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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2006 (The Best American Series)
Houghton Mifflin, 2006
Find new and interesting authors - expand your horizons
This is a great book for those who wish to be exposed to new contemporary authors. I especially enjoyed the story on Dubai by George Saunders, "The New Mecca". If you've never read about Dubai (or even if you have), it's a real treat to hear more about the ...
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Barefoot Gen, Vol. 2: The Day After
Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman
Last Gasp, 2004
Powerful
I stumbled across this graphic novel in a used bookstore, not having any idea the impression it would make on me. This is an incredibly powerful story, very effectively told through the medium of comic art. It is an affirmation of the power of visual media, and an ...
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Barefoot Gen, Vol. 1: A Cartoon Story of Hiroshima
Keiji Nakazawa, Art Spiegelman
Last Gasp, 2004
WE MUST READ THIS BOOK AS WE WONDER WHY OUR WAR DOES NOT ESTABLISH PEACE
In our present time this portal to the topic of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and our nature as the only nation to build and to use nuclear weapons, and against strictly civilian population centers may inform our moral consideration of the present failure of our total war ...
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The Complete Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Art Spiegelman
Pantheon, 1996
Masterpiece!
As a Jew Living in Israel, holocaust related books are important to read, but it's hard to do it actually. I can remember several holocaust-era semi-biographic novels which are great but those are the exceptions. Most of the books are a bit bothersome though true.
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Wacky Packages
The Topps Company
Abrams, 2008
GREAT BOOK FOR FANS OF THESE FUN STICKERS! ...WHERE IS VOLUME 2 !???
I was born in Philadelphia and when I was growing up in the 60's, one of my vices was.......Wacky Packages! These fun sticker trading cards were like "crack" to kids in my neighborhood! The twisted parodies were all done by some very famous artist and today the ...
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The New York Trilogy (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Paul Auster
Penguin Classics, 2006
book
I havn't read the book yet but I did receive it in the amount of time stated and in good condition.
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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Art Spiegelman
Pantheon, 1986
Masterpiece!
As a Jew Living in Israel, holocaust related books are important to read, but it's hard to do it actually. I can remember several holocaust-era semi-biographic novels which are great but those are the exceptions. Most of the books are a bit bothersome though true.
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In the Shadow of No Towers
Art Spiegelman
Pantheon, 2004
A great way to understand a tormented artst...
I used "In the Shadow" as a segment in a group project for an undergrad presentation on "Maus" to further understand and psycho analyze Spiegelman's mental conflict. While short, the art is dense and the possibilities for analyzation are endless...leaving you with a ...
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Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus)
Art Spiegelman
Pantheon, 1992
Painting in order to Avoid Self-Portraits
At first glance, Maus might seem like yet another attempt to spin the genocide of the Jewish people into something demeaning. I have seen people turn and walk away from the selection because of that, and when I suggested this as required reading in a class it was ...
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City of Glass: The Graphic Novel
Paul Auster
Picador, 2004
Outstanding
Not knowing the book, I bought this comic by chance and was not at all prepared. I've never read a comic like this in my whole life. It goes so deep...it's a miracle.
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Open Me...I'm a Dog
Joanna Cotler, 1997
People with Allergies Will Love This Dog
This is a pet dog that doesn't make you sneeze or itch. It doesn't shed or have fleas. Best of all, it doesn't bite or do its business on the carpet. Parents can gladly get this pet for children. Of course, this book would never take the place of a real thing, but it's ...
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Tijuana Bibles: Art and Wit in America's Forbidden Funnies, 1930s-1950s
Bob Adelman
Simon & Schuster, 2004
Lewd and crude, but very funny!
This collection of satiric and pornographic cartoons will alternately amuse and offend people everywhere. Nothing and no-one is sacred. Some of the strips are beautifully drawn and funny, some are crude and downright witless and others (note the strips believed to be ...
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Big Fat Little Lit (Picture Puffin Books)
Puffin, 2006
There's No Knocking This Pup's Pedigree
Let's say that you've heard of the "Little Lit" books, edited by Art Spiegelman and his wife Francoise Mouly, but that you've never actually gone so far as to pick one up. Let us also say, while we are at it, that you are aware of the massive loads of talent that have ...
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Raw: Vol. 2, Number 1: Open Wounds from the Cutting Edge of Commix
Penguin (Non-Classics), 1989
Awesome collection of avant-garde comics
This is a diverse collection of alternative comics from the late 80's; 203 pages, 24 comics from the hilarious and absurd to the poignant and profound. Some are better than others, but all are unique and refreshingly different from the comics you're used to reading. ...
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Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!
Art Spiegelman
Pantheon, 2008
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