Mother, Come Home10 reviews Paul Hornschemeier Dark Horse, 2004 Listen to me. + subtle, effective, gorgeous I'm not sure what a lot of this complaining is about. Paul Hornschemeier doesn't draw like chris ware or tell stories like Chris Ware. For that I'm glad, because his is a more direct storytelling style than Chris', who has a more design first manner to his work. Hornshemeier is far more fluid ...             The Salon3 reviews Nick Bertozzi St. Martin's Griffin, 2007 Long Live the Belle Epoque + MOMA meets "Law and Order" The Salon is a murder-mystery that portrays the most influential painters and artists of the belle epoque, including Leo and Gertrude Stein, Apollinaire, Henri Matisse, George Braque and a hilariously ribald Picasso as they follow a mysterious blue female serial killer who rips the heads from the ...             The Three Paradoxes3 reviews Paul Hornschemeier Fantagraphics Books, 2006 Good Trip + One to ponder... Ok, so everyone's favorite game these days is to bash Hornshemeier for being a Ware ripoff. Honestly, people either aren't looking close enough or completely miss the point. I found his latest collection of work to be profoundly gripping and fluid in a way that I don't think I've ever read ...             The Areas of My Expertise127 reviews John Hodgman Riverhead Trade, 2006 Brilliant from start to finish + Don't read in public + The more education you have, the funnier this book gets ! + The Areas of My Expertise             The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag51 reviews Chol-hwan Kang, Pierre Rigoulot Basic Books, 2005 Difficult to Imagine + Great Read + A heartwrenching story of survival + "In a Concentration Camp at the Age of Nine." + Frightening tale of the closed state of North Korea             Curses5 reviews Kevin Huizenga Drawn and Quarterly, 2006 Brilliant and simple + A good one, this. + An Evening with Glenn Ganges As poignant and dead center an evocation of suburban life at the turn of the millennium as anyone could hope for. Sort of a post-modern O'Henry (though it's much more fun than that makes it sound), Huizenga skewers the absurdities and obsessions of modern life without ever losing his compassion ...             Shenzhen: A Travelogue From China10 reviews Guy Delisle Drawn and Quarterly, 2006 absorbing + A Brief But Amusing Look at China This is an absorbing traveller's tale which I began reading late at night and couldn't go to bed before finishing. Not only didn't I find it boring but I disagree with most of the criticisms in Thy Tran's review. Firstly, Delisle made it clear that he tried hard to converse with and get to know his ...             McSweeney's 81 review McSweeneys, 2002 Enter a New World of Fiction After picking up McSweeney's 10 in the local bookstore I felt I had to read the other quarterlies. This book provides great snapshots of over a dozen unknown authors, giving a platform for the future kings of fiction to test the wings. Although I read this book a year ago I still think of its ...             Alias the Cat3 reviews Kim Deitch Pantheon, 2007 KD is amazing + The usual high standard + Enter Kim Deitch land... Cannot more highly recommend Kim Deitch. Strange, tight stories. Weighty black and white. Now, I read other graphic novels with despair.             Paul Moves Out1 review Michel Rabagliati Drawn and Quarterly, 2005 Terrific example of reminiscence-as-art This is the third in a graphic-novel series about Paul (last name unknown, I think), a young freelance graphics designer, who shares an apartment in Montreal in 1983 with Lucie, whom he met in art school but who now studies languages. This is a slice-of-life style of thing -- not a lot of "action" ...             Incredible Change-Bots2 reviews Jeffrey Brown Top Shelf Productions, 2007 Brought back memories and made some new ones. + Incredible Change-Bots If you grew up with the Go-Bots or Transformers this book is for you. Jeffrey Brown takes all the stereotypes and obsurdities of these cartoons and has created an unforgettably funny story about robots, humans and total misunderstandings.             No Country for Old Men431 reviews Cormac McCarthy Vintage, 2006 One hell of a book + A Great Read Despite Its Problems + No Man's Land + Well written with disturbingly unique character             Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life133 reviews Jon Lee Anderson Grove Press, 1997 MY REVOLUTIONARY BROTHA + superlative and always relevant + One of two essential biographies + Tales of Power + yes             McSweeney's Issues One Through Three (Mcsweeney's) McSweeney's, 2006 November, 2002. McSweeney's Issues One Through Three, Second Printing. Long out of print, these are the first three issues, exactly as originally published in 1998, now reprinted and collected together in shrinkwrap.             I Am America (And So Can You!)429 reviews Stephen Colbert Grand Central Publishing, 2007 I was sad to see this book end! + So far so good.... + Funny book This book is incredibly hilarious, if you "get" Stephen Colbert's type of humor. If you like his show, you'll love this book. His tongue-in-cheek, extreme rightwing pundit character is just as politically incorrect as ever, and just so so funny. Complete with his opinion everywhere, including in ...             You Shall Know Our Velocity122 reviews Dave Eggers Vintage, 2003 Like My Mind on Paper + Undoubtedly compelling + A moving, living experience of a book I just finished the book for the second time. It is probably not the greatest book that I have ever read, but it is definitely my favorite. And that is what matters. I could read nothing but this book, over and over, for the rest of my life. I would be completely satisfied in doing so. Eggers ...             Committed: Confessions of a Fantasy Football Junkie56 reviews Mark St. Amant Scribner, 2005 A MUST have book for any Fantasy Footballer !!! + The emotions of fantasy + For the Fantasy Football Fan Mark St. Amant is the Bill Cosby of Fantasy Football. He captivates you with his passion for the game and then makes you wet your pants with his spot on humor about this addictive hobby we all love so much. He is part story teller, part Bill Bryson sarcastic explorer and part average fantasy ...             Hack: How I Stopped Worrying About What to Do with My Life and Started Driving a Yellow Cab12 reviews Melissa Plaut Villard, 2007 great, honest read + Good read + Great example of "voice" in memoir + A great read if you love new york + And People Wonder Why Most Cabbies are Foreigners             The Crying of Lot 49 (Perennial Fiction Library)181 reviews Thomas Pynchon Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006 A Good Place to Start + A good lot for "Lot" God knows Pynchon isn't for everyone. However, if you are thinking of taking on the adventure his work can be, I highly recomend starting with The Crying of Lot 49. In this novel, you are going to find all of his major themes (some being paranoia, difficult even obscure scientific references, and ...             Exit Wounds12 reviews Rutu Modan Drawn and Quarterly, 2007 Amazing artwork and storytelling + One of the best GNs of 2007 + Entry wounds. I bought this after hearing that "Palestine" writer Joe Sacco co-signed its greatness. And he was right.