Hat mir sehr gut gefallen, auch wenn ich zum Ende hin mehr als einmal WTF gedacht habe, bei bestimmten Sachen.Der Schreibstil war flüssig zu lesen und die Charaktere waren mir sympatisch. Werde die Reihe weiter verfolgen.
Jeff Vandermeer founder of genre "New Weird" brings all the weirdos together to update the chapbooks and pocket guides of Thackeray T. Lambshead's discredited diseases.An all star cast of authors such as; Neil Gainman, Alan Moore, Cory Doctorow. to name a few and some of my favorites Brian Evenson, ...
A book about the place my grandmother was born, and contains lots of details on my great great grandfather who was a big oyster farmer in his time.
An odd, but very engaging and satisfying little book. In this picture book biography we are treated to a child's perspective (ten year old assistant Giacomo) of the great Leonardo da Vinci. This technique was used to great effect in The Extraordinary Mark Twain. And so I guess it's a more common...
Oliver, the ILL librarian, was amused by the title.Eccentric and discredited, but not much fun to sit and read straight through.
Tale of Leonardo and his 10 year old servant, Giacomo. The text flows beautifully, including quotations, drawings and biographical information. Illustrations are magnificent and large. Like Giacomo, young readers will be inspired by Leonardo's curiosity and passion.
I got about halfway through and finally asked myself if I was enjoying this book. Sadly - not really, so back to the library it goes... It was just a little too creepy to read the short bits over breakfast - I had expected short stories, but these are encyclopedia entries.
A very strange volume… allegedly a guide, as the title states, to bizarre diseases, this book has contributions from some of the top names in the business (Neil Gaiman, Michael Moorcock, China Mieville, Kage Baker, etc), but the entries aren’t really (quite) stories…Each author has made up a disease...
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