jean marc rochette – Cannonball Read 17

Too many cooks spoil the broth

Snowpiercer 2: The Explorers by Benjamin LeGrand and Jean-Marc Rochette

Snowpiercer 3: Terminus by Olivier Bocquet and Jean-Marc Rochette

July 9, 2019 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr11bingo Illustrated The Snowpiercer trilogy is an example of the whole being less than the sum of its parts. I was on board after the first volume. It hinted at some very interesting history for its main character Proloff, as well as complex, sinister military and political machinations that precipitated the endless, deadly winter that has engulfed the world and forced survivors onto the Snowpiercer, a perpetually moving train. The reader was left with a number of cliffhangers at the end of that volume. And […]

And so it begins

Snowpiercer Vol. I: The Escape by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette

July 7, 2019 by ElCicco Leave a Comment

Cbr11bingo And So It Begins Snowpiercer is a French graphic novel in several volumes. Volume I: The Escape was originally published in 1982. Two later volumes appeared in 1999. The English translations were published in 2014, after the film version with Chris Evans and Tilda Swinton came out. Snowpiercer is a work of dystopian fiction, taking place in a world where cataclysmic climate change has turned the Earth into an uninhabitable frozen wasteland. Snowpiercer is a locomotive 1,001 cars long housing the humans who managed […]

Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.

December 28, 2018 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

The Magic Barrel – 5/5 Stars This story collection came out in 1959 and contains the well known title story, but also has several other very good stories. It won the National Book Award as well. As I have previously stated in reviews, the age of the writer (here in a kind of debut effort) lends itself to an already mature and thoughtful work (this was also true for many of Raymond Chandler’s stories as well as the story collection A Lucky Man by Jamel […]

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