Okay, first of all, what the hell has been going on in Fables while I’ve been away? Shit is MESSED UP. Second of all, this was way more of a Fables story than it was an Unwritten story, and it was a clunky Fables story at that. I haven’t checked in with Fables in years, and the last one I read was Vol. 6, Homelands. That ended in a very, very different place than this one began in, but it’s not hard to get into the […]
Don’t look back.
This is only the second volume in The Unwritten series to get less than five stars from me, but I think that might be only a preference thing. This is still a great piece of this story. It was just missing a little oomph for me. I’ve got to save my five star ratings for the oomph. Which is silly, because this was chock full of unbelievably cool things. Little stuff paid off from some of the very first issues. Everything ties together. Stuff happened that […]
Let’s get (meta)physical.
I am so unbelievably glad that this particular volume of this series exists. Like, it wasn’t necessary that Carey and Gross write it, and you don’t HAVE to read it if you’re making your way through the series, but oh man, you’re missing out if you don’t! So this graphic novel–which, unlike the rest of The Unwritten, was released as one trade paperback, no individual issues–is two things. First, it’s the story of how Wilson Taylor came to create both his son and his first […]
The stories are dying.
“It will be a very slow . . . apocalypse. Those who live by . . . imagination . . . will feel it first. But in the end . . . without story . . . without the ability to step sideways from fact . . . into hypothesis . . . human life is untenable.” You could be forgiven for thinking that after the max craziness of the last volume, where seemingly all the story-lines ended in a whiz bang of revelations and violence and […]
A celebrity book that isn’t a memoir. With science! And research!
I can’t believe I’m only now finishing my first book of the year. It’s January 11th! What am I doing with my life??? Anyway, this was an excellent first book of the year. I can’t even tell you how refreshing it is to read a book written by a celebrity that isn’t a self-obsessed money grab that makes too much of too little (if any) substance. It’s also well-written. And entertaining. And informative. And helpful! Several years ago when Aziz Ansari was putting together some […]
Cannonballing quadruply with this slightly blasphemous, yet still wonderful book.
So this review is not going to be great, because it’s crunch time and I’m trying to get my last review of the year in before we get shut out of the site and/or I have to get back to work. But oh man, such a good book to make my first quadruple Cannonball with! THIS BOOK SPEAKS TO ME. I’ve actually owned a hard copy for years and years and never bothered to pick it up, and that is so frustrating. I could have […]
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