This is my second graphic novel that I've read by Gene Luen Yang, the first being American Born Chinese and it does NOT disappoint. I first heard of this comic from a YouTube video a few years back and I knew, me being a gamer, I would love this tremendously. After I read American Born Chinese and s...
The only reason I haven't actively broken into song and dance about how awesome this book is: I don't play video games and never really have, and so the jokes were not quite as rich. But if you are now or have ever been a bit of a gamer, check this out and love life a little more.
It pisses me off when people vilify video games. You can go to med school and play games during your down-time. My brother is in grad school and he still finds time for his hobbies. Video games are not some evil time-waster that'll rot your brain, preventing you from graduating or excelling in schoo...
Written by the author of American Born Chinese, and illustrated by Thien Pham, Level Up tells the story of an Asian American man (Dennis) torn between the expectations of his family (in this case, to be a doctor) and following his own passion (in this case, video games). Pushing him further are four...
Cute enough in parts - though the story felt a bit recycled, and the ending was a fizzle for me. What threw me out of it over and over was the complete lack of med-picking. In a story set mostly in a medical school, couldn't the writer and artist spend a few minutes on Google avoiding really obvious...
Gene Luen Yang takes on the heavy topic of parental expectations and guilt within the slim bounds of this great graphic novel. I picked this up on Sunday morning and finished it before getting out of bed. [full review]
I was really taken in by American Born Chinese, especially in the way that the author, Gene Luen Yang, played around with a single story told through four different perspectives. It was a pretty ingenious way of telling the story of his main character, and while it wasn’t necessarily original, it h...
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