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« Four men and a cello | Main | "Ancient" books » Monday, February 26, 2007Ghost Reader?Speaking of "Ghost Rider," Tom Nealon, proprietor of Pazzo Books in Roslindale, has an amusing post today on the bookstore's blog about the movie. I mentioned earlier today that Johnny Blaze, the movie's hero, is morbidly obsessed with books about black magic. Nealon, an expert in rare books, writes of the books Blaze is shown reading: There was an "ancient" tome -- presumably meant to be 16th or 17th century -- except that it was in a very typical turn of the (20th) century binding used for encyclopedias and religious reference works. A large ornate binding was panned past that I would swear was from about 1950.... Not one book appeared to be from the 17th century -- the golden age of witchcraft and satanism -- and the engravings that they showed all looked to reprinted on 20th century paper. "Ghost Rider" had a $120 million budget, one hears. Sounds like they spent about $120 on the books.  Posted by Joshua Glenn at 07:28 PM
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