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Bowie: Stardust, Rayguns & Moonage Daydreams by Mike Allred, Steve Horton, Laura Allred

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booleana's review against another edition

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informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.0

cthulhu_calamari's review against another edition

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adventurous informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.25

novella42's review

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medium-paced

3.0

So very confusing. It was very hard to find story elements or figure out anything about anyone's motivations, feelings, thoughts... It was more like someone had taken a timeline from Bowie's life and put it in graphic novel format, only it's really hard to understand why some items made it onto the timeline. I got the sense we were somehow supposed to divine the significance of quite a lot of what happened in this graphic novel. I certainly couldn't. Maybe the intended audience is people already very familiar with Bowie's life, art, and story.

The art was detailed, and the depictions of costumes and energy onstage were the highlights.

I just don't really feel like I know Bowie at all after reading this.

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taracloudclark's review against another edition

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adventurous hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing fast-paced

5.0

What an incredible work of art and love. This beautiful book features Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust era in an informative but somewhat psychedelic manner. I’ll be gifting this to a Bowie fan! Also, watch the documentary Moonage Daydream (on HBO at the time of this review) for a wonderful companion media.

shevawnbell's review against another edition

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slow-paced

2.0

plnear's review against another edition

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4.0

Read it in one afternoon and I really did have a good time. I particularly liked the style of the illustration, I think they worked perfectly with the many characters that is David Bowie. Also really enjoyed the preface by Neil Gaiman!