" (aka "Thirteen at Dinner").
Originally Posted By dshyates I finished Ridley Pearson's Kingdom Keepers II: Disney at Dawn last night and am now 100 pages into Stphen King's Lisey's Story.
Originally Posted By beamerdog Reading Wuthering Heights, The Well of Lost Plots (Fforde), and listening to Obama's Dreams from my Father in the car. I was surprised at how good the latter was. This is the second Fforde book I've read and I'm getting a little tired of the formula. Wuthering Heights is not an easy read and I'm beginning to think I liked the movies more, lol.
Originally Posted By alexbook >>This is the second Fforde book I've read and I'm getting a little tired of the formula.<< I've lost track of how many books there are in that series. I gave up after the third, I think. Great idea, but he drove it into the ground. You may want to check out one of his other series (the "Nursery Crime" books).
Originally Posted By Tinkerbell819 I just finished "Stories Behind the Best-Loved Songs of Christmas" by Ace Collins. (I didn't have much time to read around Christmas!) It was really interesting. There were a total of 31 songs in the book, with about 3-4 pages telling the story behind each one and the people that wrote them. For instance: Did you know that the song "Silver Bells" originally had the chorus, "Tinker bell, Tinker Bell, it's Christmas time in the city." The songwriters wives laughed and said they had better change that dumb chorus. (I kinda like it!) The same songwriters won an Oscar, for the song "Que Sara Sara", they wrote "Mona Lisa", and the theme song from Mr. Ed. There are lots of fun little facts in this book!
Originally Posted By ecdc The Pixar Touch. Good stuff I'm really anxious for the new Pixar book, The Art of the Pixar Short Films.
Originally Posted By alexbook Agatha Christie, "Murder on the Orient Express" - Wonderful story, even though I already know whodunnit.
Originally Posted By jasmine7 Listening to Dragons of Autumn Twilight, reading When the Stars Went to War : Hollywood and World War II by Roy Hoopes & rereading Watchmen.
Originally Posted By MissCandice My niece had me borrow Twilight so I can read it and we can talk about it. She is a complete nut about the books. I have not started it yet.
