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 Posted:   May 15, 2025 - 6:56 AM   
 By:   Nicolai P. Zwar   (Member)

Then BAM!!! three days later...







 
 
 Posted:   May 15, 2025 - 6:58 AM   
 By:   haineshisway   (Member)

I loved the project, too. Who knew, at the time, that the process of printing books was such a hill to climb.

Regardless, the books must be printed by now if the feedback of the proofs was provided back in February?


Believe me, if the books were printed you'd have heard about it loudly and clearly. Perhaps they're at the printers, wherever that may be, but no one actually knows that because all anyone gets is Ingmar Bergman's The Silence. Ingmar Bergman's The Silence is the problem here. Too much Silence. Tell the people whose money has been taken what is going on with regular updates. Truthful regular updates. Then you won't have to have Ingmar Bergman's Cries and Whispers, you won't have to have Ingmar Bergman's Shame. All people here want is John Boorman's Deliverance and Henri-Georges Clouzot's La Verite (The Truth).

 
 
 Posted:   May 15, 2025 - 7:01 AM   
 By:   lostinscores   (Member)

Ha, it all will be held top secret until it is all over.

 
 Posted:   May 15, 2025 - 10:22 AM   
 By:   JeffM   (Member)

Then BAM!!! three days later...



Ha! Imagine if that model knew that we've made him the face of Taylor White... and that we hate him. big grin

 
 Posted:   May 15, 2025 - 10:26 AM   
 By:   The Mutant   (Member)

Just another fucking scam.

Any day now, right?

 
 
 Posted:   May 15, 2025 - 11:28 AM   
 By:   Prince Damian   (Member)

I have it on good authority that the books are being prepared, as we type. They have cut the expense from the Bermuda triangle fund by hiring 100 monks to copy them by hand. And, oh boy, they will look lovely.

 
 Posted:   May 15, 2025 - 11:45 AM   
 By:   DavidCoscina   (Member)

Just another fucking scam.

Any day now, right?


As the old saying goes, if I ever run into Mr White, I hope I'm driving.

 
 
 Posted:   May 15, 2025 - 1:10 PM   
 By:   DangerMotif   (Member)

At this point I doubt they are even working on the books, baring a miracle they are not coming. Enjoy your pdf's

 
 Posted:   May 15, 2025 - 1:33 PM   
 By:   DavidCoscina   (Member)

At this point I doubt they are even working on the books, baring a miracle they are not coming. Enjoy your pdf's

"You could have walked him backwards and made it by now"- Midnight Run (1988)

 
 Posted:   May 15, 2025 - 1:34 PM   
 By:   The Mutant   (Member)

I still haven’t read the stupid PDF. Silly me, thinking I would actually get to read the printed book I actually paid for.

Taylor is a fraud. Maybe one day he’ll screw over the wrong person and actually face some kind of consequences.

 
 
 Posted:   May 16, 2025 - 9:56 PM   
 By:   wolfwink   (Member)

This is severely disappointing! The only reasonable conclusion is that the funds have been re-purposed/allocated either to another project or debt OR simply stashed away earning interest. I think all of us who contributed expecting an actual physical book deserve an explanation or at least respectful and truthful updates as to the status of this endeavor. Anything less is unexceptionable! I hate to disparage, but honestly if I had taken on this project and it was so successfully overfunded, I’d be motivated to get it done ASAP and produced at the highest quality possible!

 
 Posted:   May 16, 2025 - 10:54 PM   
 By:   Stephen Woolston   (Member)

Time to report this to Kickstarter again.

There is no excuse. Yes, risky projects can fail, but this was not a risky project.

Go here, folks, and click that Report button: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nightgalleryart/the-jerry-goldsmith-companion/description

I know Kickstarter doesn't care, but if it keeps pressure on Taylor White, all the better.

Cheers

 
 Posted:   May 16, 2025 - 10:57 PM   
 By:   Stephen Woolston   (Member)



The only reasonable conclusion is that the funds have been re-purposed/allocated either to another project or debt OR simply stashed away earning interest.




Yes, Roger said something similar. People are naturally going to be suspicious that the money was re-purposed, re-allocated, or used to pay off business debts, or something like that.

I hope it's not true. Underline the word hope. I want my books.

Cheers

 
 Posted:   May 17, 2025 - 12:57 AM   
 By:   steffromuk   (Member)

Taylor is a fraud. Maybe one day he’ll screw over the wrong person and actually face some kind of consequences.

I believe he's already facing some. I'm pretty sure he lost quite a bunch of valuable friends and partners in the movie soundtrack community. His reputation is ruined.
I doubt anybody will want to do business with him anymore.

 
 Posted:   May 17, 2025 - 2:02 AM   
 By:   Nicolai P. Zwar   (Member)

Well, according to the last update, which was last year in December, "they" (whoever "they" are) are working tirelessly(!!) to finally get these books printed and delivered to us. All they(?) asked is that we please be patient (as if we weren't patient... I mean, we are waiting for two years now!) for "the final bend" and that we WILL (original capitalization) have these books in our hands in 2025.

Well, it is now five months later, the year is half gone. It has not been specified what that "final bend" is supposed to be, nor has any word come forth what the current status quo or the situation is.

I just know one thing: other books have been planned, written, and printed in the time that these overfunded and "fully written and ready for printing" volumes have failed to materialize.

Half of 2025 is over soon.




Time Remaining in 2025:
7 months 14 days
32 weeks 4 days
228 days

 
 
 Posted:   May 17, 2025 - 6:47 AM   
 By:   lostinscores   (Member)

Correction, the year is not yet half gone… oh what I am trying to get myself believing here. Books, I want the books!

 
 
 Posted:   May 17, 2025 - 7:38 AM   
 By:   Prince Damian   (Member)

Had to laugh when I saw this thread bumped. I'm still smiling.

 
 Posted:   May 17, 2025 - 7:59 AM   
 By:   Nicolai P. Zwar   (Member)

 
 
 Posted:   May 17, 2025 - 8:13 AM   
 By:   Prince Damian   (Member)

I bet it's two sizes too small. And lettering fades immediately.

 
 Posted:   May 17, 2025 - 9:33 AM   
 By:   davefg   (Member)

Have any backers looked into getting a lawyer involved? A 'discovery process' might clarify as to whether all the money raised for this project has actually been used for it

 
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