redotting this for myself

Quoted: Jhumpa Lahiri will visit Seattle May 14-15 for the 2007 Seattle Reads series.

redotted from : shiwani

love it!

Quoted: Very, very interesting -- compares two versions of Richard Scarry's Best Word Book ever. I read this, I bet you did too ... thanks toloudis!

redotted from : derek

need to check out - heard it's a great book (and short!)

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so finished reading this collection and was/am very disappointed. the art work is amazing. but the work seems more like random ramblings - especially the second half.

the first half introduced interesting characters with hopes of a plot / storyline, but as the book progresses it seems it's more about the art / layout of the page then moving the story anywhere interesting.

in case you don't know who ashley wood is here are some links:
http://www.ashleywoodartist.com/
http://ashleybambaland.blogspot.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Wood

love love love this cover. it's just so simple and brilliant.

Designer: John Gall
title: A General Theory of Love
author: Thomas Lewis
publisher: Vintage, 2001

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love the cover.

Designer: Rodrigo Corral
title: Bush on the Couch
author: Justin A. Frank
publisher: Regan Books, 2004

Quoted: Covers is a blog dedicated to the appreciation of brilliant book cover design.

very cool site bout book cover design - i especially like this one (shown in thumbnail).

Quoted: Covers is a blog dedicated to the appreciation of brilliant book cover design.

read volume 1 - 3 of the goon. it's an interesting comic series which mixes comedy, action, horror, crime all into one.

if you're a comic geek think - hellboy + sin city + daffy duck. okay maybe not daffy duck, but you get the idea.

the main characters are Goon and his right hand fella Franky. they work for a mob leader whose in hiding. the only other mob / gang in this town is a gang of zombies lead by the zombie priest (yeah - another comic book with zombies). what makes this series so interesting are the following.

1. story - pretty darn good. especially the origin of goon.
2. creative characters - they have octopus flying from massive balloons - that's pretty darn cool. they also have a character called the buzzard which needs to eat the dead in order to survive.
3. random silliness which breaks up the serious, scary bits of the comic series. (they have random orangutans which bursts into flame)

for these and other reasons i'd give it a read. here's what wikipedia had to say :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goon

been on kind of a comic run. just read volume 1 - 30 of berserk. i had watched the anime series and was not impressed at all - but again, after reading what wikipedia had to say i thought i'd give the manga a go.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserk_%28manga%29

so here's my review. it's got a great initial story arc. loved the fact that the writer took his time to develop his characters - also enjoyed the fact that he didn't seem too attached to them to kill them off.

what do i mean by that? well the initial story arc is all bout why the main character 'Gutts / Gatts' is chasing after revenge + why demons are trying to kill him + how he lost an eye & left arm + how he came across such a big ass sword.

the first two issues just starts out with him kicking some major ass and killing off some minor demons. then the story goes back in time starting from Gutt's birth - or i should say how he was found. his basically found by a bad of mercenaries under a tree with the dead hanging from it. one of the dead gave birth to Gutts which is lying on the ground. one of the girls (think server / girlfriend / whatever) of the bad of mercenaries picks up Gutts and decides to adopt him.

yeah i know - pretty gruesome stuff. and that's kinda the appeal of this book. it's for mature audiences (dah) and the violence, story is very gruesome. it also goes into why the main character doesn't likes to be touched - it layers on complexities in each character which makes it a good read.

with that stated i'm only giving it a 3/5 mainly cause after the first story arc it starts to get kinda crappy - they start introducing magic, etc... etc... and it feels more like a final fantasy game rather then a story bout one man in his drive to get revenge. and if that's not crappy enough they are advertising a card game based off the manga series in the later volumes, which makes me wonder if the writer / creator decided to change the tone of the plot to make some $$ via marketing. the second story arc is really lame in comparison to the first. one way to look at it is - story arc 1 = rated R, story arc 2 = PG 13.