What a sweet surprise
this book was! I know how folks raved about The Invention of Hugo Cabret
and some of his other texts, but I never got around to reading them. If The
Marvels is anything like his other books, I will indeed search his work out.
The first half of The Marvels is all sketchings, the
second half mostly text. Amazingly, brilliantly the author must have intended
for my brain to connect pictures to words and words to pictures over and again
because that is what it did. The basic storyline surprised me, and the ending
blew me out of the water. I like graphic novels, but I have never read one like
this, this combination of written and drawn messages. At least not like this.
Are you searching for an unpredictable book? Are you hoping
to find a blending of young-coming-of-age and life-can-be-really-important-and-amazing-and-worth-the-struggle
novel? Are you seeking a text that will create a story in your mind and your
mouth at the same time, all launching you into knowing in your very being? Read
The Marvels.
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