I've read Greg Bear's "The Forge of God" literally more times than I can accurately recall, and David Gregory Robert's "Shantaram" about as much as that. Both were life-changing reads: the former is what got me into reading more than just the comics in the newspaper in the first place, the latter made me realize that a book could have a soul and get richer and deeper the more I read it.

I call video trickery. If you give even a casual look at the card while it is folded, there is not only too little room in the windows for the animated cels to "flip" properly, there seems to be not enough room in the chimney for the amount of "snow" that puffs out of it. Very impressive nonetheless, but still only video trickery...