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Lädt ... American Splendor: Ego & Hubrisvon Harvey Pekar, Gary Dumm (Illustrator)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Pretty sure this guy came to xmas dinner and checked Drudge Report intermittently on his iPad, not sure. I was pretty psyched to read about a wacky libertarian but I know enough of them to get tired easily. This reminds me of all sorts of extreme personalities I know, of all stripes, and if you thought there's only one Ron Paul bad news there are literally millions of people just like him. I'd only recommend this book to people who want to "know the enemy." Personally my answer is "only kinda." ( ) I'm uncertain what to say about this graphic novel. I did not get the message it was trying to convey, despite the Ayn Rand quote on the bottom of the last page. I felt that most of it was over my head. I did not like the protagonist, but I did like the panels and how the story was told. I found the man in this story was mostly misunderstood. He failed to care for others, and was therefore treated badly by them in return...especially in his many and varied work situations. I understood (and agreed with him) about not bearing up in an untenable work situation. This is probably one of the graphic novels I liked the least of those I've read. The artwork is great as is theh format of the book, but the story is not complelling and the main character I did not like at all. There is a real Michael Malice. However, I'm not sure it's someone I'd particuarly like to know. Another full-length work from Pekar, Ego & Hubris tells the story of Michael Malice, who co-created Overheard in New York and co-wrote some wrestler's autobiography. Malice is a guy who is smart, but thinks he's a genius. If he really was a genius, though, he'd figure out that part of the social contract is being nice to other people. Pekar and Dumm tell his story in an entertaining enough fashion; Malice swings back and forth between sympathetic and flabbergasting. Zeige 4 von 4 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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"Michael Malice is one of the most puzzling twenty-first century Americans I have ever met."-Harvey Pekar Who's Michael Malice, and how did he become the subject of a graphic novel by Harvey Pekar, the curmudgeon from Cleveland? First of all, Michael Malice is a real person. He's 5'6" and weighs 130 pounds. Although on the cusp of thirty, he could easily pass for a scrawny teenager. One day Michael, a guy with a patchwork employment record and dreams as big as his ego, meets Harvey and begins to relay all these wild stories about his life. Simple as that. Harvey thinks the guy is bright but a bit of a riddle-though not the kind wrapped in an enigma. It's strange. He seems like the type of person you meet every day, rather ordinary, until you really get to know him. Then you realize he's exceptional, unusual, and contradictory. Pleasant one minute, really nasty the next. But isn't cruelty part of human nature? We digress. . . . Harvey writes up and illustrates one of Michael Malice's tales, "Fish Story," which is part of American Splendor: Our Movie Year. It makes a splash and spawns this book, Harvey's first hardcover, a graphic novel event about one guy's life. Ego & Hubris relates how, a year and a half after his birth in the Ukraine, Michael Malice moved with his parents to Brooklyn. He's an intransigent kid, a hard-ass-both a demon to and demonized by the people who cross his path. His life is a constant struggle for validation in a world where the machine keeps trying to break him down. But Michael has a way with people . . . or rather, has a way of getting even with people. Hey, if you can't live up to your parents' expectations, at least you can live up to your name. Michael had never come close to fulfilling his huge dreams-until now. And just as Harvey's been the everyman for a certain generation of graphic-novel readers, Michael Malice will be the everyman for a new generation. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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