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Summary:
At 592 pages, Blankets may well be the single largest graphic novel ever published without being serialized first.
Wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, Blankets explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated country, and the budding romance of two coming-of-age lovers. A tale of security and discovery, of playfulness and tragedy, of a fall from grace and the origins of faith.
A profound and utterly beautiful work from Craig Thompson.
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I love this book
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I saw this novel on my friends shelf when I was at his house one day. I picked it up and starting reading a few pages..and I was hooked instantly. The characters are so authentic. I bought a copy the next day and read it cover to cover.
I'd recommend this to anyone, even if you have never read a graphic novel.
blankets
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This is probably the best graphic novel I've read over the past 2 years. I bought 2 copies so I can offer it to my family.
Great read to share.
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Bought it for my girlfriend one Christmas and we loved reading it together. Bittersweet, but beautiful.
A coming of age story sure to tug on your heartstrings.
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In Blankets, Craig Thompson presents a personal story that many people who grew up as "outcasts" in the rural heartland of America will find hard not to relate with. With art that is both simplistic and beautiful, the story of a young Craig coming to terms with his place in life, his first love, and his problems with religion as he ages is a tale sure to tug on your heartstrings. Anyone who has ever been in love will find something here that is tragically beautiful: young love, with all it's passion and angst.
Thompson realy believes that this is a story to be told...
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"Blankets" dramatically fails in fulfilling the fundamentals of a good story. One of them is how surprising - the story. Blankets has very common story about two lovers, some flashbacks from childhood, one weak motive(the blanket), common characters with common problems, and after reading it all, you're going to ask yourself- "So...? What's the big fuss? It's everyday life, everyday problems of all of us, and not the interesting ones - just the commons. The hero has boring life, a true old fashion naive roman, and above all questions of faith in the lord and the way of Christianity life. The other big flaw in the story is that it touched so many nice and complex moments and situations with such a potential, in the author life, but none to deal with, and so you missed all the could- have-been good parts. So is for the relationship with the parents, which can stand for its own book, but Thompson, chooses not to develop this point. I'll explain later why. The big love to his girl was so naive and most of the time boring, full of silent pictures describing the goodness and pureness of her. Yeah yeah, we got it. You were both 17 or so, but the world looks like that to everyone. What make yours special? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. The book starts good, with the motive of the blanket, the relationship with the parents and his brother - but than it falls into the outcast-guy-with-the-popular-girl-which-fell from-the-sky clichés. And what a clichés! I mean standing alone, or hiding under the table, in some college party is so banal idea! So for a lot of other situations.("I need some space"??? Come'on!!!) Eventually - this book is about someone youth. An ordinary youth, like you saw in 6000 movies or so. The illustrations are pretty good but nothing special that takes the story higher. The story is the main job of this book. The illustrations are just here to support it and no more. And all the religious stuff? Well, in this point the author choose to show only his inner conflicts, which are very boring and childish, but he choose in his life (and in this book) not to confront them over the surface with his community, parents and friends. All you can see is the surrounding people telling him what is the best Christian way to do so and so, and the author stands aside with dumb face like "they don't understand me, they are not convincing me, why why why..." and so on. If the guy could grew some balls than the story would be much more interesting, and that's the reason that they aren't interesting conflicts in this book. There were just none in his true life. He is like a weak leaf going where the wind blows. Just hearing everybody and stand steal without saying nothing. A good example is to see how he decide TWICE to literally burn his past instead of dealing with it in an adult way. Nah...lets act like 4 yeas old... A word to the author: Do you really think you deserve to be main character? No, you are not. You are the less interesting character in the story. You are so self-concentrated and so enthusiastic to show the world your silent, quiet, boring life, but believe me - you can open a blog instead. So why read this book? What happens in this book? Well, nothing. Save your money. Read "Epileptic" instead, and see that are some stories that have to be told, and some not.
*pardon for the english mistakes if any. not my main lang.
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