Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Seed by Rob Ziegler


Seed. Seed. How do I talk about this book? This book is revolutionary, I think. This book is ... disorganized. While Seed wasn't written in a way that could be easily understood, it did have some ideas and settings that stayed with me, even a few weeks after I angrily, frustratedly gave up on it. Set in the ruins of Denver, in a desert world with biologically manipulated humans, it had a lot going for it, unfortunately, the writing barely gave that information to us.
I don't know what to rate this book.

3? 3.5?

Kafka On The Shore by Haruki Murakami


I think this is one of my favorite of Murakami's stories. I would compare it to 1Q84. He rules.

6/5

Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi





Did you know that Pinocchio kills his consciousness cricket in the first few pages of Collodi's original Pinocchio? This is a really funny story of a block-headed boy who just can't seem to learn his lesson. This book was written about 20 years after Alice in Wonderland, which I find pretty interesting. Disney really changed this story around, mostly in the way it made a few other characters more evil than they were. Most of the revisions were necessary to make a story that actually flowed with some direction, though. Great job, Disney!

Pinocchio by Winshluss


This book started my Pinocchio obsession. When you find something modern based on something else written a hundred years in the past, you've gotta know, what about the original thing inspired THIS? This drug infused, sex crazed, mechanical war boy tottering around, how is he close to the Disney Pinocchio? The original Pinocchio? I went on a quest. The art is great, the story is fresh, this graphic novel rules.

5/5