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Here (2014)

by Richard McGuire(Favorite Author)

4.66 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Hamish Hamilton

review 1: Only took about 15 minutes to read through (though you could obviously spend a lot more time digesting the contents), but this is a really fascinating, beautifully-realized concept about time, and how it passes, and humanity, too. I love that truly the only rule the book follows is that the space that belongs to the "room" remains the same; time period and rate of time passage absolutely do not. Really thought-provoking piece.
review 2: This is based on, or spun out of, a 6-page story that McGuire published in 1989 in Raw Vol. 2 #1. That story had, and has, an incredible impact and influence within comics. And while this book doesn't take any of the original 6-page story, it nonetheless expands the idea into a book-length project. I didn't feel that this longe... morer work has the same punch as the original shorter one does...at least I didn't think that upon first reading. After I originally read this book the first time around, I felt that the original had a more concentrated punch than a the blunted or more diffuse one of the graphic novel version. But the more I read this one, the more it hits me (staying with the "impact" metaphor) as unique...but in a very different way than the 1989 comic. I've started to take extensive notes on this book, especially given its chronological layout and temporal coverage. Might this be one of my favorites of 2014? less

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