Book title: Big Trouble
Author: Dave Barry
Film director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Crosspatch Artist: Bibamus
Bookdrop location: Flight Path Coffee House, Austin, TX
Bookdrop date: 5/12/15
Note: We are usually offended by a burst on the cover of a book declaring "Now a Major Motion Picture from Maudlin Studios!" The burst's very existence, of course, veers toward abomination, but we find it especially galling due to the fact that a studio's PR department feels the need to put its name on a book it neither wrote nor produced, refer to the film as a "motion picture" as if that is how people refer to movies, call it "major" when no film is ever referred to as "minor," and specify redundantly that it is "now" when the cover clearly would not exist otherwise. This particular cover (unintentionally?) doubles down on the nonsense by referring to the time as "Soon to be." We cannot decide if Touchstone/Penguin deserve credit for breaking from the standard format or censure for creating built-in obsolescence, but we feel the issue is worth discussion in either case.

Also, we very much enjoy the idea of a toad in a bowling alley.