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Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story (2010)

by Mat Johnson(Favorite Author)

3.18 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1401221602 (ISBN13: 9781401221607)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Vertigo

review 1: Hurricane Katrina has crushed the city of New Orleans to smithereens. The city is havoc and has now turned into a ghost town under water. But this may not the worst thing for Dabny and Emmit, planning to take this chance to rob the bank... but they will soon find out that greed and impatience is not the key to life.I thought the cover had a cool graphic design and the topic really interested me. I am a person who is really into science associated with weather, so the natural disaster of Katrina interested me a lot.At first I thought it was about the wreckage OF Katrina, but as I read, I found out it was about the plot of two men to get money...so I slowly lost interest. But I decided to finish the book to see what would happen so I made it to the end.I recommend this book... more to Victoria because I believe she also likes the study of weather, and I saw her read many graphic novels dealing with bad stuff... like robbery... so I recommend it to Victoria.
review 2: More interesting than I thought it would be -- I think it was kind of a brave choice to set a morally questionable story (bank robbery!) in a setting (New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina) ready for moral absolutes -- government, FEMA, rich people bad; poor people, helpless people, the soul of New Orleans, essentially good. Instead, it was about some ex-cons trying to rob the guy who set one of them up, being thwarted by contract security guys (Blackwater in Iraq types) who were using their intel to rob the bank, right in the middle of the 9th ward, first. That said, it was very much a Comic Book, with flat characters, fairly predictable outcomes, and tons of action. It's possible I got into that a little, and I thought the illustration was pretty great, but in the end it doesn't really stick. Nonetheless, kind of fun, in a comic-booky way. less

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