Has anyone purchased the Prince book by Jason Draper offered through Barnes & Noble? It's almost the same size as the 21 Nights book. Thoughts???

http://search.barnesandno...02183[url]

My apologies if this has already been covered elsewhere. Couldn't find another thread.

I bought it for a friend for Christmas. She's liked it. I'll be going back to get myself one as well!

(Wait until ya'll see what she had made for me!)

My Teens gave it to me for Yule

Mach said:

And the verdict is....???

Hard to go wrong for 12 bucks.

SassyPants said:

Dunno yet - just flipped through - nice pix - have not made the time yet to sit and read

I'm only half-way through, but I love the book. The author is pretty fair handed throughout. He doesn't write like his lips are on Prince's ass, but he doesn't write in a condescending manner like CJ either. He shows Prince in both a positive and negative light throughout--depending on what the topic warrants.

It's hard for me to read though because it really does show that Prince was a much bigger asshole in his younger years than I ever imagined.

Honestly I think from the preview on B&N it looks like a better book than 21 Nights! Great price too! Thanks for posting

2020 said:

My friend has thought so, so far.

In 21 Nights, so many of the best pictures were ruined by the center fold of the book. Also, there were so many NON PRINCE pictures in 21 Nights.

I went out and bought it at B&N. With the after-Christmas sale, I found it in the bargain bin at 50% off, so indeed it is only $12.50 and well worth it. It is fairly exhaustive and despite the rather hideous cover, nicely designed inside. It goes all the way up to the London residency/Planet Earth, so the only thing it is missing (and surpasses) is "21 Nights." It covers each album and film in pretty solid depth, but also gives a lot of attention to side projects, internet releases and shelved items. Highly recommended!

This book looks awesome. I'm going to have to try to locate it.

SassyPants said:

Shit! I bought my copy a couple weeks ago and paid full price. It must have only recently been moved to the bargain bin. It's still a good buy at full price though.

Thanks for the info, I just put one on hold

I got the book 4 Christmas.
I took a lot of pictures out and glued them to another book that I made..I kept pictures of everybody except a few people.

The book that I made that is raindrop shaped and opens towards me was just a rushed glue job for the sake of an idea, If I would have all of the pictures I need 2 work with, I would have a collector's item any Prince fan would definitely desire.

I do not like the cover or the title of this book..It may have had some interesting facts or tour dates or something, but I haven't a care about that writing.

Tame said:

at least it was nice that someone thought to give you a gift that was prince related, how thoughtful!

It's a decent book. It's great looking with a textural cover and lots of colour pics throughout. It covers all the major related artists works, and goes upto Planet Earth/21 Nights.

There are quite a few spelling/grammatical mistakes though, and not particularly much insight, certainly nothing we haven't already seen from the Uptown books.

Very good looking, big coffee table book sized thing it is though.