Comic books are all the rage now, didn’t you hear? Look at what Marvel Studios, backed by Disney, is doing: building from the ground up and expanding an entire cinematic universe spanning across different franchises. Warner Bros., dollar signs in their eyes after seeing how much bank The Avengers ma...
We had a positive start, this book and I. I swear we did. I read the first few pages of the first chapter and thought “I’m going to like this; it’s terribly long but I think I’m going to like this.” Four hundred pages later, I was bored to tears. Then, the last two hundred and thirty-nine pages ha...
This is the fifth book I've read for the Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge and honestly, I went in to it with a fair bit of trepidation. Generally I find books lauded with critical praise and awards to be a bit overblown and overhyped and whether that's a fair judgement or more of a knee jerk "I don't ...
I suppose given this is my first book by Chabon, I shouldn't yet say I have a new favorite writer, but I can say after this one I want to go out and read all his others. First, the author is wonderful at conjuring up WWII era New York City--especially as a native New Yorker I loved how he took me ...
" 'The Escapist.' " Joe tried it out. It sounded magnificent to his unschooled ear -- someone trustworthy and useful and strong. "He is an escape artist in a costume. Who fights crime." "He doesn't just fight it. He frees the world of it. He frees people, see? He comes in the darkest hour. He watc...
Funny, sad, heart warming, tragic, bizarre, mundane, and just a terrific story. Knowing that it had won some hoity-toity award, I figured it would be good at some intellectual level. I never expected it to be a laugh-out-loud fun and can't-wait-till-I-can-continue-reading type of book. Very plea...
Note that these three stars are entirely for the first half of the book.http://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/the-amazing-adventures-of-clay-and-klavier-by-michael-chabon/-----------------
I love the memorable characters, the vivid description of 40s New York City & the Jewish American experience, the well-crafted fictionalized history of comic books, and that it managed to be both epic and deeply personal. imho it's a wonderful study of the human condition and a celebration of the po...
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