![]() Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and bringing the music and love back. The Captain travels by yellow submarine to Liverpool where he picks up Ringo, George, John and Paul, who return with him to Pepperland to fight the Blue Meanies by becoming Sgt. The Blue Meanies have invaded Pepperland, freezing all the love and music. The illustrations and all are straight from the Beatles movie as is the message "All you need is Love" (which Bea wonders around singing the day after we read it). I think I've read it to her a hundred times (at least!) I would give this book three stars, but Beatrice would give it five, so I split the difference. ![]() It sure is good when it comes to the Beatles. ![]() The story is still fun, so even the poor delivery couldn’t completely destroy the experience, and hanging with my favourite folks is always a bonus, but sometimes technology doesn’t enhance an experience. And if that wasn't bad enough, there were all these injected cut scenes: tap play on the screen, watch the scene from the original movie, and receive the awesome gift of realizing how shite the book is compared to the film. We didn't read it, and I didn't have a chance to be silly and deliver energy to the story it was read to us in the most wooden, boring, monotone voice imaginable – Liverpudlian-lite accent and all. In the move to high-tech hypertextuality, the kooky, trippy, wacky joy of Yellow Submarine is gone. We were all crowded together on the lower bunk bed, heads all touching, looking up at my tiny iPod screen, and that was by far the most enjoyable part of the experience - that pressure when people who love each other press their heads together.
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