MRN - Interesting Enteries/Pages

[caudio51]

Let's hear them? Since I just got this baby I've been reading through it slowyly(only cause I am a slow reader).

 

[caudio51]

Thanks George! That siglo XXI humidor is sick!

 

[ATCDub]

Okay Bros. please forgive my ignorance but is MRN a spin-off of FHM or Hustler? I am guessing no.

 

[caudio51]

Here is some info and a photo. I tried to find better but came up a bit short.

Hong Kong resident wrote the best cigar book on rare Cuban cigars, An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Post-Revolution Havana Cigars, in 2003. Min Ron Nee, a cigar-crazy Hong Kong doctor, co-authored the book with Andriano Martinez Rios, a former executive at the Cuban global export company Habanos. The tome includes photos and comments on just about every brand and vitola, or size, ever made in Cuba. It is the definitive work on the subject for the moment.

 

[ohpus]

full of great info!!! just pick a smoke randomly and read it!!!!

 

[ATCDub]

Very Cool. Looks heavy.

 

[caudio51]

Very Cool. Looks heavy.

7 lbs.

 

[tobby4]

and to think I sold it, really before I was able to read it

 

[Black Dog]

Okay Bros. please forgive my ignorance but is MRN a spin-off of FHM or Hustler? I am guessing no.

Dub, that's the book you saw here when you and Mary visited recently.

 

[Eric]

How much new information is in the second printing and is it worth it to own the second printing if one owns the first?

 

[David]

I thought someone said that the 2nd edition just had corrections in it and actually had the same number of pages as the first. If this is true, the answer to your final question would be no.

 

[cvm4]

I thought someone said that the 2nd edition just had corrections in it and actually had the same number of pages as the first. If this is true, the answer to your final question would be no.

This is correct...I think the new edition with added cigars/tastings is due for 2007/2008??

 

[tobby4]

This is correct...I think the new edition with added cigars/tastings is due for 2007/2008??

That is what I read... but I do not remember where I read that

 

[Wasch_24]

Yeah, most recently I have heard 2008.

When I got mine I read it nightly and went from cover to over in a week. Now I just use it for reference.

I think the packaging section is pretty neat as well as all the "Special" Humidors.

 

[tobby4]

Yea those special humidors, are amazing... expensive as hell but amazing

 

[caudio51]

The humidors are just amazing! Fantastic packaging/woodwork!

 

[jcgoldner]

I have the 2nd printing. I've been told that the only difference is page 492 titled "Errata in first printing".

 

[caudio51]

I have the 2nd printing. I've been told that the only difference is page 492 titled "Errata in first printing".

Thats like a college text book move there. I rememeber college text books would change the numbers around so you had to buy the new edition. The material was pretty much the same. What a money maker.

 

[Kurtdesign1]

Money maker or not, I know aton of brothers who were begging for this before he did it. Aftermarket MRNs (as the book has been dubbed) were going for over $250 in some cases. Yes, the author made money, but heh has numerous charitable offerings where he completely fronted the cost of many, many books, just so the people who bought directly from him would make a donation to a charity he supported. A very selfless thing to do IMO.
Kudos to MRN

 

[caudio51]

Money maker or not, I know aton of brothers who were begging for this before he did it. Aftermarket MRNs (as the book has been dubbed) were going for over $250 in some cases. Yes, the author made money, but heh has numerous charitable offerings where he completely fronted the cost of many, many books, just so the people who bought directly from him would make a donation to a charity he supported. A very selfless thing to do IMO.
Kudos to MRN

Absolutely. He did the second printing to get copies to people which is a huge task for a 7lb book and in reality its a small market of buyers...I went off on a tangent about my old college book buying days.

I was lucky enough, thanks to you Craig and Brit to get one via the donation. I am now a memeber of the World Wildlife Federation!