Veeeeldig bra tegneserie. Godt tegnet og skrevet, veldig fast og konsist, absurde historier og gode dialoger. Dette er essensiell Jason, det er Jason, det er dritbra.

Kanskje den beste boka hans? I hvert fall mange av historiene var de beste av han jeg har lest.

Fikk tegning, bra tegning men skulle bedt om noe annet.

Kurt er litt av en luring. Slapstick er en bok av ham jeg har på hylla, og jeg vurderer å ikke lese den først, fordi jeg hadde kikket litt i den og fått inntrykk av at det var en selvbiografi.

"This is the closest I will ever come to writing an autobiography.", skriver han i første setning av denne boka. Ok, tenker jeg, det kan være spennende, men da tror jeg jeg leser denne senere.

Så ser jeg på baksiden av boka. Her er hva den angivelig handler om:
"Wilbur Swain and his twin sister," vent hva?




Wilbur Swain =/= Kurt Vonnegut. Dette blir spennende.

PS. Vonnegut selv sier dette er hans dårligste roman, kanskje en idé å ikke ta den til sist i så fall?

Jeg leste Sirens of Titan som var sykt sykt bra. Knall bok. Kanskje en av de beste jeg har lest?

Jeg har fått to Vonnegutbøker av mamma og, som jeg ikke har lest enda. Hun sa de var veldig bra. Dessuten har jeg gått over styr og kjøpte fire Vonnegutbøker på mandag. Så nå har jeg intet mindre enn seks vonnegutbøker i hylla som står og venter på å bli lest!

Har og kjøpt en bok jeg hørte om for drittlengesiden, en japansk bok som heter The Face of Another.

Har sjekket litt rundt på Amazon og de har de bøkene jeg vil ha av Roger Zelazny. Gleder meg til å bestille og lese. Zelazny er god som gull.





Jeg: Stoked about reading.

Fisken er en bok som jeg leste da jeg var liten, tror jeg. Eller det kan hende jeg bare leste begynnelsen og så ikke gadd å lese mer. For jeg husker ikke så mye av den.

Men denne gangen hørte jeg på den på lydbok samtidig som jeg leste den. Det fungerte ganske bra, men ikke så bra som jeg hadde håpet. Men jeg synes Erlend Loe er flink til å lese.

Boken handler om en familie som reiser verden rundt med verdens største fisk som de spiser av og seiler på. Faren i familien heter Kurt og har bart, og han er kul. Jeg liker ham godt.

Jeg syntes det var en morsom og rar bok og at tegningene var stilige.

beste bladet ever

I started out not liking this book so much, but then I started liking it more and more.

Gaiman said he wanted to make something like Narnia or Alice in Wonderland for adults, and he definitely succeeded. He created a weird, interesting fantasy setting, and some very likeable characters. The idea of a whole other world which is invisible to us, yet right under our noses, is pretty great.

And kudos to Mr. Gaiman for creating Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar, an A-list pair of villains.

My favorite thing about this book, though, was the Marquis de Carabas. He is awesome.

Well, this is the second and final volume of Alan Moore's Supreme stories, and they are great. More silliness, more awesomeness, more bizarre and obscure Superman references. I enjoyed this one quite a bit more than the first book, the stories were, in general, more awesome, and there were less of the flashbacks, which were awesome but not as great as the stories set in the present, I thought.

This book is also, if at all possible, more ironic and meta than the first (which is incredibly well-done, considering how meta the first book was).

My only gripe is the lack of any real ending, I was really hoping for an epic, amazing end to the series, but there was none. Still, very happy with this. Great stuff.

Hellblazer is a comic about John Constantine, who is a man from Liverpool and he is awesome. He is into the occult and he gets into trouble a lot, and the comic is just as much about his complicated personal life as it is about him fighting the Devil (actually I'd say there's more realism in most of the stories than fantasy, but every Constantine story is different, and that's one of the things that's so good about this series). Another thing that is oh so great is that I love pretty much all the authors who have worked on this comic over the years, which is why following the series is so exciting. Alan Moore created the character, and Garth Ennis (Preacher), Mike Carey (Lucifer) and Warren Ellis (Transmet, Nextwave, Planetary) have all written the series.

Hellblazer is pretty popular, because more often than not when I go to the library they haven't had the ones I'm after. But now they did have them, and I borrowed the next four volumes. First off, let me say this: Garth Ennis can be a damned good writer. I was dissappointed in the Hellblazer volume I read before this and expected very little (having found the one before that, Dangerous Habits, on which the movie Constantine is partially based, to be fantastic). But I certainly got some great stuff. Entertaining stories, warm stories, insane stories, and a fantastic weaving together of real life drama and suspense on one side and really out there horror elements on the other. But Steve Dillon. Why does he have to work with Steve Dillon? He's a good artist, but why can't he draw more than one face? It really manages to ruin everything sometimes. Sometimes I read page upon page of Steve Dillon illustrated comics and I'm like "samefacesamefacesameface" rrrrgh. It drives me nuts. It's actually why I can't get myself to pick up more Preacher even though it's pretty great. Anyway, ok, on with the reviews, under the cut. It was a huge relief when I got to Son of Man and Steve stopped illustrating. I did get used to it, of course, but it still bugged me a lot sometimes.

So what is this? Well, they're collections of comics that inspired episodes of DuckTales, with an essay or two a book talking about the differences between the comic and the cartoon.

I wanted to pick this up because I have read very little of Barks' adventure stories. And those are my favorites when it comes to Duck stories (mostly the only ones I really really love, too). 

The stories contained within are excellent. Barks is incredibly imaginative and has a great humor and his art is crisp and simple and yet all-around awesome. The stories are simple, but in a very pure, very great way. Scrooge is an incredible character, and I'll be damned if I don't love Donald and the nephews as well. It's great to read these in the original language as well. I like stories like these, with the sense of true adventure, and I love that in essence, these characters are adventuring because they love adventure, and not for any other reason (weeeell, ok, wealth also).

At Raptus 2005, I was awed at all the things this guy thinks about when he makes comics. Stuff like coloring, the eye-level of characters,  page lay-outs, are all incredibly well thought-out. And despite the fact that this wonderful magician had spilt all his tricks to me, while reading Tale of One Bad Rat I hardly thought about any of those things at all. Which is great, because you're not supposed to. 

This is probably one of the most important comics I've ever read. It's a story about child abuse, and a very good one. And it's beautiful despite its theme and it's a work of art in many many ways.

Ok, so I picked this up on a whim, it's one of the millions of trashy-looking fantasy pocket books that can be found at Outland. The premise is this: A classic style noir-type detective novel. But instead of a Private Eye, the main character, Harry Dresden, is a wizard. He sells his services to anyone who'd want it and also looks into weird cases for the police. It's a good mystery and a cool, action-filled plot, with a lot of humour and surprisingly well-thought-out characters.

I also like that things seldom work out the way the main character planned, much like in real life. This is the first novel of many, I might actually check out the rest. I'm curious to see how this continues.

The only downside I'd say is the author isn't exactly the greatest writer. But the fact that he can create a good story and characters and play off old clichés while at the same time implementing some interesting new ideas (well, I don't know, maybe I just haven't read enough fantasy, but to me it seems like he's applying fresh new ideas to the classic fantasy elements).

Oh man oh man, this is the awesomest one so far. Plenty of kick-ass, bad ass moments (mostly courtesy of Elijah Snow, who is heavily featured in this book), great art-work.

I can't even name a favorite part, there's too much awesome.

Planetary is pretty-pretty good. It's the kind of super hero series which is kind of becoming a sub-genre of its own, the super hero comic that comments on super hero and science fiction stories, its very meta in that very much of what is in there is a nod to comics or other parts of the pup cultural world. Its stories are short and sweet, with really nifty art and cool stuff happening. Great dialogue and some great characters.

 

This is really good. Superman lands in the Soviet Union instead of the United States and a really interesting story comes out of it. I like everything except the Grey Havens ending, which was kind of stupid, but kind of cool, too.

But yeah, this comic is a wild ride of awesome, and actually has a lot of interesting things to say about the world. Not too deep, of course, but it's good stuff.

The best thing about this comic is that Lex Luthor is always playing chess and that you get to see a glimpse of the man so often hinted at in regular continuity: without Superman, Lex Luthor is an incredible resource to the world, using his intelligence, the greatest one in the world, for good things instead of wasting his time trying to kill Superman or stealing cakes. And that's great.

I actually really enjoyed this. It's silly and weird and over-the-top, and it's far from Moore's best work, it's far from a work of literary genius, but it's entertaining and enjoyable and that's great too sometimes.

The best thing about this comic is The Fisherman, the most ridiculous super hero ever created, and how he's treated like he's just another guy, no less ridiculous than the rest of them. And maybe that's just saying something about super heroes.

Damn. Bra bok, dette her. En tidsreisehistorie som er clever og original, og en veldig fin kjærlighetshistorie med en herlig slutt. Litt som The Time Traveler's Wife, som er en av mine favorittbøker noensinne. Men de ligner ikke i det hele tatt, bare i at de begge handler om tidsreiser og kjærlighetsforhold.

Dialogen er også glimrende, levende, Jason imponerer stadig på dette feltet.

A+++++++++++ ville lest igjen

A book I've been wanting to read for ages, a really short read but it took me a while to finish because I've been a bit lazy lately.


The best thing about this novel is that the author does a very very good job of describing how the main character sees the world. I really like that.

Uzumaki, book three is wonderful. It's very different from the first two books in that its tied together throughout instead of being a bunch of short stories. It's also less visually grotesque than its predecessors, but at the same time it's more subtly horrifying and gruesome and sad. It ties a lot of previous events together and makes you feel like shit.

I love this book. My favorite in the series, and one of my favorite comic books ever.

I borrowed this ages ago and loved it, and finally got around to buying it the other day. In my opinion, Clowes best work. It's about a bunch of different people and their lives in the town of Ice Haven, and it's told different viewpoints and styles of writing and even slightly different art. It's a little about a kid being kidnapped as well, but this is only a backdrop, a red line that goes through all the stories.

Clowes is really an amazing writer, and a great artist with a great style. I luves him.