The Griffin and Sabine Series

Nick Bantock

"The Griffin and Sabine book - I think I was stumbling at the bookstore with a friend, and we came across it and never heard of it, and after reading it, I'm really surprised that it doesn't get as much buzz and gets talked about. It's an older book, and I wanted to read it, because of the format. You quickly learn that it's correspondence between a man and a woman that have never met, and its actual letters. On each page, there's an actual letter, in an envelope, that you read.

The book is about two artists, living in completely different parts of the world, that for some reason find each other, and it's because the woman has seen his work all her life. I loved the way they corresponded with each other. I just - I read it with a friend. He would read all the male parts, and I would read the female parts, and at first, you kinda feel guilty, like you're reading some of your grandma's letters or something you shouldn't be reading, but it was just well written in the sense that it was truly a conversation of two people.

I've read it a lot, because it's a different style of writing. I mean you're reading - It's like you truly believe you're reading people's letters, and it's an opportunity. You never get to read, you know, somebody's correspondence from years ago, and so there's that voyeuristic aspect of it. I think a wide audience would appreciate it, because it's very low tech, and these days, that kinda stands out. I mean, I'm a gadget geek, and I love technology, but I appreciate the correspondence. I mean, you're reading letters. There's a series of three, comes together, or actually, you can purchase separate, but after that, there's others, and it's really interesting.

I would give it six out of five stars or something, but definitely five. It's just very intriguing. It's very different. I hadn't seen anything like it."

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