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Summary: Dreck
Review: I had a psychotic girlfriend who loved these books
and tried to get me to read them. "Aren't they beautiful?"
Whenever I read see these books, it reminds me of being stalked by a lunatic.This book is fuel for all of the twisted, psychotic, neurotic,
witchcraft-dabbling women out there.
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Summary: A wonderful Adventure
Review: I loved these books. I read them first a few years ago, when I was staying with a friend, who is as soppy a romantic as I am. Thye are a wonderful adventure. I am not sure what reminded me of them again, but I bought them for my partner for Valentines Day this year. We have had a wonderful time reading them together pulling out the letters, looking at the drawings and paintings and postcards. It is just like reading someone else's beautifully written mail. It makes me want to rediscover the art of letter writing and give up emailing my family and friends!
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Summary: All surface and no substance.
Review: The series is beautifully designed and perfect for the visually motivated. I could easily spend an hour opening the little envelops and marveling at the boldly designed postcards. Brilliant marketing idea, really, for the latte drinking crowd. But. It fails as literature. Thinking "Griffin and Sabine" 'romantic' is akin to thinking 'Hello Kitty' a cat. If you want romance, read "Possession," by A.S. Byatt, "Jane Eyre," by Charlotte Bronte or "On the Wings of the Dove," by Henry James.
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Summary: buyer beware...rather , guard your heart
Review: want to hear a pathetic story? i became acquainted with this series because a girl played my heart like Sabine. i mean identical. and fragile, stupid me fell for it. she casually mentioned in an email "have you read Griffin & Sabine?". i thought i would get around to it sometime. then i did...then she disappeared. oh ho ho how f#$king funny. well anyway, i really enjoyed this series despite my heart aching for this damn ghost of a person that does not exist. i found myself both loving and hating Sabine depending on my mood. A definite read for the Romantic idealist. are you reading this gia?
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Summary: Shallow, simple and thin on plot
Review: After reading the rave reviews I thought I was in for a unique treat with the G&S trilogy - NOT. To say the emotion written in the postcards and letters is simple is an understatement.
Here are what I see as the fatal flaws. Firstly the length of the experience is very brief. You can read all three books in a couple hours at the most. The books would be better priced ...for the amount of entertainment they provide, maybe a little more if your an art lover. The art is more of a treat than the story.
Secondly, the plot is very simple in all it's treatment of human emotion. We begin with G quickly and easily buying into the fact that someone he doesn't know can see and experience him painting. It would have been more intriguing if G held on to a little doubt a bit longer. He proceeds to fall in love with this visionary within just a few letters based on thin air. Then the rest of the books consists primarily of G as a manic depressive wondering around the world. Happy and gloomy in quick succession. This love is based on who knows what as little history is exchanged, niether knows what the other looks like and doesn't inquire. Niether reveals much about their interests, likes, values, goals or opinions. Though the contents are suppose to look like letters the font is familiar and it's obviously computer generated fonts, not looking at all like a written letter. Sabine's printing is always in brown and Griffin always writes in black. Don't these people every lose a pen? When I think of the depth these letters could have created I was more than dissapointed. Check these out at the library before you invest in purchasing them. If you want more depth than the that of a mosquito maternity ward you may want to think twice. Whats good about the book?...the art, the art and the art.
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Summary: Beautiful books to be enjoyed for years.
Review: I love my boxed set of the Griffin & Sabine Trilogy. They are such beautiful books and for some reason it makes their story so much more thrilling to be reading their cards and letters. I have given these books to friends as gifts and they have been received with amazement. Truely amazing books.
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Summary: Unusual Book Art Translates into High Entertainment
Review: Why go for the entire Griffin and Sabine trilogy when you haven't seen any of the books yet? Believe me, experience (this is more than reading) one and you WILL want the others. Go for the box. Bancock, an illustrator who has produced pop-up books in the past has created a picture book for adults that's a guilty pleasure. The concept is built about a suspenseful series of correspondence between Griffin, a London postcard illustrator, a Sabine, a postage stamp artist residing in the South Pacific. There is mysticism, romance, a little Jung, a little Freud. The text is conveyed on the illustrated postcards and in letters that are tucked into actual envelopes. It is a tour d'force of ideas and illustration. A grouch might say it is glib or slick; that's the grouch's problem. This is for everyone who would like to be surprised and entertained in an off-beat way.
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Summary: Romantic, Mystic, and Book Art at its BEST
Review: Few are aware of a art style called "book art". Most book art is in limited additions and mainly for collectors only... the only ones that can afford thier limited release. The Griffin and Sabine series brings this wonderful art form to the general public. The art is wonderful, the story is romantic and mystical, the reproductin of the art is superb, the format of post cards and evelopes is original and facinating. You'll love and treasure them (although is other books outside the series tend to be blah).
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Summary: Wow! Incredibly creative and fantastic.
Review: I don't know why it took so long for me to discover these books, but I am glad I did. I heard Nick Bantock interviewed on a radio program and I ordered them. They are a creative masterpiece on so many levels. More than a story, more than artwork, more than letters and postcards, they are experiences. It is thrilling to realize that an original concept like this is still possible.
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Summary: Genius!
Review: Whether you take this book at surface value as a love story, or as a tale of the incidiousness of evil in destroying the soul of its pray, it is clear this book has some kind of otherworldly genius to it. Sabine embodies the devil in the most subtle of ways, so subtley in fact that 99.9% of readers don't see it. Initially loving and caring, Sabine lures Griffin to her by praying on his loneliness and his fears, while all the time maintaining the image of a perfect love, not only for Griffin, but for the reader as well. It is only later in the series that her true nature becomes apparent, in her rages, and with her increasing control over Griffin. Beautifully simple and unbelievably complex, tender and horrifying at the same time, Griffin and Sabine is the definative exploration of the nature of evil, as well as an endlessly moving love story. There is no other work of fiction even vaguely comparable.
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