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156 out of 156 people found this review helpful.

The Amazing Michael Chabon Pens a Novel That Goes Bif! Bam! Pow!

Date of Review:  May 24, 2001
The Bottom Line: From the author of Wonder Boys comes a truly wonderful literary experience—;dazzling-bright prose that continues to thrill after the last page is turned.
Review: If, as Francis Bacon said, some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested, then have your knife and fork ready to dig into Michael Chabon?s delicious novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. This...
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  5.0

by: Grouch
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Comic book artists defeat Nazi villains...
Cons
Adolf Hitler probably wouldn';t like it.
 
92 out of 92 people found this review helpful.

Dead Men Waiting: ";The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay";

Date of Review:  Jul 13, 2001
The Bottom Line: Passages of astounding cleverness and evocative writing, likeable and memorable characters. Also, too much of a good thing that bogs down by its sheer length. But stay with it.
Review: ?ONLY THE SHADOW KNOWS?.
In 1939 Europe black clouds shroud the countryside as hobnailed Nazi boots spread the despair born of ethnic genocide and megalomania.

Meanwhile, back in bustling, rainy New York City, we shift our...
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  4.0

by: NFP
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Complex, deftly-constructed parallel...
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Way too long and occasionally rambling...
 
81 out of 81 people found this review helpful.

Entrancing story about escape worth escaping into

Date of Review:  May 10, 2001
The Bottom Line: This delightful novel won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Anyone who reads it knows that it richly deserves the honor.
Review: Comic book creators have given us wonders, from a wisecracking man who crawls walls like a spider to a philosophizing extraterrestrial who soars through the cosmos on a silver surf board. It would be hard to find in all of literature a character...
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  5.0

by: eplovejoy
Recommended to buy: Yes

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A dazzling story told in beautiful...
Cons
When there's a movie version, it almost...
 
59 out of 59 people found this review helpful.

Michael Chabon Creates a Masterpiece

Date of Review:  Aug 26, 2002
The Bottom Line: The best book I've read in a long time.
Review: I love to read. I always have. I can remember loading up my arms and grocery sacks with books at libraries from the time I was just a pup. When I was in high school I was very into Literature, with a Capital "L," and John Steinbeck was my favorite...
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  5.0

by: JediKermit
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Characterization, setting, themes, all...
Cons
Absolutely NONE.
 
34 out of 34 people found this review helpful.

The Real Wonder Boys

Date of Review:  Jun 15, 2002
The Bottom Line: An entertaining tour through the American Dream, with comic books acting as your most able of guides
Review: A faster read than a Grisham book. More powerful than an Oprah pick. Able to win Pulitzer Prizes in a single bound edition. Look! Up on the bookshelf! It's pulp fiction! It's serious literature! It's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay! Yes...
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  5.0

by: mfunk75
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Captures America in its infancy, a...
Cons
Overlong in moments
 
27 out of 27 people found this review helpful.

Comics as Literature, or Literature about Comics?

Date of Review:  Jul 5, 2006
The Bottom Line: Absolutely recommended, because it's outstanding in all ways.
Review: I always approach books like this with caution. The ones that have a little gold medallion on the front and say, "The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel," or something like that. You know the type. I like to think it's because I've been disappointed by...
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  5.0

by: Fargust
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Elegant language, wonderful...
Cons
A bit rambling at parts, and a somewhat...
 
26 out of 26 people found this review helpful.

Escapism with a Capital 'E'

Date of Review:  May 16, 2001
The Bottom Line: A great mixture of historical fiction, adventure, disillusionment, and redemption. Plus, it won the Pulitzer Prize, so it can't be all that bad.
Review: Comic books are chiefly about escaping from reality. The costumed super heroes and over-the-top villains allow the reader to get away from the drudgery and everyday problems of real life. Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Amazing...
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  5.0

by: DrFaustus
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Compelling and varied story that keeps...
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At over 600 pages, it's quite a...
 
23 out of 23 people found this review helpful.

AMAZING IS THE WORD FOR IT

Date of Review:  Mar 22, 2004
The Bottom Line: This book offers it all in spades. Comic fans will be thrilled. All others will be drawn in as well, thinking of their long lost collections.
Review: For many people a book does nothing more than tell a story. But for a reader who enjoys books more than most, a novel can take you places in both time and location. It can open up worlds of wonder most of us have never or will never experience. For...
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  5.0

by: kirbylee
Recommended to buy: Yes

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A fantastic book that takes you back in...
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None
 
23 out of 23 people found this review helpful.

Only the comic is truly serious

Date of Review:  Aug 23, 2007
The Bottom Line: Worth its weight in matzoh balls.
Review: Isn't it great to read with a book in one hand and a dictionary in the other? Especially when the book has even more heft than the dictionary. Unless of course you are trying to eat an ice cream.

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  4.0

by: electricnerve
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Its lexigraphic verbosity.
Cons
The Golem. He creeps me out.
 
19 out of 19 people found this review helpful.

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Date of Review:  Feb 10, 2005
The Bottom Line: A great novel, marred by the ending, but saved by the characters
Review: Josef Kavalier is a young Jewish refuge, dislocated to America thanks to the encroaching viciousness of the Nazi regime in his home country of czechoslovakia. Sammy Klayman is his cousin, a dreamer, a thinker, a boy who lives more in the world of...
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  4.0

by: arkhaine
Recommended to buy: Yes

Pros
Great characters, interesting period...
Cons
Execrable ending
 

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