Mer Barr
For someone whose not that familiar with this universe I had to do some serious pausing to connect all the dots of X-Men, Fantastic 4, Venom, and a female Star Lord, but a pleasant exercise.
The style is verging on difficult for me; tiny print, the bubbles almost not in logical order for my brain, and the ‘books' seem even shorter than other series! So glad I had access to it in a digital collection, form.
Wow! If your concentration lapsed for one moment you missed the next connection or two. So many times I kept wondering how the person they're talking about now, was related to the folks that started the whole story. I wonder if the hardback editions have a diagram [like those histories of the English kings and queens]?
I found it interesting for this being a story about the authors by the authors, that they refer to themselves in 3rd person. I would say it made it much easier to follow along audibly than if they were speaking in 1st person.
I'll be reading more of their work.
I remember the first time I watched the movie “Deadpool”, I was seriously offended at the visual violence and cursing. It's kinda frightening after also seeing Deadpool 2 and the creepy Deadpool in the Wolverine: Origin movie how tame this collection seems.
I would say Ryan Reynolds did a great job of replicating the character I read here.
Egadz! what a bait-n-switch. I thought this was to be a light comedy, which it started out as but once it had my attention, the claws-n-fangs came out! Lots of gruesomeness and alot of technical jargon that I'd hate to have to research to determine where a statement is on the fact-or-fiction meter.
I did like the characters, what humor was there, the mystery, and the pace of the story so giving this a 3.5. And I might try another in the series.
Seems to be a very honest and balanced representation of Havana. The author explains why things are the way they are, attempts to explain the reason for certain slang words, covers history and current day, landmarks across time, the things that draw people to Havana and shows you the grime.
I'm putting Havana and Cuba on my to experience list.
I'm glad I had the physical copy so I could see the non-traditional formatting and photos; so much like the character “Sam Axe” in Burn Notice. And I'm really happy to hear that “Sam Axe” is pretty much the actor Bruce Campbell in casualness, humor, and plain speaking.
A whole lot of technical jargon but it was an eye opener as to his relationship with Sam Raimi and brought more perspective to Evil Dead, which I'd tried to watch but just couldn't; same with Evil Dead II. Now that I know a bit more, I may be able to watch Evil Dead, at least, with more compassion [I was throwing US Football yellow flags and waiving Soccer red cards right-n-left, initially].
Still not sure how to interpret the Forward done by the editor of the book...
The author's mood swings rather wide depending on the subject. He can be very melodic and dreamy like [a:Frances Mayes 4826 Frances Mayes https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1267654734p2/4826.jpg] or read like the hell and brimstone of [a:Dian Fossey 136081 Dian Fossey https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] when describing the atrocities done to other humans, nature, and animals.He does alot of bouncing about between history and “now”, people, places, his memories and facts; the only commonality is each chapter seems to focus on 1 or more subjects. It can get a bit frustrating with the jumping about but the message comes across.
This was probably the only book in my book clubs' version of “March Madness” this year that peaked my interest and it didn't disappoint. Nothing too stressful, which I'm avoiding like alot of folks this year, and an interesting plot that I don't think I've come across, other than a family trying to get back together.
The end's storyline began to fray a bit as the narrator jumped back and forth in time from one sentence to the next, making following along while driving in some traffic, a bit tricky.
Reminded me of several mini-series that were on tv in the 70s around 2 series of books about a set of families thru several generations. It's not the families thru several generations I didn't like but some of the characters the authors have chosen to create that are not likeable, by me, at all. Nor the business and political intrigue.
I'm glad I read this suggestion instead of the others I had in my TBR queue regarding the Manhattan Project!
This covers more than just Los Alamos, it not only talks about the more well known participants but many ‘average jane's. There's a map of all the locations in the US and Canada that participated in one way or another; it really expanded my mind on the subject.
I also love that this draws on the book I'd planned to read, and now don't really need to, as well as others that I now do want to read.
Not sure if this author is expressing their opinion of the leaders of the various countries, her resources or both; I came away thankful I didn't have to be around people that think that much of themselves.
I thought the author did an admirable job of helping the reader keep up with the change of location as she moved down the timeline and most important to me, she answered the question I'd always had about why 1 assassination that didn't occur in one of the major countries, brought them all to war.
The author has chosen to present her research and interviews more as a story, rather than using alot of quotes and facts, which I found I enjoyed but with many of the women being gone when she began her work, you have to wonder how much of her story of how each woman felt is interpretation.Since this is about art, I was hoping to see more of their art work; to support the work being spoken about at the moment. Instead I leaned heavily on YouTube and I borrowed [b:They Drew as They Pleased: The Hidden Art of Disney's Golden Age 25615932 The Hidden Art of Disney's Golden Age The 1930s (They Drew As They Pleased #1) Didier Ghez https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1493090988l/25615932.SX50.jpg 45427536] which focused on four artists, 1 of which was in this book, presenting alot of their brainstorming and pre-production art.I really enjoyed getting to know each of the women as well as the fact that the whole department of Ink and Paint were women! I, of course, growing up when I did, didn't think about equality and equity so I'm glad to have the history set straight for me. Also working in a male-dominated industry, I understand what they had to deal with from their male coworkers and society.
