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January 31, 2015
January 17, 2015
Frank Miller's Ronin
This isn’t bad, but it feels like Miller is just clearing
his throat in retrospect. The art is less developed, and the central conceit is
laughable, just existing to get the action going (there is an ancient warrior’s
spirit attached to a blade that is found in the near future of new York, and a
biomechanical Artificial Intelligence brings him back to live where he fights a
demon that was also attached to the blade). It’s worth a read for fans but it
feels dated by the author’s own subsequent works.
Science For Her by Megan Amram: Really for Nobody
So......
Amram is funny on twitter. I've bought some books by people that I liked on twitter. They have been hit or miss.
Maybe it is the conceit here or something else, but this just missed for me.
The introduction starts with a joke, where it is dedicated to all these people, who are her "Best friend when...".
It's a little clever at first.
Then it goes on for ten pages. It was one of those things where I was hoping that it was funny then it stops being funny but then it gets really funny. Well, that, but it never got funny again. It was actually kryptonite for me. I tried reading a bit more, but that beginning was such a bad experience that I became very defensive as a reader and was looking for reasons to set the book aside. I did, and moved on.
Amram is funny on twitter. I've bought some books by people that I liked on twitter. They have been hit or miss.
Maybe it is the conceit here or something else, but this just missed for me.
The introduction starts with a joke, where it is dedicated to all these people, who are her "Best friend when...".
It's a little clever at first.
Then it goes on for ten pages. It was one of those things where I was hoping that it was funny then it stops being funny but then it gets really funny. Well, that, but it never got funny again. It was actually kryptonite for me. I tried reading a bit more, but that beginning was such a bad experience that I became very defensive as a reader and was looking for reasons to set the book aside. I did, and moved on.
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