Nice book, but sad the cover was ruined by sellar attaching stickers
924057
It was not as described. There were price and code stickers stuck right on the front cover that ripped it when removed. I could deal with irremovable library stickers on the sides, but the seller apparently added the ugly and not removable stickers that ruined the front cover. The inside of the book was great. Very cute story. I bought it for a child with the name Willow, so I will keep it, but I can't give it as a present with the outer damage.
1972306
The book is fascinating. For a good reason it was called one of the most important (if not the most important) Chinese literary masterpieces. The story has interesting parallels with Don Juan, which it predates. According to my Chinese friend, the English translation is better for a contemporary reader than the original: a typical modern Chinese reader will have difficulty going through the ancient text. The downside of this purchase was a big ugly sticker on the back cover that I had difficult time peeling off.
661018
These books are great but when the seller sells them, they simply have to stop putting the stickers of their names on the book cover. These covers are fragile and when you try and remove the sticker, it also removes the cover with it. It is simply unnecessary. Make sure if you order the book that you tell your seller DO NOT PUT YOUR STORE STICKER ANYWHERE ON THE COVER or on the inside page as it will damage the book and make one very unhappy customer that didn't have to be.
1339185
I love how much info this book captures about each school year.  It is so nicely laid out with pockets for memorabilia.  It loses one star for that big round green sticker on the cover.  It's an ugly sales message having nothing to do with the book and it does not peel off.  I had to use baby oil to get it off which lifted the paper on the cover a bit and it left a mark on the book.
509808
We were lucky with this book as the binding was fine and has yet to come apart. It even had the little plywood map on the front and it is still holding up well. So I guess once in awhile you will get a good one. This publisher has a bad reputation, though, for using cheap glue for the cover and spine bindings because a book will come to you with the cover detached. The books themselves make a good gift for any person who is a "factoid" junkie or likes unusual information. But it you are going to order one, be aware up front that you need to order it well in advance of the time that it will be given in case you have to re-glue the cover on and let the adhesive set before giving it to the intended.
321933
My daughter was pleased with the the sticker book but we were both disappointed when we discovered we get a bad book. We got two of the same sticker sheets when clearly they were supposed to be different.  This frustrated my daughter because she didn't have all the stickers to do the activity and it was too late to return since she already used some of the stickers.
1952819
Well, the book I got is red, not grey.  No issue there.

It also had a sticker (bar code sticker) stuck to the face of the spine, which tore the cover, when I tried to remove it.  BIG issue there!

Sellers, do NOT put stickers on the outside of OLD objects, unless they can be removed easily.  Had this sticker been put on a "post-it" note, it would have come off with NO damage to the book.

steve
3420751
The book is obviously amazing. But when I opened the book for the first time the cover was on wrong and the bookmark was completely detached. Not a happy customer.
1038281
The book arrived pretty much as it was described, that is in good shape. I just wish I could remove the church library sticker. Didn't realize that would be stuck to the book.
4064365
Great book and great idea, but the stickers are hardly reusable. After we stuck them down one time, they were peeling off.
469751
the book itself is GREAT.  However the cover was put on upside down.  :(
3451790
I like the book. I give 4stars because the cover is a bit dirty with lots of black sticky glue all over the front cover and back, but the inside pages are clean.
4411104
Great book, but I was really disappointed that the outside cover was scratched and scuffed up, and did not look new. Also, the item was shipped late, and showed up the day of the anniversary I bought this for, so I was not able to send it back for a better looking one. This was a gift and a really cool gift, but there's nothing worse than giving someone a beat up looking book as a present. I ended up buying something else.
1613489
I really like the book itself, but the informational sticker on the back takes up the whole back of the book and has been impossible to completely remove.  I've taken to scraping it a little with my fingernail every few days. Eventually, I hope to get it all off. The finish is shiny in streaks where the sticker has been removed. Overall, I'm glad I'm actually writing something every day. The space is pretty small, so it lends itself really to just a memory from the day, rather than a brief journal entry.
4285373
I was excited to get this coloring book as a hardback, however when it came I was disappointed. The pages are great and well drawn however the "hard cover" is not really well made.  You can see the cardboard edges all around it.  Makes it look really cheap.  Also there is one drawing in there of Gaston and he's taking a selfie, and on the other page it's his phone with his status updates, which to me is very strange considering the rest of the book is like the movies.
I do like the book overall I just wish they would have made the cover better. It is a good buy and a good book if you enjoy coloring.
2262534
Nothing more to add about the book itself. Fantastic content. The book seems solid and of good quality. And then some moron who has a special place in hell waiting for him, decided that it'd be good to put a promotional sticker that cannot be taken off, except through hours of scratching and at risk of damaging the cover if you scratch too hard or if you use some product.
I don't know if it is from the publisher or the distributor or whoever, but please track the idiot who did this and fire and throw him under a car for me.
3919940
I bought a copy from textbookoverstock.

When I got my book I was very happy with its condition, the only problem being that there were at least six visible stickers on the front, spine, and back.  I knew it would be a pain getting them off but I figured once they were gone I would have a great copy of Brave New World.  By the time I got all the stickers off I had discovered that there were no less than twelve stickers on the book all layered on top of one another.  In taking off the stickers, a layer of the spine peeled off and the back cover is sticky and covered in torn sticker paper residue.

I buy a lot of video games so I'm used to having to deal with stickers, but when they're piled five or six high, it's impossible to get them off without ripping off their top layer and leaving just the shreds of paper and glue underneath that you have to peel off with your thumbnail in small chunks.  Almost the entire back half of the book is covered in this stuff.

The book would have been good if it was bombarded with stickers.  The description did mention it may contain stickers, but the amount on the book was simply ridiculous.  As it is now, I'm very disappointed and frustrated with its condition.