After a lot of soul-searching, I bought the three Bone trade paperbacks that had been available for quite sometime in MR book stall. And also a book called Movie-made America ( subtitled “A Cultural History of American Movies”) which the guy suggested I try out and that I can pay him later, if I liked it.
While browsing through the newspaper at night, I came across this stunning bit of information – The Beatles Anthology, currently priced at 2045 Rupees, is selling for 1015 at a book exhibition in YMCA Secunderabad. Half the price. Which set my heart aflutter, because that meant more money being spent this month, and that wasn’t really what I wanted, inspite of my lust for the tome.
So this fine morning, Chandru and I went to YMCA. And the guy there tells me that all copies of The Beatles Anthology have been sold out, and no new copies were forthcoming. I didn’t know whether to sob or be relieved, so I just came back and tried to work for sometime.
The guard just came in and gave me a package, which, as I had guessed correctly, were the game-cds from Sam. Which kind of Makes Up for it All.
Besides, Bone was just too good. Jeff Smith, you rule!
Stupid, stupid rat creatures!!
I haven’t picked up an issue of Bone for a long time. I finally decided to wait till the end and buy whatever I was missing in trade paperbacks. After he gave up the crazy funny stuff from the beginning, and started getting serious and letting the plot thicken, as they say, I lost interest in it as a month-to-month (or every other month or whatever) read.
i had some of the early issues at home, and I was kind of expecting the same humour from these books…they are volume 6, 7, 8 by the way…and I found them really different from what I had read earlier. The plot does thicken, with lots of characters being not quite what they were, and …well, i think you read it sometime. The humour’s still there, and I burst out laughing about five times while reading vol 6. But yes, they are different from what I had expected.
Looking for the other volumes now.