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Summary: A Treasure for those who have, will and are falling in love!
Review: I was given this as a gift from my "extraordinary correspondent" 3000 miles away and it made me appreciate the joys of becoming entranced in the possiblity of love and the tingle of fear that comes when that love is real. Nick Bantock takes us on a journey, through love letters. Letters that the reader can actually remove from their envelope, open and read! For those of you who thought you were too old for "pop-up like books" you're in for a treat! The beautiful artwork only adds to the story. I can't wait to read book #2!
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Summary: A Treasure for those who have, will and are falling in love!
Review: I was given this as a gift from my "extraordinary correspondent" 3000 miles away and it made me appreciate the joys of becoming entranced in the possiblity of love and the tingle of fear that comes when that love is real. Nick Bantock takes us on a journey, through love letters. Letters that the reader can actually remove from their envelope, open and read! For those of you who thought you were too old for "pop-up like books" you're in for a treat! The beautiful artwork only adds to the story. I can't wait to read book #2!
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Summary: the venitian's wife by nick bantock
Review: I'm a 19 yr. old college student from Texas. Last year as a graduation gift i received Griffin and Sabine by Nick Bantock...I devoured it quickly, along w/ the two sequels. I've leant out my copy of this book to dozens of people since then and have them all addicted to Bantock and his overwhelming books and art work. I also own his address book and the Griffin and Sabine stationary set. Today I finally had the chance to escape into his story of Sara and N. Conti in the book, The Venetian's Wife. I felt as though I was living through Sara, one of the main characters. It's hard for me to put into words a review of this book. The best way for me to show how I felt would be the word, "WOW!" The story was literally breath taking at times. Anyone who is in the mood for a fictional short story w/ amazing art work must jump into this one! Feel free to write me w/ any questions or comments. "INFATUATION. What a strange word that is." Sara from The Venetian's Wife
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Summary: The coolest book!!
Review: I'm a student, and my art teacher had this book on display for us. I read the first couple of pages and asked if I could take it home-where I quickly devoured it's beautiful art and awesome story. I can't wait to read the second and third book. It made me want to write letters with a fountain pen like Sabine does. I loved the story because I feel a little the same way about a person I email all the time, but have never met. If you're thinking about reading this book, I urge you!!
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Summary: More than five stars. Unique and wonderful.
Review: I've never seen anything like this book and the others in the series. It's been years since I first discovered this book and it is still just as stunning and delicious as the first time I read it. If you are adventurous and imaginitive and just a little bit 'out there' you will adore this discovery in letters.
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Summary: Wondrous!
Review: If you have ever felt yourself drawn to someone that you barely knew, found yourself inexplicably and thoroughly in love with them, then this is the book to give them.
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Summary: From unknown correspondences becoming life long friends...
Review: Like the previous review, I became intranced with the journey of Sabine and Griffin, by receiving books one a two as gifts from a man I will never meet. Across the miles, and through our extraordinary communications, we have touched each other's hearts. We have lasted 5 years of correspondence. May those who are fortunate to land upon this unique writing enjoy it as much as I have, and I thank my friend, for always being a gentleman and the introduction to this series.Come take a journey of heartfelt pleasures, that only through writing will allow your mind to travel as you begin Griffin and Sabine... with each envelope you open you feel like you are swept into a private world, all your own.
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Summary: Delicious and Mysterious Romance
Review: Lovers love, and whatever distance or mystery is tossed between them, they still will love. In "Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence" by Nick Bantock, we begin an intimate journey between two lovers destined to be enraptured in all that is dreamt of. They catapult the divide of geography and join mid-mail in a postal embrace, captured by Bantock in a sweet and phenomenal book. Griffin is a postcard artist in England and Sabine is a stamp designer for a small Pacific island. Each is perceived as sublimely exotic to the other as they reveal the secrets of their lives through correspondence. What is the romance of "Griffin & Sabine?" Besides being an 'extraordinary correspondence,' it is about two lovers who connect through the artistic passions they share. Like the romances that now happen through the internet, or the Victorian era correspondences, there is an innocence and delicacy to their exchanges of mail. This is the romance which never happened in "84 Charing Cross Road." This is what the romance should've been in "You've Got Mail." This is what "Cyrano De Bergerac" could've been if not a tragedy. Bantock dangles a sensuous, sumptuous step into the hearts of a fantasy based in a reality that the reader will smile, wondering if the writer knew someone like Sabine, if she has been created like Pygmalion sculpted Galatea. Begin with "Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary Correspondence" and follow their story through subsequent tales in other book.
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Summary: A lovely book of exquisite art work and beatiful words.
Review: Nick Bantock brings delight to every page of this book by his artwork and his writings. This book is a sweet love story with two illusionary people who you learn about from postcards and removable letters which are typed and written by either Griffin or Sabine. As the letters and artwork are sent to and from Griffin and Sabine, the reader finds themselves in a love affair
that seems almost too weird to be real. At some point you wonder if these people ever existed, are they real and Bantock is just retelling their
story in some bizarre manner; or are they pure and simple just
two delightful characters in a book of love and loss?
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Summary: PARANOIA ... PLEASE?
Review: Nick Bantock, artistically positioning his pensive pen, leads us on to infiniti in Griifin & Sabine, Where we thought we knew the heart, he provides heartbreak. Where we assuredly trusted our instincts, he turns them into sphincters. Where we needed a hug, he offers a glimpse of lover's paranoia. We've all been fooled before by love, but here Bantock makes us enjoy the surprise. With all the shock of a Dear John missive, Bantock leaves us shouting, "No ... no ... no ...!" Larry Rochelle, author of BOURBON & BLISS, DEATH & DEVOTION, DANCE WITH THE PONY and TRACETRACKS.
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