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pretty good. think i prefer the movie more, even though it's pretty much as straight as an adaptation as it could possibly be, at least from my memory. the tension (physical and sexual) is on the page, but really comes alive when you get clooney and lopez on screen. anyway, solid read!
what a great book!! any parent should grab this for their young child immediately. it has cute art, a great story, and mice! what more do you need?
I loved this book. I read it in preparation for the second of the big budget adaptation, and I was pretty blown away but how much I did like it. The format (constantly switching between the past and present in a way that is evocative of the Netflix Haunting of Hill House show, something I suspect they took from this book), the feeling and themes, the writing, Pennywise, the mythology, all of it clicked really well for me. Despite being over 1100 pages, it doesn't FEEL like that. It's paced extraordinarily well for what it is.
One small thing I didn't like was the infamous chapter involving the kids near the end. It's weird! It kind of sucks! It's honestly pretty out of place! Other than that, I adored this novel and can't wait to read more Stephen King in the coming months.
This is honestly my first actual Superman story I've read (at the recommendation of a friend) and I think that's why it didn't impact me as much as most other people - it feels like something whose requirement is having any connection to this character, and I just... Don't.
That being said - it's weird! And I like weird. It definitely hammers home who Superman is, and I dig that character a lot based on this. And there's a ton of cool moments that, again, would land harder if I had more emotional context but nonetheless are very good on paper.
If nothing else, it's made me interested to read more (good, standalone) Superman stories!
unfortunately i didn't like any of the characters in this. maybe that's kind of the point
really really special. the art is incredible, the true grit story is always compelling, I love the way supergirl is characterized here. Stuff like this makes me want to dive deeper into comics, especially ones from marvel and dc. I really hope they make that movie!!
a very good and clearly very personal book, written by someone with such an innate understanding of the subjects at hand (namely language/translation, academia, and the role of race in colonial powers) that it's hard not to get swept up in it even when you can't personally relate or understand some of the specifics. the worldbuilding it both really fascinating but in some ways frustrating - the idea of silver is unique, but its effects on the world and history at large are understandable yet limited. the exact political stance this book takes is also a little unclear to me, particularly in how effective a revolution is, or whether the only way it can be brought about is violence. the ambiguity in the epilogue as to what the result of robin's actions are leaves this a bit unclear, and i would really love to read a followup that takes place years in the future that could imagine a world where it's almost like the industrial revolution was stopped in its tracks, or one in which the opium wars might have never taken place? still, i had a great time reading this - loveable (and hateable) characters, an interesting world, and a story that becomes pretty gripping and fast paced by its end even if its a bit slower to start.
a really funny, sweet, and kind yet also brutal read about identity, love, acceptance, and art. reading this made me realize how little fiction i've read about trans people, especially that by trans people - i definitely need to seek that out more!
read this for the kingcast too! it was pretty good! a really quick read!
i honestly liked the first few “chapters” more than the last few? the ones that were a bit decentralized and just told short, contained (but interconnected) stories were a little more appealing to me than how serialized (what a weird term to use for a collection of short stories?) the last few chapters were. but anyway the whole thing was pretty good.
Pretty wild book! Excited for this to continue, even though I have no idea how that will even work.
The art is really great, looks like screenshots from a sci-fi anime. Really, really cool.
absolutely adored this book. its my first exposure to the wayfarers series, as well as its author, but i wasn't lost at all. i was really swept away by the characters and their lives - which is good because that's basically all this book is! it's a book about some people who learn about themselves through meeting other people with lives, customs, habits, ways of living drastically different from them. it's beautiful and sweet and kind and funny and one of my favorite books ive read in years. absolutely will be checking out the rest of the series and following becky chamber's career like a hawk.
really really liked the art in this - everything from the illustration, the compositions, and the colors is top notch. just wish that the story didn't feel so slight! the setting and characters feel like they needed a few more issues to be more lived in, and the narrative needed that in order to escalate the tension more. didn't really feel like i was very invested by the time everything was resolved.
It was fine. Weirdly impersonal and removed, unlike all of the books I've read by him. Drops you into a fantasy world and never lets you get your bearings, which is especially disorienting when it keeps dropping hints that it takes place in a world tangentially related to ours with some similar elements (like Hey Jude, etc.) I've heard the rest of the series is better (something even he admits), so I'm excited to get onto the next one!
Basically the same thing as the Darth Maul mini-series, but... in one issue. It directly follows that and references it, which is the first time in this little canon journey that that happened (not even with the Qui-Gon comic and the Qui-Gon centric book!) so that's cool, because those connections are the only reason I'm doing this!
Anyway, Maul gets a little bit more characterization here - this shows why he's not super angry and unhinged come TPM, and more willing to exercise a little bit of caution and patience, which is nice. Not much of a journey, but at least I expected that way less than I did with the 5 issue mini-series.
Good and short, though. Can't really complain.
This was fine. I guess. It was the comic form of the stuff Qui-Gon was saying in Master & Apprentice, and didn't really add anything to his arc or story leading into The Phantom Menace. Also the plotline of it just kind of ended? Yeah. Whatever.
The first true novel of my Star Wars Canon Adventure! (Well, it maybe shouldn't have been, considering the end of it takes place during The Phantom Menace and therefore, according to my own rules, that's where it should have been placed). And a good way to start out!
It was fun, zippy, offered a lot of cool characterization for the Jedi (and in particular Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon) are are just cardboard in the Prequel Trilogy and therefore have no depth. Loved the extrapolations on why the Jedi Council was flawed, loved the subtle Dooku origin going on here. The problem is that it doesn't feel TOTALLY cohesive because of the way the movies are, but it fits in well enough.
I really liked the supporting cast for this book. Rael, Fenry, Pax, and Rahara were all interesting characters I really hope we get to see again in future books or comics or shows, but I highly doubt it, and that's okay. Fenry in particular I'm a little disappointed with - her sudden turn near the end was really cool, but then immediately became a case of "she's power hungry and doesn't really care for anyone but herself" which is WAY less interesting than "she's rightfully angry because her people were taken advantage of by a huge corporation for a very long time and the only way she can see to let them free is through violence. I can imagine a world where we got THAT twist instead, and she's a pivotal figure in later stories as, like, a bastion of hope against slavery or corporations, or maybe even a leading figure in the separatists! You know, in a world where the Separatists weren't just evil fodder for the Sith and instead were a legitimate political group that needed to go to war with the Republic in order to obtain the freedom or change they wanted. That would be so dope.
Overall, though, it was a fun Star Wars read that I would definitely recommend to friends interested in the universe, particularly this time period, and probably one I would willingly read again in the future.
i wish i could give this more than five stars. i am in love with this book. as someone who has been mulling over purpose and meaning and what life even is, i could never pretend to even consider something like this would exist to speak so deeply to me. it's been so long since i've read something that will sit with me for the rest of my life, that i instantly know that i will return to over and over and recommend to anyone who asks, but this is that.
A decent read, but I saw m night shyamalans film adaption a few months ago and definitely prefer it - feels more sure in what it has to say and how it conveys that (and the changes it makes are way for the better). I will say that the idea of the figure in the light, which was in the version of the movie I saw as well but apparently not in the final cut will stick with me for a while.
it was really good! the format of this book is so interesting (the fact that they're all letters), and really well done - i don't know if i've ever seen a book written that way before?
its SO different from what i've heard or experienced from frankenstein, and i liked that! really great characterization of the monster, and even dr. frankenstein, and a really cool look into the culture and world at the time.
overall i really dug this and this should definitely be on more summer reading lists!
Pretty good! Not as good as the first one, I think, which is odd to me since the universe was already established and I had a connection to the characters already. I guess I'm still getting used to the chapterless nature of the Discworld series, and this particular narrative (along with the frequent jumps between perspectives) didn't have me hooked through the whole thing, which is what the format needs? I don't know. I still liked it and am really excited to read more! Disappointed a bit that the next book isn't a Rincewind book, but also excited to see what other perspectives in this universe are like!
Pretty decent! The art was really, really good, I enjoyed it a lot. The plot and writing was good too! I wish that so much of Maul's characterization and dialogue here wasn't the same “I hate the Jedi, hate fuels me, God I just want to hunt the Jedi!” over and over again, because it started to get kind of grating by the end. And it's the exact same place that Maul is at the beginning of TPM, albeit with a little bit more of an unhinged nature to him, so it's kind of boring. Would have been way cooler to see him GET to the spot that he hated the Jedi? I don't know. Pretty fun either way.