Books by Lewis Trondheim
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review 1: I wound up enjoying this book more than I thought I would. Essentially, it tells of Trondheim's life as he does little things: inadvertently kill houseplants, play with a cat, accept a grand prize for artistic excellence (okay, maybe not that last one). I know Trondheim from th...
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review 1: I forgot November only had 30 days, and that I was starting this on November 30, and thought I'd be able to squeeze this onto my Fall shelf, and start Winter off with "Infinite Jest," and be able to look at my Winter shelf and see "Infinite Jest" there, pristine in its solitude, ...
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review 1: I really enjoyed Lewis Trondheim's autobiographical comics, so I thought I'd give this one a try. He uses the same illustrative style that he used with his autobiographical work. This story was written by a famous French writer, who works with cartoonists, named Appollo. There...
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review 1: Hankin tämän koska en ollut lukenut Trondheimilta vuosikausiin mitään ja ajattelin että tämä saattaisi olla hauska, niinku, Secret of the Monkey Island -hauska. Olin väärässä. Tämä historiallinen antiseikkailu on kuollut kuin dodo. Tarinassa ei ole rytmiä eikä rakennetta. Se ei t...
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review 1: Like Spiegelman in MAUS, Appollo and Trondheim use the separative effect of anthropomorphized animals to tell a socially-explorative period piece in an eye-catching way. Unlike MAUS, this piece doesn't use different species to signify class (unless I'm missing something, which is...