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Summary: Buy this Book
Review: A great read! You don't have to be a comics fan to love this book. New York City comes alive and is very much a main character!
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Summary: Terrific Book
Review: Bob Fingerman links blazingly funny New York moments to the powerful narrative of a boy in love. It reads beautifully and is gorgeously drawn, casually showing the errata of a young artist's life: the ridiculous pathos of selling illustrations to smalltime porn magazines; Coney Island weekends; Astoria before manhattanites moved there. He moves easily from mundane moments like moving into a new apartment, calmly drawing laughter from the classic lazy friend to scenes so specific to his life - a friend getting into a fight at a comics convention with a competitor for rare Godzilla figurines over his stripper girlfriend's bizarre attire; or attending his grandmother's tiny funeral with a distant father and his puzzled lover. All of the characters in the book are disturbingly, hilariously real. The book is a delight - I'm sure that because it is a graphic novel, it won't get the attention it deserves - so you have the rare opportunity to know something wonderful that is not widely disseminated.
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Summary: real life NYC style
Review: Having lived in NYC and having seen the reality of it all, BTQ's real life portrayal amusingly illuminates what really goes on. Fingerman's witty dialogue and prosaic settings should tell everybody who wants to move to NYC what they are really getting into. And everyone should have a sex life like Rob and Sylvia.Life's lessons are well written. It's a great book!
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Summary: real life NYC style
Review: Having lived in NYC and having seen the reality of it all, BTQ's real life portrayal amusingly illuminates what really goes on. Fingerman's witty dialogue and prosaic settings should tell everybody who wants to move to NYC what they are really getting into. And everyone should have a sex life like Rob and Sylvia. Life's lessons are well written. It's a great book!
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Summary: Fantastic
Review: The art and story are just fantastic. It makes me want to move back to N.Y. I would recommend this to anyone who loves great art wrapped and great story telling.
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Summary: Fantastic
Review: The art and story are just fantastic. It makes me want to move back to N.Y. I would recommend this to anyone who loves great art wrapped and great story telling.
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Summary: the question begged, "why is this so revered? (2 1/2 stars)
Review: While I have to admit to being engrossed enough that I read the whole thing, I can't say I enjoyed this book. I hate to be shallow but one huge turn off for me is that his work is aesthetically unappealing to me. Fingerman has some talent and yet his drawing are sooooo ugly. I couldn't stand it. It's not that I only like to look on "beautiful" people, but I found Fingerman's drawings to be grotesque. Case in point: Rob Hoffman's eyebrows look like Viennese sausages and you can't tell if the character's are sweating or have pustules on their skin. As far as the storylines go, I guess I didn't find it terribly interesting. Realistic, yes. Interesting, not really. I think there is a lot of potential there--all the characters as individuals are interesting. But their experiences together weren't particularly engaging. Maybe the book means more to New Yorkers; seems like a lot of the other amazon readers who've rated it are from the Big Apple. But for me, this book was nothing special.
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