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A review by stopnodont
Anthony Bourdain's Hungry Ghosts by Joel Rose, Anthony Bourdain
3.0
Turns out Bourdain was a bit of a weeb. Maybe not full-on, but between this book and Get Jiro it's safe to say he was a big admirer of Japanese culture at least.
I hate to be blunt, but if the art wasn't so good then this book would suck. The stories are neither scary nor compelling, and it's fairly short. It establishes a narrative framework at the beginning but then never returns to that - just sort of ending after a series of short ghost stories instead. None of them are particularly memorable, although some of the panels of art are. Haven't made any of the recipes but I'm sure they are good.
A cool book for any Bourdain fan to have on the shelf, but it's not a great piece of graphic literature by any stretch of the imagination.
I hate to be blunt, but if the art wasn't so good then this book would suck. The stories are neither scary nor compelling, and it's fairly short. It establishes a narrative framework at the beginning but then never returns to that - just sort of ending after a series of short ghost stories instead. None of them are particularly memorable, although some of the panels of art are. Haven't made any of the recipes but I'm sure they are good.
A cool book for any Bourdain fan to have on the shelf, but it's not a great piece of graphic literature by any stretch of the imagination.