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4.34 AVERAGE
4.34 AVERAGE
The real-life story of a one-time criminal turned blind poet who was saved by a infamous murderer in prison - all told in a moving, powerful way, through illustrations, text, poetry, and literature.
Read my full review:
http://bookbybook.blogspot.com/2017/10/graphic-novel-hunting-accident.html
Read my full review:
http://bookbybook.blogspot.com/2017/10/graphic-novel-hunting-accident.html
slow-paced
This story of a boy learning about how his blind father had been educated in prison by Nathan Leopold, the notorious killer, is so amazing I didn’t realize it was fact.
Themes of fatherhood, writing and Dante are interwoven for a touching tale that’s now one of my favorite graphic novels.
Themes of fatherhood, writing and Dante are interwoven for a touching tale that’s now one of my favorite graphic novels.
The subtitle, "A True Story of Crime and Poetry," hooked me immediately, and the DNA of seminal works of sequential art narrative run strongly through the book. The shading and crosshatching reminded me of David Selznick's best work, and the story maintains a similar mystery of a personal story intersecting with historical figures like The Invention of Hugo Cabret. The father-son dynamics played out across multiple generations on a backdrop of major historical figures are reminiscent of Maus, and the intertwining of literary and biographical interrogation matches the narrative framework of Fun Home and Are You My Mother?. Ultimately, though, The Hunting Accident is remarkable on its own merits, telling a fantastic story of guilt and redemption and illuminating the inner life of one of America's most notorious murderers.
This book is outstanding!
I picked it up randomly at a sale. It looked nice and I like the publisher, but little did I know of how mesmerizing the story was. A "true crime" story that includes lies, (classical) literature, and braille. This is not a book for one sitting - for that there is too much to read and understand. And you also need to spend some time enjoying the illustrations.
Read it!
I picked it up randomly at a sale. It looked nice and I like the publisher, but little did I know of how mesmerizing the story was. A "true crime" story that includes lies, (classical) literature, and braille. This is not a book for one sitting - for that there is too much to read and understand. And you also need to spend some time enjoying the illustrations.
Read it!
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Overlong and overstuffed with philosophizing. The true story at the heart, of a father who lost his sight and went to prison, was interesting. But the rhythm is hurt by the decision to include a tribute in the form of exerpts from the father's mindnumbingly dense literary criticisms.
Absolutely incredible. It's hard to describe how much I loved this book (graphic novel). Just read it. I think I spent more time fawning over the artwork than reading it. How he portrays Dante's Inferno is so rad. (I have a huge crush on Landis Blair. He did the artwork for From Here to Eternity as well. ❤️)
Reread 6/8/2020
Reread 6/8/2020
This was a fascinating true story about a blind prisoner, his cell mate Nathan Leopold (yes, of Leopold and Loeb), and Dante’s Inferno. I highly recommend it. I would give it a 4.5 if I could.