nothing like the cover
598547
Wish I had read the reviews! Small pictures, nothing like the cover. Don't buy.
4939939
The cover I received looks nothing like the picture shown on the website.
262362
Not a good choice. The cover is SO much better than the film. I can enjoy independent and low budget films, but this thing hurt to watch. The sense of humor that a piece like this needs was missing, and it really could have used a director, because I saw no sign of one. Someone might get something out of this, but I did not.
2796313
Not Amy Winehouse singing. A terrible cover. Do not buy.
2806959
I love books about southern women. The cover of the book must have been designed by someone who had not read it. It was described as "Rich, funny", etc. So I was expecting a nice amusing story about three ladies of the south. This book is good, no doubt about it, but it is one of the most depressing I've read in a long time. Funny-- it is not. It is full of tragedy and sadness. Not a single person in it is happy. It starts with a death, then continues with wrecked dreams and plans, unrequited love of a woman for another woman, secrets, lies and alcoholism. But wait- there more. There is rape, a beating of a woman, unwanted children, racism, murders, one of them by a child, conspiracy to hide a murder-- well, you get the idea. Why are books presented as being funny when they are not. And even the three women on the cover don't match the description of the three Margarets. In the book, one is 6 foot tall, one is 5 foot tall, and the other is average. The cover shows them all as being the same size. I was really aggrevated when I got into the book and learned it was not what the cover advertised. I liked the story, but it is very, very sad, and I don't like to buy books that make me sad.
131309
This is one of the worst covers on a book I've ever seen...the content may be sound but the cover doesn't inspire me to open the book...it looks somewhat intimidating and gives the impression that the reader is in store for some kind of boring thesis. A horrible disservice to authors Shipman and Kay, in my opinion.
988584
I picked this up because I loved the cover. Unfortunately, the cover was the best thing about the book. I don't mind slowin fact, I prefer a story to unfold slowly. However, the slowness here is not a gradual buildup so much as repetitive navel-gazing on the part of the detective. "Suspense" is created by having characters behave oddly for no particular reason.
Three stars is probably too much, but I do like the cover.
2516815
Unfortunately the best thing about this book is the lovely cover.
In this case definately don't judge the book by it's cover.
The whole of the inside is black and white (and the photos are not even very good quality). I'm sure the infomation is OK, but quite frankly it looks so uninspiring I don't really feel like reading it to find out.
Guess I'm just disappointed as I was expecting a lovely colourful, inspiring book and this is just a text book type. I would not have bought it if I had looked inside it.
There are many other much better books out there.
4846370
No stars. This isn't even actually a published book. The cover is nice, but other than that, it looks and sounds like it was written as a book report.
1511021
The instructions in the nook are for very rudimentary flowers not at all like the cover. No thirty in advertising. I believed that the book would progress to the Iris pictures on the cover but it does not. If I could have given this a zero I would have done so.

Hopefully I can receive a reimbursement.
1990521
The cover of the book I received looks nothing like what the picture is on the order nor what I was expecting. I should get another book of what it shows on the website to compare if they are the same. Pretty misleading if you ask me.
Standby on purchase till I get another copy to compare.
339515
They say "Don't judge a book by it's cover".  In this case that is true.  According to the cover this book is funny, entertaining, mysterious, etc, etc.  I found it to be none of those.  It is contrived, pompous and extremely boring.  My book club read it and none of the 10 women liked it, even a little.  Save your time.
1513083
I couldn't wait for this to arrive!  In spite of the fact that the cover does not bend back, I thought, ok, I can read it like any book.  When it arrived today, just had to put it back in the package.  What arrived was a cover that was just a picture of a book cover on paper.  The picture was not even good, blurred design and wording.  The video makes it appear each cover is made with such tender loving care, using the old book binding from days when quality mattered, Very disappointed. With the cost of the cover being so much more than most, would have expected a lot more.  This one is going back.
4501062
Just received my new copy of Night Trains.  I've read it several times and decided to get a new copy as my 20+ year old copy was in tatters.  It is a marvelous story -- excitement, adventure, a little known fictional telling of a wonderful historic event, a totally excellent story that I would not hesitate to recommend.  But I must say this -- I am SOOOOOO disappointed at the ugly cover that has absolutely nothing to do with the story.  If I had not read the book before, I would have passed right over this book without looking at it. The cover is boring, unattractive and totally detrimental to the wonderful story inside the cover.  I hope this book will be reprinted with a cover that relates to the story.
3719228
The cover is much more interesting that the book. Most of it is badly re-hashed newspaper articles that were of little interest.
3597068
The best part of this book is the cover.  The projects inside are amateurish and not at all like the cover project.  I'm sorry I purchased it.
1261403
This book looks great on the cover. But unfortunately, as they say, you can't always judge a book by it's cover.

Nice hard-cover book, gorgeous illustrations. What I really didn't like was that this book didn't have any meaningful story at all. It is a story about a boy and his father, and when they are going for a trip, their car breaks down, and they get towed to an automotive shop run by gorilla's.

Even if you were to expand your realm of imagination and go along with it, what I really didn't like was the ending in which, the chief mechanic tells the father that the repair was really expensive, but it would be free if the father let his young kid drive the car away.

At the beginning of the story, the kid was asking the father if he could drive, and the in the kids words "I asked to drive, but he (ie the father) laughed till he cried". Perhaps it is just me but encouraging very young kids to get behind the wheel of a car is not a good idea.

And in the end of the story, the father has no choice but to cave in to the extortion-like , playful and truly meaningless demands of the gorillas.

Not recommended for any age.