Post by distantsmoke on Dec 15, 2020 20:23:17 GMT -5
From award-winning visual storyteller Simon Stålenhag, creator of Tales From the Loop, comes a unique vision of a dystopic future.
i backed this KS because it looked interesting. I don’t know if it is possible to get copies outside of the KS campaign. For some strange reason I thought it was a story/puzzle book. It’s not. I don’t have the hard copy yet, but the creator made a pdf version available to backers. So I got a chance to read it today. It’s a very effective use of story telling and pictures. Without the pictures the story would be short and maybe a little confusing. Without the story telling, the pictures would be interesting but lifeless. Putting the story together with the pictures could be considered a crime against humanity in some quarters.
When I finished reading, my first thought was a very small lower case “wow”. Because to say it any louder would have been at best uncouth, at worst churlish. My second thought was that I need to donate the hard copy to my local library as soon as it arrives. Because having it in the house will not allow me to forget what I have read. And this is one case where I insist I be allowed to forget what I have read.
Do not take my “review” to mean this was poorly written or in some other way at fault. It was superbly crafted with an attention to detail rarely found in our modern world. But not a good thing to have read just before bedtime. Only one other book has so disturbed me. And I personally made sure that my copy of that book ended up in a local dumpster. My skin crawls whenever I happen to think of it. That has been the only book I have ever thrown away in my life. And now my brain weeps for having read this one.
i backed this KS because it looked interesting. I don’t know if it is possible to get copies outside of the KS campaign. For some strange reason I thought it was a story/puzzle book. It’s not. I don’t have the hard copy yet, but the creator made a pdf version available to backers. So I got a chance to read it today. It’s a very effective use of story telling and pictures. Without the pictures the story would be short and maybe a little confusing. Without the story telling, the pictures would be interesting but lifeless. Putting the story together with the pictures could be considered a crime against humanity in some quarters.
When I finished reading, my first thought was a very small lower case “wow”. Because to say it any louder would have been at best uncouth, at worst churlish. My second thought was that I need to donate the hard copy to my local library as soon as it arrives. Because having it in the house will not allow me to forget what I have read. And this is one case where I insist I be allowed to forget what I have read.
Do not take my “review” to mean this was poorly written or in some other way at fault. It was superbly crafted with an attention to detail rarely found in our modern world. But not a good thing to have read just before bedtime. Only one other book has so disturbed me. And I personally made sure that my copy of that book ended up in a local dumpster. My skin crawls whenever I happen to think of it. That has been the only book I have ever thrown away in my life. And now my brain weeps for having read this one.