Galison 1000 Piece Bibliophile Book Club Darlings Jigsaw Puzzle for Adults, Adult and Family Puzzle with Illustrated Artwork of Famous Books (0735358451)

This puzzle was so fun to put together! I love book related puzzles because I am a reading addict, so this was the perfect puzzle for me! I love all the bright colors and the puzzle pieces fit to perfection. I would highly recommend this puzzle to the reader on your gift list!

Wow! I do a lot of puzzles and have never given up on one, but this one just isn’t fun. Picture is easy enough, but impossible to tell if pieces fit, they fit in multiple places, which I find incredibly annoying. Other comparable brands are not like this. Very disappointed!

I bought this for my puzzle solving friend. The fun part of it was that she found books that she had read.

The white border of this puzzle is not cut very well and is therefore hard to put together. Many pieces seem as if they fit well, only to cause problems later. My puzzle was also missing one piece from the time travelers wife book image, which is supremely frustrating.

For both the book lover and the puzzle lover! Very enjoyable.

The artwork is terrific and so colorful, but the cut quality is hideous. As other reviewers indicated, I couldn’t finish nor could I share or donate, this unfinished jigsaw went right in the bin. Galison usually produces such great jigsaw puzzles, but this one was a dud. Pieces are so similar and fit in most places, only revealing the mismatch later in the solving. Many pieces separated and pealed, but that may be a result of so much handling in rearranging. Cute, but pick something else.

I never thought I would have to read reviews for a puzzle to be warned that it’s just ludicrous. And as a bibliophile, I thought the design was cool. Whoever left around 100 white pieces that were virtually identical to finish this female dog of a puzzle, should be unemployed. Seriously? if I wanted a puzzle with all one color, that’s what I would’ve bought. The books were fine, but there was absolute no enjoyment in trying to figure out that minute differences in these damn white pieces. I actually buy a lot of puzzles and I’ve made a note of this brand. You will never get another penny from me. I enjoy a good puzzle, I enjoy a challenge, but putting together and trying to figure out the difference in those white pieces was absolutely pointless waste of time. WHY?

I wish I had done a better job of reading the other reviews. I love the theme of this puzzle and had envisioned passing it among my book club friends once I finished it (we have read quite a few of the books in this pile!). Instead, I will be putting it in my donation pile. I usually complete the border of a puzzle first, but that was impossible with this one since so much of it is white and as others have correctly noted, it is extremely difficult to tell if the pieces actually fit. So instead I went to work on the interior of the puzzle, which you will find is completely enjoyable ......until you are left with over 100 white pieces, all the same shape, and no way to tell if they actually fit. You can labor away on a white section and be left with one hole to fill, only to find that none of the remaining pieces fit that hole, so you have to try to figure out where the error is so you can undo it and try to get it to work. After a couple of hours of this, I gave up (something I rarely ever do with a jigsaw puzzle) and packed it away to donate. If only the manufacturer had used a better quality pattern, making the piece shapes sufficiently unique. It could have been a great puzzle.

Like many others, I didn’t read the reviews for this puzzle before purchasing. An avid reader I was excited about this one and thought it would be fun and relatively easy. Hard no. Right away I was extremely frustrated with trying to put the border together. The pieces are thin and the paper backing peels very easily. The backing is also white!! Like - cmon. I’m no puzzle expert but given at least 10% of this puzzle has solid WHITE pieces, a white backing is insane. The pieces do not fit together in a way that is satisfying and I was often wondering if it was the right piece (which - 50% of the time it wasn’t and they I would have to spend ten minutes jimmying the pieces apart without damaging them). Gahhh! One of the most frustrating puzzles I have ever attempted. I didn’t get past the border. I was swearing so much my husband said “Just give it up!”. Galison - please remake this puzzle with higher quality pieces and perhaps a random cut??

As a bibliophile, this puzzle was exciting to complete…. until we had to tackle the white pieces. We gave up at this point (pictured), and decided to put it away. Still worth a shot if you are okay with having an itch that can’t be scratched.

As others have said, this is impossible to finish. I can take a challenge but when you can't tell whether the all-white pieces properly fit together, it's a challenge alright -- to your sanity. I think the image is lovely and I wanted to keep it but now I'll have to give it up, incomplete.

Wish I read the reviews. I have put many Galison puzzles together and the pieces, although the same shape, were differentiated by their size. Not this one. I, like many others,am giving up. Too many fun puzzles out there to do. But don't give up in Galison. They have many great puzzles.