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Zodiac: A Graphic Memoir by Ai Weiwei

shane_the_reading_rat's review against another edition

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I’ll try and find a physical copy of this at somepoint, but trying to read this on my phone is absolute hell due to the tiny print and highly detailed art

fi_reads_books's review against another edition

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informative reflective slow-paced

murasaki_egawa's review

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slow-paced

2.5

cellsworth's review against another edition

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Fantastic but too disjointed and surreal.

bluesleepy's review against another edition

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challenging dark informative fast-paced

2.0

smalefowles's review against another edition

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reflective

3.25

katyk321's review against another edition

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challenging emotional informative reflective fast-paced

3.25

fionak's review against another edition

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reflective slow-paced

3.5

Uneven in tone and content. I love Ai Weiwei but this disappointed me because it seemed so haphazard, like it had been rushed to print before it was ready. I would have liked to see more of Weiwei’s childhood and his father’s exile but less philosophical digression.

mandoreviews's review against another edition

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challenging informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.0

6.25/10

Maybe this graphic novel just wasn’t for me. I thought it was decent overall, but I had a hard time remaining interested in it. 

I really liked Ai Weiwei’s perspective on the role of art, and I thought the use of the zodiac as a basis to explain key experiences and geopolitical events that shaped his life was cool. I guess it just didn’t feel cohesive to me and at some points it felt just like a separate series of facts/vignettes to me at times. 

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ameliareads_'s review against another edition

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emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0