Delightful fictional book with many characters including artists Van Gogh and Gaugin and a woman who pursued getting Van Gogh's work to be seen and noticed after his death.

A great historical fiction adventure based on a local author's family history.

I can read the whole thing

I also wanted to love this book. It was an ambitious project, to weave an allegory based on the entire Bible, climate crisis, and End Times. I ended up feeling a little terrified (is that possible?), not so much by the apocalyptic events, but by the dynamic between the "wise" adolescents and the drugged/drunk/sex-crazed parents. The smug adolescents seemed just as unanchored morally, as they also dallied in drugs, sex, and drinking, although they were the "remnant" responsible for carrying on society post-storm. The book ended up with Eve (!) the main character, telling her brother he was right, Jesus is science and the Holy Ghost is the "things people make" or "art." The allegory and this conclusion felt altogether forced. I couldn't identity the Jesus character in this or understand how you can make an allegory of Christianity without the centrality of the cross or something cross-like? I'm not sure where I would have been located in this novel (which was a National Book Award Finalist). Maybe just swept out to sea with the other miscellaneous adult bodies. I accept that my generation added to the climate crisis and don't want to minimize this overarching idea. I also accept that the Bible gives believers responsibility for care of God''s world with His help. Maybe this is what allegory is meant to do, irritate us to action. After all, Jonathan Swift didn't really want people to eat babies.

it was funny

I like that the book is a pop-up book and it has details like the Cheshire cats on the trees, Batman and the queen. Alice’s face in the window of the house and it’s like she broke the house like it was supposed to be bad like that because she broke the house so you can see your face.

(2012 623pg edition) A prime example of the turning point into modern comics, "Knightfall" ages slightly better than its contemporary "Death of Superman". Although there is larger over-arching story-line, the desperate individual titles (Batman, Detective Comics, Shadow of the Bat) retain their own creative teams. As such the art lacks consistency through-out to the point where character models are vastly different from chapter to chapter. It is easy to see why such broad comic book events have garnered criticism of pretension, there are enough context-clues to make this a jumping on point, even if the "Batman: Prelude to Knightfall" collection (ironically published 6 years later in 2018) is highly recommended for prior reading.

succinct, but dry, report of films based on books, and why you should make time for the books, focuses on quantity rather than quality; barely dipping into each entry before quickly moving on. serviceable...

It was okay. It gave me a very lord of the flies vibe.

I like unicorn diaries, the glitter bug because I like when the kitsune helps, the unicorns feel better and I like when it grows it’s nice tail and turned into golden white