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Michael chabon's the amazing adventures of kavalier & clay is one of his best works. Author is a master at constructing beautiful prose.
Kavalier & clay is the story of two cousins who form a comic book superhero writing team. Together they create their own superhero comic series, the escapist.
It’s obvious the author undertook an amazing amount of research in a wide number of fields and the results demonstrate his virtuosity. The author is a great storyteller, a writer with a rare gift for bringing vividly to life the fascinating idiosyncra... Read More
Even if you come away from it unimpressed i think you will still have the feeling you have not wasted your time. I have a hard time finishing books and this one is huge, but i plowed right through it. It is more than 630 pages of dense text, so it too... Read More
Joe kavailer has a prodigious talent for drawing. Sammy clay has a knack for a catchy story. The two share a love of comic books and joe's artistry.
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It’s somewhat of a plod through the minutiae of the central characters’ lives with little to no character development. There's no way out, and no way into the cloistered world of the protagonists. The minor characters, be they based on historical pers... Read More
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It begins with the arrival of 19 yearold josef kavalier in brooklyn where his 17 yearold cousin sammy klayman is startled to fi... Read More
The quality of the writing is so so good
I felt somewhat cheated with the weak climax
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- This product had a total of 2,513 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 8 2022.
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Normally any book that jumped around as much as this one would not hold my interest
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Maybe i couldnt figure what kind of book this was
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The writing is superb if not also complex
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Sometimes i had to go over a sentence or a paragraph several times to understand it
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I have just finished it and going through the many books in my kindle library it is a problem in that nothing seems worth reading after this
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The author takes you on quite a roller coaster ride for both main characters and you really feel connected with both
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Why even outsiders can speak to hearts of members of a society that shuns them
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This is an interesting perspective of a young jew who escaped hitlers realm and is trying to bring his family to the states using the money he earns as a cartoon artist while his cousin writes the stories
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