Tro Recommends
trofast recommended this 3 months, 1 week ago
The best thing I have watched in a year. Beautiful, understated drawings. Slow, thoughtful plots. Excitement, joy, happiness, terror, and violence are not seen often. But, sacrifice, longing, nobility, family, community, respect, mystery, and love are presented frequently and beautifully.
trofast recommended this 3 months, 1 week ago
Very creative take on Alice in Wonderland. Very dingy and gritty, but strangely compelling.
trofast recommended this 1 year, 2 months ago
The girl genius series won a Hugo as a graphic novel - this is the first 3 volumes as a text novel (I never read the graphic novel, though).
Wonderful world of mad-scientists and clanking machines. The heroine is great escapism - I wish I had her abilities. Inventive enemies. Great plot twists so often, that I wonder if the original was serialized. I can't wait until the next one comes out.
trofast recommended this 1 year, 6 months ago
Not as good as its predecessor (which you must read beforehand as this book contains spoilers). It was too easy to figure out how things would play out (the god appearance on the stairs surprised me, but seemed a little like the author was taking the easy way out). But I still lost more than an hour of work because I couldn't put it down.
trofast recommended this 1 year, 6 months ago
Unlike many fantasy novels, the magic stays in the background. It is an important part of the plot, but for much of the book it is almost naturalistically explainable. The demon: merely a tumor; visions: merely psychosis; curse: a self-fulfilling prophecy. This ambiguity gives rarely found depth. Combine with: escapist plot, intriguing pantheon & light philosophy and you have a great read.
trofast recommended this 1 year, 6 months ago
Most useful book I've read this year. Only gives one side of a still-debated topic, but the study results are incredibly applicable.
trofast recommended this 1 year, 6 months ago
I read it every day. Very uneven quality, but the funny ones are out of this world.
trofast recommended this 1 year, 6 months ago
I've been developing a taste for "Hard classical"