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A Childhood Favorite Becomes a Complicated Re-Read As An Adult.

Tintin Volumes 3-23 by Hergé

January 30, 2022 by GentleRain Leave a Comment

This is another review where I’m unable to be unbiased because these are the ultimate nostalgia reads for me. I read these obsessively until the covers fell off when I was little. It had been a long time (15 years +) since I’d revisited them, so I asked for the complete set for Christmas to round out my library. I got the full-sized albums, not the ones where they jammed four volumes into half-sized books. Hergé’s art is worth reading at full size so you […]

Filed Under: Children's Books, Graphic Novels/Comic Books Tagged With: action, adventure, bande dessinée, herge, tintin

GentleRain's CBR14 Review No:30 · Genres: Children's Books, Graphic Novels/Comic Books · Tags: action, adventure, bande dessinée, herge, tintin ·
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The difference between a normal person and an insane one is precisely that the normal person has all the diseases of the mind, while the madman has only one!

September 1, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

CBR10Bingo – Listicle I love a good list. Here’s a good list: https://tinyurl.com/y864bj7g    All the books on this posting are from this list. The Man Without Qualities volume 1 – 5/5 stars This novel is 1700 pages and is broken up into two volumes that house three main sections. I have so far read the first volume, which has two sections, and is 700 pages long. So I am calling this as a break. The novel itself is a novel of ideas, with a heavy ironic […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: asterix the gaul, cbr10bingo, herge, rene goscinny, robert musil, the adventures of tintin vol 1, the blue lotus, the man without qualities, the silence of the sea, vercors

vel veeter's CBR10 Review No:335 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: asterix the gaul, cbr10bingo, herge, rene goscinny, robert musil, the adventures of tintin vol 1, the blue lotus, the man without qualities, the silence of the sea, vercors ·
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