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dsrtao_My boring-ass life : the uncomfortably candid diary of Kevin Smith._, Kevin Smith
_52_ (Volume 1), Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, and Mark Waid and artists.
_The Score_, Donald Westlake
_Giant lizards from another star_, Ken MacLeod
Kevin Smith's life is boring because he writes about it in minute and untrimmed detail. There's enough of interest to make a good hundred page book... actual page count, 470. I would guess that's a reasonable ratio for anyone, really.
_52_ is being published in 4 graphic-novel-sized chunks. It's a one-year DC reboot series, originally published weekly over 2006-7 after Infinite Crisis, which is not the same as Crisis on Infinite Earths. No Superman, Batman or Wonder Woman... it feels more grounded than the usual DC series.
Once upon a time, novels could be 114 pages and sell reasonably well. Westlake seems to have written _The Score_ as an exercise in minimalism: what can one cut out of a story? Characterization is gone. Setting is gone. All that's left is plot... not inspiring, I'm afraid, but terribly competent.
_Giant Lizards.._ is an anthology of MacLeod's poems, novellae, and a few short stories and ephemera. This is only worthwhile if you're already a fan, which I am.
_52_ (Volume 1), Geoff Johns, Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka, and Mark Waid and artists.
_The Score_, Donald Westlake
_Giant lizards from another star_, Ken MacLeod
Kevin Smith's life is boring because he writes about it in minute and untrimmed detail. There's enough of interest to make a good hundred page book... actual page count, 470. I would guess that's a reasonable ratio for anyone, really.
_52_ is being published in 4 graphic-novel-sized chunks. It's a one-year DC reboot series, originally published weekly over 2006-7 after Infinite Crisis, which is not the same as Crisis on Infinite Earths. No Superman, Batman or Wonder Woman... it feels more grounded than the usual DC series.
Once upon a time, novels could be 114 pages and sell reasonably well. Westlake seems to have written _The Score_ as an exercise in minimalism: what can one cut out of a story? Characterization is gone. Setting is gone. All that's left is plot... not inspiring, I'm afraid, but terribly competent.
_Giant Lizards.._ is an anthology of MacLeod's poems, novellae, and a few short stories and ephemera. This is only worthwhile if you're already a fan, which I am.
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Date: 2009-02-08 06:49 pm (UTC)