Hunter
I hate events in comics. They always force creative teams to abandon whatever cool story they have going and do some cheap tie in.
Fear State wasn't great but I enjoyed the Christmas story and the Red Hood one.
The best sci-fi book I've ever read. I will exclude Frankenstein from that list because I don't want to dive too deeply into which is my favorite.
Clear descriptive writing that allowed me to rip through these pages. No weak subplots or unnecessary twists. A master class in writing.
The world and concept was so creative and unique no other evolution based book comes close in the depth or execution of the concept.
The spider culture was fascinating and cataloguing all the changes over thousands of life cycles with their immense leaps brought me great joy. The female male dynamic and the civil rights march was so interesting to see. Assassinations for freedom!
Yet from the human perspective these creatures came across as horrors. There was a good amount of terror in this book. From a woman machine taking over a ship and projecting herself onto the screen and over the speakers, to the crawling impending doom of the spiders.
Cannot recommend enough.
This is very shaky till Superman arrives. Once he does it is inspiring.
I don't think I like the power levels they established with doctor Manhattan.
The most thorough history of the confederates who fled to Brazil.
The book is written with someone who descended from these people so understand there are portions heavily against the North and Republicans as a whole. Slavery is touched upon here and there but it as written as a small infraction in comparison to the perceived tyranny of Lincoln. I like this perspective though as it feels authentic to the people who fled and created these new towns.
The fan service was a bit much but I think this has potential.
All these stories start so fast I need to learn how to do that.
These books are dumb fun. Don't go in expecting great literary achievement and you'll have a good time.
The biggest issue is how everyone is just a caricature. We have the following.
- Hot female Supermodel who is a genius
- White perfect superhero protagonist
- Military man of perfect honor
- Pop Culture reference nerd
This is the same issue for the previous three books so I don't expect this to get better.
Having everyone trapped in a dream within the dream was a nice touch.
I went into this book with optimism but I did not expect much. The Avatar comics have been mostly average to subpar and I assumed the trend would continue. It did not.
This book was extremely well written. F.C. Yee has a new fan in me and if the sequel to this book remains the same quality I will be purchasing their other books ASAP.
I love that they didn't write this for a kid friendly audience. The Avatar straight up kills people which is what I've been begging for. Aang and I have very different philosophies so it's always been hard for me to deal with him. Kyoshi like Korra is a badass who gets shit done. Evil person who is killing a bunch of people? They need to die. Makes sense.
Also big praise for the fight scenes which are so hard to make compelling typically. The bending was great.
Lastly it was cool to get a taste of the air nomads at the end. We only have the flashbacks of Aang prior to this book.
This book did its job of collecting what information we have on this interesting case of government and sports fraud.
You can feel the authors doing their best to try to craft this into a narrative but sources are minimal and without much detail.
Oh how desperately do I wish the comics were even half the quality of the books. F.C. Lee is a brilliant writer and has kept the Avatar universe alive through sheer will.
I do get frustrated when Avatars seemingly continue to lose battles against a person with one element. Often they even have Team Avatar to assist and they still all get schooled. I would really like for someone to just roll with how OP the Avatar is and find a way to craft an interesting story from that perspective. Maybe I'll get a shot in the future.
This books is basically the redemption of Avatar Kuruk but I did seem to think it clashed with the canon of ATLA a bit. Kuruk mentioned none of this to Aang and instead focused on the face stealer spirit which is weird because in this book he's all about hunting spirits.
There's so much to respond to in this book.
Huey is fascinating and his viewpoint of events is so crucial for a proper understanding of the civil rights era. Especially when compared to the modern movement and the inherent difference in philosophies.
No doubt Huey always seemed to think he was correct no matter the situation. That he was smarter than all those around him. Some of this may have been attributed to youth but this attitude continued on.
His love of the CCP is particularity alarming. I wonder if he would deny their reality today or if he would be a tanky. The blind spots he created for regimes of his political affiliation is alarming.
Hueys focus on class struggle over race is admirable and I believe spot on with history. It would be beneficial for our current society as well.
The best part of this was seeing Batman's rogue gallery transformed into Ninja Turtle enemies.
Leonardo and Batman fighting was also a lot of fun. Master splinter is the best.
This book was great and one of my favorite sci-fi reads ever.
I believe there's two more of these? I'll have to read on.
Basically four people go on a journey to discover a ring world. They crash, have an adventure, then some of them escape.
I loved the Amazon series and was getting tired of waiting for the next season to come out. My mom was nice enough to give me some Amazon credit and I used the extra to buy the first of three compendiums.
Just great stuff. I stayed up reading this for hours over the past week and a half. So much content!
A lot of fun twists and it was cool to see how the tv show is essentially re-editing the comics. Makes me want to work on my own comic series!
My brother gave me this book in high school and it has travelled with me for some time. I've read it over the month of September and found it to be quite exceptional.
Sadly this lined up with the Netflix series so I've got some shit for that. I didn't even know they were making it into a show!
A much different view of war than I've read before. This lining up with my political views and disdain of war and all who would order it. The deaths at the end were all so rapid and written so casually it captures the numbness that the war brought to all the characters.
One of the most important books I have ever read and would consider it essential reading to the public at large.
Leslie Kean presents an amazingly thorough series of interviews, personal accounts, and research regarding UFO's. She managed to interview numerous high level officials including generals and a US governor.
What I found most interesting were the various stories about a cigar like UFO or UAV if you want to use the rebranded term. The way these operated are exactly what the Navy pilot David Fravor and his fellow pilots claimed they chased. This is the initial story that led me down the UAV path.
Either the US has advanced tech they won't reveal and they've had it for over 80 years or it's not of this world.
I'm glad I finally read this! I was a big fan of the movie growing up. Freshman year of high school we also read portions of this book which I enjoyed and always wanted to try the full book.
My biggest issue with the book is the framing device that Goldman is editing the book down with commentary. It works well in the movie but here it is annoying. It breaks away from great moments and seems to function as an inhibitor to protect the author.
I'm so glad I finally committed myself to finishing this book. I started it earlier in the year but the first 50 or 60 pages are a slog to push through.
I came back with intent and tore through this. I would agree that this is one of the great books of all time.
Fascinating to read a book from this time that's so direct with how the racism and general race relations operated. A couple of times I would read a line and think, “holy fuck.” It packs a much bigger punch than when you read an edgy internet comment.
I wasn't the biggest fan of the girl referring to everyone by their real name. It took me too long to remember who everyone was and in sections even near the end of the book there would be so many names I would lose track all over again.
As time passes the memories of the books I've read fade away. I usually take away a single thought from each of them. Not sure what this one will be.
Great end to the trilogy. These books always have an interesting progression of events. The minute you're settled in it seems to end the current conflict and then we get a time skip.
The ruthless logic is a nice change from nearly every story I've ever read. Really is nothing like it out there. I could see that being an issue for some people however.
I see why this book was so influential. The Mule is a classic story telling device now and I would love to work it into my own writing.
I'm of two minds with this book. There is the first third of the book which I am not a fan of in the slightest and then the rest is excellent.
The first third of the book suffers from the same problem I had with the first act of Moonlight. The child sexualization is uncomfortable and rampant.
Having a child and their every movement being described in such ways is not how I would tackle this story.
Once we set off to the war with Troy the book is amazing. There is a lot less sexualization and everyone is older so it doesn't bother me at all.
Miller really is a wonderful writer. At no point was the book a chore to read and the prose flows so clearly it is impossible to be lost or drift off. I will absolutely be reading her next book.
Seeing the viltrumites this often and having them die all the time does take away from the story quite a bit. There is a planet of random lizards that are far stronger than them? Come on that's poor writing.
I think by not reading each issue monthly I lose out on a lot of the story impact. It's like I'm binging a Netflix series instead of engaging once a week on Sunday night like HBO. I've never had that issue in this form before so that's interesting.
This was my favorite of the series since the first book. Really that is all because Stealth is the worst written character and every time I have to read her dialogue I fill with rage and cringe. She's only in this at the start and end. Amazing.
St. George, Madelyn, and Zzapppp(too lazy to look up the real spelling) were the dream team as far as I'm concerned.
The B plot was weak and is too TV for me. These still feel like unproduced scripts but that's alright, this was a fun read.
Fighting a shark man is pretty dope. Seems that there are multiple villains getting away. Are they all gonna form some evil super team?