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Post by housemouse on Sept 21, 2006 11:50:35 GMT -5
Kavalier and Clay! Wow, what a great book. I just finished it and I have to know if anyone else here (awlrite4now?) has read it. I have decided it is time for me to start reading comic books! I am going to start with The Escapist comics spawned from the book.
I NEED to talk about this book!
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Post by awlrite4now on Sept 21, 2006 13:11:40 GMT -5
I read it some time ago, and it's quite a read! Need to get it again; in fact, I should buy this one. More people should realise that comics are not "just for kids". If you want a comic that stirs your emotions, I suggest the Daredevil trade paperback collecting several issues of the story arc "Wake Up", by Brian Michael Bendis and art by my friend, David Mack. (See the reviews on www.amazon.com. )  David also writes and draws "Kabuki", a very thought-provoking series with a female lead character. "Metamorphasis" is a collection of one story arc, and it's powerful and empowering.  |
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Post by greenbeing on Sept 21, 2006 20:38:09 GMT -5
Read this book yeeeeeaars ago, right after it came out. Absolutely loved the beginning, but I must admit that around the middle, when it completely changed tone and direction, I was disappointed with where it started to take us. I'd been expecting it to head elsewhere. But I stuck it out for the ride to see where it took us. It'd be interesting to read it again at a different point in my life to see if I still looooved the beginning and felt the second half didn't quite match up with the first.
Maybe it was the way it pulled back from a more intimate setting to a more grandiose part of the world picture? I remember it felt like a completely different story using a couple of the same characters, and an almost incongruous shift. But then, it's been five or six years since I've picked it up, and again, I adored the first half. And being in so many literature classes at the time, I was probably a lot harder on it than I would be now.
Another Pulitzer winning book I've read that I truly enjoyed, and enjoyed the entire ride, was Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O'Toole.
--GB
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