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The Fixer and Other Stories by Joe Sacco

reneoro's review against another edition

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5.0

En Sarajevo no se contarán los muertos. Se contarán los vivos.

katherine_shelton's review against another edition

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dark reflective sad fast-paced

2.25

If you can get past the pervasive sexism, it's just okay. I've seen and read a lot better coverage of the war in Bosnia. This has the tone of an adolescent boy's diary. Maybe it was something special back in the dark ages of low-brow, Tim Allenesque comedy, but I just don't have a lot of patience for that shit anymore. 

grahamcifelli's review against another edition

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5.0

The Last story in this collection wasn't as strong as the first two but goddamn this was good

awhipp17's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny informative sad tense fast-paced

4.0

i loved his book Palestine. this one wasn't as good. but, i haven't read anything about the war in Bosnia/Sarajevo, so this was helpful as a primer. he found and followed some interesting characters with complex lives during and post-war. its important to see this. but, it just didn't have the same charm as Palestine, although it was also about a hard topic, he was still able to be both a character in his own story and to find and follow other peoples stories. he wasn't really a character in this book, nor did the people we follow really have much going on, they were mostly bullshitting and describing the past, so things jumped around a lot and we didn't really get a coherent story. and maybe that's the point, that it sets that kind of mood. it just didn't grab me like Palestine did.

kakrucke's review against another edition

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dark informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

skinnamarink's review against another edition

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5.0

The first few pages triggered so many fond memories of Sarajevo, and the rest of the book exposed the complexities and horrors of the 1992-95 siege.

itziars's review against another edition

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3.0

me ha gustado mucho el cómic, sus personajes, la estructura, y el ver un poco como fue esta terrible guerra. es verdad que a veces me costaba seguir un poco la historia porque no conozco demasiado sobre la guerra y sus personajes, pero aún así lo he disfrutado
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