by Jason Shiga
I recommended this to a student on the basis of the recommendations given to us on Twitter by the author and illustrator of one of her favorite books. She returned it and said it was enjoyable, but she didn't really understand. I admit, neither did I! This is one of the most frustrating, confusing t...
Read this last year. Forgot to update.
How do you even sketch out a story like this. It's the GN equivalent of Primer.
This visual variation on the old Choose Your Own Adventure books gets props for originality. The amount of work the author put in is staggering, and the story is fun. However, it is so difficult to follows the path from one panel to another that I couldn't really get into the story and enjoy it -- I...
Why, yes, I did spend hours going over this, trying to take notes and use post-it flags to keep track of decisions. As a puzzle, this was one of the most enthralling I've encountered, vastly superior to Rubik's Cube, for example. A total mind suck.
What a great idea for a book.
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