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[uptheapples]

"When you asked for my hand a few minutes ago, I was still too young to marry." I looked up at him and saw a smile start. "I'm older now, so much older that not only can I marry, but I can beg you to marry me." I knelt and took his hand

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[forcedrhyme]

omg i loved this book when i was little. i lost it in a move a while ago, and the only reason i haven't bought a new copy is because i HATE the new cover.

[uptheapples]

My parents gave me my copy for Christmas 1998 (as says the inscription on the first of three title pages) and I've read it, probably, three billion times since then. I actually had the good fortune to get my copy signed by Gail Carson Levine last September in DC.

The dust-jacket, however, seems to have disappeared. Probably lost forever.

(Ugch, move tie-in covers. Death to them.)

[forcedrhyme]

The movie was HORRIBLE compared with the book. I've been trying to find an older version, but no such luck. Damn my family for moving so many times!

[uptheapples]

The movie is a travesty. On it's own it's cute, but the fact that it's titled Ella Enchanted horrifies me. IT IS NOT ELLA ENCHANTED. Plus, I hate Anne Hathaway. Hate Hate Hate.

I noticed the picture of JK Rowling on your profile page. Were you at the Harry, Carrie and Garp event it's from? I was up in the topmost balcony on the second night.

[thegreatmissjj]

Ohhhhh, I loved this book to pieces. I first picked it up in a bookstore over ten years ago (!!!!!) and read the first few chapters before begging my mother to buy it so I could finish it. My copy was read so much it practically fell apart and that's saying something for a hardcover!

[uptheapples]

Mine is about as well loved as the baby-doll I got for my first birthday (who has had "surgery" so many times that I'm basically stitching up stitches at this point). Nothing quite so good as a book that's barely holding itself together.

[flinkkamingo3]

I love that book. I've read my paperback copy so many times the cover came off.

[uptheapples]

Heh. Apparently no one has a fully intact copy.

[writtenbyhand]

My elementary school library does, as far as I know, LOL.

I discovered this book eight years ago, and I love it with the kind of book-love that totally transcends age. Haha. And, can I just say, Prince Char is still so dreamy.

[teffiegigs]

Same here. I have two paperback copies of it, and neither has a cover. :)

[dottydrama]

oh how I adore this book, it's high time i re-read it
thankyou for the reminder.

[proofrawk]

Ella Enchanted: great book, or the greatest book?

[uptheapples]

the greatest book, clearly. :)