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Summary: A Truly Amazing Experience
Review: This is going to be brief because I'm in agreement with most of the others here. It should be known that I never write reviews here on amazon, I've only written one before. Secondly, I rarely read, and when I do, it's hard for me to read for very long even if I enjoy it. Call it ADD, call it someone having trouble sitting in one place for too long, call it whatever you want. But I picked up this book and read it in one sitting. I've never done that. Third, I don't like the majority of comic books out there. I find most of the writing to be corny, forced, and just plain laughable. The dialogue here flows naturally and feels entirely genuine. Beyond the writing, the art is some of the best I've ever seen. It's simple, but incredibly expressive and unique. Craig Thompson is also very gifted when he frames (or composes) his scenes. It's almost like watching a film. He's got the pacing, editing, directing, and quality of "photography" down brilliantly. I really had no idea there were comics (or "graphic novels") like this. I can't recommend this high enough. I will be lending the book to my friends and buying an extra copy for my library. Everyone should read this book. As well, I will be checking out the rest of the quality graphics novels ("Box Office Poison" and "Goodbye, Chunky Rice" for example) that I've missed. Thank you Craig Thompson for this book. I envy you for you have made a brilliant piece of work that will be remembered fondly by many. You can rest easy now!
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Summary: such amazing honesty and emotion
Review: Today I read "Blankets" by Craig Thompson, a nearly 600 page illustrated work aka comic. It's only been a few hours and I can't yet entirely put into words how and why it resonated with me. It is almost perfect, and maybe that imperfection at the end just makes it more so. It's hands down the best depiction of Christian teens dating that I've ever come across, in any medium. And it is so much more than that. The protagonist's relationship with Raina, their different worlds... it was intensely real and bittersweet. I lived some of these scenes, and others which at first seemed extreme and foreign I soon realized were not so far from my experiences growing up. There are little things that I now realize must be universal among guys like me, like tucking the girl's hair behind her ear as she lays there because you can't bring yourself to do more but you have to touch her. The "psalm" in appreciation of, and thankfulness for, her creation is sublime. This book has rocked me.
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Summary: beautiful
Review: i've read plenty of books, plenty of comic books, seen millions of movies, listened to millions of sad songs. Never has anything made me want to just break down and cry like this book. i meant to glance at it and ended up reading it from cover to cover. a fantastic depiction of teenage love, lack of acceptance, small town life, and struggles with religion. my reveiw certainly won't do any justice to blankets. not only is this mind blowingly beautiful, but the saddest thing i have ever read. go read it, and it won't waste your time.
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Summary: 600 pages arent worth anything if they arent useful
Review: I dont know if its just me but this book seems to be an extremely stereotypical story of a sheltered teen-ager. I promise that you wont learn much from this book. THe story is full of possibilities and interesting facets, Craig's religon, love, age, history, family relationships but it dives deeply into none of them.. For instance, Graigs relationship with his brother helps supply the title of the book, (as well as a gift made for him by the love interest) but the book kind of lets the whole story go...and in the end i felt left with, "Wait, why did the brothers become alienated from each other? Why are they now making nice?" and aside from that in the end i felt curious about a plethora of themes in the book that seemed to just kind of fade away.It may be about 600 pages, but i read it in one sitting, no problem.
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Summary: Heartbreakingly beautiful
Review: As I read this book I heard a bitter sweet soundtrack playing in the backround. I have never been so moved by a story as I was by this book. The feelings Craig experinces spoke to me as the troubles that many teens face, such as learing who you are or soming to terms with what you believe in. In short, a wonderful read
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Summary: Read This Book!!
Review: A lovely, breathtaking book... the pictures are as beautiful as the text. This is one of my very favorite graphic novels!
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Summary: Wonderful experience
Review: The loneliness, heartbreak and longing Mr. Thompson writes about in this book stayed with me long after I closed the pages. The illustrations support the text in such a breathtaking manner. You can feel the cold Michigan air as it whips through the pages. You can smell the stale seats in the school bus. And your heart aches as Craig and Raina hold each other in first-love's bliss. A wonderful experience indeed
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Summary: Overrated but still worthwhile
Review: Being a moderate fan of graphic novels, I was terribly excited when the head of my library offered to let me take "Blankets" home for a weekend before it was entered into the computer and put onto the shelves. While the book was interesting enough that I read it in one sitting, in retrospect I find that it left me uninspired and unattached.
I do appreciate Craig Thompson's effort. His art is good (though not the best -- the "Kabuki" series is a notable superior in this field) but the story is uninteresting. Perhaps the massive amounts of YA novels that I read in my youth have made me immune to teen love plots, but I found very little original work in "Blankets." Because of the medium, I found it difficult to become attached to the characters, and because of the plot, I could never reread the graphic novel. However, I do think that any fan of comic books or graphic novels should try to get this through their local library. I do appreciate the acclaim its received from critics, and hope that its publication will pave the way for more richly-plotted mainstream graphic novels.
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Summary: Out and out poetry.
Review: 600 pages long, but a very, very quick read. It moves beautifully and flows just as easily. There's so much to be said about this graphic novel. I found myself relating to it rather, rather well.
It's a coming-of-age-love-story -- between a boy and a girl, a boy and the christian God, a boy and his brother, a boy and his parents, a boy and his life.
Definitely a must for any comic fan.
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Summary: Blankets
Review: Massive and I really mean massive autobiographical graphic novel put out on Top Shelf by young talent Craig Thompson
The book received many accolades but the art left me lukewarm. The first couple of chapters were pretty hard to get into as Craig traced his unhappy childhood.. things pick up quickly though and I finished the rest in one sitting (shy of 600 pages).. Craig's journey is a very touching one in which he questions his faith and finds a first love. The art that seems so banal starts to get to you and the strokes become quite beautiful
The concept of what "blankets" mean to the author keeps coming up and we also catcha glimpse into what the author wanted to accomplish with this work in the final pages. Nicely done.
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