Continuing my focus on my fave. graphic narratives of the year, Soft City is book 4 of #12booksof2023 Subtitled the lost graphic novel, this is easily one of the best that I have read published by NYR Comics. With an intro. by Chris Ware, in the words of NYRC site Soft City is, “is an epic vision of a single day in a world gone wrong: a brightly smiling, disturbingly familiar dystopia of towering skyscrapers, omnipresent surveillance, and...(cont)
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Weekly Bibliophile Highlight: Rediscovering the joys of public reading. I used to read in public every so often, but then work & a global pandemic happened. This week I have rediscovered the benefits of decompressing after work with a drink in a quiet place for an hour or two. I have found an unlikely, yet perfect spot to do so.
6 Books read this week: 1 novel, 1 book of aphorisms, 2 graphic novels & 2 manga. Also read a lot (cont)
The full title of this is “Soft City: The Lost Graphic Novel.“ I think that gives a bit of insight into the background of this oversized, seemingly impossible creation pub. by New York Review Comics. As Chris Ware writes in the intro. “Though it masquerades as narrative , the term 'graphic novel' seems inadequate to describe Soft City, especially for a book that existed before the term was even coined.“ Elsewhere in the brief, yet (cont)
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A beautiful book and a powerful message. A bit unexpected of a graphic novel with almost zero dialog. Very reminiscent of Fritz Lang's film "Metropolis". A grim portrayal of a society that has been stripped of its humanity with the majority being soulless slaves of their own consumerism and an elite few. Yet a few manage to dream... The last page gave me bad chills.
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