Meghan's review
Blankets
by Craig Thompson
Meghan's review
Blankets by Craig Thompson
Meghan's review
rating:
recommended for: teens
It was certainly enjoyable, but not amazing.
Thompson successfully portrays the altogether common thoughts and experiences of adolescence and young adulthood through what is, as of yet, a less common and still-evolving medium: the graphic novel. The story itself, although very well crafted and quite enjoyable, is nothing spectacular. As a typical Bildungsroman, it fits very nicely into the Young Adult genre, with its chronicle of young love that is honest enough to appeal strongly to older teenagers, but probably carries a twinge of cliché for most older readers. The perspectives on religion, too, although honest and often poignant, are generally quite typical of those felt by most American youth raised in enthusiastically religious environments. The artist's depictions on the Evangelical Church--the caricatured criticisms church camp and the right-wing narrow-mindedness of Church leaders--comprise a tongue-in-cheek humor that the narrator uses to artfully scrutinize Christianity a...more
Thompson successfully portrays the altogether common thoughts and experiences of adolescence and young adulthood through what is, as of yet, a less common and still-evolving medium: the graphic novel. The story itself, although very well crafted and quite enjoyable, is nothing spectacular. As a typical Bildungsroman, it fits very nicely into the Young Adult genre, with its chronicle of young love that is honest enough to appeal strongly to older teenagers, but probably carries a twinge of cliché for most older readers. The perspectives on religion, too, although honest and often poignant, are generally quite typical of those felt by most American youth raised in enthusiastically religious environments. The artist's depictions on the Evangelical Church--the caricatured criticisms church camp and the right-wing narrow-mindedness of Church leaders--comprise a tongue-in-cheek humor that the narrator uses to artfully scrutinize Christianity a...more
