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Bluffton: My Summers With Buster Keaton (2013)

by Matt Phelan(Favorite Author)

3.94 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

076365079X (ISBN13: 9780763650797)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Candlewick Press

review 1: I was not impressed with this book. Stipulated, I read it in two sections, separated by a very large nonfiction book. Nonetheless, I found this dragged. There were just too many panels with people looking at each other significantly, usually mad but not always. Fewer significant looks and more action would have helped. I can't help but think that Buster Keaton would have broken up some of the places it dragged with action. Why Keaton? Because that is who the book is really about, the actor and movie director, Buster Keaton. I also did not care for the pastel array of colors. While I don't expect and actually welcomed it not being the neon type colors you get in the superhero type comic, this went too far in the other direction. I couldn't see any reason to care who Buster ... moreKeaton was. There was not enough given for me to care about Buster. He was a kid who liked baseball and wouldn't show his friends how he and his family did their tricks. That was actually to keep them safe but the kids wouldn't have understood or cared about that. The distraction of the narrator's story just was that, a distraction. Either the story needed to be about Keaton or the fictional family, but it couldn't be both and be successful. Not recommended. Not truly horrible, just not recommended.
review 2: I had started then stopped this book. Why? It simply didn't hold my interest and the illustrations were, at best, bland. So I decided to go back and read it with an open mind. This is about a young boy who grows up and one of his companions is Buster Keaton. Buster Keaton was a real person, with a facinating horrible life. This book however simply touches on the fact that he came to a town and was the companion of the young man. They are not friends. The young man is jealous of him, they played baseball together but that's about the depth of their relationship. I did research on Buster Keaton afterwards. And found out what a influential but tragic life he had. The book drops facts about who he was but glosses over the abuses that he suffered. Usually when a book prompts me to do research on a person I enjoy it; this time I did not. less

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