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When i grow up i want to write like Alison Bechdel. She has such an understated, honest way with words (i delude myself into thinking i write that way but she does it so much better~the way i want to). She is both witty and wry. I remember we used to carry her comic Dykes to Watch Out For in my bookstore and now she's come out with an autobiographical graphic novel: Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic a tale of her childhood and early young adulthood.The Fun Home of the title is a shortened form of th
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Honesta autobiografÃa gráfica en la que se enlazan recuerdos, descubrimientos personales y familiares, y muchas referencias literarias. El retrato que hace Bechdel de su familia, y sobre todo de su padre y madre, los muestra como personas muy humanas y a la vez muy literarias, ya que la literatura fue, por una parte, quizá lo que más la unió a su padre, y por otra, se muestra como algo muy presente en su vida, desde las profesiones de sus padres (él profesor de inglés y ella actriz de teatro afi
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This memoir in graphic novel form is an exploration of the author's relationship with her father and of his (probable) suicide. It's just an incredibly well-written description of a family. Really good.
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I finally had to buy this book because I found myself renewing this book from the library so often, not because I hadn't read it, but because of my need to read and reread it. This graphic memoir is smart, well-written, and extremely moving.
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I've had to scan the reviews to remember why I found this memoir to be only "okay". And what grabbed me in someone's review was the word "self-indulgent". (Seconded by "artless," but I don't feel like I'm well-read enough in graphic lit to defend that charge; just because it might have felt less self-indulgent as a written text alone.) It was very self-indulgent, even for a memoir, with lots of illustrations of Young Alison brooding away. There's a kind of inherent self-importance to the genre o
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I like graphic novels. I like memoirs. So I should have loved this. I didn't. I think it just came down to that I didn't particularly like the author as a person. I have read memoirs of people with rough or strange lives before, and I have felt sympathy and empathy and I have rooted for them. I really just didn't care about this person. The art wasn't great, and I wanted to care about these people, but I just didn't.
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It is amazing what Ms. Bechdel has done in this book. She has taken some of the most intimate parts of her family's lives and pictured it in a way that makes you feel like you are one of the family. All of the literary references may make it less accessible to the average reader, but the cumulative effect of this is brilliant and touching.
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This was the first graphic novel I have read. I really enjoyed it. For me, the images told stories that the text did not.
A must-read!
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