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2.68 AVERAGE


Et beh je ferai pas ça tous les jours, prior.

This was just ok, easy to get through, but not as funny as the first one. I know this was written quite some time ago and this is my personal opinion, but all the hunting didn't sit well with me, even for a comic.
adventurous lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

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wow
racism AND poaching

The reputation of Tintin au Congo really does precede it, and if you're looking for shocking material you won't be disappointed - the Belgian empire propaganda and the braindead caricatures of the Congolese are as bad as you've heard and there's also an eye-watering amount of quite senseless cruelty to animals that had the unintentional effect of making me want to see the local fauna give the iconic reporter a proper comeuppance. Even leaving aside the fact this is Tintin's Censored Eleven episode however, Tintin au Congo is pretty dreadful just as a story and easily the worst thing I've read in French to date - it recapitulates the plotlessness of Soviets and while the art style is slightly improved and it's more abbreviated by comparison, it's still startling how little actually happens or connects together. The introduction of Al Capone as the big bad only presages the following, better volume in the series and it's really that which feels like the start of this series proper. At least this was easy and quick to read.

This book is everything am against- racism, slavery and hunting.





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Also the storyline was not that good. Hate this.

Wow, that was perhaps the most racist thing I've ever read.

J'ai grandi avec Tintin, j'ai appris à lire avec Tintin. C'est mon tout premier livre.

Je sais que ce livre fait l'objet de polémique - certainement à juste titre -, mes 5 étoiles concernent mon amour d'enfant d'à peine 6 ans pour ce livre qui m'a fait voyager et implanter dans mon coeur l'amour pour l'Afrique noire et ses habitants. En tant qu'enfant blanche, du haut de ses six ans, pour laquelle la lecture est synonyme de liberté, je n'ai pas vu de racisme dans ces pages. Je l'ai relu plusieurs fois au cours de mon enfance jusqu'à mes 9 ans et puis je suis partie avec mes parents au Zaïre, l'actuel RDC, où j'ai pu voir de mes propres yeux cette Afrique tant rêvée. J'ai appris à me débrouiller en kiswahili (que j'ai oublié depuis), à écouter des histoires ancestrales autour du feu dans la nuit noire, j'ai exploré la nature foisonnante, j'ai écumé la vieille bibliothèque au fond de ma classe d'école dont les livres les plus récents dataient d'avant l'indépendance du pays, j'ai failli y mourir aussi par trois fois avant mes 11 ans.

Alors, pour moi, Tintin au Congo, c'est le début de ma vie consciente, c'est mon ouverture au monde.

Soops racist and tintin goes trophy hunting so screw that guy

Not available at the library. But available for free on the Internet. Yep, pretty much as told, hard to take. The art of dark-skinned Africans makes them look inhuman, basically like some strange monkey. The random killing of animals, reaches its peak with drilling a hole in a rhino and blowing it up with a stick of dynamite. The other volumes of Tintin have a generally modern feel. This feels oppressive. And the art itself is not as good. But Snowy is way more important.