The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Fri, 05/02/2008 - 00:22
I was thinking about picking this book up, but don't really know much about it. Anyone here read it? Think it's worth it?
Fri, 05/02/2008 - 07:36
#2
Yeah. Read it.
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Fri, 05/02/2008 - 14:51
#3
One of my favorites!
Incidentally, I went to college with Chabon's little brother. Great guy.
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“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.” -- Nikola Tesla
I thought it was really good. After about the first hundred pages or so it really becomes hard to put down. It's got a fair amount of nice historical background in it, tracking such things as the evolution of the comic book industry from its infancy, and, to a certain extent, the effects world war II has on america and, especially, on american immigrants; but it never forgets about the characters along the way, and the story is quite compelling.
Or something like that. Anyway, I think it's worth checking out.