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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon and narrated by David Colacci: Only the comic is truly serious

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:51:46 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author electricnerve - Isn't it great to read with a book in one hand and a dictionary in the other? Especially when the book has even more heft than the dictionary. Unless of course you are trying to eat an ice cream. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay would be a...

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon and narrated by David Colacci: Comics as Literature, or Literature about Comics?

Wed, 5 Jul 2006 20:23:53 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Fargust - I always approach books like this with caution. The ones that have a little gold medallion on the front and say, "The Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel," or something like that. You know the type. I like to think it's because I've been disappointed by...

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon and narrated by David Colacci: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:48:53 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author arkhaine - Josef Kavalier is a young Jewish refuge, dislocated to America thanks to the encroaching viciousness of the Nazi regime in his home country of czechoslovakia. Sammy Klayman is his cousin, a dreamer, a thinker, a boy who lives more in the world of his...

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon and narrated by David Colacci: A powerful and incredibly well-written novel.

Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:03:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author cyanne_t - Here it is, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, the book where Michael Chabon comes into his own as one of the best of American contemporary authors. Never mind Philip Roth, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, and all those other big literary names,...

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon and narrated by David Colacci: AMAZING IS THE WORD FOR IT

Mon, 22 Mar 2004 13:24:42 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author kirbylee - For many people a book does nothing more than tell a story. But for a reader who enjoys books more than most, a novel can take you places in both time and location. It can open up worlds of wonder most of us have never or will never experience. For a...

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon and narrated by David Colacci: Michael Chabon Creates a Masterpiece

Mon, 26 Aug 2002 19:36:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author JediKermit - I love to read. I always have. I can remember loading up my arms and grocery sacks with books at libraries from the time I was just a pup. When I was in high school I was very into Literature, with a Capital "L," and John Steinbeck was my favorite...

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon and narrated by David Colacci: The Real Wonder Boys

Sat, 15 Jun 2002 09:25:41 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author mfunk75 - A faster read than a Grisham book. More powerful than an Oprah pick. Able to win Pulitzer Prizes in a single bound edition. Look! Up on the bookshelf! It's pulp fiction! It's serious literature! It's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &...

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon and narrated by David Colacci: Dead Men Waiting: “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay”

Fri, 13 Jul 2001 12:12:40 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author NFP - “ONLY THE SHADOW KNOWS….

In 1939 Europe black clouds shroud the countryside as hobnailed Nazi boots spread the despair born of ethnic genocide and megalomania.

Meanwhile, back in bustling, rainy New York City, we shift our...

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon and narrated by David Colacci: The Amazing Michael Chabon Pens a Novel That Goes Bif! Bam! Pow!

Fri, 25 May 2001 03:32:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Grouch - If, as Francis Bacon said, some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested, then have your knife and fork ready to dig into Michael Chabon’s delicious novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay...

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon and narrated by David Colacci: Escapism with a Capital 'E'

Wed, 16 May 2001 21:39:42 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author DrFaustus - Comic books are chiefly about escaping from reality. The costumed super heroes and over-the-top villains allow the reader to get away from the drudgery and everyday problems of real life. Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize winning novel The Amazing...

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon and narrated by David Colacci: Entrancing story about escape worth escaping into

Thu, 10 May 2001 15:55:18 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author eplovejoy - Comic book creators have given us wonders, from a wisecracking man who crawls walls like a spider to a philosophizing extraterrestrial who soars through the cosmos on a silver surf board. It would be hard to find in all of literature a character more...