After the last announcement of
Alan Moore's twelve pounder comes the next in a series of ridiculously heavy tomes. A book with all the lyrics Bob Dylan ever wrote is coming soon to a book store near you and weighs in at a brisk thirteen pounds and only costs $200.00.
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The book, which will be titled The Lyrics: Since 1962, will come in at about 960 pages and weigh more than 13 pounds. It will contain the lyrics to every song off of Dylan’s albums—as well as any officially released bootlegs—and a “lengthy, philosophical introduction” written by “British literary scholar” Christopher Ricks. Also, if $200 is too small a price to pay for content that’s available for free on the Internet, the book will also be released in a special $5,000 edition that’s actually signed by Dylan himself. It will also include “a slipcase and gilded pages,” just in case anyone is on the fence and can’t decide if the signature is worth that much money on its own. Jonathan Karp, the president of Simon & Schuster, even told The New York Times that it’s the “biggest, most expensive book” his company has ever published, so it’s the perfect item for any Bob Dylan fan who believes spending a lot of money on material things will finally bring them happiness. Spoiler alert: It will!