Pros: Comic book artists defeat Nazi villains in the year’s best book. Cons: Adolf Hitler probably wouldn’t like it.
If, as Francis Bacon said, some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested, then have your knife and fork ready to dig into Michael Chabon’s delicious novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay....
Pros: Characterization, setting, themes, all perfectly contained in this 600-page novel Cons: Absolutely NONE.
I love to read. I always have. I can remember loading up my arms and grocery sacks with books at libraries from the time I was just a pup. When I was in high school I was very into Literature, with a Capital "L," and John Steinbeck was my favorite...
Pros: Complex, deftly-constructed parallel universes of real world despair and comic book fantasy. Catchy, creative, memorable. Cons: Way too long and occasionally rambling. Editor? Is there an editor in the house?
“ONLY THE SHADOW KNOWS….
In 1939 Europe black clouds shroud the countryside as hobnailed Nazi boots spread the despair born of ethnic genocide and megalomania.
Meanwhile, back in bustling, rainy New York City, we shift our...
Pros: A dazzling story told in beautiful prose and featuring a cast of memorable characters. Cons: When there's a movie version, it almost certainly can't be as good.
Comic book creators have given us wonders, from a wisecracking man who crawls walls like a spider to a philosophizing extraterrestrial who soars through the cosmos on a silver surf board. It would be hard to find in all of literature a character more ...
Pros: Captures America in its infancy, a treat for even non-comic book fans (like me) Cons: Overlong in moments
A faster read than a Grisham book. More powerful than an Oprah pick. Able to win Pulitzer Prizes in a single bound edition. Look! Up on the bookshelf! It's pulp fiction! It's serious literature! It's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & ...
Pros: Elegant language, wonderful characterization, gripping story Cons: A bit rambling at parts, and a somewhat abrupt ending
I always approach books like this with caution. The ones that have a little gold medallion on the front and say, "The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel," or something like that. You know the type. I like to think it's because I've been disappointed by ...
Pros: A fantastic book that takes you back in time. Cons: None
For many people a book does nothing more than tell a story. But for a reader who enjoys books more than most, a novel can take you places in both time and location. It can open up worlds of wonder most of us have never or will never experience. For a ...
Pros: Its lexigraphic verbosity. Cons: The Golem. He creeps me out.
Isn't it great to read with a book in one hand and a dictionary in the other? Especially when the book has even more heft than the dictionary. Unless of course you are trying to eat an ice cream. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay would be a ...
Pros: Great characters, interesting period and theme Cons: Execrable ending
Josef Kavalier is a young Jewish refuge, dislocated to America thanks to the encroaching viciousness of the Nazi regime in his home country of czechoslovakia. Sammy Klayman is his cousin, a dreamer, a thinker, a boy who lives more in the world of his ...
Pros: Compelling and varied story that keeps you coming back for more Cons: At over 600 pages, it's quite a commitment for most people
Comic books are chiefly about escaping from reality. The costumed super heroes and over-the-top villains allow the reader to get away from the drudgery and everyday problems of real life. Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Amazing...
Pros: Wonderfully written descriptions, astounding creativity, and overall excellence. Cons: The epic scale means lots of going back and forth. Book primarily made of dialogue.
Here it is, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, the book where Michael Chabon comes into his own as one of the best of American contemporary authors. Never mind Philip Roth, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, and all those other big literary names, ...
This brilliant novel by the young star of American letters, in the words of Jonathan Yardley, is a literary triumph in which two misfit young men make...More at Buy.com Marketplaces
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