It's surprisingly interesting. You can do a google image search to get an idea what it looks like, but most of the images that pop up are from early on (God creating the universe, Adam and Eve being sent off, things like that), which are well done. But the really great stuff comes later on with Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Ishmael, down to Joseph and his brothers. Also, there are tons of geneaologies in Genesis, which might be hard to illustrate, but Crumb nails it, IMO.
--I just finished that one on Sunday. I feel the same way. Have you read his other book Heart-Shaped Box?
Just finished Flags of our Fathers (audio). Downloaded Dune Messiah from Audible, received Robert Leckie's Helmet For My Pillow (paperback) for birthday.
Could not get into this (I think I'll just watch the Patterson books that are turned into movies): So I am moving onto this:
Interesting title. I'd be interested to know, once you get more into the book, who the author thinks are the Democratic voters in the South that need to be "awoken."
I'm reading three things at once and just started this, but will try to remember to comment later. His initial focus seems to be pitching to Democrats nationally not to give up on the south, noting both demographic changes and trends that may favor Democrats and that the South's history, makeup, and politics are not as they are caricatured. The author is the editor of The Texas Observer and a native of North Carolina. http://www.texasobserver.org/purpletexas/
Quite a few actually: Feast for Crows - G.R.R. Martin The Football Factories - The book version of The Real Football Factories Int'l The Illuminatus! Trilogy
Me too! I loved the work Robert Crumb did one Big Brother and the Holding Company's first big album, Cheap Thrills. I see he has some more books too! I love dystopian novels I think this shall be my next read. I have to read this first, because my Prof said so and she kind of helped write it.
Atouk and Chesco, if you're checking out Westerns, don't leave out Ernest Haycox. Zane Gray and Louis L'Amour are a bit more famous, but Haycox is a damn fine writer. L'Amour's memoir, Education of a Wandering Man is pretty interesting, too. Reading the shorter ones, Tristessa and [The Subterraneans[/i] along with a couple of the pieces in Lonesome Traveller
Ive had a hardcover copy of The Three Musketeers since I was 6. Ive moved that book a dozen times (books are heavy) and never read it. So, Im reading it. Fantastic! Its always been my impression that D'artagnan was a wanna be hanger on. Nothing of the sort. Hes a Gascon ass kicking machine from the start. Really, its his story with Porthos, Athos and Aramis being character studies of the period. These guys are gigolos living off of cougars, particularly Porthos. (Soon to be played by the guy who was Titus Pullo on Rome). I see why its become an archetype.
I'm definitely going to have to add that to my read list. While McCain won Alabama, people seem shocked and/or in total disbelief when I tell them Obama won Jefferson County, the most populous county in the state (where Birmingham is.)
I'm in the last third of the book and I would give a positive review. All the hype around Franzen...eh. I think it needs the benefit of time to critique it with some balance. Funny some of the negative reviews on Amazon-which seem to be from people who took the book based Oprah's Book Club. Ah...that's got to make him laugh