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With This Ring: A For Better or For Worse Collection

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Enter within and witness the saga of Michael and Deanna's wedding. For all of you who have lived through weddings as a bride, groom or immediate family, you will easily identify with all the wedding preparations, conflicts and joys. The only thing I regreted while reading it was how grown-up Michael has become. However, I just pulled out an older book by Lynn and revisited. But think....only a great author can make you care about characters so much that you hate to see them "grow up." Cheers to Lynn and please keep them coming!

This has got to be one of the best For Better or For Worse books out there. The first part of the book begins with Lynn Johnston setting up the book, telling the backgrounds of Michael and Deanna, and what they went through to get to this point, which I think is an excellent way to begin. If you haven't read some of the earlier strips, this gives you all the background you would need. It also contained some information that would be good even for a die hard FBFW fan.

The book is in depth and contains all the strips from before and after the wedding. This would be a great present to give to someone who is getting married for a humorous take on the psychosis of getting married. Highly recommended!

I am a recent convert to the world of FBOFW, having really fallen in love with the strip when Michael and Deanne got married. I bought this booking wanting to learn more about this story arc. And while this book does cover a large portion of the story arc, covering a little before and during the wedding, I just which it was more complete. I would have loved to see only strips in the book that related to the wedding story arc. I also would have loved to see strips that led up to Michael and Deanne's courtship and Michael's proposal. In the world of FBOFW, there are two types of strips. The first is just some random joke, and the second is a strip that futhurs along a story arc that has been building, sometimes since the start of FBOFW. I wish this book only collected the 2nd types of strips, and did not have so much filler (the first type of strips.)

Don't get me wrong, this is a great book. I really love the "later" years of FBOFW, and am really looking forward to Liz's eventually marriage to Anthony. I just wish this collection was longer.

Johnston's work keeps on pleasing! My wife and I (over 35) both enjoy these strips at least as much as our 11 year old.

I am in the process of completing my For Better Or For Worse collection. Reading this comic strip is very much like watching a drama about family life, with comedy of course. It is a comic strip after all. The characters age and experience things that most families would. And even though the series has it's serious moments throughout, I appreciate that Lynn Johnston created her characters to come out of those tough spots no worse for wear and to focus on the positive and even learn something along the way. I'd tell you about the individual book itself, but the collection of comic books is very much like a book series. You'll be out of the loop if you don't read them all. Five stars for the entire series.

Love the book, although I was thinking it was all the strips and didnt expect the written story line. But that was ok, adds to the characters as real people.

Another Great book to visit the Patterson's with. "For Better / For Worse" has to be one of the best comic strips of all time. It really makes you think, "They are just like my family", and if you do not have kids, read the books so you know what to prepare for.