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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0
Brilliant Inspirational and engrossing, it feels genuine and provides an insight into life in the East, in a refreshing way when we're saturated in the UK with one sided news reports. Keep it up Joe Sacco and those like him...
Brilliant, harrowing, unflinching. Oh, and sometimes it's really funny. But only sometimes. Joe Sacco's earliest work in comics is some of the funniest and most extravagantly over-the-top graphic work this writer has ever read. I have been an on-again, off-again reader of comics since I was a kid, starting - like so many UK/Irish boys who were young in the 70s - with simple stuff like "Battle" and "Action", rediscovering the power of the drawn panel in the late 80s with things like Frank Miller's "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns", and the work of Jaime and Gilbert Hernandez, and being lucky enough... more info
A must read! The book brings out the best of the cartoon medium. There are books on Palestine especially the grave humanitarian crisis there. However none catch the gravity of the situation as graphically as this book. I fully recommend this book to anyone. Its a must read. When a book is written about Palestine it is often branded as 'pro-Palestinian' and is dismissed. This book withstand any such criticism and demonstrates that even through the grey area of the conflict, there is a right and wrong side.
Shocking This was my first venture into graphic novels. All my life i've never been able to get into fiction, I'd stick to books on religion, war etc so when a friend pointed out that there are graphic novels/comics based on real events I thought I'd give it a go (I always assumed graphics novels were about fantasy figures/men in tight spandex outfits throwing balls of fire at women with blue hair) I read "Palestine" in about 5 sittings, I read it before bed for about an hour each night until I was too tired, I... more info
