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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
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November 1, 2019
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November 30, 2019
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Michael Finocchiaro
While being a fun and interesting story, K&C does not feature deep character development and was IMHO about 100 pages too long. That being said, I found it highly entertaining and even instructive about the origins of comics. The descriptions of New York in the 30s, 40s and 50s was nice and the comics Chabon invented to tell the story were very creative. There is a bit of sentimentality here, but not too much and it was interesting to read this book just after Roth's I Married a Communist as the ...more
Caroline
WELL I definitely enjoyed this book. It was good but not necessarily great. The story explores a form of the American Dream- taking an idea and using it to build yourself a life. Two boys use their love of comic books and early life experience to create stories which are magnetic. They build a beautiful career out of it, highlighting that one can build a successful life for them self with hard work.

Escapism is constantly addressed and the perfect life the two have created is questioned by both
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Jeff
2.5/5

Started strong.....and then dropped. Halfway finished. Chabon bored me. I may finish at some point.
Kirstin
Sep 10, 2014 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
Michael Rizza
Oct 06, 2014 rated it it was amazing
Marcel
Jan 25, 2015 rated it it was amazing
Phil J
Jul 30, 2015 marked it as 500-essential-cult-books-not-read
Lindsay Chalmers
Jan 19, 2017 marked it as to-read
Mouse
Jun 14, 2018 marked it as to-read
Tyler
Mar 10, 2019 marked it as to-read
Nadya Biryukova
Mar 07, 2020 rated it liked it
Kate Hardman
Oct 14, 2019 marked it as to-read
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Henry
Jan 15, 2020 marked it as to-read  ·  review of another edition
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