Advantages: An unusual slice of history and biography Disadvantages: Could be offensive, quite difficult to lug around
...America is famous for its comic book artists – Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, and more recently Dave McKean and Steve Dillon. Many such artists go on to provide conceptual art for major movies, or to see their creation become a movie. Some are also novelists. But as with all forms of art, there are underground artists, mixing up the scene from inside, and even influencing people in a more personal way, the underground press allowing for far more explicit journeys into the subconscious.
With that in mind, take your preconceptions off at the door and step into The R Crumb Coffee Table Art Book. Erm, not literally of course, you may well crease the pages.
For people unaware of Crumb’s work, the cover may well put them off for starters. It features a heavy-set ballerina with sunglasses on in an impossible pose, spouting praise...
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Advantages: A very entertaining thoughtful reat Disadvantages: Not to every ones liking
...Starship Troopers by Robert A Heinlein. Published in 1959.
Very brief synopsis:-
With this book you follow the life of one Juan (Johnny) Rico from his enlistment in the Federal Service, Mobile Infantry, up to his command of a platoon of these troops in an Interstellar war. Mankind is facing a Bug like alien species, something like a giant ant crossed with a spider.
Johnny Rico comes from a background of wealth and privilege and through peer pressure and naivety he signs up for service. Only a person who has completed a minimum two year service has the Right to vote. Not everybody wants to serve and thus vote.
A good part of the book is taking up with his time at boot camp and the training he undergoes. Running in the background that we are not aware of is the situation that is getting steadily worse, going from normal peace...
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Advantages: David Bowie in 'fan stalking' shocker Disadvantages: perhaps too over-ambitious a project
...Caution: Op contains one uncensored swear Word
I read this book only last week. The one and only other time I bent it back at the spine to peruse the pages was way back in ’94, when it was first published (by Arrow). This should’ve been a big flashing, neon warning to me: ‘it’s crap, you trusting buffoon, and yes, you were able to BEND this flimsy publication! 223 pages of medium-sized writing? I've read local free papers longer than that' But I am a trusting and kind-hearted being that would never go so far as to say this book is crap. Mediocre at worst, but certainly better than most first novels. I neither love it nor loathe it nor like it excessively. I’ll probably read it again in another 7 years.
The author, Mr Robert Newman, was born on 7th July 1964 and adopted by a working class family...
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05.10.2001
