This review also appears at The NerdHerdReadsWith 284 pictures between the book's 533 pages, the book depends equally on its pictures as it does on the actual words. Selznick himself has described the book as "not exactly a novel, not quite a picture book, not really a graphic novel, or a flip book ...
4.5 starsStunning drawings - to those people who say "but the story is the important part - what about that?" Well, the drawings are the story. To try and separate the book into illustrations and words just doesn't work. That would result in something lacking; experienced as a whole, The Invention o...
"The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick is the perfect union of art and literature. It represents an entirely new way of reading, and therefore an entirely new way of understanding a story. This is something I've never seen before - and something I'll never see again. I'm not quite sure of ...
I watched the movie a few weeks before reading this book. I have to admit that I liked it a bit better than the book. It was one of the few exceptions where both - the book AND the movie - are great. I think this is only possible because the book is told in a very unique way. There are lots of pictu...
When I first flipped through my copy of this book, before reading word one about it, I took in the way it was set up and remarked to my sister that it was set up in an unusual manner."Like House of Leaves?" she asked.I said no at the time, but having finished the book, now I have to say that yeah, i...
A fascinating book that basically invents a new genre. While it is influenced both by film and by graphic novels it is really a fusion of the picture book and the novel. Reading it is a fascinating experience because you are there at the birth of a new kind of art.The weakness of the book is the s...
I've been meaning to read this one FOREVER. It was discussed in my children's lit class and I've had in on hold at the library since. After over 100 people, it was finally my turn. It took me all of 20 minutes to get through it the first time and then I went back immediately and read it again. I too...
One day, when I have my own house, this book will be one of those I own. For now there's no way I'll carry this brick from one rented square to another.
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