Originally written in Dutch (there’s not much dialogue anyway.) About a lonely old dude who visits art museums for inspiration. The author was in graduate school for arts when he did this book. Features this style of drawing I’d never seen before, like if you used Photoshop to just barely turn a ph…
Arctic noir, so reminded me of that season of True Detective with Jodie Foster that was set in Alaska. I frequently complain about things being too long. This one was too short. Great read but I wished the backstories, history, and mythologies were fleshed out a lot more than they were. A great med…
Picked this up randomly at Barnes and Noble at the Jordan Creek Mall in Des Moines. The cover looked intriguing. Hadn’t read anything by the author. It’s engagingly and beautifully creepy. Would make for a great movie in the hands of an adept director. Or maybe we should all leave this beautiful w…
Like many others, I saw the movie first. Good stuff, Natalie Portman is great and Hugo Weaving is fantastic even behind a mask. This novel is not like the movie. Length and character depth aside, it’s very British in its setting, sensibilities, and its response to its time (in the movie, I do remem…
Birthday gift from TK. Sharp, vibrant, funny, and dark. The characters’ philosophical ruminations are self-indulgent and sophomoric and tedious. Don’t know if that was the point.…
I love the movie and was surprised to find out that there was a graphic novel that preceded it. A work of original and breathtaking beauty like the movie and its soundtrack. Kent Williams’ style and vision took a bit to get used to. Wonderful stuff. Aronofsky notes in the book that the movie almos…